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Predictions on next market crash?
Something tells me as soon as the last COVID-19 checks go out, the market will take a dive. We're at an almost all time high and I'm thinking about moving the 401k into bonds until it corrects and push it back into a few tech oriented mutual funds when it starts to rebound. Dumb? Don't ever try and time the market and just let it ride if it crashes and wait the 2-6 years it will take to recover?
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I myself would be wary of going into bonds. If rates tick up at all, they will get crushed. Then again, that has been the conventional warning for years and it hasn't happened.
But, all that said, I also have FOMO of more market gains.
Nothing is dumb because nobody knows wtf is going to happen. The other scenario is that COVID is resolved and there is a period of real economic activity and growth as people flee out of their homes to start living again. The confidence will be amazing, especially when/if employment numbers match the euphoria.
I wish I could tell you anything with confidence, but I got nothin'.
Income is good and will only get better.
Problem for me is that I don't really want to stay put anywhere
The Fed has learned hiking rates crushes rallies (see late 90's and 2007) and even a taper tantrum (2013) causes a selloffs now. What is the Fed to do?
The yield curve is steepening so keep that in mind: https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/treasury-curve-steepens-toward-level-last-seen-around-2016-vote
If you are worried about a sell-off, take a little off your high-growth winners and roll it into low beta equities with a reasonable P/E and yield at 2%+. You could do a lot worse than NEM and GOLD with the stimulus on the horizon.
What really kills me is that no matter how good I had made it I would have gone out of business anyway due to the vid.
So I found out what I really loved and have gone ham on that ever since. I got really lucky and got a good job and it's pretty cool.
Its just so weird to think all the heartache and worrying was for nothing lol
No matter how good I did I would have failed.
I feel like a bit of a chump
But what's weird is like I can talk more legit to my owners and when they make dumb mistakes I have no prob being like bro. Don't do this. I did this.
He's a cheap bastard but I understand that. it's very different when it's your pocket.
As soon as they start drawing down their balance sheet watch out unless the real economy is magically booming again.
Good on both of you for having what it takes get back up and start over. If there is only one good thing about the USA, and there's more, but if there were only one, it would be that you can do what you both did here. You're never really out of it unless you want to be.
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Reserve Primary Fund, How It Broke the Buck Causing a Money Market Run
Where Were You the Day the U.S. Economy Nearly Collapsed?
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BY KIMBERLY AMADEO Updated September 10, 2020
On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, the $62.6 billion Reserve Primary Fund "broke the buck." That meant the fund managers couldn't maintain its share price at the $1 value.1 Money market funds used that value as a benchmark.
https://www.thebalance.com/reserve-primary-fund-3305671
I was literally on the phone with a client who ran a $2-3 BB institutional MM fund (not this one) at the exact moment the market broke. Mid sentence, the guy was trying to liquidate prime paper to close out the day. NO bids.
It’s really a shame I’m such a shitty writer as I wish I could capture his panic as he just sort of started mumbling about the impact this was going to have on his job, his life, his wife, it was surreal.
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There is a bull run brewing for many alt coins. I am reading on reddit people moving their entire IRA's to GBTC (NYSE).
AAVE - a penny a year ago, today trading at $538 a coin. This is just one example, but people are buying coins in the penny range and making a killing with a coin trading at a dollar.
The returns with coins are through the roof and there is extensive institutional buying of Bitcoin. Big banks have crypto projects in place.
The stock market feels like a steam engine in comparison.
Buffet trashed Bitcoin a few years ago, now he is silent as it now sits above 30k on average.
Gold outflows are in the billions moving to bitcoin.
I will be more careful next tim.