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Old 12-24-2018, 07:44 PM
 
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains
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Old 12-24-2018, 07:51 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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No action despite being underwater. Will re-examine once the market goes on the upswing.
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Old 12-24-2018, 08:21 PM
 
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Just a running list--no numbers--
Just a Yes or No...

Personally we didn't...
If we had equities in our taxable account we likely would have sold some and taken the write off
But only equities--ETFs and Index funds--are in husband's 401K...
I'm not selling anything. The market will go back up eventually.
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Old 12-24-2018, 08:27 PM
 
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I'm not selling anything. The market will go back up eventually.
I cant believe people would sell at this point anyway. Asian markets getting CRUSHED.... Nikkei down 5 percent.
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Old 12-24-2018, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Fiorina "Fury" 161
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No. I already took some losses on individual stocks (brokerage account) a few months ago, so I lowered my 401K contribution to build some cash reserves for things I had neglected as I focused on investments. I cut my 401K contribution to zero during 2008, and I'm not going to do that this time, so today I went back and increased it ahead of schedule, and to a higher point than planned.
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Old 12-24-2018, 09:04 PM
 
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No. I'll be buying when the market begins to change direction.
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Old 12-24-2018, 10:20 PM
 
Location: Laguna Niguel, Orange County CA
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No but there are buying opportunities that are slowly emerging.
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Old 12-24-2018, 10:24 PM
 
Location: Was Midvalley Oregon; Now Eastside Seattle area
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tried to sell in the last 60 minutes. Market was falling too fast.
We are about 60% stock, 40% cash. Stocks are falling so hard and fast, that our discretionary accounts will soon be 50%stocks and 50% cash without me making another trade.

Happy Holidays.
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Old 12-24-2018, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I haven't sold anything. Today (12/24) my portfolio took the biggest hit since 2006. It looks like panic selling is taking hold.
Panick selling hasn't started yet...yet.
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Old 12-24-2018, 10:48 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Sitting tight. The puts from my strangle from the beginning of the year (http://www.city-data.com/forum/inves...l#post50981905) are now in the money, so a further market drop over the next 4 weeks won't have any effect on portfolio value.

Given the market has already dropped this much and my downside is maxed out, I'd be happy with a further 50% drop over the next month. It will set us up for several years of good gains.
My DIA & SPY put legs of my credit collar that I put on in Jan of this year were deep in the money last Friday. Someone took a big hit. Enjoying X-Mas & will re-asses for the coming year, I see quite a few bear put spreads in my future.
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