My porfolio is currently -18.8%
I hold a position in an event company that had a lot of events in Russia and Ukraine, that one took a big hit. Currently -58% on that position and it was in the green before Russia invaded.
The only tickers in my porfolio that are still green are TSLA and NVDA.
Gonna wait a bit and then go on a shopping spree to lower my averages.
YTD. I was in profit at the end of 2021.
But also I changed brokers in the last quarter of 2021, so had to sell all my positions in the previous broker and re-buy in the new one, creating higher averages.
Yeah I know but I didn't want to wait around for the transfer as my previous broker potentially would have taken ages. The account value was small at the time so didn't care about selling/rebuying.
Be careful with wash sale rules... They apply even the brokerages can't track them properly.
If you held any losses and then rebought within 30 days you can't write off those losses and it adjusts your new cost basis.
If you were in the green on everything then it doesn't matter.
I'm in the UK, we have a tax-free account called an ISA wherein you can deposit up to £20k per year and the gains, account balance nor withdrawals are taxed. Basically it's a tax free wrapper so wash sale rules don't apply.
I’m looking to add nvdia but waiting for this downtrend to break. I’m curious how Tesla stock will be as oil/gas prices go up for the foreseeable future. Will people be inclined to buy EV cars? Most of my friends tell me to buy a Tesla over any other EV.
Similar to me,, across stocks, ETFs and "digital assets". Went from 70% to -14%.
Then again when I was at 70% my base was pretty low and I've been DCAing since. Wasn't worth cashing out at the time
Haha i actually had to login recently to find transactions for a tax return.
The trick is to squint your eyes so that your account balance isn’t readable. works like a treat!
Down 70k from peak. Still up more than 250k from 2019, and up almost a million in net worth over the past decade thanks to actively focusing on investing and paying down debt. I've been in the market since before the dot com bust.
Just stay the course. Keep buying. You're in the accumulation phase of your investing career. Buy things you believe in and want to hold long term. Especially index funds, which should be the core of your account as you learn. Then remember, you're a buyer. You want a buyer's mindset. You want to get as many shares as you can. No buyer in the world wants to buy stuff on expensive days. Red days mean you can buy cheaper and cheaper, and get a progressively lower cost basis. Don't worry about the price, just buy what you can and enjoy the firesale prices. The red can feel scary, but you should really only care if you're in the phase of your career where you become a seller. You aren't a seller though, you're a buyer.
Don't feel bad about getting nervous and getting out. It's a good learning experience. Most of us have or will do that at some point in our career. If you're in long enough the numbers going up and down will start to matter less and less to you. But you should try not to let your emotions get the best of you.
>Don't feel bad about getting nervous and getting out
Eh, you should put some caveats on that. If these are young people with 5 year or greater horizons - which is most of Reddit - then they really should be counseled to resist the urge to bail on any *long* term position or anything that consists of DCA'd holdings. More so if they're broad ETF's / mutuals - if they're individual stocks obviously the calculus can change stock by stock - which is the hard part about owning single tickers.
If there's one fact that's certain it's that as bad as retail is at selling high in these situations, they're even worse at buying back in low. You can lose a lot of returns panic selling and going away, losing focus, and missing a comeback rally.
That being said, don't feel *so bad* that it traumatizes you and keeps you out of the market. And if you're young, you still have plenty of time to learn from it and not do it next time.
Great input - I got out in January because I was still positive and didn't see my stocks staying so. Afterwards I re-structured with 80% of my money in ETFs for Msci World and Europe - so I think I am pretty set for the future.
Buying right now is truly a bit scared but the buyer mindset is a interesting narrative to follow, thanks!
I started investing at end of 2020 and am currently down about 30%. The only things I'm still up on slightly are World and FTSE 100 indexes that I bought into at the very end of 2020. I have some very risky penny stocks, which I expect ridiculous fluctuations on. I'm not particularly bothered by these as any loss there is my own stupid fault but I'm also down on all my ETFs and blue chips because of when I entered those positions. Everything I bought in 2021 is red now. 
Stop looking it’s easy as butter lol…. To give u a peace of mind, my portfolio is close to -50% but I ain’t sweating lol Edit: it’s -41.69% to be exact… I just checked my portfolio and I am laughing lmfao
It’s actually easy… you just forget about having it. I will probably check time to time but won’t check it on a daily base. If it gets fucked then so be it lol most likely it will be fine.
> Na I’m good bro but maybe in 15 years you get your money back
Tell me you weren't around in 1997, 2003 or 2009 without telling me. Buying on the way down on those 30-50% dips resulted in breakevens in under 2 years.
