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Wtf is going on
They are literally pumping and dumping the stock market as a whole. It's market manipulation by tariff as they make bank on peoples fear.
announce tariffs > market uncertainty > sell off stocks > value goes down > buy the dip > pause tariffs > markets recover > laugh all the way to the bank
or something like that
That, plus you can short stocks without even holding any
Not to speak of options. With how high volatility got, writing puts must have made bank, and, despite that high volatility, buying calls must have too.
Simply buying VIX will work too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
This isn't really Pump and Dump though, it's more like "Dip and Rip"
Began it has, the war on greed.
Two rules. Only buy. No sell.
That's what I did. I rebalanced my stock allocation from 50% to 80% and put a few thousand more in the market.
General known info would be that lump sum beats DCA 2 out of 3 times. Well, we're after a crash. So I just am pumping everything into it.
Into European stock tho, not touching crazy.
But for anyone reading this: keep an emergency buffer of 6 months on your savings account. Your choice if that's 6 months expenses or 6 months income.
If you get fired, you have unemployment benefits, if you get sick you get sick pay.
We have the ability to seek a bit more risk in our private lives.
I hedge my bets and do both. I deposit a regular amount regardless of what happens but will throw in a bit extra when it's clear there is a dip. I prefer the international ETFs also. Can't go wrong being more diversified.
Double recommend the emergency fund. I have 6 months income but with the current volatility and that fact that I live in this American shit hole, I may want to start contributing more to it to get 9 months at least. But since I have 6 months already I'm fine with not missing this opportunity to buy the dip.
I only wish I had waited a week to make my yearly IRA contribution. I generally do a lump sum for that since I just max out the contribution for the year with my bonus mainly because it's easier to keep track of. This event makes me want to rethink that strategy since I missed the dip on that by a week. It probably doesn't matter that much though since I can't touch my IRAs for around 30 years anywho.
The DCA method. They say time in the market beats trying to time to market.
But in these times, it's obviously those with money outside of the market that have the biggest gains.
COVID had a one month crash. Then here in Europe we had the energy crisis bear phase.
But between the financial crisis and COVID it went relatively smoothly.
Future can't be predicted. DCA or building up a lump sum for a bear phase. No idea which of the two is the best option.
The latter is probably the safest one.
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These swings are good opportunities to harvest losses if they cause any and you can move into something else that's similar.
Like from a Blackrock 80/20 fund to a fidelity 80/20 fund or whatever it would be.
Minimal risk but you can still realize a loss.
I was going to do that until he of course undid it today. My timing was off unfortunately.
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Chaos. And it's intentional. It makes the US vulnerable.
Oh stop that. He knows exactly what he's doing. It's a reverse pump and dump to make insiders more money, while also destabilizing the global economy to help Russia.
I wonder if all this is just a distraction for something else... no idea what though.
Thanks for the explanation.
It doesn't much matter whether he has a plan to destroy the USA or whether he is a dumbass being manipulated by others with a plan to destroy the USA, or whether the manipulation is mainly based in blackmail or narcissistic pride. The overall result is the same.
This person gets it
At this point, I am convinced it's a pump and dump scheme, still ongoing, too. It only takes a few people in the know of when and where the news break about the tariff supsension, to seriously make a killing on the market, on the backs of others. Trumpists can now also (for a while) feel like their God has saved them again and never steered them wrong, or curse their momemts of doubt, when they did not buy yesterday, as their prophet called for.
It is a mixture of incompetence, impulsivity, but I am certain at this point, a huge chunk of it is outright corruption and cult tactics.
I honestly believe it is intentional as well. The 90 pause that went around social media the other day wasn't a mistake it was a leak.
They'd be stupid to not be financially gaining from their intentional manipulation. We hired an entire administration of grifters, what else should we expect?
Any bets that it will take less than 90 days before we get the next tariff circus?
You say that like the first one isn't still happening.
2+ million shares of SPY were traded in 3-4 minutes an hour before it broke. Had been pretty much flat since opening for the day. It's fucking blatant.
A psychopathic criminal regime has taken over the US.
And by and large the electorate is fine with it
They're openly doing insider trading
Ineptitude.
Government by a delusional malignant idiot clown.
An entire administration of delusional malignant idiot clowns in fact...
He's a demented rapist who should be nowhere near government.
End stage capitalism
Trump told his friends to short their stocks, announced tarifs to crash the economy, they all made tons of money.
Had everyone buy low, announced pause on tarifs, made tons of money again.
I really hope its that way, and not just trump being batshit crazy and having no idea or plan what to do.
I guess the strategy of USA is based on D20 dices. That would be my best guess.
I think we all know Trump can’t use a dice any larger than a D6 without severe confusion. Hell, might have to scale that back to a coin flip.
South Park already explained how the US government determines economic policy...
https://youtu.be/dvYvQeNeq3A
They wanted to extort other countries but they are too stupid to execute something like this. They used ChatGPT and fake experts to come up with this 'plan' and it failed. Now they are bailing. In couple of days they will start droning Mexico or Israel will start another ground invasion somewhere to cover this fuckup with another one.
Pure idiotic fuckery is what's going on and the idea of a market rebound is hilarious to me because even without global tariffs there are plenty of other things he can do and IS doing to create instability in the USA. He's gotta go, the sooner the better.
Tariffed countries slapped the woke out of trump and his woke tariffs.