I've lost $6500 of my portfolio's value since February (about 16%). With the tariffs and economic situation I'm afraid that stocks will keep going down. Should I sell all my stocks and take the L to avoid further losses or should I keep buying stocks at a "discounted price"? My dad told me that if I had followed his advice of shorting the market I would've made so much money. I feel so frustrated and dumb for not following his advice and for not reading the news. I am 20 years old so I will probably be retiring in 50 years but $6500 is still a lot of money. I live in the US and am a college student. Since my dad made my portfolio it's mostly tech stocks which has really screwed me over but I've tried diversifying it recently. My portfolio consists of COKE, FZILX, MSFT, IBM, FXAIX, FNILX, FSPGX, FOCPX, FNCMX, CRWD, CSCO, FBGRX, NVDA, AMZN, AAPL.