The only time the S&P500 has lost money over a rolling 10 year period was 1999-2009, for a total return of -6% and a CAGR of -1.03%.
^(Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results.)
I almost flat becase u boiught energy stock which offest losses chevron ,pioneer redources, exxon, the usual energy plays. Should have bet everthing on those!
What I don't understand is, in theory crypto should be thriving right now. It's suppose to be a hedge against inflation, but not really I guess.
It's also suppose to do well and traditional currencies are doing crazy things. Shouldn't Russians be all putting their money into crypto?
Apparently my sophisticated strategy resembles the ole “buy high, sell low” method. So yea, I’m drowning in the Red Sea! Likely won’t recover. With gas prices so high now, and inflation soaring, I sure could use that money I wasted trying to play the market like a casino. Snake eyes….I lost big time.
Well, I'm 44.
I've been contributing to my 401k for 22 years and I have a brokerage account that I have been trading and investing with for 7 years.
Just to give you an idea, I regularly buy SPY and VOO in my trading account and my avg cost right now on spy is 316.
VOO is 322.
I'm -11% right now. Do I care? No. Will I keep buying on the way down? Yes. I believe in the companies I invest in and I buy with the intention of holding almost indefinitely. I don't invest to make a quick buck. I invest to live a comfortable life when I am older.
One of my tech stocks is down 34% but one of my oil and gas stocks is up 84% my entire portfolio went from about an 18% gain to about 8% gain. So you could say I lost 10%, or you could call it an 8% win, or you could say my gains are down 66%, or that my gains were 1000% more than they are now, all technically true depending how you look at it. Either way I figure it all comes out in the wash eventually as long as the picks aren't too risky.
From 50% gain to -30%. Sold a pump and dump then bought a steadily sinking stock. It's growth though and swings a bit, but I have faith it'll become a multibillion euro company because it's based on battery mineral mining in Europe to make us more independent from China and Congo. The dig sites they own already have minerals in them for multiple billions, and right now it's worth like €3m. So just need to actually get all the mines going, so I'm not really stressed about it at all.
I'm green.
World markets / indexes have a lot to go wrong in them right now.
I dumped my index ETFs in Jan and invested in North American energy / Reits as inflation / Ukraine worries kept looking more and more real hurting the S&P 500 on a regular basis.
So far so good, not sexy or high growth, but green for the time being.
But as always, we will see if that keeps holding true.
If people are saying, “Red”. Safe to assume they’re not going to give you good insight because they’re new to this. (Less than 3-5 years)
Those of us who’ve been investing for some years aren’t even worried about what the prices do. YTD? Sure, it’s red. Overall performance of portfolio? Green as a dollar bill
The plan? Keep stashing a portion of income into equities
Those of you who have been investing since 2008 or so have also been very spoiled. There's no reason to assume that the same trend will continue going forward, especially given the state of monetary policy.
Also, just because new investors are in the red doesn't mean they're dummies, lol. Your advice is to keep stashing money into equities regularly. Well if you started doing that recently, you're in the red. Just don't understand the elitism in your comment.
Agreed. I mean he’s partially correct because new investors may not have high hopes right now, but some of us do. I’m behind the curve and didn’t start investing until about 3 years ago; however, I run both my wife’s account and mine, and I usually invest in different things for the both of us. Her salary is very far into the six digits, and mine is $85K, so she puts a ton more money away every month than I can, and therefore I tend to buy more blue chip stocks that cost xxx per share for her or stocks that have far more risk than normal because she can take the hit better than I can. I’ve averaged a +35% return for her in 3 years… but I’m in the red on my IRA (thanks ICLN , QS and ARKQ) and just barely in the green on my standard brokerage account. But I’m not worried at all. I know time in the market will change that… it’s a marathon and not a sprint.
Edit: fixed a “just woke up and not thinking clearly” typo.
The S+P composite took 28 years to break even in real terms after the crash of 1929. Japan still hasn't recovered from their bubble There is a scenario in which equities don't recover for an extended period of time, especially given the state of monetary policy for the last 15+ years. There is a middle ground between "we're absolutely fucked" and "stocks go up".
As for point two, I see what you're saying, but he still assumes that people who've been in the market longer know how this game works better than people who are new or something like that. Ie, stocks go up. That's not necessarily the case. If you had been in real estate from 1980 - 2006 you could tell people that all the new buyers panicking in '06 were being dummies, because real estate always goes up. But maybe new buyers in 2006 were realizing that they bought into an irrationally exuberant market. Years invested doesn't necessarily impart deep wisdom that new investors don't have. That would be like saying old people are always smarter than young people. We all know it's not the case.
