Mar 20, 2020
Summing Up The Week It’s not getting easier as both monetary and financial solutions are being applied to a biological problem. Until science develops effective treatments and/or cures for COVID-19, the notorious whipsaw volatility we saw this week will...
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...
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...
Jan 31, 2020
Summing Up The Week There was actually news outside of the Wuhan Coronavirus this week, but it sure didn’t feel like it. The markets seemed to be doing really well with the virus news mid-week – even rising after the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Jan 24, 2020
Summing Up The Week Thanks to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, the markets had a shortened week. Everything seemed to be moving along swimmingly – despite negative news from Boeing early in the week – until the first U.S. case of the Wuhan...