Surprisingly buoyant stocks

[mtbc]

My stock portfolio looks far less rosy than it did earlier this year but, as I have no need to cash out in the near term, I take it as being part of the ride. As I noted here at the time, I had not expected the degree to which the markets would plummet: it was a surprise that all my buy orders triggered within a short period. Of course, the counterpart to such buy orders is some corresponding sell orders. Profit seemed a remote possibility so last week I was surprised to already have notification that my orders for selling stock in General Mills and Walmart executed. Upon looking more closely I found that an order to sell some of my Pfizer stock had come close to triggering also. I wonder what is with this early recovery, it seems to me that the US is still heading into the worst of this crisis and both governance and medicine have considerable work ahead of them yet.