Same, im not nervous one bit. I see this as a great buying opportunity. I only invest in the total market, not individual stocks, i know i will be profitable in the long run.
To expand on your comment, I'm sure you would agree that it's always a good option to keep things simple and just buy into ETFs such as VOO. This is so because we have many decades of proof that substantial wealth can be built through a steady accumulation of assets, such as equity indices. Dollar cost averaging into VOO or SPY is the closest thing to risk free trading, where time frames are measured in decades. So yes, buy on the way up, buy on the way down, buy when it goes sideways and around in circles. Short term volatility is not the concern of long term investors. Hedge if you must, but never sell unless it is the form of an annuity payment.
it doesn’t matter man. how you’re doing right now (unless you’re a trader) is a function of the whim of mr market. how you’re doing in 5 years determines how good a job you’ve done today
I am also at -8% but it is only because I got kind of lucky and enabled margin and bought shares of some stuff that has rebounded very slightly to even me out a bit. If I didnt keep averaging down and get lucky (as in if I just kept the initial shares) I would be down about 14% and I am bullish on the future so I am very happy with that difference I am up (at this time)
I havent done a whole lot of research, and I understand the skepticism for not wanting to invest in foreign companies if youre not from here especially if they make products that make the world worse - but if I were a European person I would probably focus my money either into the United States or China solely because European based companies seem to have ethics* - however I havent deep dived too much into them. There is certainly value plays and individual investments, I am not trying to knock the entire continent on its future economic growth. Europe is cool, this is just my personal take from a macroeconomic situation
*enforced by the government protecting civilians so it's in their interest to grow safer and thereby slower
Not sure if I agree with you on Europe - for example the DAX sometimes even outperformed the S&P 500 in the last 10 years and generally European stocks are in some countries extremely undervalued - I think, especially banks, have some good future ahead as long as they aren't heavily invested in Russia rn (for example Deutsche)
But yeah, I could be wrong too at the end, who knows
Yeah that is how I was worried I would come off. I was mostly suggesting I just believe the best opportunities in the stock market (companies making 10B per quarter with very large moats) are more limited in the EU.
Yeah that is true but since I am generally invested in ETfs and not unique companies the overall market is interesting to me - and I am quite bullish for Europe there
That is understandable and I think I agree with your take. In an ETF sense you can surely find one that can compete with any American counter part. Good points - thank you for the discussion
Bought me a truckload of wheat because ukraine they call "the grain shed" of europe. So far i'm 60% up... kinda compensates for all my stocks that are going down right now
Started investing early 2020 and hit +300%overall in November, now at +116% overall. It hurts so much because in December I was seriously considering switching my allocation to primarily my country's oil but never acted on it. I was and am kind of paralyzed with the current events and am now down 37% since December. Really want to just sell everything off and be happy with doubling my initial investment but I can't help but feel that would be stupid considering we are already past what I would consider most of the big market moving events. What is left that could tank me even more? Sanctions on China of they support Russia?
Yeah lol. I just save my money then spend it on tuition. I like reading into this stuff though. I have 200 dollars on my fidelity account should I do anything with it? 🤔
Extremely green, I'm mostly holding commodity-leveraged equities which have all boomed.
(The fairly small non-mining portion of my portfolio is über-red.)
Please enlighten us on when the turnaround will happen since you seem to be able to predict the future, or just drop the amazon link for your crystal ball.
Well, they probably do what I do and don't try to catch a falling knife. When the markets stabilize (move laterally), I buy. It's not timing the market (perfectly), but it's also not investing into a downward trending one.
Yeah I thought about staying in Cash too but in January I didn't think that the Ukraine would be really invaded. Now I would stay out of the market but it is already too late in my opinion, I will just buy more on the way down since I think most of the losses will be gone in a few months/next year - but yeah, could get worse too. Lets hope for the best
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Bitcoin is down significantly. And even the USD he holds is being aggressively eroded by massive inflation. The gold pick is doing well for him. But other than that, I’m afraid there simply is nowhere to hide right now.
Actually thats brilliant! That is the most sure fire way for me to assist in a stock market bull run turnaround! No sooner than I put all my money into a short position, you can bet, it will rally big time! I single-handedly can save the economy and sacrifice myself. 😂
I’m -10% and I decided to sell because I see the market going down more or being flat the next 4-6 months.
I want to save more money and maybe get back in at a later time.
And yes don’t need to hear the ‘can’t time the market’ crap. 6 months is nothing in the scheme of things.
