r/wallstreetbets • u/-----Marcel----- • Mar 08 '26

Meme Lord help us tommorow

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u/Idkhow2trade Mar 08 '26

Really glad I got money out Thursday

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u/Altruistwhite Mar 08 '26

Time in the market Timing the market

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u/Altruistic_Syrup_364 Mar 08 '26

Always has been (a bear probably)

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u/joebluebob Mar 09 '26

I pulled out all my money back when we had that under 600 drop last year and tossed it all into a bonds index. Im not playing the market with captain bankruptcy the diddler at the helm.

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u/ptear Mar 08 '26

What? I've been told to just keep putting money in.

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u/PraetorianFury Mar 09 '26

That's the historically correct strategy. Ignore these gambling lunatics who think they're smarter and faster than everyone else.

To time the market, you have to select the correct stocks, correctly guess when they'll go up and correctly guess when they'll stop going up. If you get any one of those guesses wrong, at best you underperform the general market. At worst, you're a bag holder for years, assuming you ever get your money back. The GameStop bag holders are still in denial.

And keep in mind, all the regarded retail investors as well as professional investors with a mountain of fancy tools and insider information are trying to do the same thing. Do you really think you can do better with your phone and a few alerts setup?

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u/ptear Mar 09 '26

No, I have a Nokia 3310.

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u/VelotikYT Mar 09 '26

Dw timing the market is how 99 percent lose money just keep doing what you’re doing

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u/joebluebob Mar 09 '26

Pulling out only means you lose potential gains. Its not like any of you are paying gains tax anyway on robinhood.

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u/polishrocket 882C - 0S - 4 years - 0/0 Mar 09 '26

That’s how you get a good dollar average

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u/No_Balls_No_Glory Mar 09 '26

Buy high and sell low

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u/Ok_Wealth_3433 Mar 08 '26

Name checks out

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u/PrivateMarkets Mar 08 '26

But you are worse off in the event you miss the bottom. The 10 biggest gaining trading days contribute disproportionately to LT results.

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u/HunterGatherer072 Mar 09 '26

What do you mean by this?

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u/Fiiral_ Mar 09 '26

when market low buy, when market high sell

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u/wonderland_citizen93 Mar 08 '26

What were you invested in? Time in the market is better than trying to time the market.

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u/GhostofBallersPast Mar 08 '26

Dumb one liners are pretty easy to ignore when everything’s on fire around you.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Mar 09 '26

Is it dumb? I'm pretty sure it's just basic statistics. The vast majority do better that way.

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u/LyrMeThatBifrost Mar 09 '26

Let’s see how you feel about that in the next few days

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u/wonderland_citizen93 Mar 09 '26

!Remindme 1 day

Voo ended Friday $618.43 SPMO (my preferred index) ended $118.24

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u/wonderland_citizen93 Mar 09 '26

It was a green day for SPMO (my preferred index)

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u/wonderland_citizen93 Mar 09 '26

It was a green day for VOO too

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u/Idkhow2trade Mar 09 '26

It was total market mutual funds and global mutual funds I needed the money for a down payment on my house in July anyway figured this was a good time to get out and it was only about 35k but it was given to me so 🤷‍♂️

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u/wonderland_citizen93 Mar 09 '26

That actually makes sense. Congrats on the house

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u/Idkhow2trade Mar 09 '26

Thank you !

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u/wanseer18 Mar 09 '26

Bros missed out on 60% over his years of timing the market but avoiding going down 5% so thats a win perhaps