Confusing stock market report, Is this a good thing?
 

Was a little disappointed to find our local newspaper business section showed three straight "thumbs ups" on the Stock Market report only to notice the minus sign in front of each number, thus requiring readers to do some negative math. The DOW had a 330 pt. spread between thumbs up and thumbs down. But I think we actually lost money Friday. Correct me if I am wrong. Are there still proof readers or is AI taking over that, as well?

If you have a rose colored glasses biased real estate marketing periodical, why would you be reading the rough and tumble business section for serious information?

Its all in the human bias, behavioral economics is everywhere

Read a few business periodicals such as Kiplinger's. Used to recommend Forbes but since the family sold it I think they hi have lost their way

FACT CHECK on Forbes, TRUE
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Forbes was sold to a Hong Kong-based investment group, Integrated Whale Media Investments.

Good luck with that. barf

You should only rely on The Daily Rag for breakfast cereal recommendations. Anything more cerebral is beyond them.

Forbes recently sold to 27 year old Austin Russell
 

And Forbes was recently sold to 27 year old Austin Russell, CEO of autonomous driving company, Luminar. Austin is also the youngest self-made billionaire. Possibly the next Steve Jobs/Elon Musk.

Kiplinger is the last place I would get stock market info. They have been so wrong for so long. For example:

* they hated Trump so much they got the “V” shaped recovery wrong which even a 12 year old could have predicted. If you sold any shares or didn’t buy into the market while it was down during the early Covid lockdown you missed out on making a lot of money.

* kiplinger bought off and promoted the idea that inflation was going to be transitory. If you didn’t sell you holdings 20 months ago, you have lost big time.

* 1/2 the managed funds they promote are loaded funds

* promote esg funds when knowingly they are losers

Before ultimately cancelling my subscription, for the last 5 or 6 years I was reading this garbage, I did just the opposite of what they were promoting and I made more money and/or saved my portfolio from disaster

Some examples of recent Forbes “success” stories:

The marker runs on algorithms, technical analysis and momentum. For most stocks other metrics are irrelevant

This is exactly why Al Gore created the Internet.

I terms of the stock market, long time investor. I read a lot. I declare if it is not a ponzi scheme then what I read should make sense. IT DOES NOT. What am I doing? When I invest my money.
I am hoping to find a bigger fool to pay more than I did.

Information? It is impossible to find information that does not have an ulterior motive. Sometimes it is simply you need to buy our publication.

Buffet LIKE. I follow my investments mostly everyday. I compare my returns to the S&P 500.
I rarely beat the S&P. Buffet some say the greatest stock picker has actually said we should simply buy the average.

I've not looked at a newspaper stock table in years. It is yesterdays news and you are buying or selling today. So much has changed. You can buy and sell with zero commissions. There is no advantage to buy or sell round lots. You can buy partial shares. Treasuries. In days of old they paid the rate of inflation plus 2%. In retirement you would build a bond ladder. The 2% would cover your taxes-zero risk.

In terms of AI the new buzzword. AI implies learning. I am and always have been a terrible speller. Word, is not AI yet we all use it. I would expect for a stock table they purchase similar programs to word-excel etc

Algo's
 

What is insane is 'Algo's" trade more than humans do. This is why new stories can start huge selloffs in the stock market. My grandson rants about this stuff all day long.

Algos are nothing more than tested decision making with code to remove the human emotions of fear and greed. .

as far as huge selloffs, that is result of options gamma, and that happens on both the upside and the downside. and algos are NOT fail proof, and also contain biases from the human testing.

Some of them have very high ROIs when used with fundamental data because a human can't monitor as many stawks as an algorithm can. .

tell your grandson to start learning python and algos as he won't be able to beat them without an edge. .