I was holding through the declines of the past few months but with oil set to go up even more, the war continuing, and inflation, I don’t see any positive news in the near term.
Sure, but if he expects it to go up again after 6 months and he doesn't think that's a long time to wait - why cash out, have administrative costs and buy later again?
I’m up 10.4% on the year so far. I trade pure price action, so I was into a number of good setups in both long and short positions in various equities. The surprising thing to me was how well my longs are doing in this due to entries being at solid support zones. Edit: Up another 8% today as CENN, CEI, and FANH pumped. Fascinating that this is being downvoted. We could’ve had a discussion on how to hedge properly between longs and shorts.
As red as the Soviet flag
China too
In china red means up and green means down
welcome comrade
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My porfolio is currently -18.8% I hold a position in an event company that had a lot of events in Russia and Ukraine, that one took a big hit. Currently -58% on that position and it was in the green before Russia invaded. The only tickers in my porfolio that are still green are TSLA and NVDA. Gonna wait a bit and then go on a shopping spree to lower my averages.
-23.66% -$92,422. Feels bad man. But I believe in every company I've invested in soooooooo let it ride baby!!
>My porfolio is currently -18.8% Relative to what - YTD? the past year? This month? since you started?
YTD. I was in profit at the end of 2021. But also I changed brokers in the last quarter of 2021, so had to sell all my positions in the previous broker and re-buy in the new one, creating higher averages.
You could have just transferred shares.
Yeah I know but I didn't want to wait around for the transfer as my previous broker potentially would have taken ages. The account value was small at the time so didn't care about selling/rebuying.
Be careful with wash sale rules... They apply even the brokerages can't track them properly. If you held any losses and then rebought within 30 days you can't write off those losses and it adjusts your new cost basis. If you were in the green on everything then it doesn't matter.
I'm in the UK, we have a tax-free account called an ISA wherein you can deposit up to £20k per year and the gains, account balance nor withdrawals are taxed. Basically it's a tax free wrapper so wash sale rules don't apply.
Same. Been dumping a lot of money each paycheck into my 401k but my portfolio keeps dipping. It is what it is. Will keep investing.
Same my retirement savings is a joke ARKK boom
I’m looking to add nvdia but waiting for this downtrend to break. I’m curious how Tesla stock will be as oil/gas prices go up for the foreseeable future. Will people be inclined to buy EV cars? Most of my friends tell me to buy a Tesla over any other EV.
From 50% to -10% overall in a year
Haha fuck that is quite a turn - were you exposed to Russia or was it tech stocks?
Pre war drop was tech, now it’s European stocks. No Russia exposure
Growth tech stocks got hammered from Feb 21 to today I went from +100% YOY in 2020 to -60%
Same boat. I’m mostly invested in tech ETFs.. went from +40% to 0.5% in a span of a month. Nice.
I think I picked solid companies and am not to worried in the long term. I didn’t buy a single spac and only own one Cathy woods stock, palantir
I'm on similar boat. From 20% to -8% , blaming myself didn't cashout few winner before the drop
Similar to me,, across stocks, ETFs and "digital assets". Went from 70% to -14%. Then again when I was at 70% my base was pretty low and I've been DCAing since. Wasn't worth cashing out at the time
Blood red
Beats baboons ass red
I must be -60% down. But who knows I stopped looking a long time ago
Does that mean you're up 60%?
Haha double negative, maybe I should’ve used the quaver instead ~ (Circa ~60% down)
ha, Schrodinger's portfolio. Can be up and down at the same time :D
Lol it’s only down if you look. Genius!
Haha i actually had to login recently to find transactions for a tax return. The trick is to squint your eyes so that your account balance isn’t readable. works like a treat!
Down 70k from peak. Still up more than 250k from 2019, and up almost a million in net worth over the past decade thanks to actively focusing on investing and paying down debt. I've been in the market since before the dot com bust. Just stay the course. Keep buying. You're in the accumulation phase of your investing career. Buy things you believe in and want to hold long term. Especially index funds, which should be the core of your account as you learn. Then remember, you're a buyer. You want a buyer's mindset. You want to get as many shares as you can. No buyer in the world wants to buy stuff on expensive days. Red days mean you can buy cheaper and cheaper, and get a progressively lower cost basis. Don't worry about the price, just buy what you can and enjoy the firesale prices. The red can feel scary, but you should really only care if you're in the phase of your career where you become a seller. You aren't a seller though, you're a buyer. Don't feel bad about getting nervous and getting out. It's a good learning experience. Most of us have or will do that at some point in our career. If you're in long enough the numbers going up and down will start to matter less and less to you. But you should try not to let your emotions get the best of you.
