I’m tempted, are you?

Tech stocks are on a tear

Navitas is up around 80% in the last month, Sandisk 70%, Samsung 30%, AMD 85%, Micron 75%, IREN 75%, and Intel 110%. Certain tech stocks are really going for it, and these are single month moves. The trend in commodities seems to have cooled, and now there is a new one.

There is always something being hyped

Time to get in? Or too late? It is worth remembering that there is almost always something being hyped when it comes to investing. Sometimes it is silver, sometimes bitcoin, sometimes oil stocks, sometimes meme stocks. Markets have a way of focusing on one thing at a time, good news or bad, an uptrend or a downtrend. If you miss one, there will be another. And if you miss them all and stick to your investment plan, you will still see some benefit from these trends as long as you hold diversified funds and an asset allocation across different asset classes. They tend to have some exposure to every trend anyway.

Noise is not a signal

A lot of investing is noise, and sometimes the things generating the most noise right now are the things to pay the least attention to. If you bought silver at $120 an ounce and are significantly down today, you may actually be saving yourself a lot of money in the future, because you have learned the hard way that jumping on trends is a dangerous game.