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Quote of the Day
"I would rather get ready for 2019, then try and get cute to finish up 2018 on a “good note.” Less trading, more reading, more exercising, more reflecting. That’s how I want to approach this week."
(JC Parets)
Markets
- Market timers are unusually bearish. (marketwatch.com)
- Low-vol is the only positive US equity factor YTD. (capitalspectator.com)
- Checking in on sector valuations. (fortunefinancialadvisors.com)
Strategy
- Big up days often occur during market downturns. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- What happens when stocks are extremely oversold? (pensionpartners.com)
- All investment strategies involved trade-offs. (demonetizedblog.com)
Self-promotion
- Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter to stay up-to-date with all of our posts. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Check out our financial history-focused Market Moment every day in your Alexa flash briefing. (amazon.com)
Finance
- Payment servicers, like Square ($SQ), are entering the market for small-business loans. (wsj.com)
- Users don't call fintech apps, 'fintech.' (thebasispoint.com)
Economy
- How rising mortgage rates affect housing affordability. (zillow.com)
- What will housing inventory do in 2019? (calculatedriskblog.com)
- The 2018 Behavioral Economics Oscars including the documentary "Three Identical Strangers." (bloomberg.com)
Books
- The 21 best non-fiction books of 2018 including "Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most" by Steven Johnson. (heleo.com)
- What Ben Casnocha has been reading including "Blitzscaling" by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh. (casnocha.com)
- 11 books on producitivity to read in 2019 including "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. (businessinsider.com)
- Five books to look forward to in 2019 including "Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World" by Cal Newport. (thesimpledollar.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: first principles. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: the same playbook. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Dabbling in the markets is not the same thing as having a well-thought out investing plan. (abnormalreturns.com)
