With bellwether stock, Berkshire Hathaway, down about 4%, just taking a quick poll of how yāall handling it! Stay frosty!
- Yeehaw, Iām buying the dips!
- Fasten the seatbelt, Iām in it for long run!
- Bricking it! Iām selling!
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Iām hopeful that some really good buying opportunities present themselves in the next couple of monthsā¦
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I thought I was buying the dips but turns out the dip keeps on dipping 
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Iāve got 3 ETFās tracking the World (yeah baby) so for me this is all part of the beauty of pound-cost-averaging. 10 years from now Rodney ā¦
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Iām slightly concerned about the timing of freetradeās launch, as it feels like we are due a crash after a long bull run with the global economy in a fragile state, which is unfortunate if it happens just after a lot of people try investing for the first time. I do feel freetrade donāt give you the tools yet to focus on long term performance and forget about daily/weekly/monthly variance. So I hope this doesnāt cause a lot of people to give up on investing.
Investments go up and down all the time, often in dramatic ways (up to 30% swings in a month are not uncommon even in solid stocks). The worst possible reaction to investments going down is to sell. You can in theory stop more losses by selling quickly, but this is not a good strategy when driven by emotion and is not IMO a good strategy for most investors. The thing I tell myself when solid investments go down is that they will inevitably rise again (often in a matter of months, but sometimes years).
If anyone is worried about a crash a good option is to keep putting some money aside into cash at the moment. This gives you a balanced portfolio and gives you a cash reserve so that you have the option to buy. Rothschildās infamous advice was:
Buy when thereās blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.
There are two interesting things about this statement for me - it disregards emotion to a degree most people find difficult, and the focus is on when to buy, not when to sell.
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It does feel like we are due a crash, although people have been saying that for 4 years now. Personally Iām heavier cash than I would normally be. Hopefully a good buying opportunity opens soon 
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Iām not convinced we are due a crash, I think we will be due a crash when people stop saying we are due a crashā¦
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Ouch, market is hurting today
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Im sure things are better today. Iāll just open the app
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Well, this is a baptism of fire for us newbies! Or is it a reality check? As Fergy used to say, āItās squeaky bum timeā. Iāve invested peanuts compared to some, how they keep calm during a free fall goodness knows.
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Iām keeping in mind all those graphs showing how over x amount of time itās always worked out fine. No intention of selling, itāll be fine in the end
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This should be seen as an opportunity to look for companies that have withstood the test of times.
- Cigarettes and Alcohols
- Healthcare
- Food and Beverage/Consumer Staples
- Utilities (Electricity and Water)
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Markets go up, markets go down. The beauty of Freetrade is you can stick a tenner in and get full exposure for your cash.
*** always helpful invest only what you can afford to lock away for a long time.
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Having held (hodl-ed 
) through a 70% fall in bitcoin Iām pretty immune from these tiny stock-market corrections. You need to have a strategy and stick to it, for me Iām doing this to hopefully retire, or at least not need to work, at some time in my 50s, So Iāve got 15-25 years left to go. It seems likely there will be at least one severe crash in that time, but I just think of it as an opportunity to buy at a discount.
If you accept that time in the market beats timing the market then it shouldnāt bother you either. Thereās a good article here on the subject with a fun game embedded in it:
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Absolutely, but to add to this itās beneficial to seek to understand what makes them move.
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In no particular order: Panic, over-leveraged positions and herd-mentality, usually.
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For me I have invested in some dubious companies in my time, hoping to see big gains. When the price swings itās scary as hell and I find myself always checking price and panic selling.
But when I invest in markets, e.g. I am currently invested in ftse and global (mostly USA), and the price swings I feel relaxed and happy to put more in, why? because I feel my money is in decent stocks and so the drops are opportunities to top up.
Also I make sure I have some cash savings to weather out the storm.
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Thatās a good strategy if I may say so. Iām also invested in global markets e.g. MSCI World 
and am very comfortable doing so. I just think research provides the context for gains and losses which is invaluable to hold your nerve. Iāve seen on other forums how some new investors are perplexed as to why their assets are down and it only takes a few clicks in the news to understand fundamentally why.
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