Postcards: Tornado Watch

You can't have a tornado cellar in Florida, as it would instantly flood. What does the storm warning in Lee County have to do with the state of the market?

Market update: We started in the red… and we’ll finish in the green? This was a VERY low volume day, with 0.67 relative volume on the S&P 500 SPDR ETF (SPY) and just 0.65x on the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM). This means there was just 67% of average trading volume on the most important ETF in all finance compared to trading over the last month.

Dear Fellow Expat:

Today, Amelia stayed home because she was sick.

The thing in… she’s “better.”

That means that she’s been bouncing around the house like a ping-pong ball.

I’ve had to endure three hours of the show Numberblocks - an animated show about mathematics with dancing and singing blocks that never stop counting.

Seriously… they never stop. The people who do the voices on this show either really like addition and subtraction… or they REALLY need to pay their rent.