Would serve him right.

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I mean, what's the difference? They are both made up.

Ordinary investors, and the funds contained in retirement accounts are meaningless, right?

Perhaps you have zero money in the market, but anyone with any kind of retirement account has money in the market. Thank you for wishing them poverty.

The original "bad actor" is trump (himself).

Might give him a justification to declare martial law in the face of the economic destruction he's inflicting on everyone.

And we are approaching the anniversary of the start of the Civil War...just sayin'...

He clearly has no idea what he's doing and his team are a bunch of amateur jokers. Go now.

LOL

It would take Trump actually doing something to calm the jitters in the market. The chances of that are low, as I see it. But I thought the same thing before reconsidering the possibility.

It's down almost 25% since Trump won

Republican are really great on the economy. If you are looking for a depression.

The S&P 500 was down 6% on Friday. You may be picking that up. Check your feed carefully. Mine is delayed 15-20 minutes, so possibly you are more accurate.

You are right, I misread the Friday drop of 5.97%. So only -4% is great.

Is it because trading continues on the other side of the world or is it because Japan is already opened? I don't understand. I'm sorry.

I put in an order to sell my stocks at market open tomorrow morning but with the futures going down over the weekend, does that mean that the price of my stock is also less on Monday morning then it was Friday night?

too. I don't know where they are bought and sold and if a regular person can get in on the action.

When the futures are way down just prior to the regular markets opening, then the regular markets are almost certain to open way down too.

I watch futures at:

https://www.Investing.com
Lots of info here including markets across the world. But some peculiarities about the site, I explain some of them at
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143432216#post6

Anyway, on the right hand side, the "U.S. 30" is the Dow futures, and the "U.S. 500" is the S&P 500 futures. When the markets are open, they are synonymous with the regular Dow and S&P 500.

Another one: https://www.cnn.com/markets/premarkets

While on the subject, at 952 PM EDT:

Dow futures down 2.1% (800 points)
S&P 500 futures down 2.4%

At Investing.com again, to see what the Asian markets are doing:

On the main panel, click on "Indices" if it's not already selected, and then click on Asia/Pacific

Australia down 3.7%, Nikkei down 5.8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng down 10%, FTSE China down 8%, Korea KOSPI down 4.4%. These Asian ones are the actual markets, not futures.

Edit: Some of the Asian/Pacific ones have temporarily stopped trading and some of those have resumed, due to "circuit breakers" that are meant to slow things down when markets are dropping fast. Pay close attention to the time shown for each one of them (at the far right), which will tell you when the last trade occurred...

I use ninja trader. You can fund an account with as little as $500 and trade ES micro minis (the fractional S&P future). Each point of movement has a value of $5.

On Monday morning there will be no one willing to fill your at market order at the closing price on Friday so it will get filled at a far lower price than Friday's close. Let's hope your order got in before the closing bell on Friday where it would have traded at roughly the closing price on Friday.

Sick of winning?

The markets may drop so much that they have to pause trading. We're talking trillions of dollars in losses in a day.

With the inevitable inflation that’s coming these current prices are a bargain, wouldn’t be surprised to see it doubled in a few years with the coming inflation.

How long an "eventually" are you willing to endure? 5, 7, 12, 25 years?

It was 5 years from the 2007 peak for the market (SP500) to recover.
It was 7 years from the 2000 peak for the market to recover, but then it got immediately hit by the 2007 global financial crisis.
It was 12 years from 2000 peak to 2012. The market did not set much of a new high if at all in the interim.
It was 25 years from 1929 until it recovered.

The dips are getting shorter and shorter, your own data there shows that. I don’t ever draw from my portfolio, TSP, or Roth IRA anyway, in all likelihood my son will inherit it one day. I’ll eventually have to cash out and stick most of it into an annuity or something if I live long enough.

I’m a life long government employee, I have a military pension, VA compensation(disability), a federal FERS pension and social security, it’s about $10,000 a month all together.

If the stock market completely collapses, all that other stuff will be worthless as well so it really doesn’t matter in the end. The most likely scenario though is it will be at a record high again before we know it.

It’s a great opportunity for long term investors, the market as a whole always comes back to new highs. Most people should stay the course, it’s the best option long term.

Last I looked, Nikkei was down 8.2%