Anyone concerned with the dip in the market now? Both brokerage and 401k has taken hit. What are different things you folks are doing??

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Holding and buying as always. Why be worried if you're investing for the long run? Isn't a sale exactly what you want?

If you're concerned, you may have invested more than you can afford to lose. Or you need to stop looking at the charts everyday.

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Are you 63? If not, don’t worry about it.

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Buy buy buy

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No I am not worried. I will just keep buying when I have money just like did in 2000 and 2008. So far this is not even remotely close to that.

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I’m not retiring for 30+ years (mid-20s), so I’m not concerned at all. I am down quite a bit though

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“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful — Buffett

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I plowed into tech today and loving it

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Why does everyone have to do something? Do nothing…

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I’m not even down that much. Seems like many in this bowl were overweighting tech based on past returns.

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Why you pay my partners a million bucks*

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Thanks everyone….not retiring soon.. just wanted thoughts of others

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I rebalanced my portfolio to 40% cash, 30 % bond, 10% total market, 10% emerging market (China), 10% Global ( Europe) beginning of the month, boy oh boy, So Glad that I did that. Will wait the tumultuous market to stabilize before rebalancing to 100% stock again

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Yes. I’m heavy in tech and growth, so I am concerned. This has definitely delayed my retirement: :(

I’ll be the contrarian. While I agree, don’t sell in a dip, your asset allocation is likely not appropriate for your risk tolerance. Everyone has a different risk tolerance and none are wrong. What is harmful is taking on too much risk for your tolerance and then selling low because you’re scared. Having a mix of only the current hot performing sectors (tech in your case) is not optimal. Diversify and have other areas. If you have little interest, look into VT or a combination of VTI, VXUS and BND. Then you’ll be diversified, it might give up some gains when tech is over performing, but you’ll be better positioned when the market moves.

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All markets are bull markets over a sufficient time period

No changes from me

Same asset allocation (100% equity split over US index, Intl index, Small cap value, and REIT). Plus my cash + emergency funds.

I'm doing what I honestly shouldn't be and that's buying more (I'm sort of saving for a down payment). The condition in the market is making it very hard to not take advantage of all these deals on certain equities that are almost never discounted.

I wanted to buy avis @$8

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