election volatility?

[ken-do-nim]

(02-13-2021, 10:12 AM)fenders53 Wrote:

(02-13-2021, 09:15 AM)ken-do-nim Wrote: Interesting that since October the market is on an epic run, change of party running the government regardless.

History says allowing politics to overly affect your short term investing decisions isn't prudent.   It's actually not that rare.  Most new administrations are met with a few months of bull run.  While the other side ALWAYS predicts a crash is surely coming immediately.  I usually adjust sector allocations if I think I know the election outcome and adjust from there.  The past month or so is about the best on record for Russell 2000. My best ETF performer by a margin.  Midcaps growth did well also.  Market was more than fine under Trump, Obama and Clinton as well.

Which reminds me I've been meaning to pick up a Russell 2000 index fund.  I wonder how it stocks up against my SOXL (semi-conductor x3).

Yeah, I see so many articles predicting crashes and it never seems to come.  I think those article are just click bait at this point.