Is this for real?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should move your cash to S&P 500 when it dropped 20% which I did.

I missed that opportunity. What’s a good strategy now? Is it likely to retest the lows?

DP
It will go down again when the temporary agreement on tariff expires. Hold in a higher interest money market until the wheels feel like they are coming off the cart, then after the inevitable drop move your money to the s&p. Wait for them to agree on a strategy. Once you see the rally, stop investing in the s&p and put new money into a money market....repeat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Given the rally today, is it time to move some cash from the sidelines into the market?

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No. An irrational pop in the market is not a sign to go all in. If you’re really going to try to time the market, at least buy on a day that everything is down.

Agree. It's time to sell and move it to something else safer. We were waiting for the pop to divest and here it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I usually moved money into S&P 500 when it dropped 15% from the high, then moved more when it dropped to 20%, then even more when it hit 25%, 30%, etc. Every year S&P 500 dropped one or twice a year like this.

Isn't that called "catching a falling knife"?

Yes, it sounds like "catching a falling knife" if you buy a weak company. It can go bankruptcy. However, for S&P 500, it more likes "throw the babies out with bath water" or panic sell. Not all strong 500 companies in S&P 500 will go bankruptcy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I usually moved money into S&P 500 when it dropped 15% from the high, then moved more when it dropped to 20%, then even more when it hit 25%, 30%, etc. Every year S&P 500 dropped one or twice a year like this.

Isn't that called "catching a falling knife"?

It's more like market timing, dollar cost averaging and buying the dip all wrapped into one.

I do something similar if the market hits -25%, but it's a small part of my portfolio. And it usually ends up being a small gain, so it really doesn't change anything except it makes me feel a little better lol

[Anonymous]

Imagine being sidelined from the market when we’re in the beginning of an AI revolution

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good god, people are stupid. Yes, OP, make sure to always buy high after stocks have rallied and panic sell at the lows whenever your political party is out of power.

I hope the few Dems who have not been lost to TDS read all these threads carefully and reject this hysteria in the future.

TDS is the cult if stupidity hanginhpg on the words of failed business
Man Don the con not Dems.

As for economics clearly you failed .

Yes Trump will enrich his cronies and himself while everyone ekes goes to a recession

Probably a depression


For. The TDs morons those confused by china tariffs
Trump caved got zero in return
No manufacturing moved back to the US
30 % tariff still here
90 day pause causes un certainty
Trump lost all negotiating power

Next up idiot

Trumps meme coin 58 of his buds made money
764,000 lost money


OPS national debt is increasing as we type.

Nothing says America First more than the new Air Force One being a corrupt foreign gift from Qatar.

The Trump-Musk Budget is out.

It tortures to death every program the average American family benefits from while (1) ensuring that no department that helps Elon Musk’s companies is harmed one iota, and (2) dumping endless wads of cash on a missile-defense scheme Trump was already told won’t work.

Tell us again how you have TDS because derangement syndrome os for cults of stupidity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good god, people are stupid. Yes, OP, make sure to always buy high after stocks have rallied and panic sell at the lows whenever your political party is out of power.

I hope the few Dems who have not been lost to TDS read all these threads carefully and reject this hysteria in the future.

TDS is the cult if stupidity hanginhpg on the words of failed business
Man Don the con not Dems.

As for economics clearly you failed .

Yes Trump will enrich his cronies and himself while everyone ekes goes to a recession

Probably a depression


For. The TDs morons those confused by china tariffs
Trump caved got zero in return
No manufacturing moved back to the US
30 % tariff still here
90 day pause causes un certainty
Trump lost all negotiating power

Next up idiot

Trumps meme coin 58 of his buds made money
764,000 lost money


OPS national debt is increasing as we type.

Nothing says America First more than the new Air Force One being a corrupt foreign gift from Qatar.

The Trump-Musk Budget is out.

It tortures to death every program the average American family benefits from while (1) ensuring that no department that helps Elon Musk’s companies is harmed one iota, and (2) dumping endless wads of cash on a missile-defense scheme Trump was already told won’t work.

