Where people invest during stock market crash (USA Q4 2018 crash)? [on hold]
Question: Where people invest during stock market crash (USA Q4 2018 crash)?
Assumptions:
- When viewing S&P500 as a proxy to the USA market we can observe that it loses market cap (and price respectively)
- Also, investments AREN'T moving into 'safe heaven' 3-Month Treasury Bills
(based on the assumption that currently it's interest rate rises because investors prefer other means of investing)
Sources:
- S&P 500 price
- S&P 500 market cap
- 3-month Treasury Bills
This question isn't financial advice, just a way to learn/discuss economics/finances.
UPD: I've changed the question because original version has no sense, so you may find some strange conversations.
stocks stock-markets standard-and-poors-500
asked Dec 24 at 19:45
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Question: Where people invest during stock market crash (USA Q4 2018 crash)?
Assumptions:
- When viewing S&P500 as a proxy to the USA market we can observe that it loses market cap (and price respectively)
- Also, investments AREN'T moving into 'safe heaven' 3-Month Treasury Bills
(based on the assumption that currently it's interest rate rises because investors prefer other means of investing)
Sources:
- S&P 500 price
- S&P 500 market cap
- 3-month Treasury Bills
This question isn't financial advice, just a way to learn/discuss economics/finances.
UPD: I've changed the question because original version has no sense, so you may find some strange conversations.
stocks stock-markets standard-and-poors-500
asked Dec 24 at 19:45
Artem Bernatskyi
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put on hold as too broad by Nathan L, Dheer, JoeTaxpayer♦ Dec 25 at 12:50
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Lost value is just lost value, it's not movement of money. Today someone is willing to pay $500 for one of your rare tulip bulbs, tomorrow you can only sell them for $10. The value of your market cap dropped, but no money changed hands outside of the individual purchases.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 19:56
Yeah, my question is incorrect, I see it now, so instead i should ask where do people invest after stock market crash, aren't I ?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 20:19
At least for today, Dec 24, most folks are just leaving their money right where it is The NASDAQ only traded 1,724,366,735 shares today, which is quite low. Last Friday 7,609,010,000 shares traded hands. The fact that the price or the market cap changed by a lot doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of money is moving around right now, though they may certainly change in the near future.
– Charles E. Grant
Dec 24 at 21:07
1
This might be stating the obvious but you do know that every transaction has a buyer and a seller, right? In order for someone to take money out of the S&P500 (say the SPY ETF) they would have to sell to a buyer... The stock market is not a supermarket, the NYSE doesn't set prices and sell stock. And looking back over the historical charts, the best place to invest after the crash was the market.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:56
2
That was hardly a crash, simply a correction for overestimated growth.
– Mast
Dec 25 at 11:35
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Question: Where people invest during stock market crash (USA Q4 2018 crash)?
Assumptions:
- When viewing S&P500 as a proxy to the USA market we can observe that it loses market cap (and price respectively)
- Also, investments AREN'T moving into 'safe heaven' 3-Month Treasury Bills
(based on the assumption that currently it's interest rate rises because investors prefer other means of investing)
Sources:
- S&P 500 price
- S&P 500 market cap
- 3-month Treasury Bills
This question isn't financial advice, just a way to learn/discuss economics/finances.
UPD: I've changed the question because original version has no sense, so you may find some strange conversations.
stocks stock-markets standard-and-poors-500
asked Dec 24 at 19:45
Artem Bernatskyi
1144
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Question: Where people invest during stock market crash (USA Q4 2018 crash)?
Assumptions:
- When viewing S&P500 as a proxy to the USA market we can observe that it loses market cap (and price respectively)
- Also, investments AREN'T moving into 'safe heaven' 3-Month Treasury Bills
(based on the assumption that currently it's interest rate rises because investors prefer other means of investing)
Sources:
- S&P 500 price
- S&P 500 market cap
- 3-month Treasury Bills
This question isn't financial advice, just a way to learn/discuss economics/finances.
