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The other day when the market broke even on the year, I asked my wife if we needed more money yet. She said we still had a month or two. I considered liquidating some, but boy am I glad I waited (not that 2-3% is a huge difference).
 
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Gravel said:
The other day when the market broke even on the year, I asked my wife if we needed more money yet. She said we still had a month or two. I considered liquidating some, but boy am I glad I waited (not that 2-3% is a huge difference).
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It's all relative. 3% of $1,000,000 is quite a bit of money.
 
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And we're up 1.4% today as of right now too, all time highs by a good margin.

I mean personally its great for me like I'm sure it is for a lot of you, but I don't understand it.
 
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M Power said:
It's all relative. 3% of $1,000,000 is quite a bit of money.
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Right, but I don't liquidate my entire portfolio when we need cash to live off. I do like $5-10k at a time. So it's an extra couple hundred dollars. Not nothing, but over the long term also insignificant.

It's why I always say, even after you retire you still need to stay in equities. If you've got 30 years, do you care what the market is at today? No, it's what it looks like in 10, 20, or 30 years. And if you expect it to keep going up, don't worry about the small bumps along the way.
 
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Gravel said:
Right, but I don't liquidate my entire portfolio when we need cash to live off. I do like $5-10k at a time. So it's an extra couple hundred dollars. Not nothing, but over the long term also insignificant.

It's why I always say, even after you retire you still need to stay in equities. If you've got 30 years, do you care what the market is at today? No, it's what it looks like in 10, 20, or 30 years. And if you expect it to keep going up, don't worry about the small bumps along the way.
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I agree as long as your equities are well diversified and not heavily aggressive.
 
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Gravel said:
Right, but I don't liquidate my entire portfolio when we need cash to live off. I do like $5-10k at a time. So it's an extra couple hundred dollars. Not nothing, but over the long term also insignificant.

It's why I always say, even after you retire you still need to stay in equities. If you've got 30 years, do you care what the market is at today? No, it's what it looks like in 10, 20, or 30 years. And if you expect it to keep going up, don't worry about the small bumps along the way.
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People selling into bonds at 49 or whatever are insane. I'm staying 100% equities, and planning to just live off the gains (a portion of the gains most likely) and just eating the bad years in order to enjoy the good years. My wife is cheap, if there's a sustained downturn we can turtle up and be fine.
 
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They are only doing it because Trump won't unblock the Iranian ports until the deal is complete. I'm guessing this is solved by end of the week if not sooner. Sadly, Trump risks blowing everything up and dragging this out longer because he can't just let things go and has to be the big man. If he just says "deal made no longer blocking ports" then Iran would let the strait open again.
 
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They are only doing it because Trump won't unblock the Iranian ports until the deal is complete. I'm guessing this is solved by end of the week if not sooner. Sadly, Trump risks blowing everything up and dragging this out longer because he can't just let things go and has to be the big man. If he just says "deal made no longer blocking ports" then Iran would let the strait open again.
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Got dang dude! We need you in the Oval Office!
 
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And we're up 1.4% today as of right now too, all time highs by a good margin.

I mean personally its great for me like I'm sure it is for a lot of you, but I don't understand it.
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This is also something itching in the back of my head. On one hand I tell myself "The market had an overall crappy Q1, people went risk off and sold. Now they're looking for excuses to make the correction that happened the absolute bottom and buying back in, driving the market up regardless of any actual news."

Then there's a part of me that remembers living through the .com crash and learning very painfully what terms like "Irrational Exuberance" and "market capitulation" meant.

The logic side of my brain doesn't see any mappable reason for the surge.
 
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