Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist

Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by xchaotic on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:52PM (#25096419)

If this is just retirement money, so what? It rebounded pretty well since.

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Re:Save like a pessimist, invest like an optimist by paulpauper on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:37PM (#25096691)

if you have have 100% margin and the market falls 50%, the broker will close out all your positions at a large loss to protect its own assets (often well before the 50% target), at which point it will not matter how much the market rebounds after that

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