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This is a bloodbath - 1,935.35 - update −2,016.06 (Original Post) malaise Apr 2025 OP
Giving me a stomachache Walleye Apr 2025 #1
Are we all broke now? Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #2
I'm making money. roamer65 Apr 2025 #45
If Trump finds out you are happy, he will come after you. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #49
Grrrrr....angry! roamer65 Apr 2025 #61
That's much better. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #62
Same here. Prof. Toru Tanaka Apr 2025 #74
Smart decision. roamer65 Apr 2025 #88
iSN'T THE SEC SUPPOSED TO homegirl Apr 2025 #54
King Donald has not given them permission to shut down? Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #55
It's a pause in trading not a full shutdown unless it's 20% EdmondDantes_ Apr 2025 #69
7% 13% 20% the way I read it Bengus81 Apr 2025 #77
This message was self-deleted by its author yellow dahlia Apr 2025 #91
The Dow is not the market. It is a 1896 adding machine price-weighted index of 30 stocks. Ditch the Dow, use SP500. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2025 #3
The Dow, S&P 500, NASDAQ -- all are fucked. Focus on that. W_HAMILTON Apr 2025 #5
Putin is Ecstatic DENVERPOPS Apr 2025 #18
Farmers don't matter Cirsium Apr 2025 #59
Remember Wonder bread bags Joni Ernst? wolfie001 Apr 2025 #73
But, Biden's age! stollen Apr 2025 #65
And did you hear where fuckface Vance told us we need to suck up the tariff crisis? vapor2 Apr 2025 #90
I hadn't heard stollen Apr 2025 #92
S&P is down almost 5%. Ocelot II Apr 2025 #10
Dow and S&P performance is highly correlated over time. Nt spooky3 Apr 2025 #14
The percentage loss of the Dow is actually mnhtnbb Apr 2025 #27
Nasdaq Composite and the Russel 2000 are in bear market territory. Pundits are calling it tRump "self-harming" USA. nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2025 #4
Putin himself couldn't have done more damage than his Russian puppet is doing to us right now. W_HAMILTON Apr 2025 #6
They are linked at the hip - or perhaps other body parts. erronis Apr 2025 #30
Wow −2,236.11 malaise Apr 2025 #78
Has lost almost 7000 points since Biden's record high. sinkingfeeling Apr 2025 #7
Russell 2000 is probably a better indicator (it's also bleeding out today, in case you were wondering) hatrack Apr 2025 #8
I'm astounded that GOP legislators aren't coming unglued. TomSlick Apr 2025 #9
Their bribes and kickbacks are GREAT. Captain Zero Apr 2025 #32
Apparently they don't take calls or give town halls. Emails go to the circular file. erronis Apr 2025 #33
That's political malpractice. TomSlick Apr 2025 #89
They're all buying stock. For little to nothing. hamsterjill Apr 2025 #37
This is not the time to go long jmowreader Apr 2025 #83
My husband was just saying the same thing. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2025 #53
Only when the retirement fund of the serfs disappear zorbasd Apr 2025 #57
They probably already have their bug-out countries and accommodations set up. n/t TheBadWolf Apr 2025 #72
I'm waiting for the "everyone back in the pool" tweet jmbar2 Apr 2025 #11
And there seems to always be a bigger sell-off closer to closing time? kentuck Apr 2025 #12
On a Friday when there's two days off to worry. Frasier Balzov Apr 2025 #58
Getting close to circuit breaker time Arazi Apr 2025 #13
I was thinking that, too -- is it 6%? obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #17
7% of the previous days close Arazi Apr 2025 #20
Thank you! I couldn't remember obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #84
This is the worst it has been since the last time he helped to crash the market... kentuck Apr 2025 #15
From Colbert's Thursday night monologue... krkaufman Apr 2025 #60
So much winning. CoopersDad Apr 2025 #16
Sharks love blood IronLionZion Apr 2025 #19
Lots of insider trading. If we had any regulatory agencies they'd be looking at the longs/shorts. erronis Apr 2025 #34
Musk will just fire all of them IronLionZion Apr 2025 #41
He said "we're all gonna be rich!" Captain Zero Apr 2025 #35
I can tell that my 401(k) managers are trying to do everything they can to protect against major losses. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2025 #21
1,961.16 malaise Apr 2025 #22
I'm not sure there is much of a bottom. I have been expecting the worst since 4:00 a.m. on November 06, 2024. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2025 #25
1,965.10 underpants Apr 2025 #26
Now down nearly 2100. CanonRay Apr 2025 #28
Sorry and good luck! LymphocyteLover Apr 2025 #23
The over built housing market here in Fl will stop. My house on market here past 35 days . FloridaBlues Apr 2025 #40
Good luck to you! Pacifist Patriot Apr 2025 #50
Losses verge on $10 Trillion since Inauguration mnhtnbb Apr 2025 #24
Not to worry. The financial prince of darkness knows how to handle bankruptcies........from experience. Ping Tung Apr 2025 #29
But don't worry... when it comes back up 1200 points he will claim a 1200 point victory!! mikelewis Apr 2025 #31
Often the markets rally (at least gets less bad) at the end of the day. flashman13 Apr 2025 #36
BTW If you hear people saying, "Buy the dip", run for the exits. flashman13 Apr 2025 #39
My powder is sitting dry for the usual recessionary 50 pct correction. roamer65 Apr 2025 #44
Individual investors put $4.7 Billion mnhtnbb Apr 2025 #47
Fools.. Arazi Apr 2025 #85
"Don't try to catch a falling knife." littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 #48
I saw a bumper sticker yesterday gab13by13 Apr 2025 #38
Are we sick of winning yet? IronLionZion Apr 2025 #42
I'm doing well in Treasuries. roamer65 Apr 2025 #43
I got out of stocks in January and only bonds & cash in my 401k now. But we are still getting hurt. SunSeeker Apr 2025 #66
Cash is king right now. roamer65 Apr 2025 #68
It's Friday westen Apr 2025 #46
Not an excuse for what tsf has done SheltieLover Apr 2025 #52
Oh please, just stop obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #64
I feel liberated from the burden of having all that money invested Xipe Totec Apr 2025 #51
OMG! Now Down 85000 in tRumpcoin! ImNotGod Apr 2025 #56
As of this moment, the S&P 500 is down over 5% Wiz Imp Apr 2025 #63
Wow Demovictory9 Apr 2025 #67
Further Cuts Have Been Made... Further Cuts WILL Be Made... MayReasonRule Apr 2025 #70
I was afraid to look at my accounts today, I did anyway. I've lost over 250K since the traitor took over. OverBurn Apr 2025 #71
Ouch! mnhtnbb Apr 2025 #79
-2200 Prairie Gates Apr 2025 #75
Looks like it will close at its low for the day. mnhtnbb Apr 2025 #76
Jesus Trump's an idiot Prairie Gates Apr 2025 #80
DOW had a dead cat bounce. mnhtnbb Apr 2025 #81
My parents are freaking out -- this has wiped out a huge chunk of their retirement accounts obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #82
DOW down 15% from its high in January. surfered Apr 2025 #86
S&P 500 closes down 5.97% (after a -4.84% drop yesterday) Wiz Imp Apr 2025 #87

