January Mailbag: Ups and Downs

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🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The market crashed in January, finally putting an end to a long bull market. Or did it? Depends how closely you were listening. Today we look back at a month full of losers, lessons, and outright fabrications.

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0:00.0	January 2020 was the month the market crashed.
0:06.1	Well, on this podcast,
0:08.8	did you listen to the day the market crashed
0:11.7	just a few weeks ago on rule breaker Investing a lot of you did.
0:15.3	We got perhaps our biggest Twitter response yet and Chris Hill's going to join with me again
0:20.5	this week just to talk about that.
0:23.7	Now I'm pretty sure you know this the market didn't crash.
0:26.8	It doesn't very often, but there are certainly down drafts which can come suddenly and
0:31.6	painfully, but what about when the market is up, as it is most years and has been for years,
0:37.6	and you might have one of two problems with that. First, what if though the market is up you aren't so much?
0:45.3	Your stocks, your portfolio, your underperforming. I'll speak to that or second
0:50.9	what if since the market is up and up and up, you're worried that a purchase
0:57.0	today will turn into a sudden loss?
0:59.8	Tomorrow, I'll speak to that too. These are all driven by your questions, your questions, and
1:06.8	my and my talented teams best answers questions and answers that could only mean
1:11.7	it's mailbag week on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
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