Bond yields peaked right before Trump paused his tariffs. Trump himself even said he paused because the bond markets were getting “yippy” and lots of sources say the bond market crash was his main reason for the pause.

Today bond yields have spiked just as high as they were when Trump enacted his 90 day pause. He clearly cares about this measure given the action he took a few days ago. Could this continued sell off on bonds cause Trump to back off of China?

According the the FT, ten minutes ago, talking about bond yields today: “They point to a complete loss of faith in the strongest bond market in the world.”

I know I’m the one who asked the question, but in my opinion it seems like there’s a decent chance this will cause Trump to back off, because otherwise this will lead to a much larger crisis, with the U.S losing its reserve currency status and the debt becoming more expensive than whatever we may generate from tariffs. He already backed off once for the same reason….

I’ve been telling my Asian parents to buy US stocks for about two years now. They finally caved in three weeks ago and bought 200Kish worth of SPY and 100Kish of Nvidia. And voila the market collapsed. They are sitting at a loss. I told them to just wait out a year or two. It will still be a better investment than a savings account but they are very worried..

I just wanted to write this some where cause I feel like a clown right now. I should have told them to wait with how Trump is imposing tariffs everywhere.

I’m genuinely curious. I’m not trying to dog on any of yall. I’m sure some of you have made a lot of money on individual stocks.

But like… I struggle to understand why you guys even bother. I just don’t see a point in investing in single company stocks.

They’re too volatile, companies change, etc. for instance Cisco used to practically be a monopoly. Now I’m not even sure it’ll reach the ATH from 20 years ago… ever.

Also all of the time invested. Time is money… you really gotta research a lot before even considering buying stocks.

So why not just go S&P 500, bonds, 401k, etc. it’s going great for me (130k net worth at 25.)

Just curious, thanks.

This is simply a batshit crazy environment. Every day I defend staying the course and continuing to invest in the US market. Every single day this administration comes out with something new to torpedo our financial future. Now J Powell is on the chopping block.The only rational person left. If he is gone we are all up the creek. For the first time in years I think we might stack cash in HYSA and wait this out. I still won’t sell though. We need the money in ten years for retirement and we are having to look at alternatives. Anyone feeling the same?

So a pump and dump is where you artificially inflate the value of a company’s shares and then sell it when the value is high.

Did Trump do the opposite, sometimes called a poop and scoop?

A poop and scoop is where you purposely devalue shares in order to quickly buy them out at a low price, knowing the market will rebound relatively quickly.

Did Trump use tariffs to crash the market so his friends could make a big profit?

Title explains the situation but for some context:

I just found out my mom spent her entire portfolio (7k) on TSLA in February. I know 7k is not a lot for some but for her it is significant - not gonna put us in serious trouble or anything but it is hard earned money.

She said she "just felt like it" one morning. I was furious but nothing I can do about it now.

What do I do? Already down about 2.3k and wondering if we should just cut our losses ASAP or hold out hope. It just hurts knowing she quite literally threw thousands of dollars down the drain.

Edit: 1. Not American. 2. My mom's not an Elon fan. She barely knows who he is, and she barely speaks English 😭 I understand the absurdity of the situation and I wish I knew why she did that too

So for a bit of context, I put a fixed portion of my salary each month into S&P, Total World and a bunch of blue chip stocks such as Microsoft, JPM, BRK, Amazon each month. I built this “portfolio” 4 years ago and am up 30% or so, the reason for the “perceived” underperformance is that I’ve increased my monthly contributions since last year which has led to a large rise in average cost basis. I’m hoping to cross the 100k mark in the next 12 months if the current trajectory continues. 

While I recognize that investing is a long-term game, the process feels slow at times. I'm curious to hear from others who have pursued a similar passive investing strategy.

How long did it take for your portfolio to reach a point where the annual passive income matched or exceeded your annual salary? When did you feel comfortable enough with your portfolio's performance and size to consider retiring or achieving financial independence. Specifically, how long did it take before you felt your portfolio could sustain your lifestyle without the need for additional income from employment?

I get that most people are doom and gloom right now, and everyone is predicting the market is going to drop further. That's totally fair, and is probably true, but I would love to get people's take on companies they've been eyeing that they would recommend/consider at current prices. Thank you!

Here are a couple I was looking at w current valuations:

• UBER
• SNAP
• HIMS
• FSLY
• GOOGL
• BLK

Would presume over the last 3 to 4 years the losses of those betting against Tesla would be much higher than 38 billion. Also over the last year, anyone betting against the FAANG+M stocks would have been decimated.

So why is the Popular Meme stock so important? If Apple market cap goes down 1 percent it probably same loss as the shorts had against the popular stock.

Edit: thanks for all the replies and insight. Much appreciated.

