r/stocks • u/2PhotoKaz • 2d ago

Broad market news Market getting smashed, where is cash going?

Clearly a massive sell off is happening, are traders (big and small) just sitting on cash once they sell? Gold, the bastion of safe heavens, is also getting hit.

Bonds? Simple interest? Are any sectors up in this mess?

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u/Minute-Plantain 2d ago

Cash is going back into money market accounts. That's where my money went two months ago when Bozo announced the first tariff.

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u/drjd2020 2d ago

Mine went into SPY puts... and they called me crazy!

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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld 2d ago

On-rrp been rising lately

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u/rcbjfdhjjhfd 2d ago

Same. Put half my 401k in VMFXX. Then my entire Roth IRA into TSDD. The Roth is much smaller, unfortunately, but they still nearly offset each other.

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u/astroamaze 2d ago

When are you guys planning on buying back in?

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u/Minute-Plantain 2d ago

I'm not going to toot my own horn, but I called this months ago in this forum and kind of got sh-t on for it. But I took my money out, and I'm glad I did. Because you asked, I'm going to use this opportunity to restate what I said back then: This is different than every other time since before.

What's different about it? I think the way much of us have been conditioned -- culturally -- is this infallible faith in the self-correcting properties of "The market".

What is not expressed enough -- in classrooms, in b schools, in all the places that matter, is that a market is just an expression of the laws and treaties that create it.

Why is this time different? The legal framework that makes US markets predictable and safe has been stripped of its gears. To wit:

  • Regulatory agencies are being gutted
  • The social safety net of paid-in entitlements is being threatened
  • Trade treaties, signed on by both governments in an international framework of agreements, are being violated.
  • Our critical supply chain is being hamstrung by illogically high tariffs.
  • Our own president said that he's deliberately trying to tank the markets. That's a quote.

To answer your question...f---ing never. At least for what counts for 'never' in the near to immediate term. I'm already looking for alternate asset classes, just to keep my money growing above 3% annually. Right now it's doing that and I just "beat the market" with the one neat trick of not being in the market.

Ask me again in 2026.

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u/Afraid-Match5311 2d ago

Succinctly put. I'm just gonna start copying and pasting this when I gotta make a point because it's been difficult trying to make it.

This is unprecedented. A first for humanity. The implications here are very serious and involve our lives never being the same again.

Americans aren't ready for that, I get it, but we got so bored with being great that we just "Salem witch trial'd" ourselves.

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u/rfpemp 2d ago

On the date that market hits bottom, duh!!!!

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u/sociallyawkwaad 2d ago

Yup! So excited for the summer clearance sale on basically all assets!