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View Poll Results: Your behavior during latest market downturn ?
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Bought
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Sold
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Did nothing
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67.11% |
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What downturn
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Your behavior during latest market downturn ?
10-18-2014, 05:52 AM
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#1
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chattanooga
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Your behavior during latest market downturn ?
What did you do, if anything during this past market volatility ?
Buy, sell or did nothing. If you rebalanced that means you either bought or sold.
Also would like to know your rationale.
Thanks in advance.
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10-18-2014, 05:57 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Bloomington, MN
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I had been sitting on a lot of cash and pulled the trigger on some BRK.B that I had been watching for awhile.
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10-18-2014, 06:01 AM
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I did nothing. I'm newly retired and plan to live off cash and real estate proceeds for a while. So I'm letting my portfolio sit and hopefully it will recover before I start dipping into it.
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10-18-2014, 06:15 AM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Sep 2013
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Bought SCHD.
Why? Cache pays 0% yield SCHD pays 2.65 dividend with tax advantage....
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10-18-2014, 06:20 AM
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Did nothing. Would like to have gone on a shopping spree, but am in withdrawal phase and do not have spare cash.
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10-18-2014, 06:28 AM
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What I did was not a choice offered in the poll. I traded some losers for other stocks. This allowed me to book some losses for tax purposes.
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10-18-2014, 06:28 AM
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I bought individual stocks in my taxable stock account. I'm still working and in the accumulating stage for retirement. I buy and sell off and on through the year.
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10-18-2014, 06:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Did nothing. Still pretty close to my target allocation. During the year I have been reducing equity by spending dividends and selling some equity fund shares. Even with the down-tick I am still within my target range.
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10-18-2014, 06:35 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Nov 2008
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A stock market down turn is like buying milk on sale. I buy a little each month, from a healthy short term muni bond fund, and when the market turns down I double up on my purchases lowering my overall long term buying average. So, if the market turns down another 3 to 5%, I'll double down again. I've been doing this for the past 15 years and it really works!
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10-18-2014, 06:38 AM
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I added to a couple of dividend stocks during the downturn and plan to add more if the drop continues.
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10-18-2014, 06:38 AM
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Nothing. It has been a pretty minor pullback so far.
If it goes down more in the next week or so, I'll do a roth conversion.
I know volatility is unsettling to some, but I've always viewed downturns as opportunities. When I was contributing to a 401(k) I liked buying more shares for less money. Now, I look at them as roth conversion opportunities.
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10-18-2014, 06:44 AM
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I voted that I did nothing due to the fact I am within my rebalance bands. Plus ER is in the not too distant future so big moves are becoming a thing of the past.
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10-18-2014, 07:13 AM
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Nothing. Still buying every month just like I have been for the last 25 years.
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10-18-2014, 07:27 AM
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There was a market downturn?
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10-18-2014, 07:39 AM
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Bought stock in a tin foil hat manufacturer.
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10-18-2014, 07:44 AM
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Nothing - except post some threads here and read up on the flurry of activity of others.
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10-18-2014, 08:10 AM
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I think my vote when the wrong way. Lol.
Did buy Ford for in-laws. And contemplating buys with about 5 pct extra cash they have in a brokerage. Maybe oil.
We've only looked so far for our accounts. I'll probably max the Roth accounts sometime this weekend.
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10-18-2014, 08:20 AM
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I bought in smallish amounts with some excess cash. I picked up shares of a couple stocks that were beaten up absurdly badly, added to SCHF, and did a couple swaps (one to harvest a loss, one to exit one kind of bond fund for another).
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10-18-2014, 08:27 AM
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I did nothing. I'm still within my rebalance bands, so there wasn't anything to do. 
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10-18-2014, 10:37 AM
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
There was a market downturn?
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Yes, from 2007 -2009. Surely (not "Shirley") you remember? 
Or, to paraphrase the great philosopher, Crocodile Dundee: ' Maw-kut dawn-tun? 'at's naught a maw-kut dawn-tun! (pointing to 2007) Now 'at's a maw-kut dawn-tun!
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