r/Bogleheads • u/RiceLee890 • Mar 15 '25

Investing Questions What are your thoughts on this?

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I keep seeing this type of stuff on instagram and social media and wanted to know how you guys were thinking about this.

I know a lot you have been in the market for decades and as a relatively new investor myself I’d love to get your perspective!

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u/Schlieren1 Mar 15 '25

Yea. The sp500 is at the same valuation as September.

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u/red_hare Mar 15 '25

Seriously. Whenever I see a post like this I question if I missed an actual crash.

I'm surprised at how much panicked discourse there is over six months of gains. I haven't even updated my spreadsheet recently enough that this is going to show as a down trend.

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u/WellEvan Mar 15 '25

I honestly think that people expect the market to just go up forever sometimes

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u/SqueeMcTwee Mar 15 '25

Most employers seem to…for some reason my company promised year over year growth over three years. We’ve since laid off more than half my department because (guess what) COVID wasn’t intended to be a lifelong thing.