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We’re Going Streaking! In Stocks…With Clothes On.
Markets tend to test discipline in different ways over time. Periods of rapid change make investors crave adaptability, while periods of persistence make them want patience. Neither suggests something is wrong, but both can challenge the instinct to assign meaning to every market move.
Recently, market trends have been on a positive streak for longer than many investors might have expected. Extended stretches like these often invite interpretation. Yet, history shows that duration alone provides limited insight into what comes next.
At Blueprint Financial Advisors, our approach is designed with this reality in mind. Rather than drawing conclusions from the length of a market move, we rely on a systematic investing process that evaluates market behavior objectively and adjusts as conditions evolve. This framework allows portfolios to remain aligned with prevailing trends without requiring precise forecasts or discretionary timing decisions.
This month’s Note provides historical context around extended market trends and explains why discipline remains essential both when markets are steady and when they are changing.
But first, here’s a summary of the global asset classes utilized in our portfolios and their exposures for February.
News
Market Predictions Make as Much Sense as ‘6-7’
If there’s one universal truth in investing, it’s this: nobody actually knows what’s going to happen next. That doesn’t stop Wall Street, the media, or your neighbor with the new day-trading setup from trying. In our view, it’s a whole lot of “6-7,” as the kids are saying these days.
In reality, financial markets have a special talent for humbling forecasters — often spectacularly.
Hollywood, oddly enough, understands this better than most economists. Consider “Back to the Future Part II”, where Doc Brown warns Marty about the dangers of knowing too much about the future. If Doc had ever seen analysts revise S&P 500 year-end targets for the tenth time in a year, he might’ve added, “Whatever you do, don’t publish a prediction — because the future is going to rewrite it immediately!”
Predictions can give us comfort. They offer the illusion that uncertainty can be tamed, measured, packaged, and presented as a tidy number, such as: “The market will be up 8% next year.”
But markets don’t operate on tidy numbers. They tend to operate in unexpected ways due to human behavior, randomness, policy decisions, innovation cycles, geopolitics, sentiment, liquidity, and sometimes just plain weirdness.
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