Asked a buddy who is a financial advisor: “How many of your clients sold everything at the bottom during the panic this spring?” Number was 2 couples. He said they shared one thing: Both couples are retired and watch cable news all day long every day.
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Replying to @mgirdley
I sold 50% of my equity holdings on May 1st and according to vanguard what I have remaining has earned me a 0.5% negative return since I started investing in 2016, so I guess I need to watch less cable news.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @mgirdley
I kicked myself initially for not selling things off in February - there was one Friday I remember thinking that the bottom was about to fall out, and lo, it did that next monday. But in the end I'm back up to about where I started...
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Now I'm kicking myself because I did start keeping my new contributions in cash. Probably should have bought the dip ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Yeah same, but as always it was very hard to tell where the bottom was. Should have bought the upswing. But I agree with Molson there will be another correction this summer.
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Yeah, things could get hairy if the money tap gets shut off, and the 35 million or whatever it is unemployed are still unemployed. Not to mention virus 2.0.
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IMVHO, the only thing that stops markets from dropping precipitously is them printing money like crazy and/or buying stocks. This is probably what is going to happen haha.
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