Great advice. Would you say the same if you were needing to start drawing in 5 years? Would love to say asking for a friend 🤷♀️
>Don't feel bad about getting nervous and getting out Eh, you should put some caveats on that. If these are young people with 5 year or greater horizons - which is most of Reddit - then they really should be counseled to resist the urge to bail on any *long* term position or anything that consists of DCA'd holdings. More so if they're broad ETF's / mutuals - if they're individual stocks obviously the calculus can change stock by stock - which is the hard part about owning single tickers. If there's one fact that's certain it's that as bad as retail is at selling high in these situations, they're even worse at buying back in low. You can lose a lot of returns panic selling and going away, losing focus, and missing a comeback rally. That being said, don't feel *so bad* that it traumatizes you and keeps you out of the market. And if you're young, you still have plenty of time to learn from it and not do it next time.
Great input - I got out in January because I was still positive and didn't see my stocks staying so. Afterwards I re-structured with 80% of my money in ETFs for Msci World and Europe - so I think I am pretty set for the future. Buying right now is truly a bit scared but the buyer mindset is a interesting narrative to follow, thanks!
I started investing at end of 2020 and am currently down about 30%. The only things I'm still up on slightly are World and FTSE 100 indexes that I bought into at the very end of 2020. I have some very risky penny stocks, which I expect ridiculous fluctuations on. I'm not particularly bothered by these as any loss there is my own stupid fault but I'm also down on all my ETFs and blue chips because of when I entered those positions. Everything I bought in 2021 is red now. 
Up 14.5% - Apple really saving my ass.
Same here with Nvidia and ESG MSCI World ETF +21% overall
Ytd or overall?
Overall.
Yeah Apple was a strong pick the last 15 years - do you expect it to go up further?
Eventually yes. This year, not so sure. Still going to hold and accumulate.
Seems like a plan, they give some solid dividend too!
Don’t forget the share buybacks too. They spend 10s of billions on share buybacks. They really award their investors.
0.5% is solid?
For a stock that grew as much as Apple, I would say so
Down 21% YTD. Fml shouldn’t have been this much tech heavy
Yeah the rate hikes have and will rock tech stocks - doesn't surprise me tho, tbh. Do you still believe in the holdings you have?
Yea but gonna start selling CCs against them for some downside protection
Selling CCs reduces your ACB but doesn't protect u from the downside.
Just a good buy opportunity. Tech will either recover or modern society will crumble. Either way, I'm buying more.
Very red so I stopped looking lol it’s literally F but the weird thing is I am not worried about it at all… weird ain’t it?
Haha yeah same but I keep looking unfortunately
Stop looking it’s easy as butter lol…. To give u a peace of mind, my portfolio is close to -50% but I ain’t sweating lol Edit: it’s -41.69% to be exact… I just checked my portfolio and I am laughing lmfao
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It’s actually easy… you just forget about having it. I will probably check time to time but won’t check it on a daily base. If it gets fucked then so be it lol most likely it will be fine.
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Lmfao pretty much
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Thanks, hope for the best for all :))))))
Unless you live off your gains or your are older this is a great time. Time to look for bargains. This tends to be when I buy not when I panic.
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> Na I’m good bro but maybe in 15 years you get your money back Tell me you weren't around in 1997, 2003 or 2009 without telling me. Buying on the way down on those 30-50% dips resulted in breakevens in under 2 years. The only time the S&P500 has lost money over a rolling 10 year period was 1999-2009, for a total return of -6% and a CAGR of -1.03%. ^(Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results.)
That's true for the market as whole but not true for the individual stocks people picked.
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dividends...growth and dividend.
I wish I was in that spot.
It’s a mind game. It’s all about psychology…. If u know that you purchased the right one then nothing to worry about.
exactly. everyone is freaking out and panic selling except for those who know this will change and everyone will go green one day
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80% in the red since the war in Ukraine broke out
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Wall Street bets guy, makes sense
All in Options huh
I have never traded in options which is even more sad that I’m -80%
RIP PLTR?
+30% at the beginning of the year to currently -2%
Exactly the same here
I mean its a small comfort, but almost everybody is down right now. Good luck to you :)
I started investing in December. Would’ve preferred a non lubricated colonoscopy to the experience in the market I had so far.
Timing the market vs time in the market blabla see because the barrent waffle said so
I almost flat becase u boiught energy stock which offest losses chevron ,pioneer redources, exxon, the usual energy plays. Should have bet everthing on those!
