Okay, okay, I am bragging, I am gloating. I am begging for attention. But sometimes you are that guy!
Who has two thumbs and cashed out of the stock market the business day before the biggest point decline in market history?
This Guy!
To celebrate I am going to first irresponsibly repost a fake news and 100% fake tweet that is topical (FALSE!) and going viral.
Here is my playful two thumbs pixabay search.
This guy!
(Couldn’t find two thumbs.)
Last week I talked to my brother and stood firm behind my to-do list of selling stocks while the market was hot. I am not a super organized and competent person. Exhibit A, I have a check from my father for getting presents for my kids for Christmas. Yes I bought the presents, but no I haven’t figured out how to get to the bank to deposit the check (and I need a tutorial and a confirmation from someone in the bank before I do the check app thing). Exhibit B, I have been trying to get a passport for ten years and I simply never complete the process. This is despite the fact that I just had my third interview about an opportunity to work in China next year. Exhibit C: I have a medical bill on my desk that I have been trying to pay for a month, but I am always working when they are open and I just keep trying to follow their instruction online as I get veered into the oblivion of cyberspace.
Sooooo. Wanting to sell my stocks and actually doing it were two different things.
And I DID it last week. And I posted it here on Steemit.
https://steemit.com/money/@jacksonblair/by-by-dow
Unlike the fake Trump tweet this did not go viral. (BUT it IS 100% ReaL!) In part because I am not Donald Trump. @jacksonblair only goes so far. And I am a newbie (one with a little friendly push from @aggroed. (Family in high steem places) And I am posting about the boring stock market in downtown cryptocurrency-land.
But give me a little love. I was actually toggling with my TIAA chef date and thinking I would apply the transaction next month. Instead I clicked next day. My transaction went through on February 5, 2017. And on the next business day, the market shifted down strongly, And money moved into the bond market, where I made my shift.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/05/investing/stock-market-today-dow-jones/index.html
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/02/investing/why-dow-dropping/index.html?iid=EL
So, I clearly am a prescient genius. Get me on the talk show circuit. Hire me on your financial team now. Who else called it down to the DAY!
At the very least follow me and tell all of your friends that you know the guy who predicted the micro crash of 2018.
And truly I hope it is a blip. A lot of crazy stuff happens and a lot of people get hurt when markets truly crash. I’ll take genius for a day. I take luckiest sap in the zip code.
LOL ROFL LMAO
Anything like this ever happened to anyone else out there?