Ask yourself these few questions: in the future do you think you will use more or less cash? Do you use less cash today than you used ten years ago, or even five years ago?Continue reading
Category: Investing
The Big Picture
The world of investing doesn’t exist in a vacuum, everything is correlated somehow. Stocks influence bonds, trade influences currency, gold vs the dollar, market inflows vs outflows, oil prices, politics and on and on itContinue reading
Fidelity Commission-Free ETFs
Unfortunately I have not been taking full advantage of my Fidelity account. Although I’ve repeatedly combed through all the varying types of mutual funds in my attempt to find the best performing, lowest cost fundsContinue reading
IPO Losers: Blue Apron & Snap
Blue Apron Blue Apron (APRN) went public only 10 trading days ago, but that short time frame has not prevented it from losing over 24% of it’s value. You read that right, over twenty four percent inContinue reading
Trading Amazon Prime Day
Next Tuesday July 11th is Amazon’s third annual Amazon Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day is an ingenious sales event that Amazon created to drive sales on a random day in the middle of the year.Continue reading
Blue Apron, Red Apron, Pink Apron, Either Way It’s A No For Me Dawg
Another day another initial public offering. On Thursday NYC based meal prep company Blue Apron (APRN) has its IPO. They hope to exceed a market capitalization of $3 billion dollars, pricing the shares between $15Continue reading
Tech Gets Slapped Around
There was a lot of red across the market today. The S&P 500 was down -0.81% which is bad, but the Nasdaq (Tech) really took the full beat down shedding -1.61%, double the S&P losses.Continue reading
Do You Know What Stocks are in Your 401k?
When you invest in a mutual fund in your 401k, IRA or even in a non-retirement account you normally buy it because it represents a certain market cap (large cap, mid cap or small cap)Continue reading
Can Sector Investing Beat the S&P 500?
I’ve wondered for some time if investing equally in a broad basket of individual sectors of the stock market could beat the overall S&P 500 index. To test this theory I compared the performance ofContinue reading
Get Out! Don’t Let Buy & Hold Take Your Portfolio To The Sunken Place
Think of all the financial experts on TV, in books and online as Allison from the movie Get Out. Sure they say all the right things about the market but little do you know theyContinue reading