The performance of brokers and banks today is truly frustrating: Interactive Brokers, Tiger Brokers, Bank of America, each weaker than the last. Falling like this is a bit disheartening. This wave in finance probably has little heat, with liquidity flowing to speculate on other things. I still had some obsession with new energy (Albemarle's lithium), but it turned red too, leaving only sighs in my portfolio.

The US stock market has been hard to describe recently, with a very obvious sense of pullback. Subjectively, I don't really want to cut losses, so I can only be more zen, quietly waiting for an opportunity. US energy and oil energy are actually moving sideways, which is the only consolation prize with no volatility 😝