What will happen to the stock market after the election

-80% either way

It will fluctuate. - J.P. Morgan

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It will fluctuate. - J.P. Morgan

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JPM is in the tank for Clinton.

Based off their Q3 market commentary it can basically be summed up to - Clinton will maintain status quo; we don't know what the frick goes on in Trump's head.

This an aside on belongs on the Poli board, but anyway, this is the same reason that Democrats would endorse Edwin Edwards, they don't care if their candidate is corrupt and morally bankrupt, as long as they don't threaten the status quo.

I'd say generally everyone on here is pretty spot on. But in my opinion, spot on about the short term, emotional reaction of the market. Which for some is meaningless, and for others is very meaningful.

Longer term the market will continue to have natural movement and cycles no matter who gets elected. But also after an election we could get new policies enacted. As an example we could get a 15% pass through income rate.

So for example I am personally making some short term trades (speculation) due to the market's emotion (which is entirely irrational in my opinion), and I have cash on the sidelines waiting to see what, if any, policies get enacted in order to better direct a long term strategy with my money.

I could continue by saying, "if I were you, and I had to transfer money out of a 401K by December 2016.....", but I'm not you.

What type of investments do you start looking at more closely at this point?

I have pulled a bit out of indexes to keep on the sideline for a little while, still not exactly sure where or when I will reenter that money though.

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I attribute the market going down recently to trumps increased popularity the past 2 weeks.

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The market dropped nearly a full percentage point on Friday immediately when Comey's letter became public. Evidently investors aren't big on MAGA.

To be fair though, I think a lot of the market dropping recently has to do with the increased likelihood of a December rate hike.

The Wall St. players seem to prefer Clinton as POTUS and the Republicans to hold Congress (keeping her in check).

IMO, too many people are just focusing on the presidential race, as if one of them is going to be elected emperor. Thankfully, it hasn't come to that yet.

If by transferring out of your 401k, you mean rolling it into an IRA, other than the mutual funds and/or stocks that will transfer over, why not dollar cost average the cash balance back into the market over time? But the big question is, how old are you? I mean, how long do you have until retirement?

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What will happen to the stock market after the election

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It's either going to go up or down.

I've got a large chunk of cash to be invested... took it out after brexit recovery... I'll do some DCA tomorrow, but I see further downside no matter who wins... and especially if Trump does.