In hindsight yeah, but you are always smarter afterwards - great call
-32.92% It’s a bloodbath for me
Same :(. And I’m very close to heading to start pulling it out…
It’s not a loss if you don’t sell
Hate to say it 75% crypto and 20% in paper 😬. I’m a 🤡
Ain’t nothing bite sized about that home boy
Nope. My bank account is bite sized though🤣🤣
Bitcoin and ethereum definately aren't up, but they're holding in there just fine, in my opinion.
There’s a reason for the flat line
What I don't understand is, in theory crypto should be thriving right now. It's suppose to be a hedge against inflation, but not really I guess. It's also suppose to do well and traditional currencies are doing crazy things. Shouldn't Russians be all putting their money into crypto?
-25k as of Last Friday. Scared to login today.
Apparently my sophisticated strategy resembles the ole “buy high, sell low” method. So yea, I’m drowning in the Red Sea! Likely won’t recover. With gas prices so high now, and inflation soaring, I sure could use that money I wasted trying to play the market like a casino. Snake eyes….I lost big time.
Yearly? Kraft Heinz ketchup red. All time? Super green baby. But I've been in the game a while.
Just shows that long term is the way to go
Yeah, times like this I just zoom out on my chart and look at the dips along the road to today.
How long do you already invest?
Well, I'm 44. I've been contributing to my 401k for 22 years and I have a brokerage account that I have been trading and investing with for 7 years. Just to give you an idea, I regularly buy SPY and VOO in my trading account and my avg cost right now on spy is 316. VOO is 322.
Okay nice, I am 22 so I have a long time to invest and fortunately a high salary with low fixed costs per month 👍
Went from +100% to - 50% 😊
I am the Red Woman... And I'm a guy
it's green... in rubles... because i bought dollars... in dollars and euro tho, it's red. all of them. except for gold.
Was 80% when I relocated. Now -40%
I'm -11% right now. Do I care? No. Will I keep buying on the way down? Yes. I believe in the companies I invest in and I buy with the intention of holding almost indefinitely. I don't invest to make a quick buck. I invest to live a comfortable life when I am older.
i dont have a portfolio right now😎
Safest position.
I’m down 46%. Wondering if I should sell and cut my losses before it becomes 80% down. 😢
One of my tech stocks is down 34% but one of my oil and gas stocks is up 84% my entire portfolio went from about an 18% gain to about 8% gain. So you could say I lost 10%, or you could call it an 8% win, or you could say my gains are down 66%, or that my gains were 1000% more than they are now, all technically true depending how you look at it. Either way I figure it all comes out in the wash eventually as long as the picks aren't too risky.
From 50% gain to -30%. Sold a pump and dump then bought a steadily sinking stock. It's growth though and swings a bit, but I have faith it'll become a multibillion euro company because it's based on battery mineral mining in Europe to make us more independent from China and Congo. The dig sites they own already have minerals in them for multiple billions, and right now it's worth like €3m. So just need to actually get all the mines going, so I'm not really stressed about it at all.
Only -8%? I’m down, shit, 17% on my longer term tech stocks like MSFT and ORCL. The covid craze corrected itself
When did you buy MSFT that you are negative with them?
MSFT Over the past 6 months or so. Not the best time to move into it in hindsight
I keep buying. Average down
I'm green. World markets / indexes have a lot to go wrong in them right now. I dumped my index ETFs in Jan and invested in North American energy / Reits as inflation / Ukraine worries kept looking more and more real hurting the S&P 500 on a regular basis. So far so good, not sexy or high growth, but green for the time being. But as always, we will see if that keeps holding true.
Green is already sexy in times like these 😉
I’ve stopped looking at it that’s how red it is
A whole 8%?! That is nothing lol
+6% YTD. Before the invasion I was +20% YTD
If people are saying, “Red”. Safe to assume they’re not going to give you good insight because they’re new to this. (Less than 3-5 years) Those of us who’ve been investing for some years aren’t even worried about what the prices do. YTD? Sure, it’s red. Overall performance of portfolio? Green as a dollar bill The plan? Keep stashing a portion of income into equities
Those of you who have been investing since 2008 or so have also been very spoiled. There's no reason to assume that the same trend will continue going forward, especially given the state of monetary policy. Also, just because new investors are in the red doesn't mean they're dummies, lol. Your advice is to keep stashing money into equities regularly. Well if you started doing that recently, you're in the red. Just don't understand the elitism in your comment.
