March Mailbag: Falling Knives

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Did you sell at the top? Will you buy at the bottom? Does it really matter if you're in it for the long term? Andy Cross and Aaron Bush join David to hear your stories, answer your questions, and check your temperament as we slog through a brutal month's mailbag, only to find...inspiration!

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0:00.0	The market drops 12% in one day. The market rises 8% in another.
0:06.1	Whole year is worth of returns up or down, mostly down of course, whole years worth of
0:11.8	market returns are happening on a given Monday or
0:16.0	Thursday.
0:18.0	Last week we did the market cap game show and David Busters, the Arcade Game
0:21.8	Restaurant Chain,
0:22.9	had dropped 46% in a single day.
0:26.2	Today, as we record this Tuesday afternoon,
0:29.1	Dave and Busters is up 49% in a single day, though still way down from $45 a share to $15 a share in just the past month.
0:41.5	Only something like, I don't't know the first pandemic of my lifetime
0:45.6	probably yours too could produce these kinds of crazy results. Do you have some
0:50.4	questions for us? Great because it's our mailbag week.
0:54.0	Would you like an inspirational and thoughtful story?
0:57.0	Or three from your fellow fools?
0:59.0	Great, it's mailbag week.
1:01.0	Your mailbag, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:06.2	This episode of Rule Breaker Investing is brought to you by indeed. It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:17.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:22.0	A delight to have you joining with me and us this week.
1:25.0	In fact, since it's a mailbag week,
1:27.0	I of course have friends along for the ride,
1:29.0	and that's the way these mailbags have worked.
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