How worried are you about the stock market, and what are you doing about it?

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

I believe you've been saying the same thing over and over.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

I believe you've been saying the same thing over and over.

You’re out of your element.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are your age and 100% in tech stocks. Apple, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Netflix, etc. I am not worried. Wall Street doesn't care about the same things the average person cares about, like the price of bread. It operates on a different set of criteria, and is sensitive to industry-specific tensions as well as Fed interest rates and credit-worthiness of certain organizations.

Things that might impact the stock market: any profound change in global trade. So China invading Taiwan, Russia fighting against NATO, Trump losing it completely and enforcing high tariffs on major trading partners. China teaming up with others to shut the US out of its manufacturing. The Middle East descending into oil-strangling conflict. There are many possible geopolitical triggers right now, many of the US's own making, that can have a domino effect and pressure the market.

But you can't control any of these things, OP. If there's a third world war starting in Europe, or China decides it doesn't need to play nice with the US anymore, or there's no more fuel for all the container ships that make the world go round, we are all going to suffer in ways that go beyond our trading accounts.

I would advise you to avoid operating on a hair-trigger. Keep calm and carry on.

100% in one sector is not wise brother .

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Right? Thats sketchy. I mean I look at semi du conductor ETFs in awe as they skyrocket, but there’s no way I’m 100% semiconductors. They’ll get crushed in a recession. So will tech. Like the first stocks to get crushed in the coming recession will be tech.

[Anonymous]

You need to make your financial advisor work for their money.

Just pose a scenario to them and ask what you can do to protect your portfolio should the market drop like 2008/09.

I know one thing you can do is purchase well outside the money put options. Like buy SPX puts with a 5000 strike price dated 2028.

You may spend $10k or $20k for this, but if the market drops a ton they will increase significantly. If it doesn’t, you paid for insurance.

You can also ask your FA to work up a hedging plan to shield any losses…again, it would involve options or other derivatives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are your age and 100% in tech stocks. Apple, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Netflix, etc. I am not worried. Wall Street doesn't care about the same things the average person cares about, like the price of bread. It operates on a different set of criteria, and is sensitive to industry-specific tensions as well as Fed interest rates and credit-worthiness of certain organizations.

Things that might impact the stock market: any profound change in global trade. So China invading Taiwan, Russia fighting against NATO, Trump losing it completely and enforcing high tariffs on major trading partners. China teaming up with others to shut the US out of its manufacturing. The Middle East descending into oil-strangling conflict. There are many possible geopolitical triggers right now, many of the US's own making, that can have a domino effect and pressure the market.

But you can't control any of these things, OP. If there's a third world war starting in Europe, or China decides it doesn't need to play nice with the US anymore, or there's no more fuel for all the container ships that make the world go round, we are all going to suffer in ways that go beyond our trading accounts.

I would advise you to avoid operating on a hair-trigger. Keep calm and carry on.

100% in one sector is not wise brother .

Yeah. I stopped reading after that sentence. This person is a clown. No one with any financial literacy does this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

"Predications." Lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

"Predications." Lol.

Ha ha totally. I bet you bought soy bean futures and are doing great right now. lol! Oh look gold is up again today. Wonder why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

"Predications." Lol.

Ha ha totally. I bet you bought soy bean futures and are doing great right now. lol! Oh look gold is up again today. Wonder why?

Maybe cash out a bit and use it for English classes, pal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

"Predications." Lol.

Ha ha totally. I bet you bought soy bean futures and are doing great right now. lol! Oh look gold is up again today. Wonder why?

Maybe cash out a bit and use it for English classes, pal.

You are a clown. Sorry your head is up your own azz and can’t grasp macroeconomic factors, but hey, guess we’ll see where your portfolio values are soon. My guess is thrashed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

"Predications." Lol.

Ha ha totally. I bet you bought soy bean futures and are doing great right now. lol! Oh look gold is up again today. Wonder why?

Maybe cash out a bit and use it for English classes, pal.

+1. Loves hearing himself talking kinda guy. Total weirdo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

Gold goes up and down -- if you were a professional it could make sense to go to gold at certain times. If not no one should touch gold. It is the least stable asset you can own.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are your age and 100% in tech stocks. Apple, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Netflix, etc. I am not worried. Wall Street doesn't care about the same things the average person cares about, like the price of bread. It operates on a different set of criteria, and is sensitive to industry-specific tensions as well as Fed interest rates and credit-worthiness of certain organizations.

Things that might impact the stock market: any profound change in global trade. So China invading Taiwan, Russia fighting against NATO, Trump losing it completely and enforcing high tariffs on major trading partners. China teaming up with others to shut the US out of its manufacturing. The Middle East descending into oil-strangling conflict. There are many possible geopolitical triggers right now, many of the US's own making, that can have a domino effect and pressure the market.

But you can't control any of these things, OP. If there's a third world war starting in Europe, or China decides it doesn't need to play nice with the US anymore, or there's no more fuel for all the container ships that make the world go round, we are all going to suffer in ways that go beyond our trading accounts.

I would advise you to avoid operating on a hair-trigger. Keep calm and carry on.

100% in one sector is not wise brother .

Yeah. I stopped reading after that sentence. This person is a clown. No one with any financial literacy does this.

What? I'm in one stock.

[Anonymous]

Not worried at all. I will be in cash 25% after crypto cycle top.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have an intelligently designed portfolio calibrated to your risk tolerance and timelines you need do nothing at all. There will be ups and downs and moving deck chairs around will likely only result in you magnifying losses over time and missing growth when cycles change course. A well designed portfolio is an all-season, all-weather portfolio, not one which requires big changes whenever you read something in the financial press or, even worse, on an anonymous board populated by self-described stock market savants who have their own special secret sauce for investing success.

Okay Jack Bogle enough platitudes. We get it. Just buy VTI and check back in 30 years.

For anyone else who needs to retire in like 5 years. You need to listen and listen close. We are on the precipice of a crash unlike one seen since 1929. Inflation. Job losses. Ride the stock market wave now buying tech stocks or other similar equities, with rate cuts and QE coming to juice the market. But sell it for gold etf and a consumer staples ETFs in like a year or less. The market crash is coming. Be ready. When the crash comes sell those ETFs and buy SPMO, UPRO and IDMO and ride the wave all the way up. That’s if our economy can return to all time highs.

A savant has entered the discussion!

Check back at that one year point to tell us how you predicted the coming crash so presciently. Or not.

I will. My predications have been right. Gold is on fire by the way. It’ll continue to go up even as stocks rise. Why? Because of everything I have laid out. You can definitely trade tech stocks right now. We’re getting a rate cut. Then probably another. All it does is fuel gold. It’ll drive stocks higher for a while, but it will fuel inflation and drive gold even higher. You simply don’t get what’s going on.

Gold goes up and down -- if you were a professional it could make sense to go to gold at certain times. If not no one should touch gold. It is the least stable asset you can own.

I’m not the poster you are responding too, but Gold is widely considered one of the most stable assets you can own. If you don’t want to own it, totally fine. But it’s weird to come on here and give such advice. (Or maybe I should say it is normal to give bad advice because this is DCUM?) Do you think CDs are scary too?