Oct 13, 2023
Summing Up The Week The relief rally that started last week continued throughout this week with markets shrugging off war in the Middle East along with higher-than-expected inflation readings. Believe it or not, this kind of price action falls right in line with the...
Oct 6, 2023
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?...
Sep 29, 2023
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...
Sep 22, 2023
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:...
Sep 15, 2023
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,...