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Callie Cox

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🤓 Market nerd in the streets 🐥 Data junkie millennial in the tweets 😴 On a sabbatical atm 🐏 Always a #GDTBATH 👉 Views my own, not investment advice

Charlotte, NC

Joined December 2009

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Callie Cox

3 months

Some bittersweet personal news: Wednesday will be my last day @eToroUS . It's been one hell of a ride, and I'm heartbroken to leave such an incredible team. Thanks for taking a shot on a young, raw, real market voice @luledemmissie @yoniassia @laidler_ben 💚

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Callie Cox

2 years

Remember when you wanted everything you have now?

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Callie Cox

4 years

What they tell you: If you invested $100 in Apple's IPO and and held shares until today, that investment would be worth about $100,000. What they don't tell you: If you invested $100 in Apple's IPO and held shares until today, you would've endured 23 declines of 20% or more.

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2 years

I think I stare at charts too much 🙃

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4 years

I don’t know how many of you need to hear this today, so: Renting is not throwing money away.

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Callie Cox

9 months

You: OMG credit card debt just hit a record $1 tril... Me: stop right there. credit card debt is just 6% of $$$ people have in the bank, around the lowest %age in 20 years

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Callie Cox

4 years

Sister (25 years old, dietitian) just asked what the hot stock picks are these days because she’s ready to start investing. I told her to consider investing long-term in a broad market ETF, maybe one that tracks the S&P 500. She asked me what an ETF and the S&P 500 are.

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Callie Cox

4 years

What do you call a crazy day in oil futures? Term-oil.

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Callie Cox

3 years

You know what? We’re all probably thinking the same thing, so I’ll just go ahead and admit it. I’m not OK. This pandemic has been disastrous for my mental health.

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6 months

You: omg credit card debt is at $1.1 trillion now! Me: yeah, but the % of credit card debt relative to money in the bank is near the lowest in 20 years Context matters.

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Callie Cox

2 years

Peter Thiel: "Warren Buffett is a sociopathic grandpa" Warren Buffett: *quietly beats the S&P by 20 percentage points YTD*

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Callie Cox

4 years

"ALL-TIME HIGH!" is what I just screamed. But nobody heard me because I'm working from home in a global pandemic and my apartment complex is empty because nobody can afford the rent.

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Callie Cox

2 years

The S&P 500 is now up 17 of the past 19 days. Last time that happened was 1971.

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Callie Cox

3 months

You: omg credit card debt is at $1.1 trillion now! Me: yeah, but the % of credit card debt relative to money in the bank is near the lowest in 20 years Context matters.

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Callie Cox

5 months

The weirdest-looking bull in decades...possibly ever. The S&P 500 is up 23% this year, yet 71% of stocks are underperforming the index (the biggest % since at least 2000)

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Callie Cox

3 years

Yesterday, 429 stocks in the S&P 500 declined while $SPX fell just 0.4% itself. That's the S&P's largest # of decliners for a drop that small since at least 1996 (as far back as my data goes).

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Callie Cox

2 years

That, my fine friends, was the first time since 2008 that the S&P 500 fell 4% intraday, only to recover those losses and close higher by the end of the day.

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Callie Cox

5 months

Today was the first day since July 2022 that the S&P 500 rose even though every Magnificent 7 stock fell. Bullish. $SPX

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Callie Cox

3 years

🚨🚨🚨🚨 🚨🚨VIX CLOSED BELOW 20 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A YEAR 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

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Callie Cox

7 months

the most since *JANUARY ugh

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Callie Cox

6 years

The 4 teams in the Champions Classic have won 4 national championships since 2005. UNC alone has won 3 in that period. Just saying. #goheels

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Callie Cox

10 months

If you invested $1,000 in Apple when the stock went public in the 1980s, you'd have about $1.3 million today. But you would've also had to deal with: 🎢15 selloffs of 20% or more 🎢Five selloffs of 50% 🎢Two drops of 80% Picking stocks is easy...in hindsight. $AAPL

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Callie Cox

2 years

WHY MARKETS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR RECESSION WORRIES ⬇

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Callie Cox

1 year

🚨 EXCITING NEWS 🚨 If you like what you see on Twitter, you can now ~subscribe~ to THE BOTTOM LINE — my weekly note on how markets, the economy and culture impact your portfolio — riiiiiiiiight here ⬇⬇⬇

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2 years

New year, new job ✨ I’ve joined the incredible team @eToro / @eToroUS to be their first public market nerd/investment analyst in the US!

