The midterms are on November 3, and for the next few weeks your feeds will be full of charts, predictions and confident people telling you what the results will do to your portfolio. Some of that will make you want to do something.
The decision in front of you is narrow: should you change your investments or your contributions before the vote? For someone steadily building wealth through index funds and retirement accounts, the answer is no. “Stay the course” is easy to say, though, so here is what reacting would actually cost, which money decisions are already locked in no matter who wins, and the short list of things worth watching after the results come in.
