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Set and forget. I’ve seen every market correction since Black Monday in 1987. Be strong and stay the path.
Now that I’ve retired, I keep 2 to 3 years in cash (high interest savings) so I can let the rest ride through any dips.
Agree. Set your asset allocation based on your risk tolerance and stick with it.
Never trade even if you hate the economy or love the economy. Losing what you’ve built over the last few years is a possibility. So is losing out on the biggest gains in your investment horizon. Both are very possible and you have no idea which will happen.
Mentor
Zoom out. You’re up on the whole. All “corrections” in the past 5 years have recovered in 90 days or less.
Is there a chance of a bigger correction? Sure. But if you don’t need the money now, then just keep buying on your regular cadence and enjoy the increased “value”
Steady as she goes unless your horizon is more short term on needing the assets. Also worth tempering expectations on future growth if most of your investing experience has been post COVID. With a fairly vanilla strategy I’m at something like 22% annualized returns on ver the last 5 years. Not at all how I model things in the future.
Stay the course, unless you have any reason to access the money in the next few years (less than five, maybe even less?) for a big purchase
I would pivot into energy and commodities a bit if I were managing my own. I’m not, so I trust my experts
A good course… you’ll have several heart wrenching drops through an investing lifetime. I know I surely have and I’ve always come roaring back. The GWB years were sideways for almost a decade, but that too came to an end
Depends on your timeline. What’s your horizon?
Subject Expert
Your stock portfolio could easily go down a lot and there's no way to avoid that risk other than ceasing to invest in stocks.
Two ways to ameliorate it partially are:
1) Diversify your stocks by using total market index funds and including international stocks.
2) Choose an asset allocation suitable for you, which might not be 100% stocks and might includ bonds.
Subject Expert
Yes. An asset allocation should be kept on target by rebalancing.