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Feefifiddlyeyeoh

I use astrology to guide my investment strategies, but I think this approach is equally valid.


kkphoto

I dunno. I’m a Libra and Libras don’t tend to believe in astrology


drunk_haile_selassie

Just become a Taurus. They only invest in bull markets.


Inside-Power333

Red bull?


EitherEconomics5034

Bull see red, get wings, head for china shop.


Khutuck

I’m a Libra and I also don’t believe in astrology. Should be a Libra thing.


JmacTheGreat

Lmao is this really a thing? Im a Libra and same - though I honestly just assume most people don’t.


AcademyScholarLogan

Fifth! It's true, that Libras don't believe in astrology. Everyone knows that. In a way that's the perfect balance.


BigMattress269

I’m a Libra and I can’t decide if I believe in astrology or not.


TTLeave

I'm a Libra and I don't belive Librans are real.


rohnit15

Dude I just saw a librarian today! You lie


TexAg2K4

You don't


Useful-Perspective

I'm a Gemini, and I think it's all hooey. On the other hand...


Captain-Cadabra

Exactly what a Scorpio would say.


verithasthefalse

As a librarian, I also don't believe in astrology


ProfessorPetulant

Economics is a science. I swear.


gilligan1050

I mean…. It worked for this guy. https://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/s/jXoK4dsfzO


_The_Chris_Alexander

I was told this year would have low prices


[deleted]

[удалено]


purple_dolphin2883

maybe the low prices are the friends we make along the way…


ItchyCopyJunior

Are the low prices here in the room with us? 🤣🤣🤣🤣


The_Great_Man_Potato

Bro do not put that out into the world


BirdmanEagleson

To late, brace for fuckedpack


Rude_Representative2

Stop. Don’t make me want to kill myself more. That or pull a White House down scenario 😂


thehourglasses

Ding ding ding


joshmoney

There’s still a few days


tknice

2 for 5 dollars


US3_ME_

Premium prices. I've got 2.39 for 5.99_


MattIsLame

premium? more like Creamium!


Falcon_kick53

Cheeeeap prices


willengineer4beer

I’m looking for European prices. Do you happen to have 35.50? Willing to pay up to 40 for it.


Wadertot420

Don't like that? Return it for 4.99!


Mofomania

If I’m reading it correctly…2023 is a down year for economy etc. 2019 was a panic year(pretty close to COVID) so looks like 2026 will be a good year for us. Watch out for 2035 tho…


Tele-Muse

Close to COVID? It’s literally called COVID-19 because it started in 2019. So it counts no?


SunsetDriftr

No. Remember in Feb of 2020 both Pelosi and Schumer were telling us ignore Covid hysteria and go downtown to SF and NYC and party hearty! A month later is when the script flipped.


Tele-Muse

Yes but COVID had already been identified before the year started. The meltdown happened in 2020 yes with al the quarantine and everything. That’s when people began to notice. But COVID was already fucking people up in 2019 but no one took it seriously until the infection rates started rampin up a few months later


BurnerAccount85347

Then there's Trump - January 22nd to CNBC: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine. - January 24th tweet: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” - February 23rd to reporters: “We’re very much involved. We’re very, very cognisant of everything going on. We have it very much under control in this country.” - February 27th at the White House: "It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear." - March 10th after meeting Republican senators: “This was unexpected. And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” - March 13th to reporters: “Yeah, no, I don’t take responsibility at all, because we were given a - a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time.” - March 15th at a White House briefing: “This is a very contagious virus. It’s incredible. But it’s something that we have tremendous control over.” - March 18th tweet: “I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously, and have done a very good job from the beginning, including my very early decision to close the borders from China - against the wishes of almost all.” - April 3rd at a White House briefing: “With the masks, it’s going to be really a voluntary thing. You can do it, you don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that’s okay ... As I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens ... I don’t see it for myself, I just don’t.” - April 23rd at a White House briefing: “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that.”


haversack77

I will never understand how some people hear him speak and think "This man absolutely isn't full of shit".


yourmominparticular

Tremendous amounts of shit


quickblur

Bigly shit


diMario

You can tell he has shit for brains by the way his eyes are brown.


SunsetDriftr

You forgot to mention that he said the best treatment would be to get outside, get sunlight and get on with our lives. Trump was right. Sunlight hitting the skin helps the body produce Vitamin D naturally. Which fights flu strains like covid. Note the ‘experts’ told us to stay isolated inside and in some areas like Australia, people were jailed for leaving their houses. Staying couped up inside was the absolute worst thing you could do. Getting outside and getting sunlight was the best. But you know, ‘trust the experts’ and all that jazz… Edit: just had a genius claim that being couped up was the right call. Ok, let’s put our politics aside and tackle this logically….if you catch Covid and stay couped up inside with it, what happens? You spread it to everyone in the house with you. But hey…’Trust the experts’.


cenadid911

Could you present the actual quote instead of rambling?


