Quote of the Day
"The irony of investing is that it typically works out best when markets look their worst. Currently, things don’t look good."
(Novel Investor)
Markets
- Outside of horrible sentiment, there's really very little good market news. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- Trading on macro is a great way to get crushed. (neckar.substack.com)
DCA
- Ben Carlson, "Dollar cost averaging doesn’t make those emotions go away but it takes them out of the investment process." (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- How value averaging differs from dollar cost averaging. (wsj.com)
Strategy
- Making the case for swapping core fixed income for alternatives. (barrons.com)
- More evidence that opportunities to generate alpha are shrinking. (evidenceinvestor.com)
- Successful investing is learning how to be wrong. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Startups
- What YC is telling its founders about the current environment. (techcrunch.com)
- $100 million venture rounds are in decline. (news.crunchbase.com)
Global
- Europe's recent IPOs are in free fall, as well. (news.crunchbase.com)
- Why the U.S. dollar is so strong. (econbrowser.com)
Economy
- The Fed isn't trying to tank the economy. (tker.co)
- Home inventory has turned positive year-over-year. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: identifying talent. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: the internet paradox. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Things are tough out there. Here is some required bear market reading. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A Q&A with Brian Feroldi author of “Why Does the Stock Market Go Up.” (abnormalreturns.com)
- Writing IS thinking. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Tyler Cowen, "So don’t buy art to get rich. But if you love the work, it will bring more pleasure than holding a lot of losing investments." (wealthmanagement.com)
- The world's most expensive car, a 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe, just sold for $142 million. (cnn.com)
- Oligarch aside, the superyacht business is strong. (ft.com)
- There is a global shortage of Rolex watches. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
