I tried investing in stocks in 2021 and i lost over 75% of my money... never again for me
Wow!
you invested really bad if you lost such a percentage. Didn't you diversify your portfolio? did you spend the day trading intraday? or you simply gambled with futures or high leverage?
No one can say it better than you.
Back on topic, yesterday I heard that when most people go for something, sometimes it can be a good idea to make the opposite. Not that going against the flow as a general rule is wise, but that there may be better opportunities for the original thinker.
But not every one of us is capable of being an
original thinker. @ckone3333333 is definitely not one of them if he complains about losses.
Most investors nowadays have too big an exposure to these multinational companies that have been performing really well, and continue in the present with the hype of the AI they are investing in. This exposure comes not only from buying stocks of these companies but from different global indices (not only American) like ALL-WORLD index where these companies you mentioned represent more than the 30%, so the failure of only one of them would lead to a correction in all these markets.
I would say differently. Almost all companies on the stock market are overvalued and overpriced. Take even famous tech companies like Tesla and Apple. Their stock prices are overly inflated and against such a background it is almost impossible (difficult and risky) to make a profit. Eternal growth is impossible and one day this entire market will collapse. The upcoming crisis may be an excellent reason. Therefore, the best “entry point” into the stock market will be after such a market failure, and not when the prices are inflated and @ckone3333333 wants to play these games.
In conclusion, investing in the US Stock Market can be a good conservative financial decision, but the fact that everybody does it doesn't guarantee good profits in the short term. If profits in the market were guaranteed, everybody would be rich, something impossible in a zero sum game.
A good conservative financial decision may be to invest in a variety of indices (S&P500) rather than just specific companies to diversify risk. But in fact, we don’t know exactly how @ckone3333333 invested.
There will always be losers and winners in the market. This time, @ckone3333333 was at a loss, which means that someone else made good money. The financial system works on the principle of communicating vessels: somewhere there is a loss, and somewhere there is an arrival.