UPD: I've changed the question because original version has no sense, so you may find some strange conversations.
stocks stock-markets standard-and-poors-500
stocks stock-markets standard-and-poors-500
asked Dec 24 at 19:45
Artem Bernatskyi
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asked Dec 24 at 19:45
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asked Dec 24 at 19:45
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asked Dec 24 at 19:45
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put on hold as too broad by Nathan L, Dheer, JoeTaxpayer♦ Dec 25 at 12:50
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Lost value is just lost value, it's not movement of money. Today someone is willing to pay $500 for one of your rare tulip bulbs, tomorrow you can only sell them for $10. The value of your market cap dropped, but no money changed hands outside of the individual purchases.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 19:56
Yeah, my question is incorrect, I see it now, so instead i should ask where do people invest after stock market crash, aren't I ?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 20:19
At least for today, Dec 24, most folks are just leaving their money right where it is The NASDAQ only traded 1,724,366,735 shares today, which is quite low. Last Friday 7,609,010,000 shares traded hands. The fact that the price or the market cap changed by a lot doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of money is moving around right now, though they may certainly change in the near future.
– Charles E. Grant
Dec 24 at 21:07
1
This might be stating the obvious but you do know that every transaction has a buyer and a seller, right? In order for someone to take money out of the S&P500 (say the SPY ETF) they would have to sell to a buyer... The stock market is not a supermarket, the NYSE doesn't set prices and sell stock. And looking back over the historical charts, the best place to invest after the crash was the market.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:56
2
That was hardly a crash, simply a correction for overestimated growth.
– Mast
Dec 25 at 11:35
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Lost value is just lost value, it's not movement of money. Today someone is willing to pay $500 for one of your rare tulip bulbs, tomorrow you can only sell them for $10. The value of your market cap dropped, but no money changed hands outside of the individual purchases.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 19:56
Yeah, my question is incorrect, I see it now, so instead i should ask where do people invest after stock market crash, aren't I ?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 20:19
At least for today, Dec 24, most folks are just leaving their money right where it is The NASDAQ only traded 1,724,366,735 shares today, which is quite low. Last Friday 7,609,010,000 shares traded hands. The fact that the price or the market cap changed by a lot doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of money is moving around right now, though they may certainly change in the near future.
– Charles E. Grant
Dec 24 at 21:07
1
This might be stating the obvious but you do know that every transaction has a buyer and a seller, right? In order for someone to take money out of the S&P500 (say the SPY ETF) they would have to sell to a buyer... The stock market is not a supermarket, the NYSE doesn't set prices and sell stock. And looking back over the historical charts, the best place to invest after the crash was the market.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:56
2
That was hardly a crash, simply a correction for overestimated growth.
– Mast
Dec 25 at 11:35
Lost value is just lost value, it's not movement of money. Today someone is willing to pay $500 for one of your rare tulip bulbs, tomorrow you can only sell them for $10. The value of your market cap dropped, but no money changed hands outside of the individual purchases.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 19:56
Lost value is just lost value, it's not movement of money. Today someone is willing to pay $500 for one of your rare tulip bulbs, tomorrow you can only sell them for $10. The value of your market cap dropped, but no money changed hands outside of the individual purchases.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 19:56
Yeah, my question is incorrect, I see it now, so instead i should ask where do people invest after stock market crash, aren't I ?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 20:19
Yeah, my question is incorrect, I see it now, so instead i should ask where do people invest after stock market crash, aren't I ?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 20:19
At least for today, Dec 24, most folks are just leaving their money right where it is The NASDAQ only traded 1,724,366,735 shares today, which is quite low. Last Friday 7,609,010,000 shares traded hands. The fact that the price or the market cap changed by a lot doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of money is moving around right now, though they may certainly change in the near future.
– Charles E. Grant
Dec 24 at 21:07
At least for today, Dec 24, most folks are just leaving their money right where it is The NASDAQ only traded 1,724,366,735 shares today, which is quite low. Last Friday 7,609,010,000 shares traded hands. The fact that the price or the market cap changed by a lot doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of money is moving around right now, though they may certainly change in the near future.
– Charles E. Grant
Dec 24 at 21:07
1
1
This might be stating the obvious but you do know that every transaction has a buyer and a seller, right? In order for someone to take money out of the S&P500 (say the SPY ETF) they would have to sell to a buyer... The stock market is not a supermarket, the NYSE doesn't set prices and sell stock. And looking back over the historical charts, the best place to invest after the crash was the market.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:56
This might be stating the obvious but you do know that every transaction has a buyer and a seller, right? In order for someone to take money out of the S&P500 (say the SPY ETF) they would have to sell to a buyer... The stock market is not a supermarket, the NYSE doesn't set prices and sell stock. And looking back over the historical charts, the best place to invest after the crash was the market.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:56
2
2
That was hardly a crash, simply a correction for overestimated growth.
