Market timing is next to impossible, don't feel bad.
There are no day traders in the Fortune 500
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Market timing is next to impossible, don't feel bad.
Right now it's anyone's guess which direction things will move in the next hour, let alone the next week. But after that there might be some stabilization for a while as fundamentals (remember fundamentals?) start getting some press and the fear begins to subside. Remember, much of this slide was exacerbated by professional black box arbitrage trading which follows momentum. Also, the market generally takes 2-4 months to recover from real "corrections" so I expect a return to modest rising in stock indices around year end also. Maybe not back to where we were a month ago, but back to rational multiples of P/E.
Of course, all bets are off if something truly astonishing happens, like some big firm declaring bankruptcy or any number of other negative disasters that could fall out of this.
Cash is king.