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A good time to buy more!
by crorella 11y ago
A good time to buy more!
- pmalynin 11y agoTime to short everything!
- sama 11y agoOne of those two things.
- big_co 11y agoThe former.
- static_noise 11y agoOne of them will be a rich master trader.
- smegel 11y agoThe other will have his hand cut by a falling knife. Oops, did I just take sides?
- UK-AL 11y agoOver a long enough timeline, the stocks will probably recover. Buying stocks will probably lose short term. Probably gain long term. Over a long enough timeline shares have always gained.
- rihegher 11y ago"Over a long enough timeout shares have always gained" Not so sure if you take inflation and Survival bias into consideration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_finance_and_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_finance_a...
- jeffreyrogers 11y ago> Over a long enough timeline shares have always gained. Except in Germany and Japan after WWII
- danieltillett 11y agoActually you would think this would be true, but because of the cost of holding a position you can lose money if the market stays flat (not likely given the current VIX).
- seekingcharlie 11y agoIt depends on your timeline.
- danieltillett 11y agoDoesn’t everything :) Volatility can make even a bad decision right if you can wait, but a flat market will turn all trades bad.
- eru 11y ago> Volatility can make even a bad decision right if you can wait, but a flat market will turn all trades bad. Just write options..
- danieltillett 11y agoYes the old strategy of picking up pennies from in front of the steam roller. All goes well until you get attacked by a black swan :)
- eru 11y agoWrite options that are barely out of the money, buy options that are way out of the money. That'll limit the size of the pennies you pick up, but can also limit the size of the bulldozer.
- Marazan 11y agoDividends say otherwise.
- dnautics 11y ago"Also, I think the market crash is starting. Im making one last trade (altera) which should go up 10% and then I am shorting sales force." - Me, to my father, five days ago. The altera trade is not going well, so far... I may not have picked the right stock to ride the wave with.
- pjc50 11y agoWhat on earth made you think that Altera were going to be an exception here?
- MichaelApproved 11y agoI don't think OP meant it would be an exception. I think OP meant that he was going in for one more trade before the entire market goes down.
- trsohmers 11y agoIntel announced back in June that they were acquiring Altera for $54 a share, while the stock is currently at $48.17
- mcv 11y agoI recently decided to hold on to my stock (Netflix, Adobe and Philips) for a while, since advice was still mostly positive. I guess I should check how that's going. Edit: I did. Fuck. Though in all honesty, I don't see why a correction in China would seriously hurt the profits of Netflix. Maybe I should buy more.
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- jahnu 11y agoIf you are long stock and are worried or need the option to liquidate some stock then protect yourself with put options. If you are short stock and also fear major market moves then buy call options.
- lcswi 11y agoSomething with bitcoin!
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoGold!
- Tycho 11y agoIn 2000 this best trade was not to short stocks (too hard to time) but to go long safe haven assets (treasury bonds) for a much smoother ride. However this time around that might not work with the Fed wanting to raise rates(which would hurt bonds).
- Hermel 11y agoIt might exactly work because a rate raise is expected. That way, you can make a gain twice. First due to the flight into safe haven assets, and then again when the raise hike is postponed again and again. (Just a scenario. :) )
- idlewords 11y agoDo both and get guaranteed returns!
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoMy thought as well I have another £4k to go into my ISA (a type of tax free account) so debating hold back to buy on the drop.
- ctolsen 11y agoI've been buying in continuously before the drop, and will continue to do so after. That's the best way of negating some of the risk. You can't really know if things are going to go down further, or jump back up again soon.