Tell us again how you have TDS because derangement syndrome os for cults of stupidity

The medication isn't working.

[Anonymous]

LOL, market timers almost always lose.

Slow and steady wins the race.

[Anonymous]

Never got out really. I took the 2022 dip like a champ and survived. It was my first time to see market down after I started to invest in 2020.
This one was nothing compared to 2022. Never sold my Bitcoin or Tesla. Those are long term plays.
Sitting on $30k cash in Roth, but trying to get that one stock for $6. This crazy stock has run up to $300. I have a theory about this stock. It's an industry that is hard to break into, but very much needed. Government will not let the company die. Every once in awhile they will throw them a bone, and the stock runs up to $20+ within days as it's a small company. I see insider buying it already according to RH.
It Bitcoin does go crazy, then even the miners should at least double.
Concentration on few stocks and getting them at rock bottom prices is the way to go for me.
My other Roth has a volatile stock in it which I trader and switch out to another on dip.
I also sit on some stocks and crypto for long term. I don't add money as I'm retired decades before retirement age. All thanks to jumping into market in April 2020.
Buying and selling stocks is fun. Sitting in a fund is not. I have nothing against VOO, but too boring as I have the time for more hands on and very high risk tolerance. Others can call trading gambling. I don't care. It teaches me something every single time.
I'm involving my kids in the stock market already. They are growing up thinking money is made in the market and less of it comes from work. I worked for minimum wage my whole life. The money we have now cannot be from work.
And yes, liquidity is coming.
Special shout out to James from Investanswers.
Got to be the best financial youtuber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given the rally today, is it time to move some cash from the sidelines into the market?

You should be invested in a way that allows you to stay invested, through thick and thin.

For example, I’m 100% Total Stock Market index in my 401k because that’s money I’m not going to touch for 20 years. Easy to forget about it.

However, in my taxable account I am heavy in dividend ETFs (regardless of the tax drag) because that strategy allows me to sleep at night - no matter how bad it gets, I’ll still get my dividend monthly/quarterly.

Bottom line: for the average Main Street investor, pick a strategy and allocation that keeps you invested at all times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never got out really. I took the 2022 dip like a champ and survived. It was my first time to see market down after I started to invest in 2020.
This one was nothing compared to 2022. Never sold my Bitcoin or Tesla. Those are long term plays.
Sitting on $30k cash in Roth, but trying to get that one stock for $6. This crazy stock has run up to $300. I have a theory about this stock. It's an industry that is hard to break into, but very much needed. Government will not let the company die. Every once in awhile they will throw them a bone, and the stock runs up to $20+ within days as it's a small company. I see insider buying it already according to RH.
It Bitcoin does go crazy, then even the miners should at least double.
Concentration on few stocks and getting them at rock bottom prices is the way to go for me.
My other Roth has a volatile stock in it which I trader and switch out to another on dip.
I also sit on some stocks and crypto for long term. I don't add money as I'm retired decades before retirement age. All thanks to jumping into market in April 2020.
Buying and selling stocks is fun. Sitting in a fund is not. I have nothing against VOO, but too boring as I have the time for more hands on and very high risk tolerance. Others can call trading gambling. I don't care. It teaches me something every single time.
I'm involving my kids in the stock market already. They are growing up thinking money is made in the market and less of it comes from work. I worked for minimum wage my whole life. The money we have now cannot be from work.
And yes, liquidity is coming.
Special shout out to James from Investanswers.
Got to be the best financial youtuber.

Sounds like you don’t have funds in an s&p index, but do you have some money in safer investments like bonds, bond fund, similar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re all idiots for trying to time the market. Buy and hold is the way to go. Duh.

As others have said, the problem with trying to time the market is that you have to guess correctly twice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL, market timers almost always lose.

Slow and steady wins the race.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given the rally today, is it time to move some cash from the sidelines into the market?

Read a book?

[Anonymous]

Do people still use the phrase dead cat bounce anymore?