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Personal Finance and Investing

PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. Thank you for that post and all the specifics.

Reply to progree (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 24, 2021, 11:53 AM

Dec 2021

Anytime someone claims that they lost everything in the 2008 crash that tells me they probably try to time the market and so wound up buying high and selling low. Staying invested for the long term is always a winning strategy.

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Will Santa Claus come to Wall Street? [View all] Tomconroy Dec 2021 OP

Since you mentioned the S&P 500, I notice it set another new all-time closing high progree Dec 2021 #1

There is a reason stocks are so high. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2021 #2

"all of the recent nonsense about a stock market crash is exactly that: nonsense" - why do you say progree Dec 2021 #4

Thank you for that post and all the specifics. PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2021 #5

Just wish I had bought more at the dips! 58Sunliner Dec 2021 #3