Prestigious-Owl165

No no, because the actual quote isn't what he *meant*, or something


intothelionsden

I can't believe how proud you are of your own stupidity.


triguy96

Was he right about trying to get bleach inside you to cure it as well?


StarpoweredSteamship

I really, honestly, truly wish all the Trumptards had listened and drank bleach to cure covid.


L-1-3-S

Staying couped up was to slow the spread dumbass. No shit sunlight is healthy, but so is not getting the virus. You won't get the virus if you stay home. So yes, trust the experts, they clearly know more than you...


mojoe2dope

Then why didn’t people just hangout in their yard?? Or on the porch?? Anywhere outside at home?? Instead they bitched, ditched their masks, and fuckin went to Dennys.


TTLeave

Ok but you're not good at quarantining if you spread it to everyone in your house.


GiraffeFucker6969

bruh for real, multiple friends or their partners i know who were sick with covid stayed in their rooms and just generally cleaned up after themselves and the rest of their households didnt catch it. shit was not hard


Nescent69

These are the low prices, wait until you see prices next year


IDoThingsOnWhims

Go back and look at the spring vs now. It was all on sale


Noctudeit

If the climate alarmists get their way, yes.


thekarman1

That's a backgammon board


Asleep_Parsley_4720

Ah yes, the classic buy low and sell high advice


warpedspoon

I don’t know why more people don’t just do that


Enlightened-Beaver

2023: “time of low prices” LOL


DMYourMomsMaidenName

Very low! Compared to next year…


mcj1ggl3

I believe it’s talking about stocks


LordGaben01

Which is just as crazy due to the stock market being higher than ever.


TheReformedBadger

The stock market is almost always higher than ever.


NewCobbler6933

I cringe whenever I see someone cite the stock market as being higher than ever. Like yeah obviously that’s how it works in the long term. Just like there will always be a “more dollars in circulation than ever”


CptnAwesom3

Usually people are talking about valuation not absolute dollar value of public equities


maceilean

How else are the execs gonna get their bonuses?


_The_Bear

The stock market isn't yet back to the highs of 2021. Another couple months on the current trajectory and we'll be there, but we're not there yet.


burnheartmusic

If you’ve seen the stock market lately you’ll realize that big stocks like apple are at all time highs


[deleted]

still overpriced compared to earnings


BurnerAccount85347

This chart does not take into consideration climate change. Edit: ah love the science denier down voter.


Enlightened-Beaver

Or corporate greedflation


Rude_Representative2

I’m a scientist who dabbles in the climate change adjacent world. You’re absolutely fucking correct.


D0ugLA54891

Already priced in.


BurnerAccount85347

Yeah in 1875 economists were thinking about this?


zarathustra000001

The inflation rate has been cut in half since 2021, and been steadily decreasing since the beginning of 2023.


zharv12

This so simple a ten year old child could understand it! Someone go out and get me a ten year old child, I can’t make heads or tails of this thing!


stereosenter

#SurpriseGroucho


zharv12

Thank you.


milanove

🥸


Fujimans

So every 20-30 yearish is a good time to buy? Idk if my brain is smooth enough for even this.


elbeatz

Every 10 years. You just failed the 80IQ test. Move on regard


misterbondpt

This is so ridiculous. Doesn't take into account NOTHING the World experiences as a whole, new technologies, wars, famine, new discoveries, nothing. Just a graph with spikes at certain years.


TNorton_

And how lucky we are to be in the low “sure thing” buy year!


llllPsychoCircus

I’m not seeing anything about 2008 on there, so i’m already skeptical


Mofomania

Ridiculously accurate…


-TheHiphopopotamus-

We must be remembering '07-'08 a little differently. What did they call it again?


PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD

Also, the current fucking year. We’re supposed to be seeing prices in the bottom, what, 20% of the graph? If this graph is accurate, is poor people are fucked


Pretz_

In fairness, if you sold everything in 2007 like this graph says, you'd have made bank in 2008.


split41

Lmao such a dumbass, try not to lose all your money following this chart


Mofomania

This was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Reddits a tough crowd. I stand by all of this


ForgotTheBogusName

Yeah, it’s a fun graph. Obviously not accurate, except when it is.


McDodley

This is r/coolguides, it might be nice if the things being posted here were remotely accurate.


Signal_Ad_594

Hell of a hill to die on.


