Stock Market is the bottom in?

[PatinPA]

Depends really on what situation you are in. I'm not selling anything right now for a loss, planning on things coming back. Personally I do think the market is reacting way too much to things in play right now. Lot's of panic. Ultimately it's your call on if you think your stocks are going to get back to "normal". jmo

Ok my plan was to ride it out but I was wondering if I should just sell what I have at a loss and hopefully it keeps dropping so I could make more back on the way back up. More risk for sure.

 

[jsasker007]

Please don't take what I say as financial advice. I'm just guessing at what the markets will do myself. Some people are saying the crashing is just getting started. Some people are taking this dipping action as a time to buy things on sale. Whoever can figure out when things hit the bottom are the ones coming out the best. You don't lose money if you don't sell unless your stock goes to zero. Tesla stock is dropping like a rock. I think it's mostly TDS causing that. jmho

 

[Bill]

I really stay away from articles about stocks to buy, and organized stock sites with user forums. I think that’s a shady venue for pumping and dumping garbage stocks. I’ve shoveled lots of money into the abyss on recs I paid for at Motley Fool.

I think we’re getting to the back end of the boom. There’s a ton of exuberance for stocks with nothing behind them, and the swings are starting to get wild. There are also no bears. That’s when you know there are also no more buyers. We’re probably gonna have to get back to looking for catalysts again.

I think the future is bright for the war sector. I lost my LMT shares yesterday because the crap shot up 11% in two weeks.

The future is bright in the Middle East especially. In Lebanon alone there are 2x the people as Palestine and half the density. Syria is 25x bigger than Lebanon. It’ll take at least $8 Trillion (with a T) to make those countries safe. The sabres are rattling in both countries and it’s just a matter of time before they both pop off in a big way. We’ll probably use Turkey to come into Syria from the north too. This is gonna be big.


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LMT is/was a buy and hold for me. We need to replace all the weapons systems we gave away over the last 3 years (and seem to always be using up or leaving behind.) Long term (over 15 years) they are my best performing stock.

 

[bwoods11]

So far trumps put on a masterclass in how to tank the stock market. Hopefully there’s a turnaround in store soon

I would say you are correct .. it’s tough to cut government spending and get rewarded . No doubt he’s getting backlash. It would have been easier to just keep spending trillions!

Tariffs are a factor, personally I don’t think they will have a big impact overall . I predict a -12-14% drop . Then positive by year end!

Lower interest rates will be huge for the average American! That’s coming …

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I was referring to the stock market. There are a bunch of liberals on the investment site (Seeking Alpha) that post stuff like “Trump has been a disaster for the stock market “ & “I made more $$ under Biden” .

I post the “facts” like you just posted in your first sentence. Trump exceeded Biden stock market . He exceeded his economic metrics as well (with the exception of the last 8-9 months of Covid actual shutdown and forced unemployment).

My point was they were wrong & blowing up at Trump for a 7-8% drop, but never said a word when Biden had a -22% drop . Is it possible we see a bigger drop, of course . Let’s see how the Dow/NASDAQ look on December 31, 2025!

The sources I mentioned are anything but liberal. The 22% market drop was due to the global Covid pandemic eff-ing up all markets. Not a surprise to me - nor the analysts at the aforementioned financial sources. When the whole world locked up from the Covid pandemic ..... what else would happen but a market decline?? And not just the U.S. markets. The rest of the world did a lot worse. Some global markets still haven't recovered like the U.S. stock markets did. We did well once the worst of the Covid pandemic was over. Back-to-back 20%+ gains in 2023 and 2024 was a rare occurrence if you look at market history. How is that bad? No complaints from us.

Wife and I are diversified across several market areas, so any downturns were minimal anyway. Our worst fund was 11% gain, and the best gain was over 40%. I believe the old-time financial legends are correct about diversification. Limit risk.

 

[SD51555]

America needs a deep recession to clobber rates. We’ve got to rewrite $9 trillion in stolen debt in the rest of 2025, and if we do it at market rates, we’re gonna be hurting.


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