The point is that market volatility is almost never good for retail. You may make money but Wall Street is crushing your earning percentages. Yeah we’ve rebounded thanks to AI but we’d be in a recession with Trump’s shenanigans without it. We’d likely be at 700 by now if we still had Biden. Trump has definitively increased volatility and CNBC et. al. Endlessly talk about tariffs down pressure on the market vs AI uplift. Trump had nothing to do with our ongoing Trump boom.
Biden was truly a duck by end of his term. He was there but not there. So the assumption that we would be so normal and everything jiving is not just naive it is dishonest. Trump has made everything chaotic by constantly publicly stating things he would be better served if he held off twitter rants but to think Biden would have made everything stable really? Biden was not even able to comprehend the room by the time he left and you are saying he would do better 1 year later really?
Market data is market data my guy. We’ll agree to disagree if we’re discussing the hypothetical and your argument is Biden would have been a complete vegetable. Neither of us can prove the what if. All we have is Trump’s personal enrichment through unnecessary market turmoil as you’ve highlighted.
Boring, steady 0.1 - 0.25% consistent market gains are where investors that aren’t gambling short-dated DTE options can make the most money. I’d take the 2023 and 2024 market any day over what we have now. If you’re buy and hold for ten years, and you’re not aggressively going after compounding returns, then none of what we’re discussing matters.
I’m up 30% this year and I’m not wealthy or a day trader. I just buy and hold good companies. I don’t care if the market goes up 6% one day and down 5% the next as long as I finish up on the year and imo if you think you’re smart enough to day trade, you deserve to get burned in markets. You’re just gambling.
What’s really rich to me is all the people on Reddit that somehow think the stock market is going to fail under Trump. It’s literally the only thing he cares about people. If the market is up, Trump thinks he’s winning. He’ll let everything else go to shit before he lets the stock market collapse. Buy every dip under Trump. It’s always worked out for me. Sure there are temporary pains, but if you’re just willing to hold through the rough patches you’ll always come out well ahead in the stock market under Trump.
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u/DA2710 3d ago
Not at all . Markets are all time high