Summing Up The Week September and October are notorious for being the worst two months for the year, and, despite many bullish analysts claiming it wouldn’t happen this year, I had a feeling we’d see a selloff simply due to systematic selling. Why is that?...
Summing Up The Week With this week’s volatile price action in the markets, I felt it might be a good time to remind myself of my key rule: As long term investors, it’s more important to have disciplined strategies than bullish or bearish narratives. The question...
Summing Up The Week Slowly at first, then all at once… Weeks with Federal Reserve meetings tend to be incredibly dull up until the Wednesday announcement of the Fed decision and this week was no different. This kind of slow price action makes sense intuitively:...
Summing Up The Week Despite inflation reports coming in slightly hotter than expected and gas prices beating on the U.S. consumer, the markets took the news in stride, rallying for the majority of the week in spite of less than stellar reports… until Friday,...
Summing Up The Week While a shortened trading week thanks to the Labor Day holiday, the return of trading volume to the markets brought with it the seasonal volatility I’ve been warning about for the past weeks. Markets sold off in all sectors on very little...
