Every three months, large companies report their important financial data and everyone gets to see how this data measures up against Wall Street’s expectations. Sometimes, a company has decent results but they’re not quite “good enough,” so the share price falls and this can present an opportunity for investors.

Resistance is futile, but it’s a necessary part of the growth process. The $2,000 level has psychological significance as well as technical importance for gold traders, as the buyers and sellers have been engaged in a tug-of-war for since the summer of 2020.

When the markets are trending strongly in one direction or the other, you’ll be sure to hear about it in the mainstream financial media. Naturally, analysts will come out of the woodwork and trot out their price predictions. What about choppy markets, though?

This is where the pros are separated from the amateurs. Everybody’s a genius in a bull market, but do you have what it takes to survive and succeed when the stock market and Bitcoin are getting hammered?

Just the thought of 25-basis-point interest rate hikes was enough to shake some stock market investors to the core. Now, they’re hearing whispers of 50-basis-point hikes. Does this mean that a secular bear market is about to start?

Yield curve inversions… geopolitical crisis… the start of a Fed tightening cycle… There’s plenty of fodder for mainstream media pundits to garner attention, but is this really the right time for sensible investors to cut and run?