Week in Review #268

Week in Review #268

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?...
Pandemic Portfolio #45

Pandemic Portfolio #45

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Week in Review #267

Week in Review #267

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...
Week in Review #266

Week in Review #266

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:...
Week in Review #265

Week in Review #265

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,...