" I was gonna pay my car and note until the market got high I wasn't gonna gamble on the boat but then the market got high Now the tow truck is pullin' away and I know why I messed up my entire life because the market got high I lost my kids and wife because the market Got high Now I'm sleepin' on the side walk and I know why 'Cause the market got high Because the market got high Because the market got high " – Aftroman Junauary has, indeeed, been a manic month. As noted above though – it's not the market corrections that kill your portfolio – if you had gone away in the crash of 1930 and kept your shares of GE, GM, XOM and X for the next 92 years – you'd be about as rich as Buffett's original investors are now. While not every company survived the Great Depression, there are always solid trends you can spot and picking large-cap Blue Chip stocks is a very good thing to do when the chips are down . That's what I've been stressing to our Members this month and we've added VIAC, MRNA, CRSP and YETI to our Top Trade Ideas in January, taking full advantage of the market sell off. More importantly, we're not panicking out of our longs because we are ALWAYS prepared for a sell-off and, in this case, we were perfectly prepared into the end of 2021: 12/22 - Will We Hold It Wednesday – Russell 2,200 Edition (again) After shooting up to it …
"I was gonna pay my car and note until the market got high
I wasn't gonna gamble on the boat but then the market got high
Now the tow truck is pullin' away and I know why I messed up my entire life because the market got highI lost my kids and wife because the market
Got high
Now I'm sleepin' on the side walk and I know why'Cause the market got high
Because the market got high
Because the market got high" – Aftroman Junauary has, indeeed, been a manic month.
As noted above though – it's not the market corrections that kill your portfolio – if you had gone away in the crash of 1930 and kept your shares of GE, GM, XOM and X for the next 92 years – you'd be about as rich as Buffett's original investors are now. While not every company survived the Great Depression, there are always solid trends you can spot and picking large-cap Blue Chip stocks is a very good thing to do when the chips are down.
That's what I've been stressing to our Members this month and we've added VIAC, MRNA, CRSP and YETI to our Top Trade Ideas in January, taking full advantage of the market sell off. More importantly, we're not panicking out of our longs because we are ALWAYS prepared for a sell-off and, in this case, we were perfectly prepared into the end of 2021:
12/22 - Will We Hold It Wednesday – Russell 2,200 Edition (again)
After shooting up to it…
