The cost of higher returns One advantage stock investors have over fixed income investors is higher returns over a long period of time. But this benefit comes at a price. The trade-off for better returns is more volatility or the tendency to change rapidly and unpredictably. Volatility is often seen in a negative way. But objectively it should… Read More »
What drives the stock market higher or lower? In one word, it’s liquidity. Below on the left is a bar graph of global liquidity in US$ trillion. And on the right is the Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF (VT) over the same time. Notice the correlation between the two? Here’s what they look like overlapped together.… Read More »
Starting a new year of options It has been a decent good start to the new year. I earned $3,607 in net premiums from trading options. About half of this amount came from my 2 weekly trading challenges that I share on Twitter and YouTube. For my Google options challenge, I’m trying to make a 50% annual return.… Read More »
Not the best year for investors The collective net worth of Canadians fell by $332 billion in the third quarter of this year. That’s about $8,700 per person. If we annualize this amount it comes out to roughly $35,000. Unfortunately RBC is forecasting further decline to net worth until the second quarter of 2023. Asset prices across… Read More »
Signs of financial stress. The effects of higher interest rates have a 6 to 12 month lag period before showing up in the general economy. It appears we’re seeing those related issues now. A Canadian real estate lender has recently halted redemptions on its fund. This means investors can’t get their money out which is a pretty big… Read More »
It wasn’t a good month for options trading. 😅 I’m basically flat for the entire month. I was doing okay for the most part. But then I shorted a put spread on Meta stock before earnings and unfortunately they disappointed investors so much the stock fell 24% the next day which really hurt my P&L. 🙁 The… Read More »