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Clara Ng

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24 Mar 2020

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The Covid-19 outbreak has been called a pandemic by the WHO. Seems like it could be an opportunity to buy and invest in some stocks with proper research. Your thoughts?

The Dow Jones plunged more than 5.8%, while the S&P 500 fell 4.9% and Nasdaq fell 4.7%. Labelling the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic would mean greater uncertainty as it sends jitters to markets and weaken business and investors sentiments. But it could also be an opportunity for those who are interested in buying stocks. How can we take advantage of this opportunity and what do we need to know before making an informed decision instead of a rash one?

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The information we receive is difficult to use as a market timing signal. There probably are still some worse dates ahead. As we are no robust stock pickers passive indexing ETFs should be the way to go. Why not SP500 (as VOO or IVV)? Cost averaging will help.

If we think it all over, for many not so obvious, we even do not need to change any strategy faced with these happenings:

buying regularly well diversified large and cheap passive indexing ETFs and hold them forever

... as we did always before.​​​

Divide investable cash into 3 tranches. When s&p hits 2000, buy into an index. Then put in the other 2 tranches every time it drops 10%.

Ernest Yeam Wee Leong

20 Mar 2020

Content Creator at www.youtube.com/c/JustBeingErnest

The following industries will face impact to their earnings.

If you feel that the price fall is beyond the expected impact to earnings, you can invest into them. Otherwise you can look into stocks not affected by the pandemic and will have sharp recovery. hotels

airlines

cruise

restaurants

transport

oil companies

tourist attractions

banks
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Sharon

18 Mar 2020

Life Alchemist at School of Hard Knocks

1) Keep yourself updated of the trend where coronavirus is heading, as well as the measures taken by...

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