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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just put your money into stocks! Buying 10 shares of Apple right now would cost $2,000 but once it bounces back to the price it was at before the dip you'd have $2,500! That's a profit of $500 in just a few years!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

it is not the bottom yet.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That's actually a pretty good return, but only helps people with cash lying around, which generally are already rich fucks.

It also assumes this is the bottom. That $2000 could become $1000 and it may take years and years and years to get to $2500 instead.

There is no indication this is the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Exactly. All the morons planning on buying the 'dip' before EU nations even announce their response to these tariffs are about to hurt themselves in confusion

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ron Howard voice:

It was not the bottom. In fact the bottom would not be discovered until the food riots of 2026.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

That's actually a pretty good return, but only helps people with cash lying around.

Exactly. A 25% return is amazing, but turning $1 into $1.25 isn't really that impressive. Turning $1,000,000 into $1,250,000 is. The two returns are the same but one made 25 cents and the other made 3x the yearly median income of a US citizen. "Buying the dip" only makes a difference if you're already filthy rich.