Anyone else regret selling?

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PS: This also taught me I should hold more in cash overall. We were fine and still are, but it would be wise at our stage of life to hold more in cash.

[Anonymous]

I plan to retire in 5 yrs so shifted to a more conservative allocation shortly after inauguration in anticipation of more volatility during the next several years. Sure, may lose out on some growth, but want to be sure I can retire when planned. Still, the money I'm still putting into my 401k is all going into stock.

[Anonymous]

I sold off some stock funds in my retirement portfolio in October - almost $300k - because I wanted to switch brokerages. It was helpful to have the money sitting in money market funds during the initial craziness. But now I need to figure out what to do with it, since I want appreciation over the next ten years. No regrets. I also pulled some non retirement funds out of the market and have it stashed in CDs in case I need liquid cash.

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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.

The PP is going to jump all over you because you don't understand annualizing the returns....

Studies have shows that the stock market does better under a Dem than a R potus.

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Anonymous wrote:I refuse to invest in Trump's economy. I am keeping my money safe in cash (not physical) until we have a legitimate government. Otherwise you are feeding the beast and all your talk is just talk.

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Take it to the political board. Keep your nonsense off Money and Finances.

[Anonymous]

Panic selling is exactly why so many people are not meant to be in the stock market. Read something like The Psychology of Money. Timing the market is impossible for the smartest of investors.

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Anonymous wrote:I refuse to invest in Trump's economy. I am keeping my money safe in cash (not physical) until we have a legitimate government. Otherwise you are feeding the beast and all your talk is just talk.

I am as anti MAGA as you can get. I would suggest separating investing from politics.

You are going to end up poorer, while people on the other side end up getting richer. You are cutting your nose to spite the face.

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Anonymous wrote:I refuse to invest in Trump's economy. I am keeping my money safe in cash (not physical) until we have a legitimate government. Otherwise you are feeding the beast and all your talk is just talk.

I am as anti MAGA as you can get. I would suggest separating investing from politics.

You are going to end up poorer, while people on the other side end up getting richer. You are cutting your nose to spite the face.

+1

I feel for those who bailed when the volatility hit.

[Anonymous]

These last few months were a good test for us. We are savers and are only a couple years from retirement. We read that one of the more difficult things to do when retired is to not sell low when things go bad. With this recent market craziness, we held and we remain on course. What it taught us is that when we’re retired, our personal comfort level is having 3 years equivalent of emergency funds. Maybe even up to 5 if it makes sense. We need to be able to absorb the ups and downs.

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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.

The PP is going to jump all over you because you don't understand annualizing the returns....

Studies have shows that the stock market does better under a Dem than a R potus.

That has nothing to do with what the chart on question shows. I didn't independently verify values on the chart, but 67% over 4 years is better than 181% over 8 years when annualized.