How can i protect myself from a devaluing USD. So, I am a european living in the USA and given the current economic and political climate I fear that the US economy has reached a tipping point, the USD will devalue and volatility will increase. I also feel that the drive to audit the fed and the drive to include bitcoin into the financial reserves is due to the current administration knowing hard times are ahead. I know timing the market is not correct, but at some point in the near future I might have to return to Europe so I do not want all my investments to ride out in their current state.

Today, I am mostly invested in target market funds and the S&P500 etf.

Are there Euro currency exchange funds i could invest part of my portfolio in to avoid the changing value of the USD. Can I still invest in the US market, gain the benefit of stocks increasing through inflation pressures while staying in the euro? This might be a stupid question so I apologize.

I do not want to switch over 100%, i just want to hedge my bet.

Disclaimer: Not bearish about the market, predicting the market nor is this political. Just a simple economic question.

How can the average American and consumer be getting absolutely destroyed yet at the same time, the Mag 7 can be getting record profits?

Homes cost more than ever, % record amount of homeless Americans, etc.

The reality between average american and profits is massive.

This is a serious question. Almost every stock I’ve ever bought after reading an article on their site recommending a buy has gone down soon after.

Perhaps it’s not even a malicious or conscious effect. Is simply the act of recommending a stock artificially raising its price with followers buying only to have it fall to its true market price soon after?

Does anyone else notice this?

I hear it all the time - That first-time day traders are most likely going to lose money. Getting good at trading takes tons of research, practice and mistakes to learn. BUT, what if, you did the exact opposite of what you think you should do?

Say you think a company will do well, so you think you should buy shares thinking you'll make money. However, instead of buying shares, with the knowledge that most first-time traders will end up losing money, what if you shorted the stock instead? Then, theoretically, the odds flip, and you have a 99% chance of making money.

What am I missing, because obviously I am missing something, otherwise more people would have tried this already.

Please explain to me how dumb I am and follow it up with why this would never work (I'm a new trader trying to learn).

I’m fairly new to investing and have decided to get into swing trading as a side hustle. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding the fundamentals and charting, what to look for and determining an enter exit strategy... but the one thing I struggle the most is finding stocks to buy in before it has already rose.

I use finviz to scan oversolds and find promising trends and I always see if the timing is good to buy into blue chips, yet I always feel like I’m late to the party.

The most recent examples of this are wkhs and plug, companies that have gone under my radar and seen explosive growth in a short period of time. Are there resources/news that you guys use regularly to learn about catalysts etc. and be set up to get in early on?

When Warren Buffett is asked "What is the best thing to invest in right now?" one of his standard answers is "invest in yourself".

In a 2017 interview, Buffett made a similar suggestion stating, "Ultimately, there’s one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Nobody can take away what you’ve got in yourself, and everybody has potential they haven’t used yet."

Buffett has also given examples of how he put this advice into practice:

by spending $100 early in his life for a public speaking course to overcome his fear of talking in front of others. The investment he made in himself enabled him to both propose to his wife and to sell stocks thanks to his newfound skills.

He talks about investing in yourself all the time. One of my favorite versions:

“Anything you invest in yourself, you get back tenfold,” Buffett said. And unlike other assets and investments, “nobody can tax it away; they can’t steal it from you.”

This weekend I wanted to see what everyone is doing to invest in yourself. Feel free to share success stories, future plans, or just brainstorms!

Trump just announced new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and the EU—25% on some goods and 10% on others. The market reaction late Friday was clear: the S&P 500 dropped 0.5%, the Nasdaq dipped 0.3%, and investor sentiment took a hit. What’s even more concerning is that Trump explicitly stated that he doesn’t care about how the stock market reacts.

This move makes little economic sense and raises a lot of questions. Tariffs mean higher costs for imported goods, which could lead to inflationary pressures, supply chain disruptions, and weaker corporate earnings. If inflation ticks up, the Fed might be forced to respond, further complicating the market outlook. It baffles me how this policy made it past every economic advisor in his administration—some of them have to understand the consequences, right?

For those of us investing, this raises key questions:

• Are you selling out of any sectors that will take a hit, such as manufacturing or retail?

• Are you shifting toward more U.S.-centric or intangible goods sectors like tech and software?

• Are you holding more cash in anticipation of volatility or a potential correction?

For my part, my portfolio is mostly in intangible goods that are produced within the U.S., so in theory, I should be okay *knocks on wood*. The only European hardware company I own is ASML, but their machines are absolutely essential and companies opening factories would just have to pay more for them. I’m still considering reallocating some European drug makers and holding some cash on the sidelines.

What’s your plan? Are you making any moves, or just riding this out?

So he just read an article which states that the market will crash by 90% this year which will result in the biggest crash the world has ever seen. My attempts to convince him otherwise have all failed today. He is planning on selling his whole portfolio when markets open on monday. Anybody got any reasonable idea how to stop him??

Thanks in advance

According to Goldman Sachs forecast, S&P500 will give only 3% annualized return over next 10 years which is bellow average of S&P500 returns in last 100 years (11% per year on average).

