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Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

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Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

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post #22

why do we have this sensationalist click-baity stock-market focused article on the HN front page?

Blame Reuters for putting out what you describe as "clickbait".

Or maybe, just maybe, a 13% one-day drop in the stock market of one of the world's largest economies is worth of discussion by HN?

Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

#32
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I’m still up 6% YTD and 13% in the last 12 months. For now. It can still go lower.

It can always go lower, but this is called bear porn. Path of least resistance is higher; too high too fast for too long causes people to lever up and this blows up sometimes, like in the past few sessions. Question is how much of the carry trade will unwind now. Regulators will socialize the losses if it happens all at once, that you can be sure of.

Sure, but I wasn't talking about long term, I meant to point out that it's foolish to say "but my folio still up tho?", especially this early while things are still unraveling.

Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

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post #6

It’s scary headlines like this: ‘trampled’, ‘crashes’, that put off less informed, risk averse individuals on lower incomes/ net worth, from investing in stocks. It’s a shame, as ETFs, and hell, index funds if you must, outperform savings on a 3 year or even less horizon. Yes, my portfolio dropped 7% this month. I’m still up 6% YTD and 13% in the last 12 months. My horizon is well over 5 years. It would be an easy wa…

I think it's also the jargon-laden complexity of investing. A safe choice for a lower income investor is called "FTSE All-World UCITS ETF (VWRP)", which is meaningless mumbo-jumbo to most people.

Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

#37
post #6

It’s scary headlines like this: ‘trampled’, ‘crashes’, that put off less informed, risk averse individuals on lower incomes/ net worth, from investing in stocks. It’s a shame, as ETFs, and hell, index funds if you must, outperform savings on a 3 year or even less horizon. Yes, my portfolio dropped 7% this month. I’m still up 6% YTD and 13% in the last 12 months. My horizon is well over 5 years. It would be an easy wa…

> ETFs, and hell, index funds if you must, outperform savings on a 3 year or even less horizon

Sure, they always do until they don't, right?

How is the US immune from having a Nikkei-like era? Not until earlier this year did it re-reach the highs originally set in 1989 -- 35 years!

Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

#38

Why would a high amount of trades trigger circuit breakers? That is just network traffic not power load, no?

I assume “circuit breakers” is a technical term for some automatic system that is built in to the market to activate if some condition occurs, to alter market behavior.

Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

#39
People saying this is nothing. Yes, it is not productive for a longterm investor to focus on individual days (and I'm not panic selling now) but 13% down is a lot. The point isn't that 13% in itself is the end of the world (I'm still up 40% this year) but rather that it signals that the market thinks things are going to get bad. And that could be bad for our portfolios (and our jobs, etc).

Re: Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%

#40

Why would a high amount of trades trigger circuit breakers? That is just network traffic not power load, no?

They're not literal circuit breakers. "Circuit breaker" is the name for exchanges rules that stop trading when the price does something crazy.
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