Best ways to secure my wealth for political winter?

[kylan11]

Hedge funds don't beat the market with an army of analysts, insider knowledge and so much computing power you could train GPT-6 on it. For all intents and purposes, everything is priced in.

The thing about market doomers is that eventually they're right. Graham Stephen has made millions fearmongering for the imminent collapse, basically throwing shit on the wall until it sticks.

Stocks... usually go up. Bad luck for you if you invest before a bubble explodes, but NOBODY can predict that with any accuracy in the long term, so in the meantime you're missing out on a sweet yearly return, potentially for years, losing out on significant compound interest.

If you're really convinced that the crash is imminent, wait it out and buy the dip in one or two highly diversified ETFs tracking a decent index fund (arguably with some exposure to emerging markets), and monthly deposit whatever you can save consistently for 20 years. This is the only way to make money for the retail investor.

In the off chance you were right, great! You managed to time the market. Never try that again unless you're so delusional you're convinced you're the next Warren Buffett.

Edited February 6 by kylan11

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Chances are I'm going to be better off than all of yall who are trying to speculate and time the market, just by regurarly investing into a trustoworthy ETFs for decades and not caring about the topic much, if at all

[kylan11]

4 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Chances are I'm going to be better off than all of yall who are trying to speculate and time the market, just by regurarly investing into a trustoworthy ETFs for decades and not caring about the topic much, if at all

100%

[FourCrossedWands]

Timing the market can make you a lot of money.

It's not about sitting on money for decades in fear of a global meltdown, but about being clever.

I have timed the gold market and I have also timed some of the stocks recently.

There are other factors as well, such as currency exchange rates, if you are living in the EU and buying US stocks, etc.

If you have a large sum of money to invest, you need to time the market.

ETFs usually have 100+ stocks, but a lot of them are underperformers which makes them volatile. There are stocks that are as stable, if not more stable than most ETFs. You just need to do some research.

[LordFall]

On 2/6/2025 at 4:57 AM, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Chances are I'm going to be better off than all of yall who are trying to speculate and time the market, just by regurarly investing into a trustoworthy ETFs for decades and not caring about the topic much, if at all

Or get some bitcoin and participate in the financial revolution of the century. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

1 hour ago, LordFall said:

Or get some bitcoin and participate in the financial revolution of the century. 

I've been considering allocating part of my investment funds to Bitcoin and/or Ethereum (as long as I can employ a similiar strategy, meaning just sending money regurarly and putting my feet up, waiting patiently) but honestly. I think I'd rather just diversify ETFs I'm investing into rather than do that. And I don't think it's in the interest of goverments nor banks to let Bitcoin replace all fiat currencies, so I don't think that's happenning. So it's always going to be just used for speculation is my bet

Edited February 8 by NewKidOnTheBlock