Sitemap - 2020 - Endless Metrics
Finding a New Speed Limit for the New Year
I'm buying ten random stocks in the new year
Tether is my biggest concern with crypto
Buying Ten Cryptocurrencies in 2021
Reviewing Last Week’s Market Performance
When you don’t find a relationship
Bitcoin’s Doing It’s Thing Again
Tech stocks are up a lot but it’s not 1999
Nasdaq 100 Moving Averages and All-time Highs
Reviewing Last Week’s Market Performance
One thing I dropped the ball on this past year
A Cryptocurrency Investing Experiment
Reviewing Last Week’s Market Performance
GDP is up but so are job losses
Valuation of stocks in major indices over the last twenty years
Stock Price, Market Capitalization, and Total Return
Will Thanksgiving be a superspreader event?
Reviewing Last Week’s Market Performance
Stocks are up in a recession year - is that weird?
Relative Cryptocurrency Valuations
Should you put your money in stocks or in cryptocurrency?
Small-cap versus Large-cap Stocks
Reviewing Last Week’s Market Performance
Falling Inflation is Problematic
Stock Overlap of the Major Indices
COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing
Job Openings and Labor Turnover
The Long Decline of American Manufacturing
Reviewing Last Week’s Market Performance
The Unemployment Downtrend Continues
Why the market is doing so well
The market has been good this election week
Checking in on a prediction for October
Q3 GDP looks good but this is still a historic recession
Gold has been even less correlated with the S&P 500 than Bitcoin
Bitcoin and S&P 500 Stock Correlation
Stocks that offer the most S&P 500 diversification
Stocks that offer the least S&P 500 diversification
Bitcoin's relative strength index pushes into overbought territory
This Bitcoin rally looks more sustainable
Despite the money printing, inflation isn’t doing much
One S&P 500 company has a lot of employees
Some thoughts on what comes next
One metric shows the market hasn’t fully recovered yet
Nvidia’s return dominates Tesla
Health is a lucrative business
Even companies have trouble with income inequality
Job Losses (and the Pandemic) Continue
Real estate ETFs don’t really diversify us from the stock market
How much will GDP recover in 2020Q3?
The President's Health and the Market
EM #276 - September wasn't great
EM #275 - We need more structure!
The diversification power of bonds
Half bonds half stocks return-to-risk analysis
Bonds do what we thought they did
Half bonds half stocks almost always underperforms
Once again, rebalancing doesn’t do much
It doesn’t take a lot to benefit from diversification
Return-to-risk impact of a 50/50 gold and stocks portfolio
Comparisons of investment standard deviation over multiple time periods
Return-to-Risk Time Period Comparison
Analyzing a longer time period
Who wants to hold a lot of Bitcoin?
Composition of Optimal Portfolios
Simple Investment Correlation Matrix
Do better than any single investment
Return and Risk for Six Investment Categories
Anatomy of a Bubble - Tesla and Bitcoin
Bonds - Domestic and International
Stocks - Domestic and International
Adding cash to a portfolio of stocks, bitcoin, and gold
Investment Allocation Complexity
The efficient frontier for a three factor portfolio
What does the best portfolio look like?
Return-to-risk for stocks, bitcoin, and gold
Analyzing the diversification benefit of stocks, bitcoin, and gold
Return profile of stocks, bitcoin, and gold
Let’s add gold to our portfolio!
Correlation - Stocks and Bitcoin
Analyzing Daily Bitcoin and Stock Returns
Thinking about the stock market...
Portfolio Allocation - The Efficient Frontier
Portfolio Allocation - Return / Risk
Portfolio Allocation - Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation (Stocks vs. Bitcoin)
New Page! Insured Unemployment
COVID-19: Mississippi is the new Arizona
U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Aren't As Bad as Three Months Ago
It appears the current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. has peaked
2020Q2 GDP estimates still look really bad
S&P 500 stocks with abnormal volume
S&P 500 stocks closest to their 52-week low
S&P 500 stocks furthest from their 52-week low
S&P 500 stocks closest to their 52-week high
S&P 500 stocks furthest from their 52-week high
S&P 500 Stocks by Most Negative P/E Ratio
S&P 500 Stocks by Least Negative P/E Ratio
S&P 500 Stocks by Lowest P/E Ratio
S&P 500 Stocks by Highest P/E Ratio
Some quick thoughts COVID-19 right now
New Page! Industrial Production
New Page! Real Personal Consumption Expenditures
New Page! Household Net Worth / GDP
Ten Essential Metrics to Track the U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak
New Page! COVID-19 Deaths for NY, CA, FL, TX
New Page! New COVID-19 Cases for NY, CA, FL, TX
New Page! COVID-19 Positivity Rate
New Page! COVID-19 Hospitalizations
New Page! Tracking New COVID-19 Deaths
New Page! Tracking COVID-19 Cases
New Page! COVID-19 Death Rates by State
New Page! S&P 500 to Gold Ratio
New Page! COVID-19 Testing by State
Daily Tracking of COVID-19 Outbreak Severity by State
Making it easier to find new stuff
S&P 500 / Consumer Price Index
New Page! Nasdaq to S&P 500 Ratio
Consumer Price Index / Federal Minimum Wage
Launching a stand alone site for Endless Metrics
Randomly Forecasting the S&P 500
Your own simple budget template!
