Posted on 02/27/2020 2:25:45 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
Like many Freepers I have a significant IRA account in the stock market. The last couple of weeks have been absolutely brutal and I've watched my IRA shrink by.... A LOT. I'm dying to hit a liberal so damn hard right now. This is frustrating as all get out.
I'm torn, part of me says "ride it out, the market will come back, be cool. It'll turn around in a day or two" and another part of me thinks that this corona scare downturn isn't near bottom.
How are you Freeper, in the stock market, handling this? AND for you Freepers who keep your money in your mattress, thank you but keep your comments to yourself. I'm looking for constructive comments here.
I put in 50% of my cash today, there are GREAT buys out there and the market will come flying back, providing Sanders doesnt end up as POTUS!!!
Con edison and an oil company
I owned houses and land when 2008 hit. My properties have come back. I was liquid and therefore able to buy more real estate in 2010, and it is doing good. In my case, three things made this possible- liquidity, location, and luck.
I was able to rent out some of the 2008 depreciated property, and this helped. I am sorry to hear of your situation.
We are not upside down nor did we get the long thrust that those who bought in ‘06 but it ain’t quite back up to what we paid.
Glad you lucked out!
I got out into bonds and cash on Monday. Mid-March things should stabilize as the air heats up and the corona-flu melts away.
One thing you can guarantee...the usual suspects have been working overtime!
https://newspunch.com/soros-financial-apocalypse-trump/
https://madworldnews.com/obama-soros-home-trump-election/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/17/alan-dershowitz-obama-sought-fbi-probe-behalf-geor/
Dude - you had plenty of warning. I sold all my stock and went into MOney Markets the last week of January.... No one else believed the virus was a thing at work either ... oh well ...
!!! TIME TO BUY !!!
I agree. They are in much worse of a decline than most people think.
Sale!
LOL...yes, most stocks are on SALE, right now ;-)
This is a normal market correction. One thing you should have learned during the Great Recession of 2008 is that when the market goes down it almost always goes back up and beyond.
*** YOU HAVEN’T LOST ANYTHING UNTIL YOU SELL. ***
PS. I bought mid 4 figures of total stock market today.
It’ll come back!!
I have been taking round trips on CVX for about 10 years. Recently it got tight. Looks like it will start cycling again now.
TLT is a hedge, when the stock market goes down like this, TLT goes up, approx half the percent drop in stocks.
So if you have 70 percent bonds and 30 percent stocks, you are more or less hedged.
But in the good years, you only have 30% in stocks - risk and return.
The Bible says, no-one knows the future so cast your bread on many waters - ie diversification, bonds and stocks and some gold and real estate etc etc
Hang tight..there are obviously forces (Soros? Dems trying to take out Trump?) at work here.
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I can see that
It will not turn around in a day or two. More like a year or so most likely.
You can’t time the market and you can’t out guess a panic like this. It is irrational.
We are right back where we were almost two years ago.
Dividend Aristocrats will pay under almost all conditions and sell their children and borrow money before they miss a dividend. Learn to live on 3%. Pipelines are pretty good as well.
A lot of brokers are making a killing right now. Don’t feed the animals.
Stock price recovery will not directly hinge on any anticipated future medical recovery from a currently brewing global viral pandemic. Rather, it will happen when the various management teams of companies of global scope resolve their “black swan” (drastic and completely unexpected and unpredicted by analysts) problems of large scale personnel dislocation and smashed/upended materiel sourcing arrangements. The necessary supply chain reorganization will probably be complete well before the World Health Organization deems the Corona Virus pandemic under control.
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