Buy UPRO and Earn 3x S&P 500 Returns? You Might Be Overlooking a Crucial Detail! finance investing markets Apr 25, 2025

Leveraged ETFs aim to deliver 2× or 3× the daily return of an index—not cumulative long-term returns. This distinction is critical. Compounding occurs from each day’s new starting point, not your original investment. So while you may get 3× the daily...

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The U.S. Stock Market is Down 13.7%—Is It Still Too Early to Buy the Dip? finance investing markets Apr 11, 2025

YTD the US S&P 500 Index (known to track the overall US market) is down ~13.74%. Many people have asked me, “isn’t the price cheap now?”. The short answer is not necessarily. Here’s a brief overview of how to look at overall US market drops and to ga...

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Who is Winning in the AI Race? ai investing markets Jul 06, 2024

Let’s analyze who is benefitting from AI today. It is clear that AI is revolutionary and will be here to stay. There winners though, aren’t completely clear.

 

Nvidia, which supplies GPUs (graphics processing unit) that power large language models,...

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What Goes Into A Stock Price? Thoughts Post SVB's Bank Failure banking finance investing markets stock price valuation May 06, 2023

This post may be more useful after reading SVB’s bank collapse post for context (blog posted 4/1/23). It’s interesting to see when one company’s stock falls to drag down an entire sector. In this type of instance, either the market completely m

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