Prof. Toru Tanaka

(2,724 posts)
74. Same here.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:50 PM
Apr 2025

I went 100% treasuries when I was preparing for retirement in 2023 on my TSP account. I didn’t want to take gambles on the stock market at that point and with Numbnutz Krasnov driving the market into the shitter, I’m comfortable with my decision.

homegirl

(1,791 posts)
54. iSN'T THE SEC SUPPOSED TO
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:18 PM
Apr 2025

shut down the Stock Exchange when it drops FIVE PERCENT in a day?

Response to homegirl (Reply #54)

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,006 posts)
3. The Dow is not the market. It is a 1896 adding machine price-weighted index of 30 stocks. Ditch the Dow, use SP500. . nt
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:19 PM
Apr 2025

DENVERPOPS

(12,987 posts)
18. Putin is Ecstatic
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:14 PM
Apr 2025

The farmers are just beginning to get royally freaked out........Major FAFO............none of them wondering deep down why they voted for Trump and all the other RepubliCON Politicians that promoted Trump and enabled him to carry out this Tragedy......

The RepubliCONS in the House and Senate, as well as the USSC members are so ignorant, they don't realize there is no need for a Legislative Branch or Judicial Branch in a tyranny, and they ALL will be kicked to the curb shortly, like everyone else in Trump world, his ENTIRE life............All of them should have noticed that his voters have all been thrown under the bus already....they have fulfilled their usefulness this one last time for electing Trump again.......They are no longer needed by the Republican Party......and just starting to figure it out.............All Rural Red Trumphumping Farmers are totally freaking out today..........and they should be.........

Cirsium

(2,732 posts)
59. Farmers don't matter
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:26 PM
Apr 2025

Farmers are not a significant voting bloc and are no more or less likely to vote Republican than any other group of business owners. I every farmers started voting Democratic it wouldn't change the results of elections, even in rural districts. Here, in a very conservative farming area there are about 300 growers - farm owners - and 40-45% of them vote Democratic. Yet Trump got over 10,000 votes here.