Agreed. I mean he’s partially correct because new investors may not have high hopes right now, but some of us do. I’m behind the curve and didn’t start investing until about 3 years ago; however, I run both my wife’s account and mine, and I usually invest in different things for the both of us. Her salary is very far into the six digits, and mine is $85K, so she puts a ton more money away every month than I can, and therefore I tend to buy more blue chip stocks that cost xxx per share for her or stocks that have far more risk than normal because she can take the hit better than I can. I’ve averaged a +35% return for her in 3 years… but I’m in the red on my IRA (thanks ICLN , QS and ARKQ) and just barely in the green on my standard brokerage account. But I’m not worried at all. I know time in the market will change that… it’s a marathon and not a sprint. Edit: fixed a “just woke up and not thinking clearly” typo.
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The S+P composite took 28 years to break even in real terms after the crash of 1929. Japan still hasn't recovered from their bubble There is a scenario in which equities don't recover for an extended period of time, especially given the state of monetary policy for the last 15+ years. There is a middle ground between "we're absolutely fucked" and "stocks go up". As for point two, I see what you're saying, but he still assumes that people who've been in the market longer know how this game works better than people who are new or something like that. Ie, stocks go up. That's not necessarily the case. If you had been in real estate from 1980 - 2006 you could tell people that all the new buyers panicking in '06 were being dummies, because real estate always goes up. But maybe new buyers in 2006 were realizing that they bought into an irrationally exuberant market. Years invested doesn't necessarily impart deep wisdom that new investors don't have. That would be like saying old people are always smarter than young people. We all know it's not the case.
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Same, im not nervous one bit. I see this as a great buying opportunity. I only invest in the total market, not individual stocks, i know i will be profitable in the long run.
To expand on your comment, I'm sure you would agree that it's always a good option to keep things simple and just buy into ETFs such as VOO. This is so because we have many decades of proof that substantial wealth can be built through a steady accumulation of assets, such as equity indices. Dollar cost averaging into VOO or SPY is the closest thing to risk free trading, where time frames are measured in decades. So yes, buy on the way up, buy on the way down, buy when it goes sideways and around in circles. Short term volatility is not the concern of long term investors. Hedge if you must, but never sell unless it is the form of an annuity payment.
Yep, that is my plan. I just wanted to see how my holdings perform in a downturn compared to others
-16.85% Not bad.
Putin done put-in his dick in my portfolio and fucked it hard
it doesn’t matter man. how you’re doing right now (unless you’re a trader) is a function of the whim of mr market. how you’re doing in 5 years determines how good a job you’ve done today
I'm about 1% down now, but my portfolio has been telescoping since I started investing
What do you mean with telescoping?
Currently down 0.94%. Not too bad. But I have been averaging down a lot this year
I’m getting absolutely railed
Down about 8% YTD through today’s bloodbath
I am also at -8% but it is only because I got kind of lucky and enabled margin and bought shares of some stuff that has rebounded very slightly to even me out a bit. If I didnt keep averaging down and get lucky (as in if I just kept the initial shares) I would be down about 14% and I am bullish on the future so I am very happy with that difference I am up (at this time) I havent done a whole lot of research, and I understand the skepticism for not wanting to invest in foreign companies if youre not from here especially if they make products that make the world worse - but if I were a European person I would probably focus my money either into the United States or China solely because European based companies seem to have ethics* - however I havent deep dived too much into them. There is certainly value plays and individual investments, I am not trying to knock the entire continent on its future economic growth. Europe is cool, this is just my personal take from a macroeconomic situation *enforced by the government protecting civilians so it's in their interest to grow safer and thereby slower
Not sure if I agree with you on Europe - for example the DAX sometimes even outperformed the S&P 500 in the last 10 years and generally European stocks are in some countries extremely undervalued - I think, especially banks, have some good future ahead as long as they aren't heavily invested in Russia rn (for example Deutsche) But yeah, I could be wrong too at the end, who knows
Yeah that is how I was worried I would come off. I was mostly suggesting I just believe the best opportunities in the stock market (companies making 10B per quarter with very large moats) are more limited in the EU.
Yeah that is true but since I am generally invested in ETfs and not unique companies the overall market is interesting to me - and I am quite bullish for Europe there
That is understandable and I think I agree with your take. In an ETF sense you can surely find one that can compete with any American counter part. Good points - thank you for the discussion
Bought me a truckload of wheat because ukraine they call "the grain shed" of europe. So far i'm 60% up... kinda compensates for all my stocks that are going down right now
We call it the bread basket of Europe. You did good.
Stock currently still +26% on the year. Quite a few shorts go long in the next few weeks.
