Tailwinds and Headwinds were originally posted in the Weekly Updates for May 6 and May 13, respectively. When I originally wrote about these two topics in May 2022, the three American Indexes – the S&P 500 Index (S&P), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and the Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq) – were trending downward since […]
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The week ending August 26, 2022
Fractional shares…. This weekend is the one-year anniversary of this blog – 52 weekly updates, plus the occasional commentary post. There have been changes along the way as we try to figure out what information to feature and how to present it. One thing learned has been earnings seasons are a real grind. It seems […]
The week ending June 24, 2022
Inflation – what is it good for? In the last few weeks, inflation has made its way from the Business section of the newspaper to the front pages. Almost weekly we hear the price of gas and groceries has gotten more and more expensive. The price of gas is up nearly 50% in the last […]
The week ending June 3, 2022
Last week, I started discussing my process for identifying companies I would like to own, albeit a very, very, small piece of the company. I created a 4-stage process to eliminate companies from consideration relatively quickly while going through the process. These stages of the process are: Stage 1 – Radar Check Stage 2 – […]
The week ending May 27, 2022
“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 […]
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 […]