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Red Day on the Markets
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chucknorris wrote: »Panicking doesn't achieve anything.
Tell that to the markets. If others panic you at least need to know how to emotionally cope with the market results of that panic, even if you don`t panic yourself.0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »There is a difference between trackers and trying to exit an individual company before you lose any more money, that is the point I was making. Thankfully with shares, unlike property, you can make the exit pretty quickly. One mark of a good investor is knowing when to quit, accepting the mistake and learning from it, without getting emotional. Mugs follow the herd and try to hang on to bad bets too long.
I don't invest in individual companies. Panicking is getting emotional, which in a post above you said there was a need for.Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »Tell that to the markets. If others panic you at least need to know how to emotionally cope with the market results of that panic, even if you don`t panic yourself.
I'm not just telling the markets, I'm telling the whole world. If you are panicking you invested above your comfort level, don't invest more than you can afford to lose. Every investment that you make can go wrong, you should accept that on the day that you invest.Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
chucknorris wrote: »I don't invest in individual companies. Panicking is getting emotional, which in a post above you said there was a need for.
You are too ego-centric, everything posted/discussed does not relate directly to you and your investment decisions. I said some people have made such bad, over-leveraged, follow the herd decisions that they are now panicking. The sell off in the market backs up this view IMO. Another theory is that big hedge funds have been caught with illiquid stuff they can`t shift, and are selling liquid stuff to cover their tails.0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »You are too ego-centric, everything posted/discussed does not relate directly to you and your investment decisions. I said some people have made such bad, over-leveraged, follow the herd decisions that they are now panicking. The sell off in the market backs up this view IMO. Another theory is that big hedge funds have been caught with illiquid stuff they can`t shift, and are selling liquid stuff to cover their tails.
I'm not being ego-centric at all, all I am saying is that no one should invest more than they can afford to lose, if they do, and it goes wrong, then it is their own fault.Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Little to do with Fed raising rates. Markets are jittery it appears. Markets hate uncertainty. Risk is quantifiable to a degree, uncertainty isn't. That's the difference. This period may well continue for some time.
Actually, it is possible to quantify uncertainty (to a degree). It's not easy, but it is possible to estimate uncertainty.0 -
Actually, it is possible to quantify uncertainty (to a degree). It's not easy, but it is possible to estimate uncertainty.
That's on the assumption that only some aspects are unknown.
My quote of the day."Investors are scared to death," said Phil Orlando, chief equity strategist at Federated Investors in New York.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Little to do with Fed raising rates. Markets are jittery it appears. Markets hate uncertainty. Risk is quantifiable to a degree, uncertainty isn't. That's the difference. This period may well continue for some time.
The falling oil price and the prospect of the US and Iran exporting even more of the stuff is reasonably predictable and must be one of the causes of the falling markets?0 -
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My decision to move most of my Pension into cash, February last year, seems to have wise one? The biggest problem is going to be my timing when to buy back.
Perhaps I should start a thread, something like.......My FTSE gamble pays off...
......or will it?0
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