re: Signs we may be nearing a bottom

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Only a fool thinks he/she can time it

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My 8% YTD return on my investment would beg to disagree.

You are correct, stay in and it goes up. Eventually. What’s lost in the theory, today, is effects no interest and QE has had since 2008. Look at the historical charts of the indices and it’s pretty obvious where the markets should be, if you want to use past history as
a guide. If I were 30 I wouldn’t even care right now but I’m not

Ok retard

You are the smartest guy in the room. Congrats hope it keeps working for you.

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Some of you are getting pumped with some serious fear porn by the media. Go ahead and sell low and buy high. It's the only thing that keeps this thing going full circle. I do appreciate each of you

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Yeah, I'm in for another 15 to 17 years. This is a buying opportunity for me, for however long the bear market lasts (9 months, a year). I don't sweat money that I haven't lost. I own more shares every paycheck. If everything goes South from here on for 15 to 17 years, we'll have much bigger problems to worry about. Like food, water, electricity. Having X or Y amount of worthless numbers in a worthless electronic account will be a tertiary concern at best.

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Yes it’s working great. Not losing thousands of dollars a day is awesome!

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You should open a business and advise people how to invest. I mean the smartest people in the world are paid millions of dollars a year and basically given almost unlimited resources to beat the market and over an extended period of time 10-20 years like 96% of them fail. This also includes them and their team spending 80+ hours a week doing nothing but trying to beat the market.
I am sure you are in that 4% even with it being your side gig! Think how much you could make with your investing prowess as well as collecting fees from others.

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Yeah, I'm in for another 15 to 17 years. This is a buying opportunity for me, for however long the bear market lasts (9 months, a year). I don't sweat money that I haven't lost. I own more shares every paycheck. If everything goes South from here on for 15 to 17 years, we'll have much bigger problems to worry about.

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Yep. You get it. These threads are entertaining nonetheless

So you sat and watched your portfolio drop 15 to 20%, but feel like a genius because you are continuing to buy on the way down? I guess it's the smart thing to do to keep buying, but it's no brilliant move to be laughing at others.

Yeah I hear ya haha. But if someone said hey, the fed is raising rates I'm going to take a chunk out. That isn't a crazy thing to do and a lot of people probably did.

The market isn’t selling off into a technical bear simply because the Fed stated they planned to raise rates 2-3%.

The Fed raised rates in 2015-2018, and if you avoided stock through that time period, you missed out.

Even with the stated Fed rate hikes, short term rates will still be below historical means.

- the market significantly under expected inflation
- Ukraine
- Fear of Recession looming

I’ll say it again.. had you stayed diversified.. dividend stocks are flat to positive on the year. S&P and Nasdaq indexes are getting hammered, but if you stuck true to investment principles, this is not destroying you.