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Callie Cox

4 years

One month ago, the S&P 500 hit a record high. Life comes at you fast.

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Callie Cox

3 years

On this day 30 years ago, the S&P fell 0.5%. It was a disappointing drop, but nobody knew the S&P would go on to rally more than 1000% (8.5% a year), overcoming THREE separate global crises in the process. Also, on this day 30 years ago, I was born 🙃

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Callie Cox

4 years

The “Sell in May and go away” concept is especially hilarious this year because we can’t go anywhere.

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Callie Cox

4 years

WHOA. The S&P 500’s first-quarter return was -20%, and its second-quarter return was +20%. In the year 2020. This year is just one big joke for the universe, right?

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Callie Cox

3 years

This Halloween, I’m going as inventory and just never showing up to your party 🎃 🤷🏼‍♀️ 👻

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Callie Cox

4 years

Grocery cashier: “Hey, how are you today?” Me: “Doing well, how are you?” “Actually, I’m not OK. The Tar Heels lost in OT to Duke last night. We couldn’t make our free throws, and our lack of depth really showed down the stretch, and there was this one call at the end when...”

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Callie Cox

4 years

A tale of a top-heavy market. Today was only the second trading day since April 2009 in which the S&P 500 climbed 0.75% or more, but fewer than 300 index members advanced.

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Callie Cox

3 years

A lesson in percentages. How long did it take for the Dow to reach each 10K milestone? 10K: 103 years 20K: 18 years 30K: 4 years

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Callie Cox

4 years

The S&P 500 hasn’t climbed or fallen 1% or more in 66 straight trading days. This has happened 2 other times in the past 24 years: Oct. 2018 (74-day streak) Jan. 2018 (94-day streak)

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Callie Cox

4 years

The S&P 500’s decade in review: 💰 11.6% annualized returns 👶🏼 First record high in March 2013 🤑 241 record highs since then 😵 176 days in correction territory 😅 No recessions ⬆️ 9 Fed hikes ⬇️ 3 Fed cuts 🐻 Most hated bull market in history

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Callie Cox

2 years

Downgrading Mark Few to Mark None bc homie can’t win a championship to save his life 😤

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Callie Cox

1 year

Oh my god. Last week was the biggest for equity/index options volume in history, eclipsing the last week of Jan 2021 (the meme stock explosion) as the new record holder. Thursday + Friday were the 4th and 5th biggest options volume days in history, too.

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Callie Cox

2 years

The great flippening

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Callie Cox

4 years

Interesting. The VIX closed up today, even though the S&P 500 rose 1.6%. That's happened 3 times this year (March 24, October 5 and today). Before 2020, that has happened two other times since 2003 (7/15/2009, 6/1/2009).

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Callie Cox

2 years

Made a quick and dirty diagram on how rate hikes work (for a vid we may or may not be filming soon 👀) How’d I do, fam?

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Callie Cox

2 years

Excuse me, wtf just happened?!? (A quick thread on how a grim inflation report turned into a huge stock market gain) ⬇

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Callie Cox

4 years

I'll add that it's no small feat to hold a young tech stock with an unproven product (Apple, decades ago) through market swings like that.

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Callie Cox

11 months

Bears: OMG the world is ending, why are you holding stocks? Me: Because the S&P 500 has been in a bull market for 83% of the last seven decades😘

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Callie Cox

2 years

If my parents put $100 into an S&P 500 fund the day I was born, it'd be worth about $965 today. Yes, even after eight drops of 10-20%, four bear markets and three recessions. They also would've made that investment 31 years ago to the day🎉

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Callie Cox

3 years

Explain to me like I'm a kindergartener why there are laser eyes all over my feed.

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Callie Cox

4 years

The S&P 500 just clocked its 6th straight gain, its longest winning streak since April 2019. This market, man.

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Callie Cox

4 years

Tech stocks are making the rest of the market look silly. The Nasdaq Composite closed at another record high today, while the S&P 500 closed 8% below its own. That’s the furthest $SPX has been from a record on a Nasdaq Comp record high day since Jan. 1980.

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Callie Cox

8 months

The S&P 500 has now declined in 13 of the last 15 triple witching days Couple that with the fact that options volumes have more than doubled since 2019 and you've got an interesting lil narrative on your hands $SPX

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Callie Cox

3 years

Every. dang. time. I. write. a. note.

