Conservative Vs Liberal Investors

SoesWasBetter · Jan 12, 2018

I wonder who has done better this last year as I imagine many liberals/leftists felt obliged to be pessimistic about the markets , since a madman was about to take office.

I don't have any surveys to prove it, but if true , it would prove there is a god.

Covertibility · Jan 12, 2018

Wow, God and Country, religion and nationalism, the two deadliest poisons on this planet.

SoesWasBetter · Jan 12, 2018

I take it you're a lib then , and didn't bank?

SunTrader · Jan 12, 2018

Don't you know there's an ETF for everything these days - well Libbers (blue line) and Trumpkins (red line) with S&P (yellow) anyway:

rvince99 · Jan 12, 2018

Politics...can only cloud a trader's thinking. I don't have room for that. I'm about making money and I don't care who's the King (or Queen) of the jungle.

Cuddles · Jan 12, 2018

rvince99 said:
Politics...can only cloud a trader's thinking. I don't have room for that. I'm about making money and I don't care who's the King (or Queen) of the jungle.

Hear, hear.... Economics is a science and objectivity is the name of the game

toc · Jan 12, 2018

Usually under democratic governments the stock markets perform much better at least in the US.

Conservatives as investors take low risk decisions in personal investing but go for high risk and illogical decisions on the collective i.e. governmental basis.

NeoTrader · Jan 12, 2018

Covertibility said:
Wow, God and Country, religion and nationalism, the two deadliest poisons on this planet.

Don't forget their third twin brother: Socialism. Just as poisonous or even more...

tommcginnis · Jan 12, 2018

toc said:
Usually under democratic governments the stock markets perform much better at least in the US.

Conservatives as investors take low risk decisions in personal investing but go for high risk and illogical decisions on the collective i.e. governmental basis.

"nailed it!"

NeoTrader · Jan 12, 2018

rvince99 said:
Politics...can only cloud a trader's thinking. I don't have room for that. I'm about making money and I don't care who's the King (or Queen) of the jungle.

As much as I'd like to agree with you(that's one of the main reasons I'm into trading), there is no denial that "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."