Who is planning to buy shares

With the market pulling back recently and the regional tensions flaring, whats the plan for shares? Are people intending to buy soon or prefer to stay on sidelines.

There is a possibility that this will settle down fairly soon (rates will start increasing, whatever politics settle etc). But there is also a possibility for further flaire up (Taiwan, runway inflation etc).

Thoughts?

 

If you pause and reflect on the past then you will realise there were always plenty of reasons not to buy.

Ill keep DCAing into ETFs while holding a bit of cash on the side to take adavantage of any calamities that eventuate however.
Basically I dont see the potential for problems any worse than normal.

 

When was the last time when there was no possibility of a 'flare up' somewhere in the world?
How many of those actually happened, and what was the long term impact on markets?

DCA for the grandkids.

 

80,000 years ago

 

I have a couple of triggers that if VDHG hits then I will buy more at certain amounts. Else leave cash in offset for now.

 

Hmm, maybe just before this time is when you could start worrying - not that you could do a darn thing about it.

"According to the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, asteroid 2017 PDC has a 96% chance of hitting earth in 2027."

 

I'm shorting.

 

Love this. There is always a reason not to take risks. But I agree with your point, if we keep sitting on the side we are unlikely to see any opportunity

 

Shorting can be a good strategy regardless. Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when other are greedy. That doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of fear

 

Tip: I customise playback speed to 1.1 0r 1.15 times on most youtube clips, 1.25 is too much of a jump.

 

Great tip! Thanks! If only I had figured this out ages ago I could have saved years off my life!

 

Shares in WA Perth property funds/companies. those holding good land in Perth. Someone suggested to me.
Seriously thinking about it.
Perth is the next to go. Boom may be subdued by rates but it has the best upsides of any location atm.

 

Some American commentators sound better at 1.25 speed

 

If you're not inclined to watch the vids, when asked where investors could look to in 2022, Grantham indicated a combo of value-tilt and emerging markets. It's very much the US that he's super bearish on.

 

"As of Dec. 31, GMO was forecasting an annual real return of minus 1.7% for large-cap U.S. stocks over the next seven years."

Grantham's looking on track with this call.

Jeremy Grantham: Learning to Live With a Stock Bubble

Whoops. He said this in 2013. Total returns for USA large caps have tripled since then.

Listen to people like him, asness etc. if you like, but they have zero proven ability to predict markets. They are purposefully playing into peoples fear by pretending to be expert market forecasters when there is no such thing.

 

Same old, same old.

Listed Investment Companies (LICs) 2020 [LIC & LIT]

 

Yes, just the same. As much as you can as often as you can. Let compounding work it’s magic

 

He he.

Ah, dear me. Pestilence, famine, war and worry has been the norm since whenever. It's been calculated that over the last 3,500 to 4,000 years there has only been a state of peace for around 300 of them. Humans can soar to the heaven's with inspiration yet at the same time we are the dumbest species on this planet.

 

I voted sitting on the fence as long as the fence isn't razor wire..
But I was shorting a bank up too about a week ago,first 2 went very well -the third one sold out early last week maybe after tax break even.
If one was to read all the "Doom" that is in the media from the billions lost in media platforms to just about everything Blackrock control's think we have reached a point where rises are no longer sustainable and a correction is likely to be fairly dramatic..

 

Interesting to see moving to cash is 0. Soit seems to me that majority of people agree that while we might have a correction, it will not be anything insanely big.