COMMODITIES ARE THE BEES KNEES

Many people believe Bonds are the go to investment when stocks don't look as appetizing, but when you do your homework you end up finding that commodities preform a lot better than other asset classes during interest rate hikes! It's no sercet that an investor sleeps a lot easier at night when investing in less volatile assets and that is one of the more compelling aspects of commodities, bonds, and REITs. With stocks currently getting corrected, especially the more volatile, investors have flocked to these asset classes. To put a cherry on top for the commodity bulls, the Russian Ukraine war sent oil, wheat, gold, and other commodities soaring. IAU is up over 9% YTD, WEAT is up over 53% YTD, UGA is up over 44% YTD, UNL is up over 107% YTD, PDBC is up over 37% YTD which is a commodities ETF diversified with many different assets. While everyone was expecting Bitcoin to get to 100k in the near future, boring old commodities have taken over! This could have easily been predicted when recalling how different asset classes respond to interest rates. Commodities and gold show the highest average returns at 18.6% and 16.2% while bonds show the lowest of .3%. It's important to diversify because there is always a bull market somewhere and timing the market is nearly impossible!