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….
Source: Zero Hedge
Emotional whipsaws: As bad as December was, January was that good. Go figure…
Source: StockCharts.com
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…
Source: @scheplick
So you think you can use macro data to trade stocks…
Source: The Irrelevant Investor
Follow the growth right? At least at the country level GDP growth and stock market returns have no relationship.
Source: The Reformed Broker
Remember Apple’s big iPhone disappointment? Well the stock certainly did…
Source: Retirement Field Guide
Think watching financial television will help you become a better investor? Guess again…
Source: Silverlight Asset Management LLC
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…
Source: Unsplash
And for some reason we still get stories about the ‘Super Bowl indicator‘ even though it was originally created as a joke.
