Are you still in the stock market?

mathjak107 said:
yep key word is self inflicted .

it isn’t the natural business cycle at work here .

its pure manipulation by our leader .

you know he planned this playing out this way .

you can bet his wealthy buddies were buying as regular americans got scared and sold out at low prices
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I agree w most, but not sure I would agree w the bolded statement. There has never ever been any plan associated w anything before so that would be a first.
 

I had cashed out my small 401K, and with the market back up got all my money back. I am thinking that if the downturn scared anyone they should get out now.
 

I purchased Amazon stock with 95% of my money back in 1998. I don't regret it. When my wife and I die, it goes to our married daughter. She will then be able to support her husband and kids the rest of their lives.

However, many years ago I had also placed all my money in a stock called "Transitron." I lost ALL MY MONEY back then.
 
many of us are very cautious right now and are running the highest cash levels maybe ever .

i know being retired and having had an amazing year , as well as i locked in a lot in realized gains this year

so looking this morning at how we are positioned:

20% equity funds consisting of

vti total market fund 10%

vwo emerging market 5%

vio small cap value 5%

pretty much the larry swedroe fat tail but with a total market fund included


10% bond funds

TIP inflation protected bond ETF , not a fan of tips but right now i think it’s the best horse in the glue factory.

5% gold etf iau

65% cash instruments , sgov , bil , money markets , bank

with rates where they are now we are getting over 10k a month in just interest

so right now i can sit back with a lot in cash instruments but that isn’t going to be a long term thing for us

particularly interested in what retirees are doing as those with plenty of time can simply stay the course
 
OldOld said:
So you have about 2 millions in cash instruments.
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pretty close right now , but hopefully only temporarily until this mess gets some direction. berkshire has 348 billion in cash

we had outsize gains last year as my fidelity blue chip growth doubled in just two years so we booked about 600k in gains and i realized about another 100k this year in gains so we can take a breather .

right now the interest brings in 10k a month so definitely not in a hurry to throw it all back in with this political environment
 

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