Stock markets are too high and set to fall?

Alistair31

yeah, she’s nuts!

mills112

i have been saying this for the last year but it just kept on climbing and climbing until the Iran war!

masonic

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81977228#Comment_81977228

Don't worry, there have been people saying it of the USA in particular for close to 15 years. Admittedly there have been a couple of blips in that time, but nothing that has had a lasting effect.

GDB2222

The 1972/73 stock market crash was triggered by an oil price shock. That also began with a war in the ME.

vacheron

@masonic Also what people forget is that approximately 35% of all months since the S&P 500 was launched in 1957 have included a point where the index reached an all-time high.

It’s a little like saying “I’m not going to buy cheese because prices are at an all-time high.”

While this may technically be true, that doesn’t provide any certainty that it’s going to get cheaper in the future.

Cover the right side of the graph below at any date and ask yourself if you would have invested then, And look at what you would have missed out on.

michael1234

You mean cover the right side?

HedgehogRulez

Duck and cover imo

vacheron

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81977404#Comment_81977404

quite right. Corrected 👍

aroominyork

But we shouldn't ignore that the 70s and the noughties were lost decades for investors.

InvesterJones

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81977521#Comment_81977521

Global equities investors ;) Commodities did rather well.