Since mid-2018 the market has been stuck in a trading range. Reality is the market only advances to new highs twenty percent of the time. Eighty percent of investing is like roller coasting – up and ...
Headwinds Building
While President Trump recently stepped across the invisible line called the DMZ, the economy crossed its own invisible line. At 121 months, the current economic expansion is the longest on record. It ...
Teeter Totter Market
At the End of Q2 2019 – May was another month of dashed hopes as stocks flirted with prior highs but, exhausted, declined all month. June rallied on the hope that the Federal Reserve would provide the ...
Time to Review Risk
Many analysts expected a quicker resolution of the China tariff trade talks. The last Chinese negotiators to arrive in Washington, D.C. had stricken 150 of the previously agreed provisions. All the ...
Headwinds Add To Summer Seasonality
The stock market mantra of "sell in May and go away" is not always the best investment policy. However, seasonality does accurately represent difficult months for the stock market more often than not. ...