Aug 16, 2024
Summing Up The Week Volatility’s a funny thing in the stock market. The market can be muted and calm for weeks, if not months, and, suddenly, volatility comes in like a wrecking ball, positively destroys a few key trades, and then swings back out of the market...
Aug 9, 2024
Summing Up The Week I started Get Irked six years ago on August 6, 2018 with the intention of helping investors with their investing journey by discussing my successes and failures. Since then, it’s been an exciting ride with more than a thousand blog entries,...
Aug 2, 2024
Summing Up The Week Volatility reached year-over-year highs this week as economic data and bad earnings slammed markets. Friday’s jobs report capped off the concerns with higher-than-expected unemployment triggering what’s called the Sahm Rule (read on to...
Jul 26, 2024
Summing Up The Week If you haven’t believed me when I’ve been saying “volatility’s back” the past two weeks, I’m betting you believe me now! Once Alphabet (GOOGL) and Tesla (TSLA) disappointed on earnings, that was enough of a spark...
Jul 19, 2024
Summing Up The Week After four years of basically being able to ignore commentary from the White House, this week reminded me of the power of ex-President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the markets. With positive news coming out early in the week, the stock market...
