What you can do is rebalance the portfolio into something with less risk and more "conservation of principle" but the time to do that was December or January. About the only thing one can do now is to ride this out and when stocks have regained their value then move into a less exposed position.
The market goes up and the market goes down, but in the long run the market goes up. Therefore, it's not timing the market that counts, it's time in the market.
That's true but that doesn't help us older guys unless we're strictly concerned with enriching the Trust for the kids after we're gone or something ... and I'm not. Grandkids maybe. I didn't plan on leaving much, I planned on the wifey and I having a good time 'till the end and then leaving enough for her to be taken care of.
Had it all planned out.
Brandon and his people are intentionally fuqing that up for millions of us.
The market doesn't bounce back overnight. It'll take two decades to recover after this $#!+ show is over ... if ever.
