Stock Market

The Recession seems on hold for a while, a single bad labor report, any single report isn't cause to panic.
Turns out the Bank of Japan did a minor rate increase, which created a huge worldwide " margin call", ( called in it's cheap loans around the world).
It was a global phenomenon, not a US crash, lol.

Mortgage rates are dropping

With the pullback, it's a great time to buy GREAT stocks at firesale prices.
Set Stops, watch them go.

I'm in the position that a lotta my holdings are free, I have held Amazon, Apple, Meta, Nvidia, Google, that they have split and doubled enuff times that they end up at no cost.
One of my disciplines is to sell 50% of a stock when it doubles in price, thus locking in profit, and the stock is then free.

I have found the " sector leader " (mentioned above) to be consistent winners, these are "best of breed", - you can even buy partial share.
I lost most money buying a cheap stock recommended by a "talking head" on TV, and watching it tank .
Josh Brown on CNBC, give extremely level headed views on reality, and have found his guidance very valuable . Record "Half-time Report" at noon eastern, and scan forward to his blurbs, jmo

I started this thread to try and make folks aware of the mutual fund trap, the fund manager gets a million+$, and the brokerage firm gets huge$ to run the fund, THEN, what's left get divided out.

The software tools mentioned help avoid the "gut wrenches" that I have learned to avoid.

Check out the free practice trader pages at your bank/brokerage.

If you truly want to learn about trading, go to this professional trading room. There used to be a free trial period, go watch the different styles of trading, options, great education section, charting to give you buy/sell triggers.

https://undergroundtrader.com/about-us-7/
Good trading .