– Mast
Dec 25 at 11:35
That was hardly a crash, simply a correction for overestimated growth.
– Mast
Dec 25 at 11:35
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There is no money, and it doesn’t go anywhere. A company’s market cap is just the market’s opinion of what it’s worth. That opinion changes all the time, but no actual money is involved. Money only comes into it when shares (or derivatives) are actually bought and sold.
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
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@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
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If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
2
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot ofexpertsare calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
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Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
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The price of U.S. Treasury securities are up in the past month. Gold is up and the Yen is up. The Swiss Franc is not completely at a one month high.
There have been ETF inflows into a Treasury fund that has a duration of about 1.9 years. But it appears that an investor could outperform the income of that fund with a three-month bill in their own Treasury Direct account. However, there is gain in the securities price of the longer term duration.
There have also been ETF inflows into emerging-markets but ETF outflows out of high-yield debt. So I don't agree with the inflows into emerging-markets.
Even six-month non-government bond funds are down in the past month.
But investors that outperform the market over long term periods basically buy what is down as long as there is no bad news specific to the stock or bond being bought.
answered Dec 24 at 23:32
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All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
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Dec 25 at 0:46
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Other answers list some excellent investment options.
One choice, both obvious and counter-intuitive, depending on how you approach it, is to invest (or continue investing) in stocks. S&P 500 index fund shares are about 20% cheaper now than they were 3 months ago. This is a great time to buy!
Of course, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this question. Time horizon and risk tolerance, among other things, affect your choices greatly. But there is one important thing to keep in mind: what matters is how high your investments are valued at the time when you decide to sell them. Until then, the lower they are valued, the more you can buy.
answered Dec 25 at 2:26
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You are wrong on your assumption about tbills. These are considered a safe haven asset. Getting 2.27% is better than zero or negative. Also they are liquid so you can always get out easily. A long only portfolio manager has a relative benchmark he is trying to beat. So with the S&P heading south, cash is king.
Typically, a couple of the following will be happening:
1) raising cash (if already owning stocks). I.e. selling stock and putting the money into a money market fund. If have cash, put in money market fund.
2) selling calls against the position this offsets partially the loss from the stock going down.
3) a long only portfolio manager (i.e. can't use derivatives) would be doing #1 and has a list of stocks that he/she likes with price entry points. If the stock reaches that point then they will buy some. (Right now things keep going down and so there is little incentive to buy, if you can buy it tomorrow at a lower price). For example AAPL might be too expensive at 210 based upon p/e, dividend yield, but at 170, it might be a buy.
4) a long/short portfolio manager is currently worried that his long short trade is working and most likely is reducing risk if risk is based upon volatility.
5) a long only manager who is required to be at least xx% invested most likely would move to what is considered defensive plays and out of agressive plays (i.e. shift from high beta stocks to low beta stocks (i.e. tech to big pharma/utilities. He would also move out of more speculative plays into more slow and steady wins the race types.
answered Dec 25 at 2:25
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There is no money, and it doesn’t go anywhere. A company’s market cap is just the market’s opinion of what it’s worth. That opinion changes all the time, but no actual money is involved. Money only comes into it when shares (or derivatives) are actually bought and sold.
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
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@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
2
If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
2
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot ofexpertsare calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
2
Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
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There is no money, and it doesn’t go anywhere. A company’s market cap is just the market’s opinion of what it’s worth. That opinion changes all the time, but no actual money is involved. Money only comes into it when shares (or derivatives) are actually bought and sold.
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
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@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
2
If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
2
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot ofexpertsare calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
2
Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
|
show 2 more comments
There is no money, and it doesn’t go anywhere. A company’s market cap is just the market’s opinion of what it’s worth. That opinion changes all the time, but no actual money is involved. Money only comes into it when shares (or derivatives) are actually bought and sold.
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
There is no money, and it doesn’t go anywhere. A company’s market cap is just the market’s opinion of what it’s worth. That opinion changes all the time, but no actual money is involved. Money only comes into it when shares (or derivatives) are actually bought and sold.
