Donald Trump is now President-elect for a second time and the first United States president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland. The stock market has reacted incredibly favorably to this news. So happy was the market that we had our largest post-election rally in history!

As we enter what is historically the best time of the year for stocks, we look around, and everything is quite rosy. There is optimism all around and an expectation that government policy will be different for the next four years. We don't disagree that things will, in fact, be different, but everything has a price, and how much will get priced in before Trump takes office? That is the million-dollar question we are asking ourselves. 

As Buffett says, be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. This is not to say that we are not excited about the market having such great years back to back but to remind ourselves that we have to remain disciplined when evaluating prices and valuations. If you don't trim at the top, you'll have nothing to invest when the market turns the other way.