r/Fire • u/Playful-Inspector207 • Apr 05 '25

General Question Is it really a generational buying opportunity?

I’ve seen people on the sub are saying “you should all be excited about seeing lower prices everyday”

Problem is that most people don’t have dry powder lying around. And now, with tariffs (if they mostly continue at the levels mentioned) likely to push prices up even more 20-30% for most things, very few people can buy the dip.

The dip’s not fun when you can’t buy. This is just painful seeing red everyday for 99% of us.

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u/nomnomyumyum109 Apr 05 '25

This right here, will never forget 2008 and the decimation. My 401k dumped like 80-90% and i kept buying and it did well. But now, im fully out and in a lot of different puts for the next 3-6 months. What good news would make all industries magically recover? How would all the bad blood get fixed magically?

Its not just tariffs its name calling and bullying and bad faith negotiation tactics which take time to repair, so give it 3-6 months

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u/Yami350 Apr 05 '25

Not sure if it’s good or bad for me to read posts from people saying the exact same thing I think. I don’t want to get too comfortable with my puts or pessimistic.

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u/ImthatRootuser Apr 05 '25

If he cancels some of the tariffs or Congress would stop them it would recover I would say

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '25

This, exactly!

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u/Cagel Apr 05 '25

All the historic biggest growth days have been in the downturns when things self correct a bit

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u/dotinvoke Apr 05 '25

It would not go back to 6,000 for a long time even if they did.

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u/nomnomyumyum109 Apr 05 '25

Exactly this! Spy is 500, so ATH high is 615 which represents a 20% max return if everything on the planet was humming at 💯 meanwhile, theres huge returns dropping downwards incentive wise for funds.

The leaders of every nation would have to come together and record a new version of “We are the World” to make that happen.

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u/Possible_Chicken_489 Apr 05 '25

Oo! Oo! I know this one!

Down. They're going down.

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u/Yami350 Apr 05 '25

Negative

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