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Today’s Results - Up $535.60

Yikes. AREX dropped 9% by noon today. 9%! Fortunately, AREX recovered steadily, for a final down day of only. 2.5%. That's a great recovery. More on this in my investing post. We also saw another 4.5% from Sandridge today, for a cumulative two-day result of almost 11% .

Today’s Results - Up $66

A pretty quiet day. Up $65.49, mostly on Sandridge Energy.

A quiet day on the Market?

It's weird. Today was my "lowest" positive day. A gain of $66 and I was disappointed. It's weird how stock investing twists your thinking around. First off, when I have a down day, I can't help but stress over it. I read articles, postmortems, commentaries, and I do so over and ...

It’s a market holiday. (Sigh)

It's a holiday, so the market is closed. Not here in Canada, but rather, it's a holiday in the US. Unfortunately, as a US equity investor (I know, I know, I'm missing out on opportunities locally and around the world. More on the later...), I am subject to the vagaries of ...

Today’s Result

It was another down day, in a string of down days.

Politics

Thoughts on politics and the state of the economy.

The Stress of Being a New Stock Investor

I'll admit it: this has been a stressful week as a stock investor. Especially a relatively inexperienced stock investor trying to make my way to eventual (fill-in-the-blank financial outcome: retirement, supplemented income, etc etc). Who wouldn't be stressed? The Dow dropped 4% this week, oil is at staggering numbers, steel and ...