r/investing • u/waitbutwhycc • 2d ago

Most Predictable Drop of All Time

I posted here right after the first crash in February “Don’t buy the dip, this is more 1929 vibes than 2001.” In response I got almost 100 replies telling me not to time the market, before it got removed by mods for being a “question” (it was not).

Literally all Trump is doing is exactly what he promised on the campaign. And virtually every economist knew it would cause a recession. Even after the crash yesterday he doubled down, saying he might add tariffs on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals too. He is simply trying to remove us from global markets, and it’s working!

Buy the dip once people start actually pushing back against Trump - no real reason to buy before that point.

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u/blorg 1d ago

FTSE All World I'm seeing ATH 18 Feb 583.40 and it's now 504.70. That's a drop of 13.5%.

VT (FTSE Global All Cap Index) 123.97 on 18 Feb, now 105.70, down 14.7%.

Either this is because you're looking at it in a currency other than USD, or you're looking at the inverse, it would need to gain more than this to get back to ATH. Like a drop of 50% needs an increase of 100% to get back to where it was.

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u/bulletinyoursocks 1d ago

Yes, looking at it in euro.

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u/blorg 1d ago

That would make sense, the dollar has dropped a lot against the euro since 18 Feb, so the value of a dollar denominated index has also dropped.