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
answered Dec 24 at 19:55
Mike Scott
13.3k3748
13.3k3748
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@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
2
If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
2
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot ofexpertsare calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
2
Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
|
show 2 more comments
1
@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
2
If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
2
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot ofexpertsare calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
2
Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
1
1
@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
@ArtemBernatskyi The S&P 500 is just an aggregate of individual stocks, where the individual companies that comprise it go, so it goes.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 20:00
2
2
If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
If your house is worth $300k and the real estate market collapses and your house is now worth $250k, where did $50k of cash go to? It didn't go anywhere because there was no $50k of cash involved. The market value of your simply changed (dropped $50k). Stocks are the same. Last week Facebook was trading at $145. Today it's $125. Its market value changed. Anyone who sold it during that period received money. Even if they took that money out of the market and put it in a bank, the buyer put the money back into the market. The market doesn't create money.
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 20:12
2
2
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
This is a bear market not a crash. For the latter, see 1929 or 1987. People put their money anywhere they want: Cash or MM account, banks, bonds, bond ETFs, Treasuries, preferred stocks, mattresses (?).
– Bob Baerker
Dec 24 at 21:03
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot of
experts are calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
@BobBaerker thx, I've updated the question, if you think it's too broad feel free to close it.Question originated because a lot of
experts are calling this not a recession (they are telling us that we will go in the bull market for a 0.5 - year and then there will be a recession). BUT how can they tell so if they base their assumptions on the previous data (during which there were no quantitative easing implemented in USA comparable to now)?– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 21:58
2
2
Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
Stock market "experts" on the news are right less than the weather people.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:59
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The price of U.S. Treasury securities are up in the past month. Gold is up and the Yen is up. The Swiss Franc is not completely at a one month high.
There have been ETF inflows into a Treasury fund that has a duration of about 1.9 years. But it appears that an investor could outperform the income of that fund with a three-month bill in their own Treasury Direct account. However, there is gain in the securities price of the longer term duration.
There have also been ETF inflows into emerging-markets but ETF outflows out of high-yield debt. So I don't agree with the inflows into emerging-markets.
Even six-month non-government bond funds are down in the past month.
But investors that outperform the market over long term periods basically buy what is down as long as there is no bad news specific to the stock or bond being bought.
answered Dec 24 at 23:32
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All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
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Dec 25 at 0:46
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The price of U.S. Treasury securities are up in the past month. Gold is up and the Yen is up. The Swiss Franc is not completely at a one month high.
There have been ETF inflows into a Treasury fund that has a duration of about 1.9 years. But it appears that an investor could outperform the income of that fund with a three-month bill in their own Treasury Direct account. However, there is gain in the securities price of the longer term duration.
There have also been ETF inflows into emerging-markets but ETF outflows out of high-yield debt. So I don't agree with the inflows into emerging-markets.
Even six-month non-government bond funds are down in the past month.
But investors that outperform the market over long term periods basically buy what is down as long as there is no bad news specific to the stock or bond being bought.
answered Dec 24 at 23:32
S Spring
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All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
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The price of U.S. Treasury securities are up in the past month. Gold is up and the Yen is up. The Swiss Franc is not completely at a one month high.
There have been ETF inflows into a Treasury fund that has a duration of about 1.9 years. But it appears that an investor could outperform the income of that fund with a three-month bill in their own Treasury Direct account. However, there is gain in the securities price of the longer term duration.
There have also been ETF inflows into emerging-markets but ETF outflows out of high-yield debt. So I don't agree with the inflows into emerging-markets.
Even six-month non-government bond funds are down in the past month.
But investors that outperform the market over long term periods basically buy what is down as long as there is no bad news specific to the stock or bond being bought.
answered Dec 24 at 23:32
S Spring
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The price of U.S. Treasury securities are up in the past month. Gold is up and the Yen is up. The Swiss Franc is not completely at a one month high.
There have been ETF inflows into a Treasury fund that has a duration of about 1.9 years. But it appears that an investor could outperform the income of that fund with a three-month bill in their own Treasury Direct account. However, there is gain in the securities price of the longer term duration.
There have also been ETF inflows into emerging-markets but ETF outflows out of high-yield debt. So I don't agree with the inflows into emerging-markets.
Even six-month non-government bond funds are down in the past month.
But investors that outperform the market over long term periods basically buy what is down as long as there is no bad news specific to the stock or bond being bought.
answered Dec 24 at 23:32
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All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
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All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
All true. Welcome4 new user.
