Can't bring myself to check my 401K

[Anonymous]

I looked a week ago and it was down. Since the huge downturn days of the last week, I can't bring myself to check. I'm 55 and will need my retirement 7-10 years from now. Is it reasonable to stay the course and hope that I make losses back in the next decade or is that foolhardy? I just don't want to think about it.

[Anonymous]

I'm not looking.

[Anonymous]

I can’t look either. We can’t fix Trump’s plan to destroy our country so I will just protect myself from feeling hopeless about the accounts for now.

[Anonymous]

Sell if you want to but stop whining about it.

[Anonymous]

I haven't checked my TSP or other accounts either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sell if you want to but stop whining about it.

They didn't "whine." We are on the verge of financial catastrophe. Stop feeling the need to minimize the legitimate concerns of others; doing so in this way on the internet is really pathetic.

[Anonymous]

I checked my TSP and ugh.

[Anonymous]

There’s no need to look.

[Anonymous]

If you're still in the market, it's probably best to just ride it out at this point. It's likely the moron-in-chief will back down like he always does and the markets get juiced.

[Anonymous]

If it makes you feel any better mine was down about 11% YTD this morning. Better than I thought. Next week will be bad too and I'm planning not to look anymore. Nothing I can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're still in the market, it's probably best to just ride it out at this point. It's likely the moron-in-chief will back down like he always does and the markets get juiced.

NP. That’s what I was hoping yesterday, but he’s made some defiant statements since. I am so angry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're still in the market, it's probably best to just ride it out at this point. It's likely the moron-in-chief will back down like he always does and the markets get juiced.

NP. That’s what I was hoping yesterday, but he’s made some defiant statements since. I am so angry!

He changes his mind as often as he changes his diapers. I suppose this time will be trickier, though, because he declared economic war against the entire planet (included an island solely populated by penguins).

[Anonymous]

I’m down $1.25M on paper. Ugh. Was feeling pretty confident that I could retire next year. Now, not so sure.

[Anonymous]

We were OP age in 2008. We didn't sell low. Made it up later.

[Anonymous]

Why are you so heavily invested in stocks you should be setting up an index fund with target date that will take money out of stocks and into bonds and money market