If you can’t handle the volatility, then you should adjust your asset allocation. There is no premium without the risk.
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Volatility offers some nice opportunities with options. Regardless, I’m continuing with my investment plan, currently averaging down. I do have some cash in the war chest if we see a crash like in March.
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I heard you can only enter gyms if you can lift 60 kg more than Cortana, so… sorry pal!
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I thought you could only enter gyms if you lumpsum invested your entire savings right before a hair raising crash.
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In total or for each of the 3 lifts ?! 
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As our beloved friend Ben Felix say we should not focus on the narrative…
else there is still the option of selling and getting into something less risky like BND just as @MrRIP did recently…
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Some see all red, I see a candy store. Yummy, yummy.
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Indeed:
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It’s Coke zero right now. I want original extra sweet cola 
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VT is more or less at the level of three months ago, when I sold
Maybe we’ll experience the most bouncy dead cat in history 
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Sorry, couldn’t resist posting that…
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UK announced a 4-week lockdown. I have my popcorn ready.
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To be fair, at 50% positivity it indeed doesn’t make sense and it’s a waste of resources (they should do seroprevalence surveys instead, esp. since there’s likely >2% of the population currently positive).
It means number of case is not a good indicator at this point, hospitalizations and deaths will give a better idea of the direction (but they lag by more days).
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The number of contamination is so high that we are back to the situation of March for (not) testing the people. If you are not in a difficult situation with your symptoms, do not belong to a group at risk and do not work in the health sector you may well no be eligible for a test. This means that today statistics with a bit over 10’000 new cases the last 24 hours may well be a large underestimate of the reality. The number of death is again the most reliable indicator.
Alain Berset was pathetic tonight, asking solidarity between cantons and criticizing the hospital still making non urgent surgeries. Berset just forgot that the federal government refused to cover the financial loss due to the empty hospitals in March and April, mostly in the German speaking part of the country. Berset also forgot that the Swiss Army charged terrible prices for leasing respirator to the hospitals. I am also ashamed that the government is asking to the people to be self responsible but that there was almost no education , at the television for example, about how to behave properly to diminish the propagation.
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I heard the the people not tested by Neuchâtel are young and normally healthy people that met a positive person and who now have symptoms.
I thought that all “wear the damn mask” was clear…
Everything else is true though. I think they also might feel a lot of pressure that can’t be shown or said.
Anyway in their defense, if you keep saying that there is a danger, stopping the tests is not like in the US where they say there is no danger because positive results are lower.
Denmark killing/having to kill 15 million minks is probably in my top 5 list of the worst effects of the pandemic 
(Some of them will probably land in mink production but most of them will simply be replaced by new minks, when the industry restarts.)
Well, a lot of people wear the mask a way which is not effective (the nose outside, upside-down, …). People throw away their masks in the street.
For months in the café and restaurant they used transparent face shields that are ineffective. Their purpose is to protect the eyes of the wearer against projection of contaminated fluid but not to avoid to spread the virus from the wearer.
At the entrance of the supermarket you find automatic dispensers of gel for the hands but I almost never see anyone using it. People wear the mask but do not respect the distance in situation where it is easy to keep the distance.
Where I was shaken was to see the people in Geneva packed together Monday evening before the shut down of the restaurants. “We want to support the business that have to close!”. Generous mission, but at the same time you contribute to saturate a bit more the intensive care station.
If Sout-East Asia, New-Zealand, Australia and Finland manage to avoid the second wave and we fail to it it has also to do to the education of the citizen.
Once again, wild animals kept in captivity for a purpose which is questionable.
To come back to the topic of the thread, strong rebouncing of the markets since the beginning of the week. Is it related to covid or to the US election?