Yes, at least for me!
Read this for how growing a rally beard can turn into more money. This particular beard I began growing in early January, I think the day I stopped shaving was either January 9th or 10th of last year. It was the day I decided on an aggressive goal for my investment accounts. Growing a beard [for me] has become somewhat of a tradition now, a statement, a calling. It was something I started out of frustration back when I witnessed my client’s accounts melt away as we navigated through some tough market environments dating back to 2009. I took to growing a beard [during tough times] as a way to show my defiance, my contempt for U.S. stock market chaos and turmoil. Why? Because my job depended on it, my job was to move client assets from a certain point A to a certain point B in a reasonable amount of time.
Setting Goals is Always Helpful
My personal goal for the year 2025 was easy, I picked a number that I wanted my personal accounts to be at by the end of that calendar year. The number I set my sites on, was a gain of $210,000 at that time. It wasn’t outrageous, or too lofty of a goal, I was just seeking a decent double digit return for calendar year 2025. So I set up some initial positions and by late March into April the markets were heading in the opposite direction. Specifically the S&P 500 Index, still the best proxy for the U.S. stock market, did find a bottom by mid-April or so. My stuff faired much better during that market pullback but my original goal of $210,000(?) had to suddenly be recalculated, now it meant a $250,000 bogey to arrive at that same destination. But wait, I withdrew some money by the end of 2025 to spend in the new year and cover some expenses, so now that bogey [originally $210,000] had climbed all the way to $283,000! I thought to myself, not a problem goals are “goals for a reason”, I will get this done… and I will cherish the day when I’m once again clean shaven.
Change Meant “Tough Love” for 2025
The U.S. stock market was already jittery at the beginning of 2025, I sensed the feeling of apprehension across the country from early January. President Trump had been elected again and was set to take office in a matter of days but the country was reeling from four years of being ravished by a Leftist Party armed with an autopen since the crook installed in the White House was suffering from dementia and dirty diapers. The Biden Crime Family with all their lies and cocaine at the White House, along with $millions in personal bribes received from hostile countries had disgraced the country’s top office. In the interim, the Devilcrats had just spent four years opening our U.S. borders up to 12-15 million illegals who poured in from some 160+ countries. To add insult to injury the Devilcrats catered to Climate Change Hoax orphans while domestic terror groups like BLM and Rainbow Coalition queers were free to march down our streets and entertain our school kids. The debauchery went on and on so naturally us real Americans [those of us born here that love our country] became a bit stressed and resentful. And the stock market reflected it, adopting a “show me” type attitude on any positive economic growth. Talk became cheap and cleaning up this level of mess was looked upon with much public scrutiny. I had witnessed a similar ugly backdrop in the past, but this time was different. Different because when Trump took office for the second time he was tasked with fixing a country that basically had been driven into the ground from all directions. Often times fixing a long-term mess requires short term pain and that pain came [for sure] in the form of a new tariff strategy, which the United States had not embarked on for quite some time. Every leader of a major country that traded with the United States was put on notice that all the free rides to U.S. consumers, the wealthiest people in the world, would now come with a cost. Either you allow U.S. goods to be imported into your own country in reciprocal fashion, or any goods produced outside U.S. borders will now be tariffed [once they reach our docks] at a cost anywhere from 20 to 50, and possibly even 100%! The stock market took this kind of bad I’d say. Remember we were already reeling from Biden Crime Family hyper-inflation, and now this new tariff policy? It didn’t sit too well with the major U.S. stock market indexes as investors began to fear the worse and hence the selling began and subsequently the S&P 500 index was down around 19% by mid-April of 2025. As mentioned my accounts, though off their highs, had faired much better than the market averages. I stayed the course with rally beard intact, for I had seen ugly before. I’ve seen the tape on stock and bond prices get so ugly that only a grandmother could ever love them!
Trump’s “Tough Love” Strategy
Was the correct course of action. Inflation fears in the U.S. have subsided along with the inflation numbers. And all those illegals, especially the hardened criminals are systematically being found and deported. Foreign country after foreign country has pledged new commitments to work with the Trump Administration on a more fair trade policy. New commitments from U.S. corporations to re-patriate their factories here and produce goods domestically have poured in to the tune of 100’s of billion of dollars. It was just going to be a matter of time before this puppy turned around. With the proper people in place in the Trump cabinet at every level things have begun improving in a hurry, and with it U.S. stock prices. It’s not just seven tech stocks anymore moving this market, no longer tech companies run by wacko lefty ideologues armed with high school educations [like so many of them] but broader market sectors have been waking up from the dead in 2026. Money now rotating into sectors like industrials, materials and some others have shown some great gains under Trump’s second term. With all that I am happy to announce that I am very close to reaching that [adjusted] goal of growing my accounts by more than $280,000, for then and only then can I clean this facial hair up!
Lesson Learned
And should you find me sporting a beard in the future? I’m here to say that’s not by accident – you may want to go long the stock market!
