How are you guys handling the recent downs?

Investing / Others
#17

OK that went fast. Let’s see what happens now.

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#18

Stocks are cheaper and the dividend yield is going up.
It’s not that bad, in the “value investing” perspective…

#19

Ok I hoped for a bounce of 2350 but 5% in a day. Wow.

#20

What happened so special today that it all jumped that much :smiley:

#21

Whatever happens, the big winners are the brokers, with those huge swings! :rofl:

#22

No, the hedge funds. Trading is dirt cheap

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#23

Final picture of the volatile 2018, from the DJIA perspective.
djlog2018
Have we reached a “permanently high plateau”, or as Mr Trump nicely says, are the markets “taking a little pause” ?

#24

In general, Mr. Trump is never wrong. Lol

#25

Want more ?

John Maynard Keynes in 1927:

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

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#26

For anyone interested, here’s a recent article that talks about the signals of an global economic slowdown:
https://www.republik.ch/2019/01/21/der-winter-kommt

(in German)

#27

I didn’t see much of it this last Friday. :slight_smile:
Interesting points nevertheless.

#28

Perhaps we should open another topic: “How are you guys handling the recent ups?” :wink:

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#29

I am still in red :(.

#30

How are you guys handling the recent ups ?

aaaaand … down again :wink:

I think people will have to get used to volatile markets for the foreseeable future

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#31

Hodl ! . . . :wink: . . . .

#32

Have they not always been such? :smiley:

Just a good training to refrain from checking in daily/weekly, and keep on keeping on buying (and holding). :slight_smile:

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#33

I just think the last few years have been too calm on a historical basis :wink:

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#34

I’m terribly sour about not following my own advice regarding Christmas shopping…

#35

I am terribly sour not buying IBM yesterday :wink:

#36

It’s no coincidence, the Fed was at work with its monetary opioids.
Spot the “short volatility position” in Jay Powell’s own words here.