Timing the market?

SouthCoastBoy

FIREDreamer said:

Every cloud … 😂😂😂

Still a decent annual return. I'm invested in a global tracker but unfortunately the top 10 stocks make up around 25% of the fund, I would prefer if that was nearer 15%

Cus

SouthCoastBoy said:

FIREDreamer said:

Every cloud … 😂😂😂

Still a decent annual return. I'm invested in a global tracker but unfortunately the top 10 stocks make up around 25% of the fund, I would prefer if that was nearer 15%

Soon will be at this rate

Bobziz

I'm drip feeding a sizable sum, targeting about 70% equities. Slowed the flow over the last two month's, but looking to open up the tap again at some point. I'm currently at about 15%. Any tips on catching a falling knife 😬

FIREDreamer

Cobbler_tone said:

I’m sure Elon will be OK 

If he switches to ITV maybe 😂😂😂

Bostonerimus1

With my 85% equity holding and a lot of US stocks I'm losing bucket loads every day. But I'm loving the silver lining of Tesla's plunge and a possible US recession. Then I think of all the people that this will really hurt and my schadenfreude turns more to anger and sadness.

Bostonerimus1

FIREDreamer said:

Cobbler_tone said:

I’m sure Elon will be OK 

If he switches to ITV maybe 😂😂😂

That's a good one!

pterri

The guy whose entire pension is in ITV shares will be along in a minute to say he’s cashed out and bought Tesla 

Hoenir

Bobziz said:

Any tips on catching a falling knife 😬

Don't even try. The impact beneath the surface on the real economy will take at least 18 months to play out. Noise creates no end of second guessing. Hard financial facts a lot lot longer. 

Some US companies were already stockpiling from last July onwards. Seems that they weren't going to risk disruption to their trade should Trump come to power. 

Juno_Moneta

pterri said:

The guy whose entire pension is in ITV shares will be along in a minute to say he’s cashed out and bought Tesla 

No chance - the Tesla PE Ratio is ridiculous. Not an investment. 

Roger175

Comments such as 'I'm down 8%', are pretty meaningless. At the point of writing this, the S&P500 is still up 9.7% on a year, the FTSE all-world index up 8.3% on year and the FTSE100 up 11.38% on year.

The way I tend to look at this, is to say to myself, "Oh well!, I'm back to where I was last December" (or whatever).

That having been said, having recently retired and happy with my total, I de-risked my exposure to the US markets in recent months and put about £150k into STMM funds just for this very reason. Overall, long term, I'll probably not be any better off, but I like to sleep easy. I will almost certainly take a punt and start buying back in at some point, but we've only seen a very modest drop so far, I'm thinking more like 25%, but we'll see.