[plain talk]

Until the next down day.....

Yep. I would not be surprised if there are many more down days in this correction. But the truth is ... no one really knows and can predict what the market will do. Best to just invest over decades and leave it alone.

[Graybeard58]

no one really knows and can predict what the market will do.
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I wish I could, I wish I could, I wish I could.

[Old Yeller]

Best to just invest over decades and leave it alone.

Sure, if you're young and not retired or not a few months away from retirement.

[redfreedom]

“Best to just invest over decades and leave it alone.”

Agreed. We do not plan on touching our IRA until forced at age 70. In this last year the IRA lost 11% of it’s value. Our strategy is as you say, “leave it alone”. It will recover.

But those depending on their investments as a source of income have got to be near a nervous breakdown, and panicky people do stupid things.

[dp0622]

WHERE were you when I was an idiot in my 20s and half of my 30s trying to strike it rich with that 10,000 percent gain stock?

You gave the ONLY advice an investor needs.