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Did Buying and Selling in Stages work in 2020?
Get Irked practices buying and selling in stages in the stock market instead of all at once. What were the biggest winners and losers of this strategy in 2020?
Get Irked’s gains destroyed the S&P 500 in 2020
Can individual investors beat the markets? With a +43.31% gain in Investments in Play and a +53.75% gain in Speculation in Play versus the S&P 500’s +16.26%, Get Irked offers definitive proof!
Get Irked beat the S&P: +25.55% vs +14.50% since August 2019
In celebration of Get Irked’s second anniversary, I review how my Investments in Play portfolio beat the market +25.55% vs. +14.50% over the past 12 months.
Black Lives Matter – Please Donate Generously
Let’s not just talk about the race problem in America. Let’s do something about it.
2019: Year in Review
It’s 2020! Did Irk beat the markets in 2019? What were the biggest winners and losers? How does Buying & Selling in Stages compare to holding?
Plus, EVERY move I made in 2019!
Where Are They Now? One Year Later…
Get Irked celebrates its one-year anniversary by taking a look back at where my positions were a year ago. Who are the winners and losers?
More than 95% of Bitcoin trading volume is fake
Pump up the volume!
Bitwise determined only 4.55% of of the $6 billion in Bitcoin trading volume reported by exchanges is real.
JP Morgan announces first bank-backed cryptocurrency
Does JPM Coin mean Bitcoin will moon? Calm down, HODLers, the TLDR is “definitely not.”
When is a bad earnings report good?
Sometimes a bad earnings report is good. If you’re Nvidia, however, bad is always awful.
Has the stock market bottomed?
With the positive trading action of the past few days, many wonder – is it safe to get back in the water?
The Fed put the hammer down.
The Fed raised rates with 2 more for 2019 and has no plans to change balance sheet lightening. What now?
What do you do with a Fed Meeting?
Fed Meeting @ 2:00 p.m. ET
What do you do???
How do you trade binary events?
How do you trade a news event with only two outcomes – good or bad? Get Irked offers some tips.
Nvidia (NVDA) blows itself up in Q3-2018
A terrible earnings report destroyed Nvidia (NVDA), causing its share price to drop nearly 20% in after-hours trading alone.
Bitcoin Cash fork may kill Bitcoin
A recent battle between a Bitcoin scientist and another company over Bitcoin Cash may destroy crypto’s chances of being taken seriously.
What does a company-specific bad news event look like?
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PCG) announced that it might be responsible for the Camp Fire in California.
How should you invest after midterm elections?
Now that the elections are over, how should you approach your portfolio for the rest of the year?
Ever get that sinking feeling when the stock market sells off?
What do you do when the stock market is a sea of red?
Humble Bundle’s “Win at the Stock Market” Bundle
Buy an entire library of stock market books for $15 and support charity at the same time
The waves of selling in the markets don’t stop!
The markets experienced the worst five-day sell-off in nearly a decade on October 10, 2018.
J.P. Morgan takes a swing with You Invest and whiffs…
Maybe too big to fail means too big to succeed?
Robinhood adds 250 global stocks to its platform
Users now have access to more international companies.
Why you should treat market-wide sell-offs as sales
The more you pay attention to the market, the less you worry about market sell-offs.