The Rokslide Stock Traders Thread

[eddielasvegas]

Posting this for posterity. Heck, in a few more sessions, we might wish we only had these declines.


Eddie

 

[TaperPin]

Admittedly, I am trying what is generally considered a fool's errand of timing the market.

It is a good time to have fun money to ride some of the ups and downs. My fun money is also all in or all out - right now it’s all cash so I’m pretty happy. I continue to do well assuming the market is overly optimistic until bad news hits it in the face. I wish I had shorted something yesterday, but I’m trying to avoid that and only ride the ups and cash out.

 

[Clarktar]

I'm looking for ups also!!

 

[Wrangler13]

Pre market looks worse than yesterday’s losses.

 

[2531usmc]

Might be a time to start putting money back into equities? Blood in the water…..

 

[chanson_roland]

Another 1000 pts "liberated" from the Dow Jones overnight. We're at 39K and change, and that's before the jobs number comes out.

So far about $3T in equity value gone.

I went to 45% cash before the election for just this scenario (emulating Buffett). Still don't think there's buying opportunities yet.

 

[go_deep]

I'll just keep buying at my normal scheduled intervals...

Even if the sky is falling, the clouds are pretty soft.

 

[Idaboy]

Whatta sh}#t show, this is an own goal on our own economy...

 

[stevewes2004]

I'll just keep buying at my normal scheduled intervals...

Even if the sky is falling, the clouds are pretty soft.

This is the way….


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[MuleyFever]

Dang, guess I should have held off buying yesterday.

 

[bozeman]

Stay the course.....steady investment brings about great profit. I am quite surprised at how many people 'watch' daily.....invest, enjoy life TODAY, let the markets go up/down.

 

[SWFLhntr]

Still putting in $ and maxing my contributions. Hopefully it rebounds by the time I need it in a dozen years or so. Seems like a good opportunity really.

 

[MuleyFever]

What do you guys think? Average down a little more today or wait until Monday?

 

[2531usmc]

I’m kinda thinking that we all have seen the market making new highs ....monthly and yearly for some years now. And much of the highs came on the back of euphoria and printed money. At the start of Trump’s term, the PE on the SPY was pushing 30.

We all knew this day would come when a financial panic (certainly in the media) pulls money out of the market like a tsunami.

That is when you buy the market on sale and start feathering dollars into it. No retail investor can pick the bottom, but they can see the market when it starts to go on sale.

 

[Brock A]

What do you guys think? Average down a little more today or wait until Monday?

Both

 

[Fowl Play]

For reference, as far as yearly averages, market has lost about a years worth of growth. Covid saw about a 3 year loss from high to low. I’m averaging in as it falls. My crystal ball is fuzzy on if global trade war or global pandemic brings about the largest decline.

 

[NDGuy]

Port green today, give me more blood

 

[Idaboy]

Both

What would change over weekend? Or more sell,off next week? What are the other catalyst for more sell, other than other tariff policy announcement?

 

[NDGuy]

What would change over weekend? Or more sell,off next week? What are the other catalyst for more sell, other than other tariff policy announcement?

Retaliation tariffs, escalations in war overseas.

 

[Silver Wings]

Since this is a TRADER thread I’m wondering how many traders are excited about this volatility and see it as a huge opportunity?
I’m retired and am somewhat conservative, but also have a not small % of portfolio that I trade. I raised cash in anticipation of what’s happening now, but probably not enough. Got my tit in the wringer on a couple of trades, but overall see this as an opportunity.