Are you selling or buying stock?
Not sure whether to sell. Thinking I need to protect my nest egg.
Attempting to time the market is the worst mistake. Just make sure your portfolio is rebalanced regularly to the appropriate risk level for your time horizon. That's it.
Yup
Buying. Always buying.
What’s considered a good balance portfolio? :)
Technically you take your age and put that percentage into bonds. The rest into stocks. So if you are 30, then 30 percent in bonds and 70 in stocks. Try to use contributions to rebalance your portfolio versus selling assets. That is harder to do when the stock market goes up and down hard. But it must be done, one a year in January If you are to maintain the discipline. Always do it on the same day, say the first trading Wednesday of the year. And btw, bonds can be even more volatile. If rates go up by one percentage point, existing bonds plummet in value. Hold bonds until redemption. So that you do not lose your money. I recommend buying and holding individual CD and US treasury instruments. But this all said. If you are under 40 you should just be 100 percent into the s&p 500. It is highly unlikely that a dollar invested today will be worth less 30 years from now when you will need it to retire.
Why would you sell when the market is lower? That's probably the worst time to sell. Whether it is BTC or stocks, it will probably go up again, even if it's slower than before. Just wait.
Buying and selling. Trading requires both.
I just buy. Won't start selling until I retire.
You’re an investor, I’m a trader. Tomatoes v. Bananas
I buy as cash comes available. I changed my 401k to invest 100 percent of my salary in 401k. We have access to contra fund in our 401k. All my ESSP and RSU redemptions will into the s&p 500. Not at once but over a period of 6 months. I will be investing $55K of my 2018 salary in the 401K and VMware will match $6K.
I’m staying out until it rehits the high