📌Open a stock pot back 1 month. How much will the money increase?

It's a heavy month, too, for anyone who might be on the market soon or just starting a new investment.

It's been a month with a lot of bad news, whether the oil crisis is over, the war is over, the political economy uncertainty, the leaders are blah. Of course, the Us stock market, both the S & P500 and the Nasdaq, responded to this uncertainty by immediately "falling." 📉

- The S & P500 is down 8-9%.

- The Nasdaq dropped about 10-12%.

Many novices are sure to be a little worried to see their stock fall from green to red, but for those who have gone through other crises, I have been through some heavy downturns, such as the COVID phase, the Trump tax wall, etc.

First of all, I want everyone to understand that the stock market has never run in a straight line. If you open the S & P500 chart 30-50 years back, you will see that it has gone through countless crises, whether it is the 2000 Dot-com bubble crisis, 2008 Subprime, 2020 COVID, 2022 inflation, or even the recent Trump tariff wall. But you know, every time the market falls, it will always return to New High, but it will only take a short or long time. The 8-10% correction we see here. Now, statistically, it's even "very normal." The average US stock market has a 10% correction about once a year and a 5% correction about three times a year.

🚨 So what happens when Panic Sell is sold?

This is where it makes many rookies "hurt harder" than they should.

The most common situation is that the red pot is seen every day. The bad news comes in and doesn't stop. The gurus on social media say that "the market will go down again." Enough to bear it, enough to press Sell when the lowest price is sold. When the market is done, the market goes back and suddenly, after just "accounting loss," it becomes a real loss.

📉 an interesting study from JP Morgan indicates that if investors miss the "10 days of the strongest market rise" in 20 years, the returns will fall by more than half, and the scary thing is that the days of the strongest market will always be "close" to the days of the strongest market, which means that people who sell out at Panic will often miss these golden days in full.

🤔, what should be done on the day the market is heavy?

1. Stop opening pots often - Opening pots every hour during the market down does not help the money come back faster, only to break the mind. Try closing the app for 1-2 weeks.

2. Go back to "Reason to Buy" - When buying that stock or fund, why do we buy it? If the basis of the company or fund is still good, the price that comes down is "discount," not "damage."

3.DCA continues as planned - If you intend to buy every month, keep buying. Don't try to catch the "wait for the bottom" rhythm, because no one knows where the bottom is until it has passed.

4. Always have reserves - Do not invest the money you need in the next 1-2 years. Because when the market is down, you need to spend the money. You will be forced to sell the losses.

5. Long-Term Look - If your Time Horizon is 10-20 years, a 10% drop in this month, looking back on the next 10 years, it will only be a "small notch" on the graph.

🎯 Epilogue.

The market is down, the stock is down. It is a "test" that all investors have to face. No one escapes. What separates the successful and the failed in the stock market is not the ability to catch the rhythm, but "patience" and "discipline." On the day everyone is panicking. Remember, the money in the pot that is seen in red right now will be "no real loss" until you sell it out.

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