The market dropped.

So you open your investment app … and watch your balance fall in real time. 

This is the exact moment when people start making the wrong moves, like: 

• Pausing contributions
• Waiting until things “calm down”
• Moving to cash (even just for a while) 

Each of those decisions feels small at that moment, but over time, they’re the difference between building wealth and falling behind.

For example, one investor panicked and moved to cash. 

Another stayed invested. 

Six years later, the difference was over $100,000.

Look, I get it. When your balance is dropping and every headline is telling you, “Do something now!” staying invested feels almost irresponsible. 

That is exactly why we’re hosting a live session with Ben Carlson, Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management and author of his new book, Risk and Reward.

Ben has spent years studying how investors behave during market drops.

The people who build wealth are usually not the ones making brilliant predictions. They’re the ones who avoid one expensive mistake. 

In this session, Ben will show you how to handle that moment before your fear turns into a financial decision you regret.

What you’ll do in the session

This is a working session. You’ll leave with something you can use.

First, you’ll identify where your anxiety is coming from and how to reduce the noise that keeps pulling you back into your portfolio.

Then you’ll step back and look at the last 10 years of market scares. You’ll see how often those “breaking news” notifications turned out to be nothing and how often they were the best time to stay invested.

From there, you’ll walk through exactly what to do the next time the market drops. 

You’ll learn:

• What to ignore  
• What to pay attention to
• How to make a decision you won’t regret a year from now
• A simple way to put a real dollar number on a bad decision so you know what’s at stake 

And finally, you’ll see how to think long-term so you’re not reacting to every drop.

Because staying invested is about perspective, not just discipline. 

You’ll also discover how earning more, even a one-time 10% increase in pay, can make it dramatically easier to stay invested for the next 10 or 20 years without second-guessing every drop.

Join us for this live session

If you’ve ever checked your portfolio during a drop and wondered if you should do something, this session is for you.