On: Ask HN: How to deal with markets down turn? Feeling down

[opportune]

It was very easy to identify as it happened, when inflation hit 8% while rates were at 0% and unemployment was at like 4%.

[UncleMeat → opportune]

You also have to get back in at the right time. A lot of people called that the market would drop in March 2020. But how many realized that by August, long before vaccines were in sight, that the market wouldn't go below the pre-covid peak again? Somebody who sells in March and then buys in October loses a lot.