Should you invest your money all at once or over time?
How often has the U.S. been in a recession?
Is it bad to invest at an all-time high?
The market is rigged - in your favor!
A hundred years of bond yields
Here’s something that isn’t as bad as 2008
There is no meaningful link between outbreak severity and unemployment
The coronavirus death rate is falling
One thing I hate about finance articles
Fifty years of population change
Here is an expert GDP forecast
The economy won't recover immediately
The Stock Market and Economy are Totally Disconnected
Infections are rising in some big states
The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index
2020Q2 GDP estimates look really bad
When stocks go up, dividends go up
Labor Force Participation Rate
Months between stock market peaks and recessions
Stocks Bottom Before Recessions End
We just had the tenth best month for stocks since 1928
Two quarters of GDP decline is not a good recession indicator
The Shortest Recessions in U.S. History
The Longest Recessions in U.S. History
The start of the financial crisis and now
Good Articles - April 25, 2020
Did we really flatten the curve?
Personal Consumption Expenditures
Good Articles - April 18, 2020
Seventy Years of Household Liabilities
Seventy Years of Household Assets
Components of Household Assets
Household Debt-to-Equity Ratio
Helpful Resources - April 11, 2020
That was the best week for the S&P 500 since 1974
Stock volume went crazy in March
COVID-19 Severity and Testing by State
Unemployment during the Great Depression
Ugh, the jobless claims chart is now even MORE broken
Nonfarm Private Payroll Employment
The Dow’s eighth worst quarter ever
We just witnessed a death cross
“The stock market is not the economy!”
Good Articles - March 29, 2020
Coronavirus broke the jobless claims chart
This is now the ninth worst stock market crash since 1896
The economic impact of COVID-19 will affect each state differently
Quantifying COVID-19's Impact on Markets and the Economy
Helpful Resources - March 21, 2020
The Stock Market Time Machine!
The worst stock market declines since 1896
Good Articles - March 16, 2020
Potential good news for the US COVID-19 outbreak?
Four critical charts to watch as the coronavirus pandemic spreads globally
Worst Drops in the Price of Oil since 1986
Getting started with Endless Metrics
Helpful Resources - March 7, 2020
Quantifying COVID-19's Impact on Markets and the Economy in Eight Charts
Four critical charts to watch as the coronavirus spreads globally
That was the fastest market correction ever
When one -3% drop isn’t enough
Putting market losses into context
Forecasting COVID-19 Cases (Second Performance Update)
Helpful Resources - February 23, 2020
Good Articles - February 22, 2020
Stock Valuation and Momentum Indicators
Golden Crosses (and Death Crosses!)
Valuation With Moving Averages?
What does overvalued even mean?
S&P 500 / Gross Domestic Product for the World
That's... a lot of new coronavirus cases
Gross Domestic Product for the World
The Wuhan Coronavirus Death Rate Is Climbing
S&P 500 / Gross Domestic Product
Good Articles - February 8, 2020
Did we just see the inflection point of the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak in Hubei?
Forecasting Wuhan Coronavirus Cases (Performance Update)
Beware! The Coronavirus Stock Market Narrative
Forecasting Long-term Wuhan Coronavirus (nCoV-2019) Mortality Rates
Five Useful Coronavirus Charts
US Real GDP vs. Estimates for 2019Q4
Forecasting Long-term Wuhan Coronavirus Cases
An Alternative View of The Dow
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Quarterly Changes in US Real GDP
Government Spending and Investment
Net Exports of Goods and Services