I don’t have much money in the game compared to some of the guys on this sub but I had about $17,000 invested in companies like Microsoft, apple, enbridge, S&P500, Intel, and Nvidia. The day before trump was supposed to put out his tariffs I decided the market wasn’t exactly growing enough for me to justify holding as I was losing more on my gains than gaining if that makes sense. I sold on a whim thinking maybe I’ll buy back in when the market is more stable but man did I make the right call I can’t believe what I’m seeing before my eyes in real time. Since I’ve sold I’ve seen a year of progress be whipped out from the market it’s unbelievable.

Just wondering what everyone else’s thoughts are on the whole situation and if anyone else is mass selling.

Well, let’s say you had a few billion bucks kicking around. Billions. But, it’s not enough. It’s never enough.

And let’s say you were in a position to manipulate world events such that you could force massive shocks to the economy. Shocks that history, and a couple dozen Nobel prize winning economists, all made clear would tank the market.

So let’s say you quietly liquidated a significant amount of assets to take a cash position. If the market tanked, your cash is solid but at the bottom of the market you can get back in and buy at massive discounts. But of course, how would you know where bottom is?

One possibility would be if you had the power to reverse the actions that caused all the market turmoil so things stabilize. For example, if you could end a trade war initiated by tariffs based on a “formula” that was just false.

So you start a trade war that tanks the market, just like everyone said it would. You watch it go it way down, and then when it’s really bad and you’re ready to jump back in to take advantage of it, you suddenly “make deals” with other countries to resolve the alleged “unfairness”, and then you lift the tariffs

The market stabilizes, you declare victory, and jump back in at bottom to buy at discounts and make billions more.

Not that it could happen in real life. Really just a stones throw from a completely unhinged conspiracy theory. It could never happen in real life…..

—• “You can't argue with your grandfather.”

I give up because it’s hopeless. I am going to countdown to the new president. Just 1386 left…

Stocks go down?

Pls bring the bull back :(

Say thank you.

His love for Russia and Putin, his desire to end free markets and trade and his goal of raising taxes higher than anyone in our lifetime. Long live the Republic of America!!!

Do you think jobs will come back to the US ( now ROA). It took decades of gutting trades, unions, electrical infrastructure… we are not capable. They don’t have a clue of how much retraining and hard infrastructure that needs to be built. If they did they would have phased in the tariffs over 5 to 7 years.

We didn’t know how good we had it

Isn't that interesting

That one-liner says everything we all already expected. He’s not walking anything back (at least not anytime soon), and escalation is the stance. Over the weekend, I’m watching for formal retaliation headlines from Asia (China already responded), the EU, India, and other countries. Any of them firing back moves 1 step closer to a long-term recession. I’m also tracking SOXL and SOXQ (and their inverse LEFTs) closely, semis are now the eye of the storm. Yield curve shifts and Treasury volatility could signal institutional positioning. And Jerome Powell speaking today did not help calm nerves at all. That likely means that he's letting this volatility run its course. Monday will most likely open up as it did today and yesterday.