Mar 13, 2020
Summing Up The Week While I’ve been trading successfully for nearly 20 years, I’ve only been running the Get Irked website for a little more than a year-and-a-half. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve written a note like this (see...
Mar 6, 2020
Summing Up The Week Coronavirus news headlines continue to grip the markets. While the Democratic contest clearing out a number of candidates to leave only Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders seemed to cause a market pop following Super Tuesday, the markets gave back those...
Feb 28, 2020
Summing Up The Week I’ve been wondering for weeks why no one seemed to be concerned about the coronavirus in the stock market. Well, those thoughts were finally put to rest this week after numbers released over the weekend made investors realize that the...
Feb 14, 2020
Summing Up The Week Despite continued reports of how badly the coronavirus will slow global economic growth, the markets continued to make record highs this week. Household debt is the highest its been in 12 years plus the national debt added another trillion, but...
Feb 7, 2020
Summing Up The Week It was a wild week with the indexes bouncing hard off of last week’s coronavirus-induced sell-off. The markets calmed down on Friday, pulling back despite a good jobs report, a possible indication that fears over the virus still linger. In...