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Callie Cox

3 years

Here’s my Friday the 13th take: Since 1950, the S&P 500’s average change on Friday the 13th has been...wait for it... 0.13% 👻 🦇⚡️🙀🧛‍♀️

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Callie Cox

3 months

Core PCE is now at 2% annualized on a 3- and 6-month basis. We're there, folks. The Fed can cut now.

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Callie Cox

2 years

DID YOU KNOW: A 10% selloff may just be a 10% sale if you're willing to wait a bit. No S&P 500 drop of 10-20% since 1950 has taken more than nine months to recover/reach new highs.

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Callie Cox

6 years

Existing home sales have now fallen for six straight months. That’s happened three other times in the past 20 years: Jan. 2014, Oct. 2007 (housing crisis), and Dec. 1999. Pretty eye-opening IMO considering U.S. consumers are the healthiest/most confident they’ve been in years.

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Callie Cox

11 months

You: wow, this market is so top heavy Me: always has been

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Callie Cox

4 years

If the S&P 500 closes up today, it’ll be just the 3rd time in 10 years that the index has dropped 2.5% or more intraday, then recovered its losses.

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Callie Cox

4 years

Happy second Father’s Day in heaven, Dad.

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Callie Cox

4 years

$SPX rose 4.6% in May, its largest gain for the month since 2009. Thanks for Maying.

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Callie Cox

1 year

HAPPY FED DAY to all who observe

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Callie Cox

4 years

Sure, you’ll likely never see that rent money ever again. But you are paying for things: a place to live, flexibility, maintenance, time.

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Callie Cox

3 years

I don’t tweet this for sympathy. I just want to be real because I know so many of us feel this way behind closed doors. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I’ve been to this place before so it’s a little more recognizable and familiar.

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Callie Cox

4 years

A mortgage CAN help you gradually buy a home *over many years* But what rent haters won’t tell you is the amount of time, money and emotion you’ll put into that house.

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Callie Cox

4 years

I know what you’re wondering, and I’ve got you. This is the S&P 500’s worst start to a December since 2008.

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Callie Cox

2 years

Let's put some math behind what may be a massive opportunity if you're willing to wait. Since 1950, in the days when the S&P 500 has closed down 15% or more from a 52-week high, it's posted positive 12-month returns 76% of the time after that. Average 12-month return of 14%.

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Callie Cox

3 years

Today was the 224th trading day of 2020. The S&P 500 ended the day up 10.2% year-to-date. $SPX has been up 10% or more at this point in the year in 18 years since 1985. In all 18 of those years, $SPX ended the year higher than it was on the 224th day (by an average of 4%).

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Callie Cox

5 years

Yesterday, the S&P 500 closed at a record high while the Russell 2000 traded 8.8% below its record high, the biggest divergence w/ $SPX at a record since March 2000. You’re killin’ me, smalls! (h/t my colleague)

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Callie Cox

4 years

Oh yeah, I’ll add that “rent is throwing money away” is a very rude, close-minded, blanket statement to say to someone you love. It also shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Callie Cox

1 year

Love waking up to a thread on why SSRIs are just a big pharma scam. I've been on meds for 6 years now and trust me, no amount of sunshine, money or sleep could've helped me

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Hi friends! 👋🏻 Been a while since I’ve intro’ed myself, so... I’m Callie! Nice to meet you. I’m a senior investment strategist at a bank-run brokerage in Charlotte. I love telling stories about the markets and investing, and I find the mental side of money fascinating.

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4 years

Whoa, this is pretty crazy: Since July 2016, the S&P 500 has only fallen on a weekly basis ONCE when Monday and Tuesday have closed up during the week. That’s a 46/47 win rate for $SPX when Monday/Tuesday are up.

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Callie Cox

3 years

Building wealth is so much more about managing your emotions and insecurities than picking the right investments. Few.

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Callie Cox

4 years

The S&P 500 has dropped 33.9% peak-to-trough. If today is the bottom, it’d be the fifth-worst bear market since 1946.

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4 years

Throwing that anecdote out there because her (and my) generation is the one jumping into the market right now. And of course, most of us didn’t have the resources to learn about personal finance and investing, so we wing it like our friends do. Education is SO 👏🏻 IMPORTANT 👏🏻

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3 years

Hoooooo boy. If the S&P 500 closes up today, it'll be the 11th time in the past decade that the index has dropped 1.8% during the day, only to recover all of its losses through the close.

