What is your biggest takeaway from the Feb.-March market disturbance?

[Steve Ladd]

For me it's that bonds and gold can also crash, but later, less, and recovering sooner.

 

[cdcaveman]

That it isn't over

 

[tommcginnis]

The jump in trading ranges has given me some truly *fun* homework, and should result in an improvement in overall algo performance -- for one model, pretty easy, for the other.... maybe more subtle than I can pick up right now. Certainly attention-grabbing.

 

[Scataphagos]

Ray Dalio... "cash is trash".

 

[nooby_mcnoob]

Biggest takeaway is my system works really well even in crazy times.

 

[NewTraderAdventure]

biggest takeaway is that the paper trading clowns here like nooby always win

 

[BurtBurton]

For me it's that bonds and gold can also crash, but later, less, and recovering sooner.

Steve - We should have all learned this in the financial crisis. Gold has behaved very similarly to Oct '08 when it crashed along with the market and then rebounded quickly by the end of year. It was the result of a liquidity crisis, which the Fed has backstopped (probably having learned a bit from '08). Gold actually sank less this time around.....

 

[Pekelo]

For me it's that bonds and gold can also crash, but later, less, and recovering sooner.

Throw in cryptos. Store of value in time of disturbance my ass. Nice rally though...

 

[gaussian]

With 0% interest rates and QE infinity dozu might actually become right that taking out a fifth mortgage and buying QQQ might actually eventually turn a profit.

 

[SunTrader]

biggest takeaway is that the paper trading clowns here like nooby always win

Like ....
"who else just made 10k on CRC"