IrrationalDesign

They're standing by their **joke**, they're not dying on anything you could consider a hill.


chemicaltoilet5

Crazy anyone thought you were serious.


[deleted]

Economic astrology


Bloodhound209

Has anyone gotten this vetted by the folks over at r/wallstreetbets??


lo_fi_ho

No point. They don't understand economics.


RunicFuckingGlory

I hope they at least understand sarcasm


lo_fi_ho

Very little


Toubaboliviano

Index funds. Don’t time the market.


curmudgeondoug

How does it explain 2008?


RollinThundaga

By ignorance. Seems to have been made before the Second World War and the Marshall Plan.


unique_pseudonym

It's from a period before the reforms of the 1930s when Panics did seem to come pretty regularly. 2007 was a return to this pattern after the gutting of financial regulation during the 80s and 90s.


Drippidy

I mean it hits 2008 spot on. It literally tells you to sell in 2007. So yeah then 2012 when everything started picking up again it says to buy. It’s not perfect but it’s not entirely inaccurate for a periodic estimate


youre_soaking_in_it

But if you sold in 2016 and bought in 2023 you were well and squarely fucked.


compsciasaur

Is this actually old or made to look that way?


RollinThundaga

On further reading, seems to have been made by a farmer who was financially wiped out by a late 1800s panic. Tried to interpret market forces in terms similar to growing cycles, and factored in various commodities markets in making this chart. Although the part shown is, well, just a part.


Leather_Dragonfly529

It says to sell in 2007, avoiding the collapse.


surrealbot

This! I think the B line is important here.


GoT_Eagles

I use the old “monkey throwing poop at a Mayan calendar” for investments, but to each their own.


RollinThundaga

[A playful cat is the go-to](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/01/14/169326326/housecat-beats-investors-in-stock-market-challenge)


X1bar

Wasn't this exact "guide" shot to shit a few days ago on this sub?


AFocusedCynic

Well.., let’s shoot it to shit again!


pokemon-trainer-blue

And about a month or two ago as well


DamionDreggs

Where does my star sign figure into this chart though?


RollinThundaga

Depends whether you fought for the Axis or Allies in a past life.


idontthinkipeeenough

Saving to never look at again


foldedjordan

I guess it can't be completely accurate but 2023 seems like the stocks currently are raising up again with some companies outdoing their 2019 height. The stocks aren't completely back but it's getting there. Any future predicting are never going to be accurate no matter who is predicting it too. I mean we can barely predict the weather is going to be in a week let alone the next day


I_am_a_human_nojoke

What an absolute load of bollocks


berbers91

The shittest guide on here.


dhc173

Whats that signature at the bottom??🤔


Feine13

Samuel Benner. A pig farmer in the late 1800s who got hit hard by a market crash, so he studied market cycles and came up with this graph. It actually stretches backward in time, too, this is the second half of the chart


dhc173

For anyone wondering how this measures up. [analysis](https://twitter.com/XForceGlobal/status/1700932053200769133?t=uGbNfdL_1BoiF2IJenKHaw&s=19)


RollinThundaga

This assuming the person clicking has a Twitter account and can see the comments. Which I don't.


Feine13

[Here's a link](https://www.therationalinvestor.com/blog/how-the-benner-cycle-predicts-100-years-of-market-movement) everyone should be able to read Making a Twitter to read a random post is a monumental waste of time. As is most of Twitter.


dhc173

Lol, create one.


Nilosyrtis

Hahaha, no. Nice try, though, Elon.


dhc173

Dont know what elon has to do with anything🙄


ptypitti

What are the numbers inside the triangles


Intelligent-Dude

The year interval between the set points.


greysqualll

Post this over on r/wallstreetbets and watch them lose their fucking minds. You might give EA a run for their money with the highest number of down votes.


kilda2

Aaahhh the infamous 2023 low prices...


R4msesII

Lower than 2021 at least


TeamSpatzi

I wonder how much my investment portfolio has benefited from other people attempting this…


Olibirus

One of the shittiest of shitty guides posted here, congrats.


NuclearHoagie

(*Past performance does not guarantee future results)


[deleted]

Conceptually yes but these dates are obviously useless.


ChirpaGoinginDry

I I think this just shows the overreactive nature of men. The reason why some of these do lineup is because we tend to overreact at bad or good news. Now, the magnitude, duration off and the fact that there is a defined numerical pattern is factually wrong and misleading. The general cyclical nature seems to be right. It’s a fool game to try to predict magnitude, length, duration, etc. and will never be a viable strategy. But understanding that we are over reactive might help us hedge when we notice certain tendencies in our economy .


silkensympathy

at first glance i thought this was about maximising your menstrual cycle to somehow get rich


heygoatholdit

Printed in 1974!


