Would You Have Made Money From Reading My Blog in 2020?
Over 2020 I made a number of predictions. How did I do? And how would you have done if you had followed my advice?
Investments
Are you buying the dips?
The stock market has been a wild ride lately. Amazon was up 8% in a day this week and the NASDAQ 100 ($QQQ) has been a star performer year-to-date. But things have been up and down and I bet you have been eagle-eyed and watching for any dips. Wanna get those bargains – right?
Looking for value in the current market
How are you bearing up? We are living history here – aren’t we? It’s crazy and unprecedented. I’m sure like me you’re stuck at home and trying to work. But there have been some bright spots – my wife and daughter running a Girl Scouts meeting on Zoom! That was funny when all the girls …
The market is crazy! No, not the stock market – bonds!
Whoah! The market has been crazy – right? Not the stock market – I mean the bond market! The 10 year Treasury yield almost dipped below 1% at the time of writing and I fully expect it to go below at some point this year. Bonds are up, up, up. And I don’t mean any …
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The Sequence of Returns Score
You’ve heard of sequence of returns (SOR) right? That fascinating phenomenon where in retirement you can experience good investment performance on average, but due to an unlucky sequence of those returns you go bust in retirement and end up living on cat food! SOR can be ugly. But we all know what it looks like …