[SeekAndFind]

The chart below graphs the forward performance of each instance (the shaded gray area marks the “we are here” level, which is after the 10% drop).

With the exception of the Great Depression (1929), all similar declines reversed almost immediately. Three and six months later each was up, again with the exception of 1929—an average of 10% after three months, and an average of 15% after six months.

[plain talk]

12 month investing horizon? Best to invest and not touch it for years.

[struggle]

I’m guessing recovery starts in earnest around the second week of April when things get warm and the new cases start to fade. I switched all my stocks to money market and bonds in early Feb before I took a hit. I think I’ll re-enter right after Easter.

[Vermont Lt]

There was just an article on Zero Hedge showing freight coming into Long Beach is down quite a bit.

That is going to take the wind out of some sails for a while. Even if everything in China got back up to speed today, it would be six weeks before stuff arrived here.

There are some bargains, I guess. But I would be careful spending “priced for perfection” prices for stocks that won’t be perfect for a while.

[umgud]

I’d like to retire in a couple years, so this comes at a crappy time for me.

I am just tweaking my 401K, but for the most part gonna let it ride. I’m experimenting with my non-401K cash.

[j.havenfarm]

I have a pension so beyond that just a couple of online brokerage accounts that I put a little into every pay day. I scraped a little harder this week and bout some shares of Carnival Cruises. It’s off 50% and there’s no reason for it not to rebound strongly when corona is passed

[BobL]

I’ll stick with my prediction of 10k for the Dow by the time this is over and we SLOWLY start to recover. Most of the effect (75%) will be due to economic hit of losing imports from China and now many other countries. Even people who run our largest corporations have NO IDEA just how dependent on China we’ve become - they think importing from Vietnam protects them, for example, except more than half of everything Vietnam imports comes from...China.

[virgil]

A 2008 like catastrophe is what democrats are praying to Gaia for, if not out right promoting.

[CapnJack]

just dropped another $500 in my 5 year old’s 529 fund last week.

Will do the same next paycheck.

Time to buy!

[shanover]

We will see what Corona says in Spring.

[minnesota_bound]

AMD had great meeting with wall street and big investors last Thursday. After hours the stock was up $2.79 !

But the 35 tech stocks I look at were all red on Friday. AMD too. It did at the very end go green while the others did not. Hope it goes up up up next week.

That darn coronavirus!!