reaction to falling stocks: “ my stock was at $200 and now its $135, valuation is ridiculously cheap”.
Bear markets always bring stocks to “ unimaginable lows”..
This is so true... but it applies to the BS stocks. The ones that retail players chase because they heard it on CNBC or something. I go back to NVDA again. Its a perfect example of that which you speak. Its textbook.
It dropped as a matter of course... then had a mediocre ER/conference call... next thing you know it was $172. People bought it in droves, following that psychology. Next day it was like $160. Can't pass that up, gotta buy. A week later its in the $130's. There was a post on here where somebody was convinced it was going to $500. Said there was no way it couldn't.
Most retail players (and I have to assume many professional players) are stupid.
You buy value.
Anything with a PE north of 50 is coming down.
In 2008, it was brutal. Some high flyers took 50% haircuts. The stupid stocks. That era's equivalent of faang. But low PE companies that had tangible future growth like MCD, ROST, Amgen, Panera... hell they were up for the year. There are are dozens of companies that have consistent yoy increases in their stock prices since 1999. Use this:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/JNJ/johnson-johnson/stock-price-history
What I am seeing now... both real time and in the market psyche as a whole in the last 2 weeks... is people throwing out the baby with the bathwater because they are being inundated with friggin brainwashing. Yeah... wake the f*ck up... NFLX was a PIG. Twilio trades at like 300 times the next century's estimated earnings. Its $70 now because $100 was a little too "op-ti-f'n-mistic". Ya think? Duh.
So whatever. Who cares anyway. This is Elite Trader, not Elite Investor.
Trade what you see. But lets not tell our not so sanguine friends and family the sky is falling and they need to be all cash or buying gold for Christsake.... because America is just fine. Look around. "Feel the economy".

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