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Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? by icedchai on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:29PM (#14949295)
2008 was great. Everything was on sale, and I doubled down on my stock investments...
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Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? by stouset on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:09PM (#14949722)
With money from where?

If your money wasn't in the market, you might have been lucky with timing but statistically if you replay that scenario, you're losing out on gains by not just parking your money in the market in the long run.

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Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? by icedchai on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:22PM (#14949862)
I did get lucky, to be honest. I had low 6 figures in a total stock market fund and a similar amount of cash sitting around.
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Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash? by sumedh on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:38PM (#14953926)
> With money from where?

Your salary, invest you savings in the market.

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