Jae's Corner | Solving Money's Naming Problem

Jae's Corner | Solving Money's Naming Problem

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Adjust? Sure. Today? Hard No.

From DEEP in the weeds, today is something called options expiry for monthly options. Since individual stock prices are easily influenced by large trades, and almost no one understands options, that means that individuals have almost no hope today.

You would have to understand this, and even then, you could be wrong. Even SPY is going to be influenced, all day. What cannot be? AGG, the ETF that represents the USD bond market (Stocks for Show, Bonds…eh you know the rest).

source: The Market Ear

How Far Down The Food Chain Are You?

Nasty start, these are YTD of IWM, QQQ & SPY, the dominant US ETFs. Targeted Retirement Funds are not down anywhere close to this. Why?

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