In the classic film and book Gone with the Wind the protagonist Scarlett O’Hara is a bit of a procrastinator. She takes comfort in believing that “tomorrow” she will handle things, saying “tomorrow I’ll think of some way… after all, tomorrow is another day.” Unfortunately too many folks take that same procrastinator attitude when it…
Author: Wyatt
The graph above is very powerful stuff. It shows S&P 500 calendar year returns and the biggest intra-year declines that occurred. Notice that 27 of the last 36 calendar years had positive returns. Notice also that in many of those positive calendar years there were very big intra-year drops. This helps to illustrate that volatility…