I didnt have much to begin with only lost about 12k, I have nothing anyway. My mother lost roughly 100k in her retirement fund from all this crashing. My grandmother even more. How much have you lost in Trump’s Tantrum Tariffs game?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    All my loss has had nothing to do with the economy.

    I’ve had basically everything I own in life thrown away. Twice. Once when I was 19 and got a job on a cruise ship; my parents sold my car and had my siblings move everything out of my room so my brother could take the room, and those two assholes just threw everything in the trash.

    It happened again when I got married and my (now ex) wife got rid of everything of mine that I had before we met.

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    I’ve sold most of my international/US-biased stocks, only keep a few, plus some local company that I know is doing pretty OK.

    I replaced it with mostly high-security stuff like the bank savings account or European central bank rate coupled stuff. So I guess I am losing the potential interest?

    I am still not sure when to “buy the drop”. I bet that (sadly), the US administration will do more bullshit before it gets better.

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      Yeah, that’s what I did with my 401(k) put into a money market. It’s been there for a while now and after I moved it, the markets have only dropped. Could it in theory come back before I have a chance to buy back in, yeah, that is possibility but at least I still have the money that I moved from the normal investments over to a money market account. At least I didn’t go negative on that.

      Even if I bought back in right this moment, I would still have saved the severe droppings of the last week and a half. Only is I don’t know if we’re still going down yet and how far. I do believe we are still going in the downward motion I think it’s coming back yet. Yeah it’s pretty much gambling on my money, but I honestly believe that this is the better option.

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    I sold about a third of my shares in my retirement index fund into “cash” about a month ago. This was obviously coming and I figured I would try to time the market in this instance. I didn’t have the balls to do the whole thing but I stand to make a nice gain if I can buy back in on the way up.

    The next few years will be a constant whip saw of crashes and “recoveries”, because the big money wins more when prices are volatile. They sell before you can. They buy before you can. It’s a dance they take advantage of, and we should try to as well.

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    In January I moved all my 401k funds to a vangaurd stable fund which mostly invested in money markets. My 401k is somehow up from April 1st by a few %. Thinking of reallocating to take advantage of Trump’s inevitable reversal.

    My guess is he will do it piecemeal as countries cave to his attempt at soliciting bribes. So the market as a whole wont recover all at once. When I see he is starting to reverse individual tariffs, that’s when I’ll do the reallocation. But until then I think there is more to lose.

    Also I shorted Elmo and cashed out high enough to cover the losses on the rest of my portfolio. So somehow I didn’t get turbofucked by them this time.

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      It just sounds like you were ready for the fuckening. Good job honestly, mate. I dont have the funds as a freshly salaryman to be playing markets. But I saw the movements and if I had a spare dime I would have made it out of here still complaining but covered. I’ll never stop complaining until equality and equity are human pillars tho.

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    I’m down $7k, so far.
    I should have bailed early, but the tax hit would have been just as bad.

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    Aren’t the stock markets supposed to recover from a crisis like this, as they always did in the past?

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      Anyone acting like this current clusterfuck is permanent or anything but a random stupid whim hasn’t been following what this shitgibbon does. He will repeal the tariffs at some point, call it a win, and the market will rally in response. Then it’s on to the next abomination of “policy”. Just another episode in the nonstop trash reality show that is a Trump presidency.

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        Why do you assume the market will rally when they’re removed? The market will remain worried about the possibility of more. And the market has to deal with the already existing consequences of purchasing of usa goods down worldwide. Habits broken.

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          The market has the attention span of a goldfish. It’s classic shit: create a problem, repeal or “solve” the problem, bask in the celebration of relief and claim victory. The market won’t go back up the same amount it went down, but insider profits are reaped during market volatility.

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        This is always how I’ve framed it. Either it will recover or we’re dealing with societal collapse–level problems. In the former, great, wait it out. In the latter, good luck no matter how much you had.

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      Literally every single time this far it has but the people who don’t even invest are saying this time might be different.

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    Nothing because I haven’t sold anything and aren’t planning to either. I hold and keep buying more. Just like I did thru the previous dips.

      • Flax
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        I had a trust fund of stocks and my mum said she sold them whenever a crash happened… Why…

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          Yeah, buying after the crash happens makes no sense. If you can somehow( for lack of a better phrase foresee )a crash happening, and then sell before the crash, then buy back in after the crash. That makes sense because then you’re selling high and buying low.

          But buying after the crash makes no sense because now you’re already down. I feel for you on that one

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      As long as you don’t cave, the worst that will happen is you bought before the Depression 2.0 firesale. Your kids will be one of the few of their generation with access to a house. Congrats. Fuck you.

      • Flax
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        11 month ago

        Haven’t seen you in a year, how are you doing?

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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          Still angry, still autistic, but now I have to deal with fucking fascism in my government

          How about yourself? (BTW I now retract every brexit joke I made and am reasonably prepared for my own comeuppances in the coming years)

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            21 month ago

            Things were far better this time last year. Unfortunately now they are far worse 🫠 but I’ll still try my best to get through it

            • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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              Hey if it’ll cheer you up you can make a ‘stupid yank’ joke at my expense, I feel I deserve it a bit. No I didn’t vote for him, but apparently I also didn’t convince enough other people not to vote for him so I have a part in all of this

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                Don’t be silly, there are bound to be more pressing issues in your life than to beat yourself up over the stupid decisions of your countrymen. It’s not your fault. As long as you did your bit and vote, that’s what matters.

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    I decided to adult and buy a few stocks. So far I’ve lost six hundred dollars.

    Yes that doesn’t seem like a lot but I’ve never invested before and I’m not exactly rich.

    Haven’t checked my retirement because I’ve never expected to be able to retire in this country. I will work till I die. Yay, American dream! 🙁

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    I haven’t looked, but I cut the US out of my portfolio well before this. Probably some, but not too much, and I like my prospects once the tariff selloff is over. Actually, if I can swing it through an available institution I might go even shorter on the US with equity futures.

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    I bought European defense stocks so I get happy whatever he says.

    Jokes aside about 30k maybe? Not sold anything and I did not care enough to check. Hopefully he does not get to stay in office for another 4 years. I’ll just buy more meanwhile.

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        My 60 year old dad who started investing 3 months ago is buying Rheinmetall stock. I’d say that when people like him are already buying them you’re already way too late.

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          Yeah I think everyone knows it’s a bubble. Some think they will get off before it pops, and I don’t care, like I said I bought it to be happy either way.

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    About 70k so far, but I haven’t sold, so they’re not really losses. I’ll wait for recovery. No reason to take the early L with selling.

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      Everyone acts like theres going to be a recovery this time. When this is unlike anything we’ve ever been through.

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        I’m counting on republicans to overwhelmingly lose the mid term elections. If they maintain their majority and no one is able to challenge the agenda, then I think we’ll truly be looking at long term hard times.