Back in September moved to 100% capital preservation in 401K

THE stock market has never been just one country...If wall street got nuked, the stock market would remain...

When the Dollar i$ revalued like they did the Mexican Peso back in 94', they did it overnight and next day Commerce continued as usual and everything doubled in price. I believe this is happening now to the US Dollar through inflation, I pulled my money last Dec. and payed the penalties (high), bought land with it and almost at a break even point now with the current real estate boom, I don't have an answer for a very complicated subject, but in 2008 I lost 40% in 401k value, I'm just not comfortable with cash and Investment Funds, scared actually, each his own, choose wisely and don't be desperate.

Thank God for 401-3 B and IRA's then...

The economy is rigged to benefit large corporations stealing productivity and gains from the participants. The markets are just selling that corruption.

If you're invested in the markets you've invested in the same thing that's strangling and killing the real economy where people work for a living.

You can tell who invests in bitcoin and lottery tickets.

I did research yesterday and came to the same conclusion. This is a great confirmation.

So if we buy some of the evil corporations, we get the benefit of their greed.

Interesting, isn't it?

You don't own your investments- check out ceded and company

Anything I can sell, by definition, I own it.

What about 2008 when it dropped 75%?

Thank you for the financial advice, Brief.

Not the right time. The time will come. Rushing will result in missing the gains made from the blow off top.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

My lead tipped projectiles are belong to me.

My iron implements of acceleration are belong to me.

I don’t understand your train of thought.

Retire early and retire often.

Invest in dirt it is to become very precious it’s not really being made anymore.

Did the same here just a couple days ago.

Lots of indicators lining up.

lots of people lost everything in 1929.

groucho marx never recovered, for example.

people who are on winning streaks, in a casino, think they
are bullet proof sometimes. don't say losing everything
is impossible.

LOL Did it? I didn't notice...I was too busy buying...

I will never steer you wrong...

I'm doing the opposite.

This market in the medium term is going parabolic.

We might dip first, sure.

But that is par for the course.

If you cannot pay rent, you do not belong in the market...Lets be very clear, you must have an income that exceeds your needs, if you don't then I recommend learning a valuable trade or skill...Wealth cannot be built from nothing...

Hockey stick graphs are unnatural, they look better when there's movement down as well as up...

Cede and company owns your investements

This thread is pretty instructive, when it comes to seeing a certain psychological mechanism in action.

Back in 1913, the Fed was created.

That was the beginning of the theft of the world. By securing the right to print money, the thieves could go on to simply "buy" the planet.

It was slow going at first, because the system, while fraudulent, still had some restraints built-in.

When Nixon killed the ability to exchange dollars for gold in 1971, most of the restraints were lifted, and the grand theft accelerated.

Ever since then, we have been living in a declining economy, simply because the thefts were so grand in scale even the most productive economies in the world could scarcely bear it.

And then in 2020, Trump lifted the remaining restraint, allowing the Fed to print unlimited amounts of money AND BUY DIRECTLY IN THE MARKETS, administered by Blackrock.

That was the killshot. The final executioner's blow to our economy and financial system.

After this, the theft accelerated exponentially. It is now in the last stages, where anything still in the hands of the people is about to be swallowed up by the relentless flood of fiat dollars.

But I was going to talk about psychology!

While all this was going on, a lot of normal people were benefiting from the fraudulent system and taking a small part of the ongoing plunder. And this was institutionalized for generations, and made into the "normal".

Ordinary people bought a house, then sold it at great profit later, and retired wealthy. The price appreciation was of course not because houses get worth more the older they get. All things naturally LOSE value!

But the relentless money printing made everything go up in value, while erasing debts. So those who borrowed to buy a house never actually paid for it. And then they sold it and made a profit.

This was simply part of the looting going on. The elites allowed ordinary people to take part of it and benefit a little, because it was necessary for them, so they could benefit a thousand times more.

The torrential rain of freshly printed wealth was showering the elites, and a little splashed on the middle class. The poor were the ones paying.

And the same was true with all forms of paper assets, and lately crypto currencies: they all go up up up, with no end in sight, for the sole reason so much new money is being printed into existence and used to buy up things of real value.

Here enters the psychology. The middle-class people who benefited from the elite's thieving scheme thought they were SMART and SAVVY when they did a passive "investment" in something and it went up afterwards.

They got an ego boost from it.

Brief is a good example. He was allowed to make a few dollars in the markets, as a minor side effect of the massive looting of the world perpetrated by the elites. And now he thinks he's a bigshot for it.

He is unwilling to part with this delusion. He thinks he is a super smart investor, and feels superior to the poor schmucks who don't have the "wisdom" to sprinkle their money randomly all over the market to see it grow. Sorry, I mean "make a diversified investment".

You got to know when to hodl, know when to fodl, know when to sodl, know when run...

yeah brief is right !!!!!

Thread: Here is why they are goign to start tracking transactions over 600.00: Corporate tax rate to be higher than China

Real estate. Gold , silver, Food , guns.

except you forgot apathy and complacency

So you are saying Brief is an elite wannabee?

An unwitting accomplice to Grand Theft Economy?

About to inherit a pile of cash so large that it can only buy a few loaves of bread?

I think what was meant was you can never catch the timing exactly, except by sheer luck... you will invariably be a little early or a little late. That doesn't mean you shouldn't observe trends and indicators, and adapt your strategy accordingly. If your strategy is just throwing money at the same investment vehicle every paycheck, blindly... you'll miss a lot of opportunities and suffer a lot of losses, than if you adopted a more observant and engaged approach.

Did you observe the Saudi-Russia military alliance? That undercuts the petrodollars as the world reserve currency.

Notice all the stimulus packages ending? As well as extended unemployment? When those dollars are gone, consumer spending and business volume will drop.

Is there going to be another wave of lockdowns? Go ask Australia.

Political upheaval, international tensions? "Signs point to yes".

These are all possible geo-political factors that one would be well-advised to turn a blind eye to, as well as historical economic indicators.

With automated computer trades, when a major shift in direction happens, it can happen fast. Are you faster than a Wall Street computer, or would you rather be safe, preserve gains now, and risk being a few days or weeks early? "You can't time the market" but you can make estimates based on caution and good judgment, and act accordingly.

Switzerland and Monaco do not get a free pass in World War 3.

Just saying.

Good defensive move since you’re concerned about things. But if you research past collapses, you’ll find that they are proceeded normally by a parabolic rise in the market. So market goes sky high (way more than now—manic buying) before it crashes and it may be wise to consider having more market exposure to catch some of that. Especially if we’re going to hyperinflation the market will stay strong relative to the dollar in the early phases.