Anyone else regret selling?

[Anonymous]

never sell, ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't sell but I am holding cash that was intended for investment during that time. I'm ok with that decision.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't sell but I am holding cash that was intended for investment during that time. I'm ok with that decision.

+1

So you’re content losing money to inflation? The best time to get in the market is always right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I didn’t sell because I don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. As we tried telling you at the time, your behavior was totally unhinged and counter to the most fundamental principles of investing.

It was especially absurd given that Trump already had a four-year run in which the market averaged 15%+, one of the best presidential records in history. Yet, you people kept droning on and on about a Great Depression 2.0 and saying this would be like the complete collapse of the stock market in tsarist Russia. Truly insane stuff.

(Btw, not only did I not lose money, but I actually made money by investing in Tesla when it was being dumped, again for no reason other than Elon Derangement Syndrome.)

So, sorry, but I feel no sympathy for you people. We all make mistakes, but yours were based on psychotic hatred. Ideally, you’d cure the hatred. But if that’s too hard, in the future, at least limit your hatred to cutting off family members who voted for Trump—and keep your investments separate from your politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't sell but I am holding cash that was intended for investment during that time. I'm ok with that decision.

+1

So you’re content losing money to inflation? The best time to get in the market is always right now.

DP. Dude the S&P is roughly flat under Trump. It has violent daily fluctuation. It up 1% today from Jan 21. Inflation is 2.4%. Tomorrow the market could be down -2%. The stock market unconnected to the economic reality and is effectively unregulated under Trump. It is going to crash and crash hard.

Oh and the Best money market rate today is 4.32%.

You and your Trump infatuation.

[Anonymous]

I sold in February & March. I bought back lower than I sold. I made some profit. I wish that I knew TACO. I could make a lot more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I didn’t sell because I don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. As we tried telling you at the time, your behavior was totally unhinged and counter to the most fundamental principles of investing.

It was especially absurd given that Trump already had a four-year run in which the market averaged 15%+, one of the best presidential records in history. Yet, you people kept droning on and on about a Great Depression 2.0 and saying this would be like the complete collapse of the stock market in tsarist Russia. Truly insane stuff.

(Btw, not only did I not lose money, but I actually made money by investing in Tesla when it was being dumped, again for no reason other than Elon Derangement Syndrome.)

So, sorry, but I feel no sympathy for you people. We all make mistakes, but yours were based on psychotic hatred. Ideally, you’d cure the hatred. But if that’s too hard, in the future, at least limit your hatred to cutting off family members who voted for Trump—and keep your investments separate from your politics.

Lol, is this supposed to be an “own” and disprove what I said? Your own chart proves me right.

Try downloading an investment calculator. Under the eight years of Obama, the S&P went from 850 to 2263, which is a compound annual rate of 12.3%. Under the four years of Trump, it went from 2263 to 3798, which is a compound annual rate of 13%. (Note this figure only includes the price level of the S&P 500. When dividends are included and reinvested to capture the true total return, Trump’s compound annual rate is over 15%, exactly as I suggested.)

So Obama got to start with perfect timing, just as the market was bottoming following a 57% crash and the worst recession since the Great Depression—and he still couldn’t match Trump! Clinton’s record was slightly better than Trump’s because he got the benefit of the dot-com boom. This is why I said that Trump had “one of the best” records, not the very best.

I know it’s painful to have your worldview shattered, but please try to cope as best you can. And by the way, everything I’ve written above just further corroborates that it was totally absurd for people to believe, just two months ago, that the stock market was going to zero like in 1917 Russia. I will therefore reiterate: any money you people lost was your own fault for indulging in Trump Derangement Syndrome, and you should look inside!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sold during covid and was mad with myself for a very long time. But I moved on. Mistakes happen. We are all human. Forgive and forget. (But remember not to do it again.)

I bought cruiseline stocks. If the world ended, money wouldn't be useful. It's up 300%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sold US and bought Internatinnal. It's worked out very well so far.

That's what we're doing. Not investing in a spiraling economy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't sell but I am holding cash that was intended for investment during that time. I'm ok with that decision.

+1

So you’re content losing money to inflation? The best time to get in the market is always right now.

As a family with one fed and one in international development? Yes, I'm very comfortable with losing a little to inflation to increase my cash cushion and also not risk having to pull money out in a downturn.

[Anonymous]

We have some cash in the sidelines. Wondering if we should be moving to the market now, given that the indices have come back to their levels pre-tariff meltdown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have some cash in the sidelines. Wondering if we should be moving to the market now, given that the indices have come back to their levels pre-tariff meltdown.

This says it all, doesn’t it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:never sell, ever

Yeah there are way too many millenials and GenZ who were raised on ZIRP that think it only “number go up”.

We are in a different world with inflation, and no longer the great moderation forever lowering interest rates.

I don’t know which way it will go, but we definitely live in a world with more risk and less tools for the Fed or govt to stabilize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, I didn’t sell because I don’t suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. As we tried telling you at the time, your behavior was totally unhinged and counter to the most fundamental principles of investing.

It was especially absurd given that Trump already had a four-year run in which the market averaged 15%+, one of the best presidential records in history. Yet, you people kept droning on and on about a Great Depression 2.0 and saying this would be like the complete collapse of the stock market in tsarist Russia. Truly insane stuff.

(Btw, not only did I not lose money, but I actually made money by investing in Tesla when it was being dumped, again for no reason other than Elon Derangement Syndrome.)

So, sorry, but I feel no sympathy for you people. We all make mistakes, but yours were based on psychotic hatred. Ideally, you’d cure the hatred. But if that’s too hard, in the future, at least limit your hatred to cutting off family members who voted for Trump—and keep your investments separate from your politics.

Lol, is this supposed to be an “own” and disprove what I said? Your own chart proves me right.

Try downloading an investment calculator. Under the eight years of Obama, the S&P went from 850 to 2263, which is a compound annual rate of 12.3%. Under the four years of Trump, it went from 2263 to 3798, which is a compound annual rate of 13%. (Note this figure only includes the price level of the S&P 500. When dividends are included and reinvested to capture the true total return, Trump’s compound annual rate is over 15%, exactly as I suggested.)

So Obama got to start with perfect timing, just as the market was bottoming following a 57% crash and the worst recession since the Great Depression—and he still couldn’t match Trump! Clinton’s record was slightly better than Trump’s because he got the benefit of the dot-com boom. This is why I said that Trump had “one of the best” records, not the very best.

I know it’s painful to have your worldview shattered, but please try to cope as best you can. And by the way, everything I’ve written above just further corroborates that it was totally absurd for people to believe, just two months ago, that the stock market was going to zero like in 1917 Russia. I will therefore reiterate: any money you people lost was your own fault for indulging in Trump Derangement Syndrome, and you should look inside!

Learn to read a graph.

Obama +181.1%
Trump + 67.3%

I'm probably a lot older than you, and I used to be an actual R, not a RINO - Trump's version of R. And my stock portfolio did best under Clinton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have some cash in the sidelines. Wondering if we should be moving to the market now, given that the indices have come back to their levels pre-tariff meltdown.

This says it all, doesn’t it?

Poorly phrased initial post, but the question is what should our strategy be with the cash -- continue to hold the cash position with an anticipated market downturn later this year or DCA into the market strating now?