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Uncertanty is the time for the best buying opportunities.
by rapsey 8y ago
Uncertanty is the time for the best buying opportunities.
- ChrisSD 8y agoSure, you can take a gamble and win. But you can also lose big. History shows that, lacking a crystal ball, you're more likely to lose than win. So there's an opportunity for some investors to win big but most of them will lose. And even the ones that win will likely lose out on their next gamble. Such is the way of unstable markets.
- Havoc 8y ago>History shows that, lacking a crystal ball, you're more likely to lose than win. Does it? My gut feel says 50/50
- ben_w 8y agoThere are generally more ways to lose than to win. Entropy is like that.
- rapsey 8y agoWell obviously it’s risky. History has also shown that uncertain times is when the largest fortunes have been made. My point was that calling uncertain times uninvestable is stupid. It is a different climate and for a certain type of investor it is a gold mine.
- ashelmire 8y ago> History shows that, lacking a crystal ball, you're more likely to lose than win. This is the opposite of what history shows. Markets have grown on average. Buy a varied assortment of assets, an index of British assets, you’ll do fine. Just don’t expect good quarters in the short term. You’ll be up a lot in 10 or 20 years.
- ChrisSD 8y agoYes if you average over the market you're likely to make money in the long term. Though note that in some cases long term can be on the order of two or more decades. Buying into a risky market right before a down turn will only increase the time for you to see a return on your investment. Meanwhile you could have been making a "steady" income in less uncertain markets. Or even invested in the world market as a whole.
- willyt 8y agoIt's interesting how many of the lead Brexiters have such strong connections to financial services. I do wonder sometimes if the whole thing is a play on the markets because I haven't seen any cogent explanation for why Brexit is a good idea yet. What exactly are they going to do with the things they have taken back control of that is better than how these things are currently run?
- andy_ppp 8y agoDisaster Capitalism: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/04/disaster-capitalism-tory-right-brexit-roll-back-state https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/04/disast...
- woodpanel 8y agoIt could be said though, that a lot of the leading Bremainers have strong connections to government jobs, no? What I'm saying is, if the Brexiter's dayjob has "corrupted" them, the same could be said about their opponents, no? I doubt that most British people in finance were Brexiters, but rather Bremainers. And so it's not the job that tainted them, but rather the job they chose suited their personal traits.
- ohnoesjmr 8y agoFor the funds that have relations with policits, I think it's mostly getting rid of regulations imposed by the EU.
- willyt 8y agoI'm not sure I understand, they are all paid an MP's salary which is something like £75k per year. So I'm not sure that their government jobs are all that valuable compared to the amount of money that could be made by gaming a whole economy. Unless you mean civil servants? There are some retired civil servants that have come out as anti Brexit but the civil service will need to expand post Brexit so I'm not sure what they would have to gain personally from taking this position? If anything, and in common with a lot of other middle class Londoners, they are probably afraid of the value of their houses and investments dropping.
- setquk 8y agoAlso the best time to sell crap at a cut rate to lose the liabilities.