Portfolio Review – February 2018 – Stock market volatility makes a comeback
Stock market volatility came roaring back in a big way this week. We saw days where the stock market moved more in an hour than it moved on a weekly basis in the past year. It wasn’t wholly unexpected given the flat stock market volatility we’ve had for such a long time. As an example of these calm investing waters, my portfolio has gone up 16 straights months before this one. That’s a big testament to how good we’ve had it as investors. The S&P hasn’t had a monthly loss of -1% or more since October 2016. That’s a crazy run of solid returns that had to end eventually. One…
Is this the start of the next stock market crash?
The stock market was down today and my office was awash with talk of a stock market crash. “There goes my retirement,” said one of my older coworkers, partially in jest but it was the younger crowd that seemed more worried. I work in a place where no one ever talks about their investments but today that changed. People know that I’m interested in investing but I rarely get any bites when it comes to investment conversations. Suddenly, I was deluged with instant messages from people asking if they should take their money out of the market. “Is this the start of something bad?” I didn’t really know how to…
The Time in the Market portfolio – January 2018 update
It’s spreadsheet weekend and the weather is perfect for another portfolio review. It’s so cold that there’s no reason to be outside right now unless your hobby is to make ice sculptures. I’m doing this a bit earlier than usual this month. The typical schedule is to do this update on the 2nd Sunday of the month but I think I’ll switch that up this year. The second Sunday of the month often falls late in the month. It’s on the 14th this month which would be over 35 days since the last update. I’d rather have it done earlier in case I want to make some changes to my…