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They are literally pumping and dumping the stock market as a whole. It's market manipulation by tariff as they make bank on peoples fear.
announce tariffs > market uncertainty > sell off stocks > value goes down > buy the dip > pause tariffs > markets recover > laugh all the way to the bank
or something like that
That, plus you can short stocks without even holding any
Not to speak of options. With how high volatility got, writing puts must have made bank, and, despite that high volatility, buying calls must have too.
Simply buying VIX will work too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
This isn't really Pump and Dump though, it's more like "Dip and Rip"
Began it has, the war on greed.
Two rules. Only buy. No sell.
That's what I did. I rebalanced my stock allocation from 50% to 80% and put a few thousand more in the market.
General known info would be that lump sum beats DCA 2 out of 3 times. Well, we're after a crash. So I just am pumping everything into it.
Into European stock tho, not touching crazy.
But for anyone reading this: keep an emergency buffer of 6 months on your savings account. Your choice if that's 6 months expenses or 6 months income.
If you get fired, you have unemployment benefits, if you get sick you get sick pay.
We have the ability to seek a bit more risk in our private lives.
I hedge my bets and do both. I deposit a regular amount regardless of what happens but will throw in a bit extra when it's clear there is a dip. I prefer the international ETFs also. Can't go wrong being more diversified.
Double recommend the emergency fund. I have 6 months income but with the current volatility and that fact that I live in this American shit hole, I may want to start contributing more to it to get 9 months at least. But since I have 6 months already I'm fine with not missing this opportunity to buy the dip.
I only wish I had waited a week to make my yearly IRA contribution. I generally do a lump sum for that since I just max out the contribution for the year with my bonus mainly because it's easier to keep track of. This event makes me want to rethink that strategy since I missed the dip on that by a week. It probably doesn't matter that much though since I can't touch my IRAs for around 30 years anywho.
The DCA method. They say time in the market beats trying to time to market.
But in these times, it's obviously those with money outside of the market that have the biggest gains.
COVID had a one month crash. Then here in Europe we had the energy crisis bear phase.
But between the financial crisis and COVID it went relatively smoothly.
Future can't be predicted. DCA or building up a lump sum for a bear phase. No idea which of the two is the best option.
The latter is probably the safest one.
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These swings are good opportunities to harvest losses if they cause any and you can move into something else that's similar.
Like from a Blackrock 80/20 fund to a fidelity 80/20 fund or whatever it would be.
Minimal risk but you can still realize a loss.
I was going to do that until he of course undid it today. My timing was off unfortunately.