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Triple digit golfer wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:18 am
anoop wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:54 am This market is so over leveraged, it cannot tolerate this kind of drop. Either this gets bought up before the close or we may need some bills to pass real quick to reverse this.
What kind of drop? This is just the market doing what it does. A long-term 10% or whatever return is not earned without volatility along the way. We haven't even had a 5% drop all year. Do you realize how rare that is?
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lostdog wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:28 am
Triple digit golfer wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:18 am
anoop wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:54 am This market is so over leveraged, it cannot tolerate this kind of drop. Either this gets bought up before the close or we may need some bills to pass real quick to reverse this.
What kind of drop? This is just the market doing what it does. A long-term 10% or whatever return is not earned without volatility along the way. We haven't even had a 5% drop all year. Do you realize how rare that is?
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runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:40 am
z3r0c00l wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:36 am Thanks for pointing that out, I see they are around -2% now. Everything is down except for the VIX stock exchange which is up an incredible 8% today, what country is that?
VIX is the volatility index
VIX up 37%! I should’ve bought me some of that Vietnamese International Index! :wink:
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anoop wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:35 am
lostdog wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:28 am
Triple digit golfer wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:18 am
anoop wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:54 am This market is so over leveraged, it cannot tolerate this kind of drop. Either this gets bought up before the close or we may need some bills to pass real quick to reverse this.
What kind of drop? This is just the market doing what it does. A long-term 10% or whatever return is not earned without volatility along the way. We haven't even had a 5% drop all year. Do you realize how rare that is?
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Didn't take long. Russell 2000 back in the green already. If lostdog makes it to the gym, good chance the others will close green too.
Russell 2k is 2.2% down.
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YRT70 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:41 am
anoop wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:35 am
lostdog wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:28 am
Triple digit golfer wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:18 am
anoop wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:54 am This market is so over leveraged, it cannot tolerate this kind of drop. Either this gets bought up before the close or we may need some bills to pass real quick to reverse this.
What kind of drop? This is just the market doing what it does. A long-term 10% or whatever return is not earned without volatility along the way. We haven't even had a 5% drop all year. Do you realize how rare that is?
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Didn't take long. Russell 2000 back in the green already. If lostdog makes it to the gym, good chance the others will close green too.
Russell 2k is 2.2% down.
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Now we're really falling! No more of this slow bleed.
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Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
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atdharris wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:19 am Now we're really falling! No more of this slow bleed.
And, as usual, international is leading the way.
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UpperNwGuy wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:24 am
atdharris wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:19 am Now we're really falling! No more of this slow bleed.
And, as usual, international is leading the way.
I don't see much difference with VXUS (International) at -2% and VTI (Total U.S.) at -1.8%. (Although maybe when you posted it was different.) I am actually hoping for some more pullback over the next month or so...,
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namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
today's movement is not extraordinary. Actually, a 15-20% down tick would be healthy for the longer term.
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e5116 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:47 am I don't see much difference with VXUS (International) at -2% and VTI (Total U.S.) at -1.8%. (Although maybe when you posted it was different.)
As of this writing, I see VXUS -2.5%. Ex-US would go down harder as the epicenter is China Evergrande.
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Marseille07 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:50 am
e5116 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:47 am I don't see much difference with VXUS (International) at -2% and VTI (Total U.S.) at -1.8%. (Although maybe when you posted it was different.)
As of this writing, I see VXUS -2.5%. Ex-US would go down harder as the epicenter is China Evergrande.
I see -1.94%.
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Forester wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:28 am 1998 - Russia, LTCM
1999/2000 - Dotcom peak

2021 - China, Evergrande
2022 - YOLO/StocksOnlyGoUp peak

A 2022 top vs a Q4 2021 top would call into question my credibility as a macro forecaster.
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I don't own VXUS, but VEA is -2.2% and VWO is -3.1%. VTI is down 1.6%
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Triple digit golfer wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:51 am
Marseille07 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:50 am
e5116 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:47 am I don't see much difference with VXUS (International) at -2% and VTI (Total U.S.) at -1.8%. (Although maybe when you posted it was different.)
As of this writing, I see VXUS -2.5%. Ex-US would go down harder as the epicenter is China Evergrande.
I see -1.94%.
Oh I see what's happening. The ^VXUS index is -2.5%, VXUS ETF is -1.9%...because of the timezone difference, it gaps like this quite often.
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Marseille07 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:56 am
Triple digit golfer wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:51 am
Marseille07 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:50 am
e5116 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:47 am I don't see much difference with VXUS (International) at -2% and VTI (Total U.S.) at -1.8%. (Although maybe when you posted it was different.)
As of this writing, I see VXUS -2.5%. Ex-US would go down harder as the epicenter is China Evergrande.
I see -1.94%.
Oh I see what's happening. The ^VXUS index is -2.5%, VXUS ETF is -1.9%...because of the timezone difference, it gaps like this quite often.
Can you explain this further? Not sure I follow. Thanks!
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Forester wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:28 am 1998 - Russia, LTCM
1999/2000 - Dotcom peak