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6 years

Tell me a more improved college basketball player over the last two years than Luke Maye. I’ll wait. #goheels

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2 years

I have a confession to make. I have no idea what I’m doing. But to be fair, neither does the rest of Wall Street... 🧵

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4 years

That, my friends, was the Nasdaq 100’s biggest turnaround to close green since March 23 (and sixth-biggest since late 2008).

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4 years

Last time VIX closed above 27 when $SPX was within 5% of a record? April 2000.

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4 years

S&P 500 within 5% of a record high. VIX at 28. 🤔

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4 years

As somebody whose family used layaway growing up, I had to do my part. Pay it forward. #nolayawaynovember

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2 years

Building wealth isn’t always about crushing it. Most of the time, it’s about being good enough for long enough.

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2 years

10 FACTS ABOUT 10% MARKET SELLOFFS (AKA “CORRECTIONS”) 📉 Take a breath. You can handle this. Here’s why ⬇️

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Callie Cox

4 years

Everybody's talking about Peloton ($PTON), but why haven't I seen much on Nautilus ($NLS)? Up almost 1600% since March.

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Callie Cox

4 years

Fintwit! Are there any good “women in finance” lists to follow on Twitter? I’ll take account suggestions too. Women are doing awesome things in this industry, but they aren’t recognized/amplified enough. Honestly I’m sick of it, and I will do better on my part to help fix it.

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Callie Cox

3 years

Yes, stocks closed at record highs again today. But if you're waiting for lower prices to buy in, consider this: If you've invested at any S&P 500 record high since 1950, there's a 99% chance the index hit another record high in the next 12 months.

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5 months

The biggest dividend payers are having their worst year vs. the S&P 500 since 1999😭

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Callie Cox

3 years

Wish I could go back in time and tell high school me that being a nerd is totally OK (actually good), and one day you’ll have lil nerd parties on a thing called Twitter and they’ll be way more fun than those cool kid parties you didn’t get invited to.

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2 years

Bad news😢 The S&P 500's worst month of the year has been September based on average returns historically. More bad news😢😢 The last four times when the S&P 500 fell 10% or more YTD through the end of August, it also dropped 8% or more in September.

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2 years

Fine. I'll say it. The best economic/investing writing I've seen these days has come from blogs and newsletters.

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Callie Cox

3 years

Two years of missing you ❤️

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2 years

What do you call a crazy day in the Brent oil futures market? Term-oil.

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3 years

Shot: penny stock volume is exploding.

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3 years

Here's the playbook when it comes to rising yields. Yield pops tend to freak out stocks. BUT. 1) this tends to happen early on in economic recoveries. 2) stocks tend to rally long-term. Here's a table of months since 1990 when the 10-year yield has risen the most.

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2 years

One month and 10 days after testing positive for COVID, I ran a mile non-stop today PLEASE CLAP for my lungs, good job bebes

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Callie Cox

5 years

Two days ago, my sweet, loving father went to be with the Lord. I’m so heartbroken, but we were able to spend the last few days with him, and I’m so thankful he lived a full life of love. One of my last memories with him was dancing at my wedding.

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2 years

You can panic sell... But historically, the odds have been against you. Since 1950, when the S&P 500 fell 2.95% or more in a day (like it did today), it was 💥up 12 months later 87% of the time 💥with an average 12-month fwd return of 18%.

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5 years

The team that will beat Duke in the second round of the tourney is... The street you grew up on + your favorite animal. #beatdukeday

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4 years

The last time the Fed cut rates to zero (December 2008), I was a senior in high school who had no idea who/what the Fed was. Today, I know too much about the Fed, my knees hurt and I can’t stay out past midnight.

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3 years

🚨 SMALL-CAPS JUST CLOSED AT THEIR FIRST ALL-TIME HIGH SINCE AUG. 2018 🚨

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3 years

Is it true or is it fact that you’re always going to be nostalgic for music that was popular in your teens and early 20s?

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4 years

Stocks’ best month since January 1987. My sanity’s worst month on record.

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3 years

We bought a house last month in one of the hottest cities in the US during one of the hottest housing markets in decades. Here’s what went down 🏡 ⬇️

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