What Happened in the Market (and the World) This Week? S&P 500 return this week: 1.94%S&P 500 return YTD: 2.36% Market had a solid week. The inauguration went off without a hitch and enthusiasm for the Biden COVID stimulus plan resulted in some solid gains. Most companies so far have beat earnings estimates which should […]
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7 Best Stocks to Buy in 2021
2020 is finally over and it has set a very high bar in terms of stock market returns. Personally, I don’t think it’s ever possible to achieve the returns I saw in 2020 ever again since the environment was hopefully a once in a lifetime event in regard to a pandemic that forced the world […]
Continue ReadingStock Market Recap: Week of Jan. 10-16, 2021
What Happened in the Market (and the World) This Week? The S&P 500 dropped 1.47% this week. Friday was especially bad with the S&P 500 dropping 0.72% which is largely due to what I think were some bank earning overreactions and maybe the fact that retail sales had another drop in December. JPMorgan ($JPM) had […]
Continue Reading$SFIX $CHGG – Sleeper Stocks and Joe Biden’s Stimulus Plan
$SFIX – Stitch Fix Stock Stitch Fix ($SFIX) has been an interesting stock to buy and hold. It IPO’d in late 2017 and I bought shares pretty early on because I believed in Katrina Lake and I thought the business model made a lot of sense. I mean, personalized, fashionable clothes at a reasonable price […]
Continue ReadingGamestop WTF?
Normally, on a day like this, I’d be like “Heck yeah!” Peloton one of my biggest holdings absolutely crushed it. I mean, I am definitely pleased but then I read about this guy: WTF?! Apparently, the fact that GameStop now has 3 Chewy veterans ($CHWY also hitting a 52-week high), on their Board of Directors […]
Continue ReadingWhat a Day – New All-Time High
Yesterday was insane ? Market opened without a ton of movement besides $FUBO being up a lot due to their plans to acquire Vigtory which should allow them to speed up their sportsbook plans. Then a half-hour later, it was like a chunk of my portfolio was holstered to a ? because $ETSY, $DOCU, $SFIX, […]
Continue ReadingStock Market Recap: Week of Jan. 3-9, 2021
What Happened in the Market (and the World) This Week? To sum up, it was an emotional rollercoaster. To begin, the market had a nice early pop in the first half-hour of trading to start off 2021 and then it went all downhill from there that day. If I had to make a guess, it […]
Continue Reading2020 Year-End Portfolio Performance
2020 will be remembered as the year of the individual investor…
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