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14 Apr 2025

Isn't it the most compelling chart for being a stock market investor?

Over the last 50 years: -US Inflation: up 6x -S&P 500 dividends: up 21x -S&P 500 total return: up 323x Over the long run, stocks trounce inflation and protect your purchasing power. Source: Peter Mallouk

10 Apr 2025

The big crocodile jaw...

Gold versus paper assets

10 Apr 2025

If you went on vacation on Thursday and just got back, you are up 1%

Source: zerohedge

10 Apr 2025

The S&P 500 was up 9.5% today, the 3rd biggest 1-day gain since 1950.

What has happened in the past following the biggest 1-day gains? Stocks moved substantially higher over the next 1, 3, 5 years every time. Source: Charlie Bilello

9 Apr 2025

The S&P 500 is down 15.3% in the first 66 trading days of 2025, the 4th worst start to a year in history.

Source: Charlie Bilello

9 Apr 2025

Tom Lee: Today may have seen the quiet return of the "Trump put"

Eyeing previous retests & V-bottoms $SPX Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA

9 Apr 2025

Almost like it was scripted. Too perfect?

Source: Trend Spider

9 Apr 2025

Well said by Peter Mallouk

"It’s been a rough year so far for US equity markets, but we’ve been through much worse in the past and gotten through it. We’ll get through this as well. As Abraham Lincoln once said: This, too, shall pass.”

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