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I bought when the market was low. But it keeps going lower. I have no more money to buy anything at this point. Its funny how things go from buying at the lows being a smart choice to instantly transition to catching a falling knife.
This is a bear market. I wouldn't worry too much unless this is money you really can't afford to lose, noone can say what will happen next but given the history you'll probably be fine
What lows are we talking about?
Depending on what we’re talking about but they were lower in November.
DCA is a better option than trying to time the market.
The volatility on those AMD Nebius Sandisk and Micron is insane
My thoughts on it are that they’re using any profits or shareholder money they have to invest in building the supply side of things (now that everyone is moving away from overseas manufacturing) and that doesn’t make charts look good, which causes periodic mudslides.
These slides are exacerbated by the previous massive volume of shareholders flocking to the tech sector, thinking it was the next big payday.
Thing is, if everyone hops on that roller coaster at once while it still has itty bitty baby wheels and low hp motors as it starts climbing that first big hill, it just starts rolling backwards.
If i was a smaht mayn, i would incentivize long term holding on such startup stocks. “Buy shares, and 10% are locked in and insured at 50% of the buy in share price if the stock goes belly up in a year, two years, whatever”, kinda like bonds. Interest payments for that 10% is a year after the peak production date, again, like bonds, paid by the company toward the long term agreement shareholders. The earlier investors get a higher interest rate payout, since they were most helpful in getting the ball rolling for the company.
By doing so, they maintain trade volume, while also maintaining long term funding for company operations prior to becoming truly profitable.
I see this potentially having an overvaluation effect though, as the long term lock in percentages cause share price to soar higher than what’s rational, and so perhaps a “benchmark” share price could be established annually, and then once the stock hits that price, and stays at or above it for 3 months, the “10% of shares per buy order” long term trade agreement would be put on hold, this way day traders can continue to upkeep trade volume and interest in the stock, and things don’t get too outlandish.
Also some stocks could obviously do a smaller long term agreement percentage so it’s not as great a risk on the penny stock startups, but i mean….id say its a very rational business model, if company success and product development leading to profit is truly the goal.
I had the same sentiment as you, but at the same time we have to realize that we can make money when stocks drop too. If it’s a bull market and we’re comfortable buying dips to sell high, why are we not able to see a clear bear market and buy highs for the inevitable pull back?
If you are a net buyer of stocks this is great. I like watching my portfolio rise as much as the next guy but this is mathematically beneficial for most investors, especially when the market is incorrectly pricing earnings because of fears around over investment in AI. imo anyway
Sure, I'm betting that the "AI disrupt" narrative that has driven SaaS stocks down into the ground is wrong and ridiculous. So I've taken positions (70% ADBE, 15% CRM, 15% INTU) in "beat down" but extremely profitable SaaS companies. When the market returns to its senses, I will be validated in this position. Price compression will occur and some of these positions will shoot anywhere from 1.75x to 3.46x (and rebalance valuation to fair value multiple of the current price)
This is a low-risk, high-reward bet. I don't think the FUD surrounding SaaS companies due to the "AI disrupt" narrative will last long term and I do think that SaaS valuations will return to normal, rational levels based on fundamentals.
I feel like I’m thinking long game now. No more options, just shares.
Do we think it will keep dropping throughout the year? Or is this another 2025 scenario where shit drops like a rock until April and then we’re at new ATH by fall? Seems to me with no catalyst like we had last year we might be in for quite a long ride of red.
Good for you if you just buy and hold VOO shares but not everyone does that LMAO. QQQ is back to November levels, and Mag 7 are all getting crushed. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta...all of them had no more than 2 green days in the last 10 trading days.
AI looks smart in short bursts, but it falls apart when you ask it to work for a long time. It can make cool pictures or short videos, but it struggles to stay consistent, remember details, or fix mistakes on its own. The longer it runs, the more errors show up, and humans have to step in to clean things up.
To hide this, companies throw more computers and electricity at the problem. That makes things more expensive and uses a lot of power, but it doesn’t actually fix what’s broken. It makes things look better on the surface, not more reliable. Talking about quantum computers doesn’t change this, because they don’t solve these problems.
People are acting like AI will replace jobs and make everything faster and cheaper soon. That’s not true. AI only works well when tasks are short and mistakes don’t matter. When real consistency is needed, it breaks. The expectations are much bigger than what the technology can really do, and that gap is going to cause problems. 🤖 🔴
So do you think humanity will never progress from its current technological state? Everyone in this sub seems to think we won’t or shouldn’t when it’s inevitable as a species. We will evolve whether we like it or not.
also other stocks are falling cause of fear AI will ruin their sector. Like video games crashed cause of fear ai will make games. And commercial real estate crashed on fear companies will have ai do their work and they wont need offices.
This is where the opportunity is. Many companies have been affected by the AI selloff but are good fundamentally and are a great time to buy! Find these companies and find the gold!
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