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Uncertainty is the name of the investing game in 2020.  The economy was at its peak and unemployment was at an all time low at the beginning of the year.  Now, unemployment is reaching nearing all time highs and the stock market has a major crash.  It looks like it is going up but just today Warren Buffet started selling all his airline stock.  This to me singles that the market will crash even harder soon.  So what on earth do I do with my investment funds? This is a volatile time when I am really just as unsure as the rest of the worlds investors of where we are going.  So it is wise to play the up and down roller coaster game in the stock market? I am not sure, so I will walk through a few scenarios of what one can do in the market currently.

The first option I have is that I can simply pull all my money from the market and hold it.  If I was a die hard Warren Buffet follower I might have already done it.  He just told all of Berkshire Hathaway not to buy any stock at the moment.  Which to me states that if the market is about to crash, I should liquidate all I have now and take a loss since the market just fell 30%.  But I could make part of it back up if it crashes again.  If Warren is right, that would put me on a break even with what I just lost and I would be back at a good level once the market picks up after the crash.  I could even be set for the future and be making, “bank” so to speak.  But if I do all of that in stocks I am stuck with the same issue.  In the last 12 years we have had two insane crashes. This has destroyed basically everyone's retirement especially for individuals in their 50’s and above. I feel like I would be in a very risky game which has proven to fail twice in a little more than a decade. 

Another thing I could do would be to simply play the short trading game. Intelligent speculator is a market research game that is known for making great profits by shorting markets when the market collapses. I could follow them instead of Warren Buffet and invest more in currencies going up and down.  It is more of a true traders game, buy they are offering insights into their trades for a fee and I think that would be worth the cost if I can outpace my investments in the stock market by making wise trades.  I am not a trader so following one and placing the sames trades might be a better outcome in the long run.  As usual I am not giving financial advice only talking about the market as I see it.  Please see your broker, investment firm, or attorney for financial advice.