Stock Market
Most of what I have in my Stock portfolio are very low vs initial investment time. I am willing to wait these out. I also have a Fidelity market IRA which has made a comeback recently with the "No Fee" funds and the 401k has recovered and surpassed previous highs fortunately. Several IRA CD's taking advantage of the current interest rates, my largest ichunk at this time is the CD's pulling in 5.0% to 5.5% 12mo . I did take advantage of the IRA tax break this year $7500 at 5.35% ayp for 18mo, this saved me $700 in taxes this year.
IAUM up 35% over 5 yrs, not too shabby!
TLT and TMF are near their 5 yr bottom, if the markets drop I may jump in.
Very well done .
Most investments should be doing well, considering we were shut down with disease a few years ago.
Saudi's drove oil price down to buy more oil assets that couldn't stay afloat cuz of the higher interest rates small outfits couldn't afford.
These small guys got used to near zero interest on their loans/mortgages, new rates broke them.
RIG offshore started activating it's first of many dormant rigs.
Price of Saudi oil going up, my guess $100,
Josh Brown is pounding table on IEO, a fund tracking all oil assets in general, so I'm putting some $$$ there, it's been on my radar for a while, gonna pull the trigger, with a stop of course.
jmo
iShares U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (IEO)
There's likely to be a pause as the smaller stocks that shouldn't have gone up, go down back where they should be, good value stocks will stayish, and general market should rise.
There should be some powerful earnings reported for the first quarter, that should bolster the general up trend, but election is looming .
Stay vigilant.
Review your holdings, do a tune-up, get rid of dogs .