2021 - China, Evergrande
2022 - YOLO/StocksOnlyGoUp peak

A 2022 top vs a Q4 2021 top would call into question my credibility as a macro forecaster.
That assumes there is some credibility left given your prior track record.
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Just another day in the market.
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Forester wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 8:28 am 1998 - Russia, LTCM
1999/2000 - Dotcom peak

2021 - China, Evergrande
2022 - YOLO/StocksOnlyGoUp peak

A 2022 top vs a Q4 2021 top would call into question my credibility as a macro forecaster.
I don't think anybody is questioning your credibility as a macro forecaster.
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jebmke wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:48 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
today's movement is not extraordinary. Actually, a 15-20% down tick would be healthy for the longer term.
We've already had, in 2021, four days of 600+ point losses. One of those was over 700 points. And I'm sure we all remember March 2020. What is so special about today?
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namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
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CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
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e5116 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:57 am Can you explain this further? Not sure I follow. Thanks!
Well, it's a glitch in Yahoo Finance.

They have https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EVXUS?p=%5EVXUS and https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VXUS?p=VXUS

and about 2 months ago YF started displaying ^VXUS when you type VXUS into the ticker window.

Looking carefully now, I don't know why these percentages diverge so much between the two. My *guess* is that ^VXUS settles sometime AH not 4 pm ET, but I haven't studied ^VXUS long enough to confirm that.
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Tom_T wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:03 am
jebmke wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:48 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
today's movement is not extraordinary. Actually, a 15-20% down tick would be healthy for the longer term.
We've already had, in 2021, four days of 600+ point losses. One of those was over 700 points. And I'm sure we all remember March 2020. What is so special about today?
agree; I'm old enough to remember being fully invested on a day that saw a 22% drop in a single day; that was a bit exciting but things bounced back pretty quickly after that as I recall.
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runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return.
The 9%-10% average return INCLUDES all the crashes and the decade long low return years.

Doubling in 4-5 years (or even less) happens ALL THE TIME, all the way back to the 1890s... It's absolutely normal.

The average return of 9%-10% exists BECAUSE of all the occasional 15% years matched up with the occasional -20% or -30% crash years.
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Tom_T wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:03 am
jebmke wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:48 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
today's movement is not extraordinary. Actually, a 15-20% down tick would be healthy for the longer term.
We've already had, in 2021, four days of 600+ point losses. One of those was over 700 points. And I'm sure we all remember March 2020. What is so special about today?
I think the lesson of 2020 is that it can't REALLY REALLY be a RBD anymore without tripping a circuit breaker...
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HomerJ wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:18 am
runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return.
The 9%-10% average return INCLUDES all the crashes and the decade long low return years.

Doubling in 4-5 years (or even less) happens ALL THE TIME, all the way back to the 1890s... It's absolutely normal.

The average return of 9%-10% exists BECAUSE of all the occasional 15% years matched up with the occasional -20% or -30% crash years.
Exactly. We shouldn't really expect 5 year periods where we get a nice clean 9-10% CAGR and we absolutely not not expect single years at 9-10%.
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runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
Agree.

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namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:54 am
runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
Agree.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Wrong. That's twice now you've implied the last 5 years are an historical anomaly.

We've seen the stock market double in 4-5 years (or less) before the Fed even existed, and certainly before Quantitative Easing began in 2008.
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HomerJ wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:55 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:54 am
runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:23 am Well, no one who with a position in equities should be surprised by this. The market has doubled in 5 years on the backs of the Fed and TINA.
Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
Agree.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Wrong. That's twice now you've implied the last 5 years are an historical anomaly.
Make that three times. The markets are insanely valued. They could drop 50% from here and still be considered overvalued.
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Marseille07 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:12 am
e5116 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:57 am Can you explain this further? Not sure I follow. Thanks!
Well, it's a glitch in Yahoo Finance.

They have https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EVXUS?p=%5EVXUS and https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VXUS?p=VXUS

and about 2 months ago YF started displaying ^VXUS when you type VXUS into the ticker window.

