Current market carnage - anyone selling or buying?

edinburgher

Buying, S&S ISA was cleared out when we bought our new house, liking the January sale.

tg99

Think some China H-shares might be on my shopping list this week.

InvestInPoker

This calculator shows quite clearly it is time invested in the market that matters most, although final results do vary quite wildly even over 30 year time spans. Note - It is only for the s&p 500 although you can select with dividends reinvested/without.

It's a really nice tool that allows you to pick any start and finish point from the past for your pretend investment to see how you would have done overall.

http://dqydj.net/sp-500-return-calculator/

EdGasket

Just checked my SIPP; book cost £241K, Value now £133K. Thats over about 10 years of investment; great!

To all those who say just invest and don't worry about timing....hmm I think not. Timing as they say, appears to be everything!

grey_gym_sock

bowlhead99 wrote: »

All hail Troll Queen "A Flock Of Sheep" and buy on Monday for piles of free cash.

that is of course not market timing - it's exploiting the wool factor, as described in a forthcoming paper ...

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

grey_gym_sock wrote: »

that is of course not market timing - it's exploiting the wool factor, as described in a forthcoming paper ...

You can mock. I may well be buying Monday.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

EdGasket wrote: »

Just checked my SIPP; book cost £241K, Value now £133K. Thats over about 10 years of investment; great!

To all those who say just invest and don't worry about timing....hmm I think not. Timing as they say, appears to be everything!

Savage!

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zolablue25

EdGasket wrote: »

Just checked my SIPP; book cost £241K, Value now £133K. Thats over about 10 years of investment; great!

To all those who say just invest and don't worry about timing....hmm I think not. Timing as they say, appears to be everything!

What on earth did you invest it all in to lose that much?

Linton

EdGasket wrote: »

Just checked my SIPP; book cost £241K, Value now £133K. Thats over about 10 years of investment; great!

To all those who say just invest and don't worry about timing....hmm I think not. Timing as they say, appears to be everything!

There are 1394 funds on trustnet that have been going for 10 years.. 2 are showing a loss equal to or more than yours. About 41 would have given a lesser loss and the rest a profit.

So what did you do to lose all that money? Sell low and buy high?

Drp8713

zolablue25 wrote: »

What on earth did you invest it all in to lose that much?

See his previous thread: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5360627&highlight=

Rather than buying everything he seems to keep buying investments in companies/sectors that have done well recently just before they turn.

Im not part of the passive tracker brigade but I think an all world tracker and locking himself out of his platform so he cant trade would make him thousands of pounds a year richer.