If you want to make some money on the market and do not lose all
your holdings during a market crash, you have to put some effort into at least simplest technical analysis.
Not exact matches
Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer bailouts
during the 2008
crash; each received secret, below -
market interest rate loans from the Federal Reserve
during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently
holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.
They are there to
hold the client's hand
during stock
market crashes.
Once you're confident you've got your portfolio where you want it to be, you may also want to go further and
crash - test your overall retirement strategy to determine whether your retirement plans would
hold up
during a prolonged
market slump.
When investors stop engaging in long - term timing (as they did
during the Buy - and -
Hold Era), there is no way for stocks to return to fair value (as they must if the
market is to continue to function) except through price
crashes.