re: What's everyone been buying? Here's the one week performance for S&P as of 12/24

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I'm selling my entire stock portfolio.

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Both shares??

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I've made the decision to go full barrel into cryptocurrency.

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Didn’t you post the same thing a couple of months ago?

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The hatred/fear from Trump from the left and the RINOs

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...is not irrational and totally without justification. The president needs to lay off Twitter and let the Fed chairman do his job. There's a reason the Federal Reserve is autonomous.

The last I looked Trump didn't have a PhD. in economics. If he does, then the American people need to see his missing transcripts.

I had the opportunity once to attend a meeting Ben Bernanke was chairing in Washington, DC. That guy is so smart it was frightening. He made me feel like a novice in finance.

He asked a banking policy question of us sitting around the table but before I could raise my hand to answer it he called on someone else. The guy Bernanke called on gave the same answer I was going to give.

I was feeling pretty smug.

Then Bernanke grinned and asked a follow-up question which completely destroyed the guy’s answer to the original question. Everyone laughed.

I was never so happy in my whole life I didn’t get called on first.

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specifically focus on macro economics and a relevant sub specialty therein

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This makes it more critical that the president just ease up on the Twitter and let the Fed act without harassment.

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I've had them since 2011. Considerable gains until recently and now back to almost break even.

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Not too bad then. Especially if the market continues to go down and you get back in near the bottom. I sold almost all of my positions at various times earlier this year and have started getting back in. All but one stock are in a short term capital gain position. It looks like I might have started to get back in a little early. I moved into MO in earlier this month and it is already down 10%. At least I still have some dry powder for next year.

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Nikkei down a cool 4.6% currently...

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It finished down 5.01%.

To put that into perspective, if the Dow Jones did that in a day it would be down almost 1,100 points.

For some perspective, the returns since 2010 have been fantastic. We are no lower than we were 2 years ago.

I think it's a chunk of people taking some of their profits after the long runup of the past decade

My hit for 12/17 - 12/24 was only -3.1%, so I'm still doing ok. Am not buying anything yet though.

You believed in Santa Claus until you were 17 years old. Pho pa??