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Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast

How to Use the COVID Crash to Make Better Investing Decisions

Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast

Taylor Schulte, CFP®

Investing, Business

4.7678 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.

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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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