• Ranvier@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    No I was referring specifically to these common misleading sensational headlines on minor movements of the stock market, not news headlines in general. Or if you’re referring to 401ks again, yes in general it’s a bad idea to be making active trades in a 401k with a time horizon of decades based on day to day minor fluctuations of the stock market.

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      Or if you’re referring to 401ks again

      Yes, I am…

      Almost half of the “loss” this article refers to rebounded even by the time I wrote this comment compared to when the article was published

      So would you advise to ignore all headlines for 24 hours-ish, to see if the losses are real or just a blip?

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      yes in general it’s a bad idea to be making active trades in a 401k with a time horizon of decades based on day to day minor fluctuations of the stock market.

      That didn’t answer my question though. I wasn’t asking about trading, but if a news article like this one comes out, should it be ignored for a certain amount of time, since you seem to think its not legit/sensationalized, based on your ‘half of the loss rebounded by the time I wrote this comment’.

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