Author Archives: Patrick Manning

To follow up on my last post…. never let the FOMO get the best of you. I have held out of buying TSLA for years… and yes I regret not pumping money into earlier this year at the stock split. However, the day after buying TSLA, Elon tweets a poll to possibly sell 10 billionContinue reading “Amber Waves of Grain”

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted. I was honestly nervous about the markets, and was also just busy with life, and that’s the way it goes for a retail trader. I truly had my doubts and for a minute there I was almost right, and then the markets took off again. AboutContinue reading “Don’t Fight the Fed”

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted. That is primarily due to the fact I have not had much confidence in the market. The 2 weeks after I posted there was an overall increase in stock market performance. However, this past week the market saw 5 days of down markets. See below chartsContinue reading “The Calm Before the Storm”

The week in review The consumer price index (CPI) increased at a 0.5% M/M which was right at analyst expectations. Last months increase was at 0.9% M/M so we did some slowing in the inflation we saw in the month of June. Jobless Claims decreased W/W from 387K to 375K. This was the 3rd straightContinue reading “Summertime Sadness: Are the Summer Doldrums’ here?”

After my adventures researching the coal and energy sector and probably sending a few of ya’ll to sleep (you’re welcome), I started to think about clean energy and the future. I started thinking about the $1 Trillion infrastructure stimulus bill, and how that will hopefully kickstart the U.S into a greener future. While I amContinue reading “It’s Lit-hium”

Week in Review: The Covid-19 and particularly the Delta variant continue to increase infections in many parts of the U.S and around the world. Current trend of cases in the U.S. 2. Robinhood IPO took place. The volatility of the stock in it’s first week has been exactly what I suspected. It was the mainContinue reading “Coal-y Moly”

I am going to start by writing about the last year and my understanding of what is going on. Which in all honesty there is so much impacting the global markets there is only so much that you can absorb. Unless you have been living under a rock since March 2020, you obviously know aboutContinue reading “What in the World is going on?”