Yikes! (plus a silver lining)

This has been a tough week or so in the stock market.  All of the major index numbers are off significantly:

^SPX data by YCharts

Times like these tend to give some people indigestion, and it honestly can be a little trying to wake up each day and check in with the market only to see that, yep, it's down again today!

However, these times are actually something that "value" investors are always watching for, when other investors are getting scared and some stocks are oversold.

The value screen that we run regularly at DRW Financial has been stuck on ~ 40 stocks that match our parameters for more than a month, but this morning the search turned back 54!  Of course, all of those will not turn out to be a solid fit for our investing philosophy, but simply having more options is a positive thing.