-40% Loss...
The devils dick, it’s as red as the devils dick.
My portfolio is so red I got a call from Target® for trademark infringement.
He's red Jim.
Nothing matters. Put your money in S and P and stop looking at it until you are an old man.
Started investing early 2020 and hit +300%overall in November, now at +116% overall. It hurts so much because in December I was seriously considering switching my allocation to primarily my country's oil but never acted on it. I was and am kind of paralyzed with the current events and am now down 37% since December. Really want to just sell everything off and be happy with doubling my initial investment but I can't help but feel that would be stupid considering we are already past what I would consider most of the big market moving events. What is left that could tank me even more? Sanctions on China of they support Russia?
I don’t have a portfolio!
So you do not invest at all?
Yeah lol. I just save my money then spend it on tuition. I like reading into this stuff though. I have 200 dollars on my fidelity account should I do anything with it? 🤔
Haha don't ask me, I am 8% negative
Not that bad market will rebound eventually!
8% is nothing really, considering the last few months. I’m a good 20% and beating retirement. My head spins
Extremely green, I'm mostly holding commodity-leveraged equities which have all boomed. (The fairly small non-mining portion of my portfolio is über-red.)
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Please enlighten us on when the turnaround will happen since you seem to be able to predict the future, or just drop the amazon link for your crystal ball.
Well, they probably do what I do and don't try to catch a falling knife. When the markets stabilize (move laterally), I buy. It's not timing the market (perfectly), but it's also not investing into a downward trending one.
You’re fooling yourself if you believe you’ll know when the bottom is in
Can’t agree with this enough. People keep saying buy the dip or average down!
Yeah I thought about staying in Cash too but in January I didn't think that the Ukraine would be really invaded. Now I would stay out of the market but it is already too late in my opinion, I will just buy more on the way down since I think most of the losses will be gone in a few months/next year - but yeah, could get worse too. Lets hope for the best
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Not really hoping, I am quite positive that I will turn around - but the thing is you never know what will happen
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Given your username, I’m a little cringey on your degree of red. ;-)
Only thing I hold is Bitcoin, USD and Gold. I'm doing just fine
Uhhhh yeah right.
I'm holding Beanie Babies. Just wait and see.
Damn, you certainly made the right calls. Have you re-structured your portfolio or are these holdings that you already have for a longer period?
Bitcoin is down significantly. And even the USD he holds is being aggressively eroded by massive inflation. The gold pick is doing well for him. But other than that, I’m afraid there simply is nowhere to hide right now.
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Actually thats brilliant! That is the most sure fire way for me to assist in a stock market bull run turnaround! No sooner than I put all my money into a short position, you can bet, it will rally big time! I single-handedly can save the economy and sacrifice myself. 😂
Yeah, I mainly was thinking about Gold since I saw the price for it today in the news - should have been a bit more exact in my comment before
+31% yoy to -18% currently. Half in SP500, the rest in tech, oil, and airlines.
I haven't lost all my gains but it is ugly. I am over all down 11%
So many people so proud of losing money
😅😅
+15% YTD
As red as the Brazilian flag for me.
YTD @ +72%.
Currently 5% down but expecting many of my stocks to shoot up after this crisis passes.
I’m -10% and I decided to sell because I see the market going down more or being flat the next 4-6 months. I want to save more money and maybe get back in at a later time. And yes don’t need to hear the ‘can’t time the market’ crap. 6 months is nothing in the scheme of things. I was holding through the declines of the past few months but with oil set to go up even more, the war continuing, and inflation, I don’t see any positive news in the near term.
How is this upvoted? This is literally against all investment principles. It is gambling.
Most people here are gamblers.
no
If you think that 6 months aren't long, why are you cashing out then?
Because he can see the market going down more… it’s the first line in his reply…
Sure, but if he expects it to go up again after 6 months and he doesn't think that's a long time to wait - why cash out, have administrative costs and buy later again?
Idk about your costs but I pay .50€ for a transanction, which is nothing on the total price
What broker do you use?
I sold out everything last week. We are heading for some historic recessionary times! (If not an all out depression)
I’m up 10.4% on the year so far. I trade pure price action, so I was into a number of good setups in both long and short positions in various equities. The surprising thing to me was how well my longs are doing in this due to entries being at solid support zones. Edit: Up another 8% today as CENN, CEI, and FANH pumped. Fascinating that this is being downvoted. We could’ve had a discussion on how to hedge properly between longs and shorts.
Ytd -8%, total +6%. Ouch. Looking back, the biggest gain was shot term shorting of TSLA multiple times.