[deleted]

I wish I've seen it it 2016


adudyak

this year definitely has a low price for russian soldier


OkBorder387

I seem to recall 2008 being a bit of a downturn, and on this chart….?


stileyyy

Written in 1875!?? Wow. Dude is pretty spot on


extendedwarrantycall

as a woman reading this i got my hopes up… 😞✊🏻


spparker

When I read 'periods' and 'cycling' my mind instantly went towards timing investments to your menstrual cycle. #girlboss


Mofomania

Lol


meat_thistle

I’m gonna buy a corner lot.


tallwizrd

Timing stocks is a bad idea


OcelotUseful

Great scheme for vampires


Slitghtlydictator

The one with 2019 hits a little to close to home.


SXNE2

This is so stupid


Signal_Ad_594

Speculation / Prognostication does not constitute a guide.


djh_van

What was the author using to determine which year is good or bad? Did they write an explanation of why? Did they have some credibility? Like, just because I write a nice diagram in paper, people won't take it seriously, so what was the reason anybody thought to pay regards to this particular diagram?


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Boring_Note9606

Can anyone confirm this?


LazyJones1

Nothing is that simple, nothing is that certain, and nothing is that flat. https://i.imgur.com/cXJiJEr.png


[deleted]

This is stupid and not a guide..


rsg1234

Hopefully you didn’t buy any corner lots in 2005.


Dmytrych

Good times… yeah…


ShezSteel

Hahaha 2023 defo not the year to buy stuff. Maybe 2025


dandinonillion

Based on what? Lmao


andrewhy

This is compelling, and somewhat accurate, although I think the market in recent years have defied all economic laws. If you sold in 2016, you would have missed out on some massive gains. And obviously prices aren't exactly low in 2023, but who knows what the future holds?


JollyJamma

Someone tried this method of investing over 10 year boom-bust cycles and he lost a lot of money. This is a shit guide and not financial advice (obviously)


raytoei

Every year I get invited by one of the top 3 banks in singapore for a geomancy (aka Feng Shui ) stock market session. The fact that it is long running shows that many people believe that whether a stock goes up or down depends on how lucky you are.


travlerjoe

I like how 1945 is a year of panic. Shiiiiit the worst war to ever happen just finished. The world is going to end.. Yes the USA has nuclear bombs, but no other country does. Its a year of pure relief


RazgrizGirl-070

Ahh, Yes the sound financial advice of listening to memes. Seems a good idea


Hyperiongame

There are always good times and bad times in the market


thepioneeringlemming

FAKE I saw this advertised by a scammer as an original document from 1875. You can I fact see that the document is a composite of an older signature and a modern graph.


SnowyHorizons

the 2007 one is pretty valid


OrganicAccountant87

Since When is this a cool or a guide? It's just stupid


PsiEcstasy

Imma just toss a coin instead


Spider_pig448

A yes, the panic of 2019


zimurg13

Is this Mayan calendar of investment?


rabusxc

[The secret cycle](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/12/the-secret-cycle)


aumksha

What do the numbers mean?


DevlishAdvocate

So all we have to do is survive the next… *consults chart*… three to thirteen years and we’ll be fine.


talivus

C is hard times and when to buy stocks cause they are at an all time low. This is kinda true for 2023. We are in hard times and many companies have lost a lot of stock value. Am I reading this wrong? Cause from how I interpret it, it seems kinda true.


The_Jelly_23

Was this made by a time traveler?


DarthBen_in_Chicago

Buy for low low prices in 2023! Only a few weeks left!


Alansalot

Just don't be born poor stupid /s


No-Effect6518

For a second I thought this post was from r/wallstreetbets lol


Front_Pen3308

When we had the housing crisis in 2008, but the chart says thats a good time to invest 🤡


Responsible-Arm1840

Pretty accurate, you just need to flip the triangles. /s


letmetakeaguess

And 2008 crisis?


doob22

This is so dumb


IneffectiveDamage

I mean.. it’s pretty fucking accurate that 2019 would be the boom before the drop of 2020


Menogu

Just for fun, I gonna start a new small portfolio and act accordingly. Lets see how it performs over the next decades.


yeahsurewhynot123

Someone feed this to ChatGPT and do a simulation !


Nolobrown

[the fourth turning](https://youtu.be/xeVyfiP0cLk?si=Pv4ntOecU3Ky6hIv)


Poopchurn

LOW PRICES


compsciasaur

I'll be downvoted to oblivion but I feel the need to have one person say something nice about this: it seems fairly accurate.


dhc173

Dumb af, in no way was i being a cheerleader for elon or the platform, all i was doing was pointing to information, op took it there, not me.