For Everything there is a season. For Everything there is a reason.
When I stumbled into the huge story of China attempted theft of our twin rotor tech and an actual US helicopter piloted by a S Korean. I turned up a hornets nest. Since then two missals have been fired from N Korea and Japan has scrambled Jets.
The fact that this event happened without us knowing and it was only later in court transcripts that we figured all of this out was an incredible example of a near Def Con 4 moment.// immediate conflict with a super power.
The Greater point I was making is Black Swan Events. This is the only real part of investing that is practically impossible to predict. In a general way you can say-- war with Taiwan or Housing meltdown but a pure Black Swan moment comes out of nowhere and turns everything you think upside down.
New Investors need to know this and old investors need to remember this.