“August was a month to forget for investors. September may be little better”
August 30, 2019
“US stocks on Thursday had their best day in roughly two weeks on hopes that trade tensions between the United States and China could ease…
August is shaping up to be the second worst month for stocks this year, in sharp contrast with climbing bonds. As of Thursday’s close, the S&P 500 was down about 1.9% for the month. That’s behind only May, when the index lost 6.6% amid another bout of trade anxiety…”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
I agree this moth was slow. I was inactive in stocks for about 2 to 3 weeks. Fortunately for me that changed yesterday. [8/29/19] Now I consider this a good month as far as my personal stock interest goes.