Do roboadvisers beat the market?

Do roboadvisers beat the market?

Originally posted February 4, 2019. Last Updated June 29, 2020. The performance of roboadvisers consistently experienced lesser gains on uptrends and greater losses on downtrends over the two years we used them. The above chart shows two key dates: performance for the...
When is a bad earnings report good?

When is a bad earnings report good?

Click the image for an enlarged version   Last updated: February 10, 2019   When’s an earnings miss not an earnings miss?   When you’re 3M, AMD, Apple, Pfizer, or Whirpool and your company’s earnings aren’t as bad as analysts...
Get Irked’s Stock Shopping List

Get Irked’s Stock Shopping List

What’s a “Stock Shopping List?” Many professional analysts will tell individual investors to keep a shopping list of stocks they’d like to buy at lower levels. However, what does that look like? We decided to put together a shopping list of the...
Has the stock market bottomed?

Has the stock market bottomed?

With the positive action in the markets of the past few days, it can be easy to get wrapped up in the optimism of thinking we’ve bottomed and it’s safe to get back in the water.       Downside ahead?     Many analysts believe this pop is a result of a...
The Fed put the hammer down.

The Fed put the hammer down.

The Fed has spoken and they have decided to put the hammer to the markets.   What happened? As we predicted in yesterday’s post, the Fed announced they would raise interest rates during their meeting announcement today. From there, we thought the likely option would...