“Sell in May and go away,” refers to the tendency of stocks to perform worse in May through October than during the rest of the year. I hope that is not the case this year given the decline in the stock markets. The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average are both in market […]
Monthly Archives: May 2022
The week ending May 20, 2022
Investing v Gambling Just when I thought the markets may have bottomed, they prove I have no idea what is going to happen day to day. 😊 Recently I was asked what the difference between investing and gambling is. As an investor, this intuitively seemed obvious but as I thought about it, I realized to […]
The week ending May 13, 2022
If the markets were Clubber Lang, their prediction for 2022 would have been “Pain!”. And so far, pain it has been with the S&P 500 off to its worst start to a year since 1939. Over $10 trillion has been erased from American stocks alone. The Nasdaq Composite Index alone is down 25% in 2022 […]
The week ending May 6, 2022
With the markets maintaining a downward trajectory its hard to stay engaged in investing and it can be downright depressing. I know I am not following the markets as much as in the past because its discouraging seeing my money disappear. This week, rather than talk about the market, I have decided to talk about […]
The week ending April 29, 2022
Atrox mensis For those not up on their Latin, that is ‘a terrible month’, or so Google tells me. And indeed, it was. Coming into April, I had such high hopes for the markets. So much for history. April has historically been the best performing month for stocks but this year the S&P 500 Index […]