Drawdowns & Losses
Drawdowns and Losses. Finally, a good week. Not before time. And we absolutely deserve it. So now is a good time to review the decrease in our accounts that we made in the 3 previous weeks and how we coped with them. Should we have bailed out? I imagine that two weeks ago some of […]
Dead Cat Bounce?
Is it Dead Cat Bounce? About time something changed. We needed a good week! It didn’t start well – in fact it started quite dramatically badly, but from open on Monday it went up 4.4%. to end slightly higher than last Friday’s close. So, we are happy? That’s not to say we are really happy […]
Election Years
The Market in Election Years. Why can’t everyone settle down and stop giving us surprises? It would make our job so much easier!! Not only . . In last week’s blog we thought the week was crazy; what about this week? Last week we had the double whammy of an attempted assassination and then a […]
Volatility
Volatility Anyone? Friday was a fun day. Not. My last day in Greece, and just before I left the hotel to go to dinner, I checked one of my accounts: up $48k for the day. Nice! I decided to treat myself to a negroni before dinner. Later, after dinner, I decided to check the account […]