How to Use the COVID Crash to Make Better Investing Decisions
Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast
Taylor Schulte, CFP®
4.7 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, guest host Jeremy Schneider takes a deep dive into the COVID-19 stock market crash of 2020.
Specifically, he's talking about:
- What the trading circuit breaker is and why it exists
- How the length and severity of the COVID crash stacks up to other historical catastrophic events
- What retirement investors should consider going forward when reviewing their investments
Jeremy also answers a listener's question about rent vs buy given sky-high real estate prices.
If you're a retirement investor interested in using history to make more informed decisions about the future, you're going to love this episode.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stay Wealthy podcast with Taylor Schulte. |
| 0:05.5 | As you may be noticing, this is not Taylor Schulte. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Jeremy Schneider filling again for Taylor for the month of June. |
| 0:11.6 | Taylor will be back in July and I assume better than ever because he just can't help |
| 0:15.6 | continuing to get better. |
| 0:16.9 | So that's why I love him. |
| 0:18.6 | If you want to find the notes and links for today's episode, you can go to |
| 0:22.1 | You Stay Wealthy.com slash 112. |
| 0:28.7 | So I'd like to take us back in time, back to a historical ancient time, back to February |
| 0:33.4 | of 2020. |
| 0:34.6 | This was a time before the infamous coronavirus crash. You may have heard of the coronavirus |
| 0:39.9 | or COVID-19. It was a pandemic that is, you know, still raging through much of the world, but seems |
| 0:44.2 | to be getting better in the United States, at least at the moment. But in February of 2020, |
| 0:47.8 | the market had not yet reacted to it. But what followed was one of the steepest and fastest |
| 0:53.4 | stock market crashes in American history. |
| 0:56.5 | It was crazy. |
| 0:57.7 | I remember looking at my own personal brokerage account one day, |
| 1:00.2 | and I had suffered a $112,000 loss in a single day. |
| 1:05.9 | And I had four such days of six figure losses in March of 2020 alone. In fact, there's this thing called |
| 1:14.0 | the circuit breaker, which is basically a rule that the SEC enacted after the 1987 Black Monday |
| 1:20.1 | crash, where the stock market crashed about 22% in a single day. And so the SEC created this |
| 1:26.2 | circuit breaker rule that said, hey, if the market |
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