The idea with long-term investing in stocks is to see significant price growth. GE stock is down 90% over the last 20 years, and this trend does not look like it will end anytime soon. Investors love to hold on to stocks over the long term and turn their eyes away from the normal ups […]

We sometimes hear concern about how top weighted the S&P is, with 20% of its value in the top 5 out of 500 stocks. This actually makes sense, and is not a misrepresentation. The S&P 500 has been around for 63 years now, and a lot of people have invested in it and continue to […]

With Georgia already moving to open their economy up more, and most states having their stay at home orders expiring soon, how we do this has become a huge debate. There is no shortage of people who are eager to warn us about opening our economy too soon, and this situation has become polarized between […]

Most investors tend to build their strategies not so much for sunny days, but to prepare for when the rain comes. It’s raining hard now, which provides some valuable perspective. While the goal with investing surely is to make money over time, a lot of investors tend to be guided instead by confusion, which can […]

As paltry as the returns from municipal bonds are, at least compared to stocks, they still attract a lot of investment, due to investors thinking that they are so safe. Think again. We’ve been worried for a while about the potential hit that municipal bonds, or munis, could take from this economic shutdown, and we’re […]

ETFs can be a nice tool for investors to participate in markets that they normally wouldn’t, like WTI oil futures. We need to look at the ingredients of these ETFs first. Your average investor doesn’t pay much attention to the futures markets, whether this be oil futures or any of the many other commodities and […]

How well the stock market has done in the month of April so far, in the face of all the very dark clouds in the economic sky, have people scratching their heads. When we look at the current economic picture, it sure looks like all bad news, all very bad news in fact. Unemployment claims […]

Harold Hamm of Continental Resources was already a critic of the futures market, but seeing it going into the red has him assuming that there must be misconduct involved. Harold Hamm has definitely distinguished himself as someone who knows the oil business. The United States was, not long ago, not all that big of a […]

The stock market bears have been licking their chops since stocks started to rebound, predicting a second fall and a bigger one this time. Stocks are still holding up pretty well. The current bear market started, like all bear markets do, with our wondering just how far we’d be sent down before the panic became […]

Futures contract expiration days can be plenty interesting, and a lot of money can be made, but Monday’s May WTI oil futures trading took us into another universe. A lot of money is made and lost trading oil futures, and there are some epic stories out there already, big traders who got caught on the […]