“This is a narrowly-led mega cap bull market.”
I can’t tell you how many times I heard myself saying those words at some point over the last couple years. I’ve repeated it so many times that I just assumed it has continued.
Observations on
Psychology and the Markets
A consistent imperfect routine is way better than an inconsistent perfect routine.
When I've worked with investors that are new to technical analysis, I often find that they spend too much time trying to perfect their analytical approach on a particular chart, and way too little time determining which chart they should be looking at in the first place!
Last week on The Final Bar, one of our Mailbag questions related to Amazon.com (AMZN) and how far it has reached above its 200-day moving average. This phenomenon speaks to the long-term strength of AMZN’s price movements, the short-term overreaching of the price since the March market low and the high likelihood of further upside for the stock.
In case you’ve missed it, we have recently found ourselves in a bear market environment.
The first quote I want to share with you about this market environment is,
“Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth think opportunistically about all of those bargains and the potential gains when inevitably a bull market returns.” – James B. Stewart