How to measure risk? Is volatility the best way, it’s certainly most commonly cited? No. Volatility is not the best measure. A stock that goes up 50% in a month…
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Over the last 100 years or so, the S&P 500 has ended higher in about 70% of the years. Similarly, about 60% of the S&P months have turned up positive….
34% tariffs. China retaliates. Trump goes out with 52%. Then 104%. The US-China trade war is in full swing, sure. But this isn’t about tariffs or the U.S. and China…
Updated: October 9th, 2025 Pete Martin has worked with many institutions, helped them manage trillions of dollars in assets, and also helped build a massive hedge fund with folks at…
Picture this. The S&P 500 dropped about 15% in 1973 and then another 25% in 1974. That’s a loss of almost 40% over two years. In fact, the peak-to-trough decline…
Neither Google, nor Microsoft, Amazon, or Tesla – none of them beat the S&P 500 each of the last 3 years. Individual stocks just have a hard time consistently beating the…
What if we could educate, engage, and inspire a billion people to become a billion investors? Not just a billion savers. Saving is a start, not the destination[1]. Let’s create…
Before the pandemic, S&P 500 companies clocked annual revenue growth of about 7% over 2017-19. The year 2020 was a brutal one for many, but average revenue growth for companies…
Tesla’s most important metric is the time horizon its CEO Elon Musk is able to focus Tesla investors on. It isn’t talked about much, and is mostly hidden, but is…