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My magic market crystal ball says the present downside will look like upside by December. Of course, survivors will be eating cricket paste they can only get if they are chipped, vax poisoned and barcoded.

If I had 100K cash fall into my lap I’d dollar cost average it into a diversified portfolio that is properly balanced based on my age and goals into a mix of stock and bond etfs.

If the money was already invested in my Roth and I was at this point starting to panic I’d walk away and not check it for a year. Now is the worst time to make changes. Either you go more risky or more conservative. You go risky right now, with so much uncertainty, you could lose even more. Go conservative, you lock in your losses. Best thing is to do nothing, and then re-eval your risk tolerance the next time the market is up.

Personally I started buying again. Not because I think I know what the market will do, but because I'm more of a long term buy and hold broad etf investor and think current prices are probably decent. I wouldnt be surprised if it goes down further though, but I also thought the market would keep tanking during covid, and instead it shot back up like a rocket. I think many missed the boat and didn't buy near the bottom because they awaited further declines that never materialized.

Its time to buy. I did buy some. Hoping for the market to go down so that I can buy more for the long term.

Hircus says

Personally I started buying again. Not because I think I know what the market will do, but because I'm more of a long term buy and hold broad etf investor and think current prices are probably decent. I wouldnt be surprised if it goes down further though, but I also thought the market would keep tanking during covid, and instead it shot back up like a rocket. I think many missed the boat and didn't buy near the bottom because they awaited further declines that never materialized.

Big factor that’s different this time is the Fed is only starting to Jack up interest rates. Don’t fight the Fed.

I think it has 10% more to go down.

If I had new money coming in I would buy anyway.

I think there will be a bounce in November.

I guess I have to wait for a while.

sit on cash till good news

no good news = no green

clambo says

I think it has 10% more to go down.

That would equate to about the S&P 500 being at the all time high just prior to the March/April 2020 bear market.

So the bottom in this bear market is near the top of the last bull market (June 2010 to March 2020).

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That would equate to about the S&P 500 being at the all time high just prior to the March/April 2020 bear market.

So the bottom in this bear market is near the top of the last bull market (June 2010 to March 2020).

Hircus says

I think many missed the boat and didn't buy near the bottom because they awaited further declines that never materialized.

I missed the boat. I don't want to miss again. Seems like bad news is already built into several stock prices (maybe not completely).
Market is closed for the first time ever for Juneteenth. Wtf?

clambo says

I think it has 10% more to go down.

Agreed. I suspect Dow will bottom at about 28,000, then bounce around for a bit. Once midterms are over market will start to go back up and probably finish the year just over 30,000.

We're still heading towards a recession/ stagflation but the markets won't tell the true tale of how main street is suffering. Wall Street has been disconnected from the real world for almost a decade.

GreaterNYCDude says

Wall Street has been disconnected from the real world for almost a decade.

Right. However, there was a time, before the past decade decade when markets reflected what was happening on the main street. Seems like our country is all about finance control and manipulation (as opposed to China which is all about technology and manufacturing)

You guys are going to screw around and coin the Minsky Hour.

Tenpoundbass says

You guys are going to screw around and coin the Minsky Hour.

Please elaborate Tenpoundbass.

1337irr says

Tenpoundbass says

You guys are going to screw around and coin the Minsky Hour.

Please elaborate Tenpoundbass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment

If the Minsky Hour does not happen by itself, it could always be engineered, I reckon.

Overall P/E is still pretty high. I think there could be a lot of sudden downside but any upside will be slow and gradual. I not rushing out to buy anything right now; sitting on a bunch of cash earning 0.01% (which is better than losing 30%).

Federal Reserve manipulation is the big thing to watch. I think the Fed will try to split a fine line between inflation and recession and we'll wind up with some "excess" inflation and some economic slowdown / recession. Because nothing will actually be resolved, this could continue for years.

SunnyvaleCA says

sitting on a bunch of cash earning 0.01%.

Friend, you can earn more than that with a high degree of safety. I am not talking about "Money Market Funds" which are not insured by the FDIC.

Brokered FDIC backed one month CD's pay a significant fraction of a percent. If you want more than 1.0 percent you need to go out to 2 to 3 months. Higher rates for longer terms. These are brokered at Fidelity and Vanguard in $1000 increments. No commission is charged. (Maybe they get some consideration from the bank that issues the CDs?)

Treasury Direct, which has even finer granularity ($100 increments) will sell you Treasury Debt with no fees. You will get market rates for all the terms: 1 month, 2 month, 3 month, 6 month, 1 year, etc. The one month yield is approximately 1%.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Treasury Direct, which has even finer granularity ($100 increments) will sell you Treasury Debt with no fees. You will get market rates for all the terms: 1 month, 2 month, 3 month, 6 month, 1 year, etc. The one month yield is approximately 1%.

Thanks for the heads up on this B.A.C.A.H., I'm going to check out the T-bills when purchasing I-Bonds. I've been looking for a safe interest bearig mattress to stuff my emergency fund under...

But AZZ yields 1.61% and you can sell cover calls for extra money!

In a few weeks I will convert some of my IRA to a Roth IRA, it's a good time to do it.

I'd rather pay the tax on conversion of things that are down 25%+

SunnyvaleCA says

Overall P/E is still pretty high.

S&P 500's P/E ratio (trailing twelve months) is 18.5 and around the average P/E value from 1980 to present day.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

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P/E is a decent ratio to measure, but investors need to take in context growth of a company. FB might be a great value at this point even though the company is matured at 12 for its P/E. KHC might not be worth it at 35, but it's book value per a share is pretty amazing!

Still, I'm buying AZZ. I think the market they have and where they are located makes sense for long term growth and it is at 12 for a P/E.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Current Shiller PE Ratio: 28.39 +0.06 (0.22%)
4:00 PM EDT, Fri Jun 17
Mean: 16.95
Median: 15.87
Min: 4.78 (Dec 1920)
Max: 44.19 (Dec 1999)
looks still not cheap. Is this better indicator than regular P/E.

This is what I did for my last purchase. I bought NU. Why? Because Warren Buffet bought it too. I bought it at a lower price than him ($3.34). Does this kind of foolishness make any sense for stock picking? I am going to hold this one for 5 years.