How much did you lose this week?

[thyme4change]

The market sucks

85k

[cyanne]

I don't want to know so I won't look. 

[Deleted]

I didn't sell anything, so nothing.

[ken a.k.a OMK]

 My portfolio is up $38k for the week.

[sesfw]

I'm with MPL ........... didn't sell anything ... so nothing

I'm a long term investor 

[MN-Investor]

I don't retain end of week numbers, just month ends.

For the month of August, I'm up 0.3%.

Year-to-date I'm up 12.7%.

Compared to one year ago, I'm up 7.6%.

And, from March 2009 (remember that?) I'm up 282%.

By the way, when my sweetie retired in 2016, we changed our asset allocation from primarily stocks to 60% bonds and cash / 40% stocks. I won't get the huge upswings in the market, and I'll avoid the major downturns. I can live with that.

[Tiny]

I didn't sell anything so no loss.

But my accounts are down about 30K, since the last time I looked at my totals (about 2 months ago)? I still have more money than I did at the end of 2018. I'm still kind of heavy on stocks based on my "plan" -- not down to the 70%/30% I'd like to be at. I'm 55 and thinking of FIre-ing by 59.5...so I've got a 5-ish year horizon.

[Regis]

Down a little under 1.5% last week but still up 17.2% in 2019 so I'm feeling pretty good.

[Miss Tequila]

I went to cash at the end of June so I lost nothing. I’m trying to decide when I should jump back in. I. D.o.n.t think this is the end of the big drops, though.

[haapai]

I'm aiming for the long haul and it will take something like a 20% loss with easy opportunities to exit that I did not take to make me regret staying steady.  I have no faith in my ability to exit and re-enter the market at the right times. 

Plus, I did pretty well in the last recession.  I can't remember what I had in late 2008, or how much I contributed before daring to look at a balance again, but I swear that when I did, there was twice as much there as I had remembered. 

Since I haven't been following the market much, can anyone out there tell me if any index has fallen by that much?  I don't think it is healthy for me to check on my own, so I'm asking you to do it for me. 

[busymom]

DH is still in the stock market, but I'm in cash.  We remember the market "corrections" in the past, and with DH (who's a bit older than me)    being eligible to retire in 7 years, we didn't want to suffer a big loss just before retirement.  But then, knowing DH, he'll probably work until he can't...

[Tiny]

Aug 17, 2019 13:02:44 GMT -5 busymom said:

DH is still in the stock market, but I'm in cash.  We remember the market "corrections" in the past, and with DH (who's a bit older than me)    being eligible to retire in 7 years, we didn't want to suffer a big loss just before retirement.  But then, knowing DH, he'll probably work until he can't...

YEah,  back when the market plummetted (2007? 2008? ) I was like " the market will come back and I can buy low as it goes up I've got plenty of time to recoup."    This time around I don't fell I can weather a plunge and then the slow recovery.  I also kind of think the recovery from this next recession will be much like recoveries of the past.      Recovery won't be fast and might not even be slow - it might just wobble along at the bottom for a very long time.    That wobble for a months and months or a year or longer scenario scares me. 

[dannylion]

I avoid checking my accounts every day, especially when the market is swooning.  I don't anticipate needing to sell anything, so the day-to-day fluctuations in value are irrelevant.  If there is a big dip, I generally buy a couple of things that look like bargains at the time.  

[Rukh O'Rorke]

Aug 17, 2019 9:01:30 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

The market sucks

85k

oooo - I haven't been paying attention to this side of things!

Should I dare to check?

[Rukh O'Rorke]

ooo - looked enough to know I don't want to do the math!

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

$6,052.42 gain YTD

[giramomma]

I haven't looked either. I'm set it and forget it.

And, also, given that I'm still gunning to retire between 58 and 60, we still need our money in stocks.

If I moved everything to cash and my money only grew at 1-2% a year at 60, I'm assuming I'd be hurting at 85, if I make it that long.

[azucena]

I pay so little attention that I didn't even know the market was down until I saw this thread. I have $5k of the 5500 needed to open a roth for myself this year. I should get on that and open one before the market goes back up!

Also curious to me that some are posting gains. Does that mean they are in bonds or something?

[dogmom]

Leaving things as they are.  Adjusted 401K a while back (Hope to retire in two years).  Stocks, etc, long term.  Haven't bought or sold.  I haven't otherwise looked. 

[buystoys]

I also haven't really paid attention.  I just set my AA and let it go until the end of March every year.  That's when I take our IRA distribution for the year. 

[Deleted]

I haven't looked. Sometimes I update daily when the market is going up, but I always update on the first of every month.  The gains from the first half of the year couldn't continue forever. 

[Deleted]

Aug 18, 2019 5:00:42 GMT -5 azucena said:

Also curious to me that some are posting gains. Does that mean they are in bonds or something?

I'm 100% stocks in my 401K and still up over 16% for the year.  

[tallguy]

My high was in January, 2018.  Almost made it back there before this most recent collapse.  If I actually needed any of the money I would be bothered. 

[Value Buy]

Aug 18, 2019 9:18:15 GMT -5 tallguy said:

My high was in January, 2018.  Almost made it back there before this most recent collapse.  If I actually needed any of the money I would be bothered. 

January of 2018? I know the end of 2018 was rough, but I would assume your high mark had to be around September 2018 or earlier in this year.
Did you change investment goals or funds?

[tallguy]

Aug 18, 2019 10:04:03 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Aug 18, 2019 9:18:15 GMT -5 tallguy said:

My high was in January, 2018.  Almost made it back there before this most recent collapse.  If I actually needed any of the money I would be bothered. 

January of 2018? I know the end of 2018 was rough, but I would assume your high mark had to be around September 2018 or earlier in this year.
Did you change investment goals or funds?

No, pretty much 100% equities.  September got close, as did last month, but not quite matching the high from January 2018.  I do have a lean toward EM that has been hurting a little bit.

[Deleted]

Ok, I admit it.  It is all my fault.  I retired so, of course, the market tanked.  Just like it always rises on the day that my automatic investment goes into the market.

I have no idea.  I check the balance once a month when my automatic investment goes in.  That's in a few days so I will know then.

[Deleted]

I just look at this chart and don't stress the little dips.  To be honest, I wasn't really liking buying with the 52 week bar all the way to the right on the 52 week high chart anyhow. 

[haapai]

Nice chart.  Confusing x-axis.  Weighted somehow for percentage?  Weighted for current value?  Care to share the caption that doesn't appear? 

Okay, that was too cryptic.  But can you please explain to me why increments of 200 shorten so much as you go up the x-axis?  Just take a look at the bottom two increments and the top two increments if you don't know what I am pointing out. 

[Artemis Windsong]

I didn't add it up.  The stocks I have are "play" money. I did take risks.  Barely measurable within the total investments.  The divis are reinvested so I would have a hard time calculating total return against purchase price loss.

The 2008 debacle was horrible on paper BUT we got the divis that we use to support our house.  The hurt was, I had asked our financial adviser to put a 10% stock loss on our account; and he talked me out of it.  I can't describe the emotional feeling within myself during that time. The closest would be abused on all levels for an extended period of time or complete helplessness.

[pooks]

I don't know.  Last week looks kind of unremarkable.  Things went up, then down, then back up again to end the week slightly down.  For me what has been remarkable is how little the market has moved, feels like I have been retreading the same numbers for 18 months.  As for being up YTD that is mostly because 2018 ended pretty low.   

We are staying the course with retirement money.  We feel we have one more recession to just let it ride and recover.  I took out the short term money at the end of August 2018 and just for my sanity that has been worth it.