If nothing else, the past two months in the stock market should remind you that investing is hard, difficult, challenging, exasperating and [fill in the blank]. Here are ten recent charts that reminded me why this is the case. I no particular order….
Emotional whipsaws: As bad as December was, January was that good. Go figure…
No seriously, the past two months were ridiculous.
this move in REITs is slapstick comedy pic.twitter.com/6wtROUYeB9
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) January 31, 2019
Now look at it in terms of US REITs…
So you think you can use macro data to trade stocks…
Follow the growth right? At least at the country level GDP growth and stock market returns have no relationship.
Remember Apple’s big iPhone disappointment? Well the stock certainly did…
Think watching financial television will help you become a better investor? Guess again…
Think experience and maturity will help you as an investor? Not so fast…
Well, that was fun while it lasted pic.twitter.com/vxBDZtqUVp
— David Schawel (@DavidSchawel) February 3, 2019
Think you’re onto something new, like Bitcoin? Well, that sometimes doesn’t work out…
And for some reason we still get stories about the ‘Super Bowl indicator‘ even though it was originally created as a joke.