it is said that the final part of a bear market is apathy when people throw in the towel and stop upsetting themselves by looking at their portfolios! We must be getting close….
I wonder if a graph of the volume of posts to this Discussion board (corrected for user numbers) would confirm an all-time low for “posts-per-user” as a useful Apathy Index?
A grizzled veteran of the NHS
Perhaps but suggest things are likely to get much worse before they turn round . Have a two year plus horizon on all my portfolio.
In a stylised picture of an 'Investor Psychology Cycle', apathy & pessimism preceed capitulation, only after which the bear market can end:
The bear market has not even started.
I agree there is are very few comments on the SCVR, last Friday only 12.
I rarely post there anymore.
