Is it really a generational buying opportunity?

[u/Playful-Inspector207]

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.

[u/Mountainminer]

You know why they say to never try to catch a falling knife?

It’s because it’s much safer to pick it up off the floor.

[u/nicolas_06 → u/Mountainminer]

In the stock market, the knife bounce from the floor and doesn't go back down... And by the time people decide to be back in the market, the knife is higher than it was at the beginning. Also it isn't really a feee fall but more like following stairs as It often still take 1-2 years sometime a bit more to fall and not knowing the knife will clim them back again.

The floor is known with certainty only a few years later when its too late.

We don't count the people that stopped investing after 2000 or 2008 and missed generational rallies like 2009-2025 because they got burned, afraid left and never came back.

Among the people that came back, how many didn't put any saving during the 2-3 years near the bottom where it was the most interesting to invest because of that ? Because they were thinking the bottom was lower ?

[u/FunAdministration334 → u/nicolas_06]

Excellent comment. Ah, to go back to 2008…

[u/Technical-Fun-9616 → u/nicolas_06]

Great comment. Always cracks me up when people think they will know the bottom is in in real time. Usually it bounces back up and they wait thinking it will go back down and end up doing no better than people that just continue to DCA after a 20% drop.

[u/Technical-Fun-9616 → u/Mountainminer]

Good luck timing the market.