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Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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Okay? And 1.5 trillion was wiped off of the US equity market.

US equity doesn't pretend to be a low risk investment vehicle resistant to inflation worries.

There is no cryptocurrency in the top 10 pretending to be low-risk. There are probably way more financial advisors claiming that US equity is low-risk than there are people claiming the same for any cryptocurrency.

Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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post #12

That's all the point of crypto-currencies, they need to go up and down to enable speculation. Pump and make it go up. Dump and it goes down. Someone is cashing the difference. A stable crypto-currency will not attract so much speculative investment.

A stable crypto-currency will not attract any investment. Crypto is useless for anything but money laundering and speculation.

Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US equity doesn't pretend to be a low risk investment vehicle resistant to inflation worries.

Except it does

It historically has grown reliably overall at the market level, but individual equities are not that at all. BTC specifically was supposed to be that, and it isn't.

Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US equity doesn't pretend to be a low risk investment vehicle resistant to inflation worries.

Neither does crypto. Out of all things that's about the least "low risk" I've seen yet.

Store of value.

US money printer.

Inflation hedge.

Do you think we forget what the crypto-bros said just a few months ago?

Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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post #6

This is on top of all the carnage the market has seen in the last few months. Everything is on sale.

> Everything is on sale. Such meaningless phrasing. If something wasn't on sale, nobody could buy it. The crypto meme of dips in the price being 'a sale' is key to hooking the uniformed new fish into the great ponzi scheme.

It's not just crypto buyers with this mindset.. it's been part of stock market investing for a while. Buy low when everyone else is selling

Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you making leveraged trades in a retirement account? It's off 9%. If someone told you you'd have to make do with only 91% of your planned income, you'd be OK. This is what markets do.

Thoughts on a TMF and UPRO portfolio? Better sharpe ratio than 60/40 stocks index

This has been discussed ad nauseam on Bogleheads forum and on several subreddits /r/letf /r/hfea

Re: $130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours

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post #50
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My bad, didn't check Netflix. It's not "really" part of FANG in my head, I suppose. Edited my comment to say "Big 5" instead.

> It's not "really" part of FANG in my head What do you thought the "N" stood for or you thought it was a placeholder so that acronym is not offensive.

He made a GAAF, no need to read anything into it.

Big Tech stocks have changed since FANG/FAANG was coined, the term doesn't necessarily relate to what was big and heading for explosive growth back then. "FAANG" is a noun that doesn't necessarily mean "Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google" any more

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