Well so far it hasn‘t worked.
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It was always the case. The only thing permanent is change…
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
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Your Bob Dylan reference reminds me of the time in my 9th school year when my favorite teacher ever – math and singing, at the time – would about weekly sing Elton John songs with us, his class, and I believe passed on Bob Dylon because it then came out – apparently – that Dylon’s asset manager had invested Dylon’s money in some defense company or fund.
I am sure I was outraged at the time and don’t even remember ever listening to Dylan songs (until later in my life). But clearly, Dylon had to then therefore be cancelled (for the mood at the time).
Maybe off topic, but only slightly, as current policy changes also seem to (want to) affect what it acceptable (in investing).
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Who’s Bob DylOn?
Here’s my response: “they’re only as good as the world allows them to be”
Guess the, ehm, olive oil (I am Greek after all, we have olive oil, not gravy) is not flowing fast enough so they need to start hedging a bit for when the, ehm, weather changes? “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”, I am not buying they’re now realising it. Where are all the laisser-faire capitalists? Are they “just following orders”? No, in my opinion they’re covering their ass in case the mad DOGe is unleashed on their private data and government contracts, and are feeling the pain on their bank accounts.
Having better memory than a goldfish is a mixed blessing, seeing this cycle play out, and people being played like violins is painful 
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One is hard pushed to tell which of those two things is more important to him.
Here is full article
This was in reference to car companies and their “talk” with President
Time will tell. For time being , the message is “buckle up”
Good to see that after the strong start to 2025, the Euro Stoxx 50, “Europe’s leading blue-chip index for the Eurozone”, has finally passed its previous ATH… from 25 years ago!
Of course at this level, currently still down about 40% in CHF currency.
(price index, so ignoring dividends)
Haha ain’t that funny!
But seriously, after weeks of this I’ve now tuned down the noise for real and feel much better about it!
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I wondered why my portfolio went up so much the last day or so.
I’d like to make some purchases tomorrow. Maybe I could suggest that you invest your 9k tomorrow and then maybe sell it again the day after? 
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Not really
I did include that it’s a price index. But you are right, although I’d debate the “totally”.
Even with dividends, it’s just humbling and contemplative to me that acc. to your graph, if I, a Swiss investor (base currency CHF), had lump-summed into a diverse basket of 50 stocks, one of the top indices * at the time, the Euro Stoxx 50 , that I’d only now have reached my lump sum amount in CHF again that I put in, 25 years later :-/ with dividends reinvested. Subtracting tax and TER, I’d say I’d still be waiting for my lumpsum amount to be reached.
** If I remember correctly, Eurozone was quite the-place-to-be then, euro had been successfully introduced, barriers were being dismantled, Nokia was “the future”, all the telecom operators had successfully IPO’d (high PE’s yes, but profitable and oh what a future) , banks and insurances were doing well, industrials had a bright future.
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Past is past
Question is what’s the future
It never makes sense to exclude dividends.
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Only one thing is certain…
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Maybe it‘s time to buy TQQQ. Thinking about buying 5k of it.
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Make it 25K and bring the market down Cortana. I’m ready to dip into margin.
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Well, 9k out vs 15k of exposure in, tech stocks are bound to fall more.
On another note, now might be a good time to write down what we want us to do in a downturn if we haven’t already, just so that we are ready in case the price of our assets go down more and buying/selling doesn’t look so playful anymore.
Ideally my uncorrelated assets go up and my rebalancing bands are hit, so I sell those down to the set % and buy stocks. Other than that, just keep buying.
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