Replies to post #100338 on Mohacsy's Safe Portfolio Member Forum

[dexprs]

Very well stated George. The time maybe nearing when two types of investors could nibble in high quality stocks that recently reported above expected earnings and stated going forward they will do better than expected.
Type one: Long term investor.
Type two: extremely nimble trader.
But, both have a common element: They are students of the stock market technicals and fundamentals, spending many hours a day/week watching the market and its patterns.
The third type of trader should have a good advisor, one who does the buying and selling for them.

[Elroy Jetson]

I've found the gap in time from when I've pulled out of the market to being mostly reinvested is far shorter than memory of the event.

Going back and looking at dates, at the onset of the pandemic I was out of the market for only three weeks although I had thought is had been a few months.

Leading up to the banking collapse was a couple of years which seemed more like five, and only because the collapse took far longer to manifest than I has anticipated. It was like watching an auto wreck in extreme slow motion.


I'm not a clever trader in response to stock movements without a underlying event most are ignoring. For myself I call that "over trading", as during the tech bubble. I thought I was doing well trading until I compared it to what I would have achieved just holding the stocks I was trading - putting in extra work to achieve less didn't seem as clever in retrospect.