When to Re-Invest in Stocks...?
So I cashed out literally all of my stocks around 5 years ago to buy land in Portugal, Fast Forward 4 years and I sold my land, basically for the same price I'd bought it for, but I still haven't Vested the money back in stocks yet, when I got the money back stocks were at an ALT, but they still haven't come down!
80% Funds are 50% up over 5 years...
So looking at the sector as a whole, funds which invest 80% of their assets globally are 50% up. I used to have a chunk in Fundsmith which I took the chart below from, and it's remarkable how this has tracked the average so closely....
(NB this closeness is itself quite insightful as Funsmith has regularly been in the top 10 80% funds, clearly from this MOST funds have very similar performances.
Fundsmith doesn't hold anything particularly outlandish, it's deliberately all well-known brands diversified across various sectors, mainly health and consumer staples, it's all very Warren Buffet!
Maybe I should gradually start buying into stocks again...?!?
I've dragged my feet over this, because everything is at an ALT, but honestly I think it's maybe time to start transferring £200 a month over to stocks, maybe...?
I'll probably go for just a large Fund, like a Vanguard Fund or something, I did try dabbling a while back and suffered losses rather than gains by Vesting myself, and what I want is nice steady yielding stocks that just steadily outperform the inflation rate, and I think maybe any of the main funds out there will do that!
The upside (literally) is I didn't cash out crypto....
I cashed out stocks because five years ago because I wanted to keep my crypto, and well that's generally all done better than stocks these last five years, so that was the right decision at least.
But I've got enough crypto now and I think I need to start buying stocks again, I've got way too much cash just sitting around earning a relatively low interest rate!
It's just a matter of when, but i think gradually is the answer!
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MicroStrategy seems to be where it's at, other than that, what would outperform bitcoin in the next 5 years in the stock market? Some say Tesla, but I'm not convinced.
I’m no financial advisor, lol. But I personally would hold out a bit on stocks and keep the dry powder ready.
I get the sense there will be a pull back coming.
But honestly, who fucking knows.
Maybe DCA’ing in smaller amounts as you said 200£ or so…
Maybe even some gold as a hedge. Spread it around a bit
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I know what you mean - Same with gold tho' it's so pricey compared to when I last bought it!
I bought a lot of stock while Covid was a thing and I have made a killing on that + new I am just dca'ing into ETFs monthly.
I am up 35% in totally xD
Nice!
When interest rates are low :)
I would not buy stocks right now.
I forsee lots of market crashing stuff happening.
Silver and gold would probably be very good investments, as they will be going up during this trouble filled time.
And of course, cryptos. Bitcoin is probably going to be over a quarter million by end of next year. Maybe 100k by the end of this year (in dollars).
Even Warren Buffet got out of the stocks market.
Oh OK so I was right to hold off maybe!!
I am considering some commodities or commodity producing stocks for now. Most other stocks don't interest me currently.
OK interesting!
Yeah, but not necessarily correct. 😲 I just see the possibilities of war and isolationism. Both of those would bring shortages and possible price increases.
I know what you mean!