How Retirement Savers Can Hang Tough in Ridiculous Markets

June 5, 2025
by RJ Hamster

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How Retirement Savers Can Hang Tough in Ridiculous Markets
By Blake Young

It’s getting absurd out there. I start my mornings with my shoulders slumped and a groan, not because I dislike trading, but because I know I’m walking into another day where markets swing violently over… a phone call. Not the content of the call, mind you, just the announcement that it might happen. Today, copper rockets three percent and the S&P futures jump, all because someone might say words into a phone. That’s where we are. This is the environment we have to trade in.

Let’s be clear: I’m not just mocking the reaction. I’m frustrated because I’m trying to hold legitimate, structurally sound positions, and instead I’m managing chaos. We see copper – “Dr. Copper,” the eternally reliable indicator of real global growth – behaving like a meme stock. That’s not growth. That’s noise. A three-and-a-half percent move in copper before the market even opens? That’s not fundamental, that’s speculative overreaction. I like copper as a barometer of health, but not when it starts jumping at political shadows.

Same story with silver…

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