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
And Merry Christmas! :)
– Fattie
Dec 25 at 0:46
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Other answers list some excellent investment options.
One choice, both obvious and counter-intuitive, depending on how you approach it, is to invest (or continue investing) in stocks. S&P 500 index fund shares are about 20% cheaper now than they were 3 months ago. This is a great time to buy!
Of course, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this question. Time horizon and risk tolerance, among other things, affect your choices greatly. But there is one important thing to keep in mind: what matters is how high your investments are valued at the time when you decide to sell them. Until then, the lower they are valued, the more you can buy.
answered Dec 25 at 2:26
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Other answers list some excellent investment options.
One choice, both obvious and counter-intuitive, depending on how you approach it, is to invest (or continue investing) in stocks. S&P 500 index fund shares are about 20% cheaper now than they were 3 months ago. This is a great time to buy!
Of course, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this question. Time horizon and risk tolerance, among other things, affect your choices greatly. But there is one important thing to keep in mind: what matters is how high your investments are valued at the time when you decide to sell them. Until then, the lower they are valued, the more you can buy.
answered Dec 25 at 2:26
void_ptr
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Other answers list some excellent investment options.
One choice, both obvious and counter-intuitive, depending on how you approach it, is to invest (or continue investing) in stocks. S&P 500 index fund shares are about 20% cheaper now than they were 3 months ago. This is a great time to buy!
Of course, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this question. Time horizon and risk tolerance, among other things, affect your choices greatly. But there is one important thing to keep in mind: what matters is how high your investments are valued at the time when you decide to sell them. Until then, the lower they are valued, the more you can buy.
answered Dec 25 at 2:26
void_ptr
1,02739
Other answers list some excellent investment options.
One choice, both obvious and counter-intuitive, depending on how you approach it, is to invest (or continue investing) in stocks. S&P 500 index fund shares are about 20% cheaper now than they were 3 months ago. This is a great time to buy!
Of course, there is no "one size fits all" answer to this question. Time horizon and risk tolerance, among other things, affect your choices greatly. But there is one important thing to keep in mind: what matters is how high your investments are valued at the time when you decide to sell them. Until then, the lower they are valued, the more you can buy.
answered Dec 25 at 2:26
void_ptr
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answered Dec 25 at 2:26
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answered Dec 25 at 2:26
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You are wrong on your assumption about tbills. These are considered a safe haven asset. Getting 2.27% is better than zero or negative. Also they are liquid so you can always get out easily. A long only portfolio manager has a relative benchmark he is trying to beat. So with the S&P heading south, cash is king.
Typically, a couple of the following will be happening:
1) raising cash (if already owning stocks). I.e. selling stock and putting the money into a money market fund. If have cash, put in money market fund.
2) selling calls against the position this offsets partially the loss from the stock going down.
3) a long only portfolio manager (i.e. can't use derivatives) would be doing #1 and has a list of stocks that he/she likes with price entry points. If the stock reaches that point then they will buy some. (Right now things keep going down and so there is little incentive to buy, if you can buy it tomorrow at a lower price). For example AAPL might be too expensive at 210 based upon p/e, dividend yield, but at 170, it might be a buy.
4) a long/short portfolio manager is currently worried that his long short trade is working and most likely is reducing risk if risk is based upon volatility.
5) a long only manager who is required to be at least xx% invested most likely would move to what is considered defensive plays and out of agressive plays (i.e. shift from high beta stocks to low beta stocks (i.e. tech to big pharma/utilities. He would also move out of more speculative plays into more slow and steady wins the race types.
answered Dec 25 at 2:25
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You are wrong on your assumption about tbills. These are considered a safe haven asset. Getting 2.27% is better than zero or negative. Also they are liquid so you can always get out easily. A long only portfolio manager has a relative benchmark he is trying to beat. So with the S&P heading south, cash is king.
Typically, a couple of the following will be happening:
1) raising cash (if already owning stocks). I.e. selling stock and putting the money into a money market fund. If have cash, put in money market fund.
2) selling calls against the position this offsets partially the loss from the stock going down.
3) a long only portfolio manager (i.e. can't use derivatives) would be doing #1 and has a list of stocks that he/she likes with price entry points. If the stock reaches that point then they will buy some. (Right now things keep going down and so there is little incentive to buy, if you can buy it tomorrow at a lower price). For example AAPL might be too expensive at 210 based upon p/e, dividend yield, but at 170, it might be a buy.