Looking carefully now, I don't know why these percentages diverge so much between the two. My *guess* is that ^VXUS settles sometime AH not 4 pm ET, but I haven't studied ^VXUS long enough to confirm that.
Related to the red phrase above.
I've discovered that if you use the main search box (Search for news, symbols or companies) at the top of the screen instead of the search box on the right hand side of the screen (Quote Lookup) you can avoid the annoying preceding symbol (^) and get to the result you really seek.

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namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:56 am
HomerJ wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:55 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:54 am
runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am

Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
Agree.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Wrong. That's twice now you've implied the last 5 years are an historical anomaly.
Make that three times. The markets are insanely valued. They could drop 50% from here and still be considered overvalued.
Lol, you are dead wrong.

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retired@50 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:59 am Related to the red phrase above.
I've discovered that if you use the main search box (Search for news, symbols or companies) at the top of the screen instead of the search box on the right hand side of the screen (Quote Lookup) you can avoid the annoying preceding symbol (^) and get to the result you really seek.

Regards,
Thank you, this is good to know. I don't comprehend why YF made the change they did, seems like a bad feature to me.
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namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:56 am
HomerJ wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:55 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:54 am
runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am

Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
Agree.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Wrong. That's twice now you've implied the last 5 years are an historical anomaly.
Make that three times. The markets are insanely valued. They could drop 50% from here and still be considered overvalued.
That's a completely different discussion than "Look, the market has doubled in 5 years! That's crazy!"
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namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:56 am
HomerJ wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:55 am
namajones wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:54 am
runninginvestor wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:06 am
CurlyDave wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:04 am

Doubling in 5 years is very good performance, but it only represents a CAGR of 14.9%. The long term historic CAGR is in the 10-11% range, so we are not looking at a huge deviation.
That's a 40-50% increase over the average return. I'd say it's a big deviation over that period.
Agree.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Wrong. That's twice now you've implied the last 5 years are an historical anomaly.
Make that three times. The markets are insanely valued. They could drop 50% from here and still be considered overvalued.
Depends what you consider anomalous. >15% 5-year returns happen about 30% of the time.
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VTI is not even down 4.5% from ATH. Gimme MORE red!
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Maybe indexes all close green today.
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Marseille07 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:03 am
retired@50 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:59 am Related to the red phrase above.
I've discovered that if you use the main search box (Search for news, symbols or companies) at the top of the screen instead of the search box on the right hand side of the screen (Quote Lookup) you can avoid the annoying preceding symbol (^) and get to the result you really seek.

Regards,
Thank you, this is good to know. I don't comprehend why YF made the change they did, seems like a bad feature to me.
I don't understand the difference between VXUS and ^VXUS.
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Happy to see extended duration treasuries showing that negative correlation I bought them for.
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UpperNwGuy wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:43 am I don't understand the difference between VXUS and ^VXUS.
^VXUS (indicative value) is how much VXUS (the ETF) is supposed to trade at. VXUS is the market price of the ETF.

We're seeing discrepancies (presumably) because ^VXUS does not settle at 4 pm like the ETF does as far as tracking daily percentage moves. ^VXUS has to settle at some time of the day but I don't know what time.
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Visitor76 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:36 pm
jarjarM wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:30 pm
atdharris wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:17 pm This month has just been a long, boring decline
It is september so...
Exactly, and it's right on time... just wait till October gets here. All I can say is DCA over the next two months.

Ahhh. But Do I DCA a bit every day or wait?? I just can't bear the suspense of how much to buy, and when....
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How close are we to a Really Bad Day (RBD)?
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Down over 2%. What is he definition of RBD?
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Dottie57 wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:09 pm Down over 2%. What is he definition of RBD?
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If you look at a daily chart of the market and see the size of the red candle, you don't have to wonder if this is an "RBD."
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what goes down must come up
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From the wiki: Abbreviations and Acronyms
RBD - Really Bad Day. A Bogleheads' idiomatic term coined by forum member livesoft. An early mention is in this thread: Today was a Really Bad Day.
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Drolen wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:05 pm
Visitor76 wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:36 pm
jarjarM wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:30 pm
atdharris wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:17 pm This month has just been a long, boring decline
It is september so...
Exactly, and it's right on time... just wait till October gets here. All I can say is DCA over the next two months.

Ahhh. But Do I DCA a bit every day or wait?? I just can't bear the suspense of how much to buy, and when....
Just set either a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly contribution schedule and you're set. I wouldn't try and time the market by guessing when you should buy the dip. Perhaps today is the dip, or tomorrow, next week, or next month.
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