• doug@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    I deleted my Fidelity app when Trump took office. I wasn’t doing anything with my blue chip stock and I’d rather not see what I’m losing in real time.

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      22 hours ago

      The nice thing is over time historically the stock market or at least index funds always have gain. So either you will recover or… We all have bigger problems.

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        12 hours ago

        The nice thing is over time historically the stock market or at least index funds always have gain.

        The analysis that was based on excluded the effect of markets going out of existence. If those events are taken into account, there’s little to no long-term gain at all.

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          8 hours ago

          Hence the we have bigger problems. At least for the next ten years the stock markets won’t say, hey its time to try helping out the poor. If the stockmarkets completely implodes, yeah we got some other problems goingonn.

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        20 hours ago

        Cool. But adding 5, 10, 20 extra years to get to the same valuation in your retirement plan isn’t “nice”.

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          8 hours ago

          Groovy. You are right, I was just using it as a transition to my comment. Who doesn’t love waiting an extra 15 years for retirement?

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        22 hours ago

        I think it’s still to early for that. The market seems to still be quite bullish that things will play out in a good way. However, everything I’m seeing will have years long cascading effects on the economy that we can’t begin to forecast.

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          18 hours ago

          Whats your rationale for bull market? Were mathematically in a correction already

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            16 hours ago

            I don’t think it’s been a bull market, but I think everyone has been bullish in that they don’t think Trump will follow through with blowing up the economy. But given he just announced 10% tarrifs on everything I think the market has been foolish.

            Honestly if the markets would realize he’s serious they might have avoided this. A huge drop earlier on given his tariff talk might have helped avoid this.

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    21 hours ago

    Hahaha oh shits gonna go from really bad to worse

    My 401k is factored into the divorce and that’s a lot of money I’m about to not have to negotiate with

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    22 hours ago

    The market has factored in these tariffs. They haven’t factored in the retaliation tariffs, since they haven’t been announced yet.

    I feel like there should be a name for a tariff terrorist. A tarrifist? A terofist?

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    23 hours ago

    I’ve never invested or traded stocks and I probably never will…or be able to at this point. Happy recession day!