4) a long/short portfolio manager is currently worried that his long short trade is working and most likely is reducing risk if risk is based upon volatility.
5) a long only manager who is required to be at least xx% invested most likely would move to what is considered defensive plays and out of agressive plays (i.e. shift from high beta stocks to low beta stocks (i.e. tech to big pharma/utilities. He would also move out of more speculative plays into more slow and steady wins the race types.
answered Dec 25 at 2:25
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You are wrong on your assumption about tbills. These are considered a safe haven asset. Getting 2.27% is better than zero or negative. Also they are liquid so you can always get out easily. A long only portfolio manager has a relative benchmark he is trying to beat. So with the S&P heading south, cash is king.
Typically, a couple of the following will be happening:
1) raising cash (if already owning stocks). I.e. selling stock and putting the money into a money market fund. If have cash, put in money market fund.
2) selling calls against the position this offsets partially the loss from the stock going down.
3) a long only portfolio manager (i.e. can't use derivatives) would be doing #1 and has a list of stocks that he/she likes with price entry points. If the stock reaches that point then they will buy some. (Right now things keep going down and so there is little incentive to buy, if you can buy it tomorrow at a lower price). For example AAPL might be too expensive at 210 based upon p/e, dividend yield, but at 170, it might be a buy.
4) a long/short portfolio manager is currently worried that his long short trade is working and most likely is reducing risk if risk is based upon volatility.
5) a long only manager who is required to be at least xx% invested most likely would move to what is considered defensive plays and out of agressive plays (i.e. shift from high beta stocks to low beta stocks (i.e. tech to big pharma/utilities. He would also move out of more speculative plays into more slow and steady wins the race types.
answered Dec 25 at 2:25
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You are wrong on your assumption about tbills. These are considered a safe haven asset. Getting 2.27% is better than zero or negative. Also they are liquid so you can always get out easily. A long only portfolio manager has a relative benchmark he is trying to beat. So with the S&P heading south, cash is king.
Typically, a couple of the following will be happening:
1) raising cash (if already owning stocks). I.e. selling stock and putting the money into a money market fund. If have cash, put in money market fund.
2) selling calls against the position this offsets partially the loss from the stock going down.
3) a long only portfolio manager (i.e. can't use derivatives) would be doing #1 and has a list of stocks that he/she likes with price entry points. If the stock reaches that point then they will buy some. (Right now things keep going down and so there is little incentive to buy, if you can buy it tomorrow at a lower price). For example AAPL might be too expensive at 210 based upon p/e, dividend yield, but at 170, it might be a buy.
4) a long/short portfolio manager is currently worried that his long short trade is working and most likely is reducing risk if risk is based upon volatility.
5) a long only manager who is required to be at least xx% invested most likely would move to what is considered defensive plays and out of agressive plays (i.e. shift from high beta stocks to low beta stocks (i.e. tech to big pharma/utilities. He would also move out of more speculative plays into more slow and steady wins the race types.
answered Dec 25 at 2:25
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Lost value is just lost value, it's not movement of money. Today someone is willing to pay $500 for one of your rare tulip bulbs, tomorrow you can only sell them for $10. The value of your market cap dropped, but no money changed hands outside of the individual purchases.
– Hart CO
Dec 24 at 19:56
Yeah, my question is incorrect, I see it now, so instead i should ask where do people invest after stock market crash, aren't I ?
– Artem Bernatskyi
Dec 24 at 20:19
At least for today, Dec 24, most folks are just leaving their money right where it is The NASDAQ only traded 1,724,366,735 shares today, which is quite low. Last Friday 7,609,010,000 shares traded hands. The fact that the price or the market cap changed by a lot doesn't necessarily mean that a lot of money is moving around right now, though they may certainly change in the near future.
– Charles E. Grant
Dec 24 at 21:07
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This might be stating the obvious but you do know that every transaction has a buyer and a seller, right? In order for someone to take money out of the S&P500 (say the SPY ETF) they would have to sell to a buyer... The stock market is not a supermarket, the NYSE doesn't set prices and sell stock. And looking back over the historical charts, the best place to invest after the crash was the market.
– quid
Dec 24 at 21:56
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That was hardly a crash, simply a correction for overestimated growth.
– Mast
Dec 25 at 11:35