The S&P 500 has moved +1% up or down on almost half (46%) of trading days so far this year. That’s our fundamental benchmark of how much investors “feel” volatility, as…
Month: August 2020

IBD: "8 Stocks Turned $10,000 Into $326,178 In 8 Months"
Excerpt from Investor’s Business Daily quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe: ….”U.S. equities (S&P 500 index) have only compounded at a 6% rate the last 20 years,” said Jessica Rabe, co-founder…

2H 2020 Earnings Expectations
With Q2 earnings season over (98% of S&P 500 companies have reported), we can assess how much upside there might be in 2H 2020 operating results and what Wall Street…

Millennial Traders, Baby Boomer Investors
Why did retail traders, especially millennials, choose the COVID Crisis to finally become interested in the stock market? As a member of that cohort, I (Jessica) can explain it: #1: Expected…

60/40: Not Dead, Just Different
Funny story to kick off “Data”, in a nerdy sort of way: When Harry Markowitz defended his dissertation on portfolio theory in front of the University of Chicago’s Economics Department…

Off The Grid, COVID Crisis Edition
Back in 2009, as the Great Recession’s scope was just coming into focus, we developed an analytical toolbox we called “Off the Grid Indicators”. As is the case now, US equities…