Stock market

[Enslow]

When you have an economy that thrives and survives on debt, raising interest rates causes a ruckus.

 

[tikkalover]

Feds took interest rates down today

 

[guywhofishes]

Are bonds going to $hit the bed in synchronicity again?

Like the last time BOTH crashed together and made the balanced portfolio's promise of stability a great big pile of steaming bad advice.

 

[Pheasant 54]

So tomorrow they will be calling for immediate rate reduction to stabilize the Dow. I dont think Powell will cave . It was a sad day when instead of main street running wall street, it went the other way .

 

[Traxion]

Reality is setting in. Bogus economy buoyed by stimulus and money printing. Anyone calling for stabilization needs to get out of the mindset of never ending gains and reset to reality. Some people think they can only make money in the markets based on the last 15 years.

 

[Up Y'oars]

We, as the miniature investor can’t make much for investments unless the big guys are in agreement. It only takes 4-5 giants to manipulate the market in a swing one way or another. When you see volatility one way or the other it’s not the normal investment broker making changes for 3,000 client accounts. Nor is it the guys in North Dakota adding to their size of ETF, or making one smaller. Fear runs rampant and these swings are mainly quick reactions to any tidbit of news.

It used to be the DOW didn’t fluctuate more than 5-10pts in a given week/month. Song comes day trading and open access no-fee brokerage accounts and the swings are wild in both directions.

All three exchanges are on a voracious run the past seven months. As I play with free money I continually come to a conclusion to begin weening the number of tickers or total dollars and yet I cannot get the ROI in a number of companies because of goods/bad news. The stupidity of so many CEO’s makes for a scary market: Boeing, Anheiser-Busch, Intel, Starbucks, Disney, Goodyear, Nike, etc make for bad investments or difficult impacts of decent gains.

 

[Fester]

We, as the miniature investor can’t make much for investments unless the big guys are in agreement. It only takes 4-5 giants to manipulate the market in a swing one way or another. When you see volatility one way or the other it’s not the normal investment broker making changes for 3,000 client accounts. Nor is it the guys in North Dakota adding to their size of ETF, or making one smaller. Fear runs rampant and these swings are mainly quick reactions to any tidbit of news.

It used to be the DOW didn’t fluctuate more than 5-10pts in a given week/month. Song comes day trading and open access no-fee brokerage accounts and the swings are wild in both directions.

All three exchanges are on a voracious run the past seven months. As I play with free money I continually come to a conclusion to begin weening the number of tickers or total dollars and yet I cannot get the ROI in a number of companies because of goods/bad news. The stupidity of so many CEO’s makes for a scary market: Boeing, Anheiser-Busch, Intel, Starbucks, Disney, Goodyear, Nike, etc make for bad investments or difficult impacts of decent gains.

Your last point is spot on...and it seems there are more dumb ones then smart ones...

 

[Sum1]

Invest in the mag seven and be done with it. About five years ago I started dabbling in stocks and lost a lot of money listening to YouTubers and “the next big stock” shows. I started doing a little reading and research of my own. It’s worth taking a look at the mag seven. They account for a large portion of the gains that the S&P sees. Pretty much all their charts are a steady increase in price. They just keep gobbling up smaller companies. They’re pretty much all big tech and heavy in AI. I lost a little under 50% of my portfolio over the years and made it all back in a year doing this. I went a little heavier in the ones that were in obvious dips and just kind evenly dispersed the rest into the others. I also went fairly heavy into Palantir which made a huge difference

 

[Sum1]

Palantir is not in the mag seven to be clear. But is an AI company

 

[Trip McNeely]

DJT and RUM- thank me later