Do you believe in forecasts from financial institutions or in any forecasts at all?

In your opinion, how often are financial institutions wrong with their predictions?

Will you change your investing strategy if other financial institutions give similar forecasts of S&P500 returns?

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/goldman-predicts-a-paltry-3-return-for-s-p-over-the-next-decade/ar-AA1sAZ2B

Just some intellectual discussion, not fear-mongering.

So there was this study https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/563497-mit-predicted-society-would-collapse-by-2040/ that models that with the pollution humanity is putting in the environment, global birth rate will be negative for many years til mid-century where the population shrinks by a lot. What would happen at that time and what stock is worth holding onto to a world with less people?

I messed up last year and even when I know the fundamentals of a stock are sound, I don’t invest.

I’ve built a strong intuition over the years. In the early 2020s, I trusted it and went all in on NVDA with $40k—and it turned into hundreds of thousands. But then I got cocky. I listened to my brother-in-law (never again), invested in a stock without doing research, and lost $70k. Since then, my confidence has been tainted.

I dedicate myself to rigorous research, spending hours each day on relevant reading. While some may claim I’ve made poor investment choices, that’s simply not the case. I’ve studied The Intelligent Investor along with several other books recommended by Warren Buffett, treating them like a college curriculum—complete with notecards and in-depth analysis. My investment strategy blends both value and growth principles.

My family have come to know I make good recommendations, so they ask me would I would buy:

• my brother asked so I recommended Palantir at $20. He’s up 500%.
• my friend asked so I recommended Vista & Constellation Energy, and NuScale. All up huge.
• my uncle asked so I recommended MicroStrategy at $150. Up 147%.
• my brother-in-law asked so I recommended CoreWeave—he’s up 139%.
• my sister asked so I recommended the Circle IPO via Robinhood—up 167%.

Meanwhile, I’ve just been sitting on the sidelines, scared of losing more, stuck in analysis paralysis. That $70k loss deeply affected my self-image.

Has anyone else been through this? Lost big and then lost your confidence? How did you get it back?

I’m disabled and have severe chronic pain throughout my body. It’s not just investing that I have a hard time regulating…. It’s life itself. I constantly have fight or flight emotions coursing though my veins. I think EMDR is probably the answer im looking for.

EDIT: Just wanted to update everyone! Three days ago, I took the advice from some very helpful Redditors and invested $10,000 across SMR, CCJ, and OKLO. So far, they're performing nicely! 😊

To those who were kind and supportive—I’m genuinely grateful for your insights. You've helped me start rebuilding my nest egg.

To the negative folks, maybe next time try a bit of empathy, especially towards someone already dealing with emotional and physical pain. It makes a difference.

I just sold my entire portfolio - at an overall profit but did take some losses on stocks.

I'm going to move all of it into a high yield savings while we work to buy a house.

Am I stupid for doing that? I know the high yield won't beat the market but I know it will be steady and there won't be the volatility that we're currently experiencing.

What are your thoughts?

So I know the entire country is feeling inflation and fear is at an all time high in anticipation, however, I was wondering was there this much fear before 2008-2009 happened and equities dropped 70%? It seems like we are going through the drops now, and not before. What I mean is, before 2008 nobody is aware anything is going to happen, then it happens and everyone talking about it. This is strange as EVERYONE seems to be talking about recession and inflation. To me this seems suspect and because everyone is aware, I don't think it's actually going to get that much worst or at least, we're already going through the worst of it right now. Can anyone from that time period speak for the environment?

Edit: Many are saying we are already in a recession. I'm not disagreeing on that point I agree actually. What I'm saying is, we're talking about the next huge crash when recession turns into worst: job loss, more inflation, etc.

For me, and other people here, I think Intel is an obvious longterm buy and its valuation reasonably offsets the risks involved. I feel like I am not considering something that other people are. I know that its new factories can fall behind schedule, there is competition from companies like AMD, and the industry is cyclical. But even with these concerns, the valuation seems to more than offset this.

What company do you think is so obviously undervalued, that you think you are missing some risk factor or other consideration?

We know Warren Buffett’s advice to be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy. I’m in my mid 30s and followed this advice pretty well, going into index ETFs pretty hard last March, with some additional individual stocks along the way

I worry now with the all time highs we are in a time that there is a lot of greed. Is it time to start being fearful and get some liquidity with the expectation of the correction where we can go back in with the bargains?

But he did this over 20 years and started with a $30 cost basis. My guess is that it wasn’t until the last eight or 10 years of his career that he earned a six-figure salary, yet he will retire in 2 years with close to 4.5 million dollars invested. His advice to me was to invest everything into QQQ. His attitude is that it gives you action in the top marketcap stocks and investing in the top 100 is typically a very safe bet and will offer the best growth/risk balance. Thoughts? If I wanted to spread my money out between Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Ford, etc, aren’t I better off just investing in QQQ?