Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

It's free falling, I'll give it that.

Thanks for your thoughts/takes yesterday (dad passed away, mom needs assisted living, likely selling their house). Open houses nearby were busy yesterday and they’re in a non-touristy small-ish town 90 minutes north of the Bay, affordable compared to towns south of here, so I’m curious to see how the market + virus + etc. affect things in the next few months.

OXY down 43% today.

I guess one problem with tech-dominated housing markets (not sure if your place is one of these) is the stock market directly impacts the income of the people buying, since they get paid in stock. So even if rates are low, they may be taking a 40% pay cut this month too (very bad news for the state of California btw, which has insanely low property taxes and depends on income tax).

refreshing the Dow Jones page on Business Insider is kinda fun tbh. line go boom!

the only time I ever look at a yahoo web page is yahoo finance, which updates the market slaughter in real time

Ugh, can I say that front page of Business Insider is like a big bad news bomb.

The CDC just released a warning to all Americans over 60: Stock up on food and medications and avoid venturing outside

Coronavirus: Italy lockdown plan leaked, thousands tried to flee

'A nuclear f---ing warhead': A former hedge-fund manager says coronavirus panic will bring the global economy to its knees — and a depression is now his 'base case'

i've been waiting for a black swan event. It sucks that it's this.

The CDC just released a warning to all Americans over 60: Stock up on food and medications and avoid venturing outside

And please for the love of god steer clear of crowded places, such as post offices and voting sites!!

I'm not sure that warning is particularly new, I think it's actually just the standard line for any disaster: hurricanes, quakes, heat wave, et al.

i did not sell any of my bear positions.

might regret it. Who knows!

bear positions say hi to u

a pal went to full treasuries position last month, and i was like “US treasuries, or like somewhere else?” because that crown, some trumpy day...

Lmao markets gonna be up 1000 today bc literally all this country cares about is juicing the stock market

kind of lol about the quick stimulus when supposedly the markets had been so strong for so long.

incredible free market, just the best

I know they have to report on it somehow, but to go from the market "cratering" to the market bounce back or surge or whatever might be accurate, but ... a market that swings overnight between cratering and surging is a sign of something fundamentally amiss. If not in the market, then def. in the reporting.

My 401k performance YTD. That divide between the green and red is ~Feb. 20. This represents about a 10% dip in overall value.

When I posted this on FB, one of my friends glibly commented, "Time to buy!" I'm not a fucken day trader, this is my retirement plan!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESr8vhAXQAEBSLH?format=jpg&name=medium

what does your chart look like from 4Q2016 to now.

it just went negative because the rally was due to Trump floating some tax cuts and shit until eager investors had their coffee and realised he has no fucking plan in place to do any of it.

BREAKING: Dow completely erases 945-point gain, turning into the red https://t.co/q4MhIKA07O pic.twitter.com/EnYQuNomB5

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 10, 2020

Did I say surge? I meant crater!

yeah, i don't really talk about positions here so much because I don't want people to take any advice off the internet about their own finances but I saw the green in premarket and just walked away until it tanked. and now I am happy.

i was bad and ignored the advice of everyone and moved my retirement money (public sector version of 401k) out of stocks over the weekend. i know that i have been bad i am glad that i did it

if only oil would give it up.

my plan is to wait until a skeptical republican dies of coronavirus and then put it back in

what we really need is more of those huge liquidity injections by central banks amirite

:(

it's almost as if this casino banking system can't function without constant intervention by political appointees

Today's market can best be described as a flight back to poor quality, because high quality was already over-booked.

I describe it as DERRRP.

1000 point drop today and not a single post, y'all are getting spoiled

just a little morning dip before the afternoon outbreak breakout

heh. i think some people expected it. xpost

I've had my 401k in an old-man portfolio since like April 2019, so I am sort of thinking of increasing the % of equities soon. Just haven't decided yet what my trigger point is.

Crater! Surge!

stonks

stonks

my employer is up today so actually this is good

caek do you work for Zoom Communications? ... the only stock in my portfolio that is up today!

no i work for a company that announced modestly good Q4 2019 results yesterday

Sold my house last November, bought a new one at half the cost, put some of the money into the market. Won't need to touch any of it for many, many years. Which is good, because these people are fucking nuts.

officially in bear territory

and there's the dead cat bounce

that was yesterday.

but who knows. It seems endless the amount of magic tricks they keep pulling out to try to keep this up the last couple of years.

Pretty confident what the WH does in terms of stimulus will be the wrong thing and will be ineffective. But before they realize that, they will do the wrong thing again, claiming there wasn't enough of the wrong thing done the first time.

here we go https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/11/layoffs-coronavirus/

good luck these places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_States

dowwwwn dowwwn dowwwn

When DJIA breaks below 20,000 I'll know it's getting a bit more serious. In 2008 iirc a 13,000 DJIA was near all time highs and the crash took it down to ~6,000. So, this is still far, far above the mid-aughts bull market highs.