Goddamn it!!! Every time the markets crash I'm stuck without cash to buy any stocks with. I think I'm going to start putting some aside and stop buying bitcoin for a while, because I suspect the stock market is going to drop a lot more before we see the end of this. It was down again today, and if this keeps going we're going to have a bleak 2016--but stocks will be cheaper!
Don't know about bitcoin, though. Has anyone actually done any econometrics with it, e.g., figured out how it moves with relation to the stock market or bond market or any others? I'd be very curious.
Why would you buy stocks when they are crashing? Way to catch a falling knife to be honest. It's just best to stay all in on Bitcoin, what tells you that when you buy those stocks which looks like a good buy, they will not continue falling?
I'm not a trader, that's why. Meaning I don't sell stocks very often--I would consider myself an investor and not a speculator. So when good quality stocks are dropping (or have dropped to whatever you think the bottom is), it's time to buy. You know that phrase "buy low, sell high"? Well, you have to have the balls to buy low and hold, even if what you bought goes lower first. That "falling knife" concept mostly applies to heavy traders. That's how I see it anyway.
Bitcoin is total speculation to me though, and I'm not comfortable keeping a huge amount of money in it because there's no good way to analyze what the price should be. And it's notoriously volatile.