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So, start selling risky assets for bonds and wait for the crash to buy back in to stocks?
by NDlurker 2mo ago
So, start selling risky assets for bonds and wait for the crash to buy back in to stocks?
- CBLT 2mo agoIf you can actually time the market, sure. I cannot, so I don't pull money out of my stock indexes; I just send a larger fraction of my new investments into bonds.
- NDlurker 2mo agoThat's a smarter idea. I've tried timing the market in the past and have been very wrong.
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- lesuorac 2mo agoWho are you going to sell the bonds to? People only want cash during the crash so the value of everything goes down. It doesn't matter if you bond has a known 8% yield when held to maturity; the market can't hold it to maturity so its current value drops. Like go find 2008 in the graph of BND (Vanguard Bond ETF) vs SPY (SNP500) [1]. Let me know how you'd know when to sell your bonds for stocks. [1]: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/SPY:NYSEARCA?keymoments=false&comparison=BND%3ANASDAQ&type=line&window=MAX https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/SPY:NYSEARCA?keymo...