Just for grins and giggles, I check my WordPress stats a couple of times a day. When my stats go up a little, that makes me happy. When my stats go down a little, that makes me…well, I’m still happy. It’s no big deal. Anything is better than zero visitors, views, comments, and likes, right?
But there’s another set of stats I check daily. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on the New York Stock Exchange.
Like with my WordPress stats, when the DJIA goes up, that makes me happy. However, unlike WordPress stats, when the DJIA goes down, that makes me very, very unhappy. Because unlike WordPress stats, when the DJIA goes down, it has real world implications.
My retirement savings goal was to ensure that I ran out of years before I ran out of money. And I worked hard to make sure that when I retired, my wife I would have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of our years, with enough left over to pass whatever remained on to our children.
But since my retirement savings is mostly invested in the stock market, when stocks take a dive, so does the value of my retirement savings.
But don’t worry about me. I’m not panicking yet. After all, what goes down must go up. Or something like that.
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I hear ya 🙁
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I have a balanced portfolio so I don’t have to be overly concerned
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Good attitude.
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I have a very good friend that retired only a couple of months ago at a very active age of 69. Owns two houses, a boat, kids, grandkids, etc. was all set like you with additional money to be left for inheritances. All or nearly all invested in stock market … he’s extremely worried and considering going back to work, sadly.
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I can relate.
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Best of luck to all of us. I’m trying to figure out how we’ll pay for heat this winter.
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And food……
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Buy lots and lots of blankets, so you don’t have to, hopefully, turn it on much ❤
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Hopefully the stock market stats will go back up soon!
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This is the time to stick a bit more into the market so you halve your current losses. But don’t borrow to do it; interest rates are rising. Anyway, just sit it out. Hopefully you don’t need to put your hands on it at this moment.
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Yep, I’m planning to wait it out and hope it rebounds.
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Fingers crossed, everyone is feeling the crunch, I think …
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I try not to look at the markets as I don’t need the money right now… I too hope things rebound.
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