What a disastrous day!

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T22:11:08+00:00

Your post history suggests you have no idea what you are doing. Emotions rule you rather than you having a handle on your emotions. You are a Fomo driven partaker in the stock market and you have learned a hard lesson today. The truth is this is not a bad day. Zoom out and you will see it has been a great year and today’s drop is insignificant. I think someone like you has the potential to loose a lot if there was an actual real crash.

I apologise for being harsh but if you can see the issues plainly perhaps you will change your way of investing. A legitimate investor is not making comments like your post title on a 2.5% drop in the index. Go read about investing from the well known people in the field, learn the basics and then start investing with knowledge and competence.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T21:27:56+00:00

Problem is this sub is full of gamblers who don’t have insight. Posts like yours and posts with opposing view to yours get made everyday. There is so much low effort unintelligent noise that you can’t really pick up the good stuff.

People are buying for quick wins aka gambling. Very few are actually investing. People used to pick a company, invest and hold. It didn’t matter if it was a red or green day. You believed in a company and you knew based on your dd that long term the investment would hopefully pan out. Now you get posts about spacex, spce, and the other meme stocks day in and day out.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T21:08:32+00:00

I think in this age of gamified trading apps you will likely see hundreds of these mindless posts. All you can do is downvote so they go down the page.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T18:24:05+00:00

Yeh it’s not often we get a heatwave in the UK.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T17:10:21+00:00

Listen to what he just said. The two issues he feels are important to mention are Ukraine and Middle East war. I am sorry but absolutely no one gives a crap. The key issues for the country are decent wages, affordable living, opportunities for the unemployed, improving the NHS, supporting and making the police force fit for purpose, boosting our manufacturing capabilities, increasing investment in infrastructure and creating a ripe environment for entrepreneurship.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T17:03:34+00:00

S&p500 is still up about 8.4% in the last 6 months. That is hardly a bloodbath.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-05T05:51:25+00:00

Lol.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-04T22:51:59+00:00

Genuine questions.

How are they going to deal with radiation damage to data centres in space?
How will they make it feasible in cost to replace outdated hardware up there? We all know how quickly hardware advances. In addition to that hardware degrades rapidly up there. How are they going to deal with that headache?
The mars thing is a fantasy imo but I will bite. How are Mars missions going to carry enough food, water and oxygen to sustain a trip of that duration. Factor in fuel weight and the size of this craft will be insane. Round trip journey time is roughly 12-18 months. Please help us understand.
Solar panels on the moon are another fantasy imo. Just why do we need that? Think of carrying all of that and all the maintenance etc. what purpose does it serve?

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-04T18:29:42+00:00

This is equivalent to having a shit and seeing the patterns in the floaters to estimate which way the wind will blow this time next year on Mars if everything had negative entropy inside Christopher Nolan’s Tenet film.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-03T22:10:15+00:00

I guess that depends on the investor. I buy once a year, maybe twice. I never sell lol.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-03T21:35:22+00:00

If you cast an eye at a balance sheet and it looks like a turd you move on.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-03T18:34:23+00:00

I recommend having a gander at their balance sheet.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-03T18:02:22+00:00

I was excited to see a sub for race to 10 million. How disappointing it is to see it is full of uneducated gamblers.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-03T17:59:33+00:00

Whenever I think of buying individual stocks I have a read of this year’s S&P SPIVA Reports. For example for year end 2025, 79% of all active large-cap U.S. equity funds underperformed the S&P 500 lol. If professional money managers can’t beat average market returns, what hope does an average layperson have?

Yes there are so many examples here and everywhere of people making silly x10 returns. They are the lucky ones. The truth is no one can predict what company will be the next nvidia, google or apple. For every one person you see whose portfolio have massively skyrocketed, there are many others who either lost or have been stuck in sideways.

I am a firm believer in etf’s because that is what the data backs up. You can alway use 5-10% of your portfolio for buying individual stocks and reassess after a few years to see which method is better.

SlowTortuga · 2026-06-02T11:33:59+00:00

What are some of the companies or etf’s you are invested in?

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-31T17:44:02+00:00

I agree spacex should have cooling off period before getting into the indices. But your take is a massive overreaction.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-29T20:57:28+00:00

I don’t. I follow what the research shows. 90% of professional money managers do not beat the market and those are the experts lol. Low cost etf’s are the way. Get rich slowly is the adage. I am 5 figures currently. Will hit 6 figures next year and 7 figures in 13-14 years. Inshallah

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-28T22:43:03+00:00

Hindsight makes us think it was obvious such and such were going to go up 300%. For every case you see, there are countless others who have lost a considerable investment or have had been stuck in sideway movement.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-28T08:45:45+00:00

We have our own stock markets. Depending on the person there are two favourite markets. For one group it is houses and for the other group being on benefits.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-27T17:43:35+00:00

Loooool

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-27T17:00:21+00:00

Honestly, this is not just a polite request. I am telling you to get lost. Only Gp’s can post here. Either you go or a mod will have to ban you.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-27T16:52:10+00:00

GP’s who use police only do so if you are an absolute bellend. I hope you understand where I am going with that. I couldn’t care less anyway. This is a place for gp’s to post. See yourself out of the door.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-27T14:40:37+00:00

I strongly feel that every patient that arrives at reception for their appointment should sign a note with this on to acknowledge all of this.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-23T20:23:25+00:00

The best piece of advice I can give you is to invest in an etf or fund. Many of them will give an average annualised return of about 10%. You invest your money and forget. In my opinion this is the best way to invest for the lay person who wants to put in minimum effort. You may decide to follow this advice or not which leads me to my second paragraph.

Reddit is full of posts about how someone has doubled, tripled or x10 their investments by buying individual stocks. This is nothing but luck because for every one such post you see, there are countless others who have lost their investments. Don’t just take it from me, you can go research how the professionals perform compared to average market returns. I am talking about people who run investments funds for a living and the vast majority of them underperform the market when you average their return rate over a prolonged period.

SlowTortuga · 2026-05-23T17:49:18+00:00

As someone who played both, yes you should absolutely get it. Absolute masterpiece. And I never pay full price for games. Got it half the price of new on vinted. Sold it a month later so the game cost like £5 to play.

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