It is the eaters that will suffer when farms are hurt and Trump will bail out the big farm owners, especially the large grain operations, the cattle ranchers, and the meat packing industry.

Trump and the Republicans are expert at invoking rugged individualist imagery, Hollywood stereotypes that resonate with people - cowboys, ranchers, farmers, miners, lumberjacks; Reagan on horseback, Bush with his fake ranch, Trump with his he-man collectibles. But we shouldn't buy into that propaganda and think that those represent significant voting blocs. They represent Walter Mitty fantasy voting blocs.

Trump makes people think they are somehow associated with heroic stereotypes when they go with him. It is all a bunch of nonsense.

wolfie001

(5,664 posts)
73. Remember Wonder bread bags Joni Ernst?
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:49 PM
Apr 2025

What a clown creep. Eff her AND her Wonder bread bags.

stollen

(905 posts)
65. But, Biden's age!
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:35 PM
Apr 2025

I made $200,000 in the market during Biden's last yr. *poof*

Little Marco fuck-face tells me I'm supposed to be happy. This is for the good of the country. I flation is now good. Recession is now good.

I got on a fb page of a friend with 350 friends, several whom I know to be wingnuts and with TSPs. I said that those who'd voted for Trump had created this debacle. Now FIX IT!

Nobody responded.

vapor2

(2,659 posts)
90. And did you hear where fuckface Vance told us we need to suck up the tariff crisis?
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 10:28 PM
Apr 2025

REALLY ??? Such boorish words

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,006 posts)
4. Nasdaq Composite and the Russel 2000 are in bear market territory. Pundits are calling it tRump "self-harming" USA. nt
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:21 PM
Apr 2025

TomSlick

(12,577 posts)
9. I'm astounded that GOP legislators aren't coming unglued.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:30 PM
Apr 2025

They have to be feeling the heat from back home.

TomSlick

(12,577 posts)
89. That's political malpractice.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 07:03 PM
Apr 2025

If a pissed-off constituent can't get a call through, they will become more pissed-off. No matter how red the district, pissed-off constituents are dangerous. If nothing else, a primary opponent is possible.

hamsterjill

(16,096 posts)
37. They're all buying stock. For little to nothing.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:46 PM
Apr 2025

That's the whole plan. Rocking the markets benefits the wealthy who have cash on hand. Screws ordinary people who live paycheck to paycheck.

Fuck every idiot MAGA that voted for Trump because they were too stupid to listen to the rest of us.

jmowreader

(52,522 posts)
83. This is not the time to go long
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 04:05 PM
Apr 2025

This is the time to short the living fuck out of the market.

Pacifist Patriot

(25,050 posts)
53. My husband was just saying the same thing.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:14 PM
Apr 2025

We really don't understand the lack of proverbial pitchforks.

It would be useless to apply pressure to my GOP legislators. They are so far up the Trump backside, they see with orange eyeballs. And the thought of a democrat being elected around here is about as likely as the manufacturing on Heard Island to kick into high gear. But surely some swingier districts must be feeling the heat.

zorbasd

(437 posts)
57. Only when the retirement fund of the serfs disappear
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:21 PM
Apr 2025

and come after them in the halls of congress with pitch forks, then they will realize....

jmbar2

(7,041 posts)
11. I'm waiting for the "everyone back in the pool" tweet
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:34 PM
Apr 2025

The short squeeze is going to be epic.

kentuck

(114,350 posts)
12. And there seems to always be a bigger sell-off closer to closing time?
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:35 PM
Apr 2025

This is not good!

Arazi

(8,130 posts)
20. 7% of the previous days close
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:27 PM
Apr 2025

Level 1 (7% decline): Halts trading for 15 minutes.
Level 2 (13% decline): Halts trading for 15 minutes.
Level 3 (20% decline): Halts trading for the remainder of the trading day.

kentuck

(114,350 posts)
15. This is the worst it has been since the last time he helped to crash the market...
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 01:39 PM
Apr 2025

During the Covid pandemic.

krkaufman

(13,957 posts)
60. From Colbert's Thursday night monologue...
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:28 PM
Apr 2025

"Worst day for our economy since COVID. Just a little reminder ... This time, HE's the disease."

IronLionZion

(49,422 posts)
19. Sharks love blood
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:26 PM
Apr 2025

Trump insiders are trading based on his idiotic policies. Somebody is getting wealthy from this while everyone else loses.

erronis

(20,564 posts)
34. Lots of insider trading. If we had any regulatory agencies they'd be looking at the longs/shorts.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:43 PM
Apr 2025

Wonder why they were knee-capped?

Pacifist Patriot

(25,050 posts)
21. I can tell that my 401(k) managers are trying to do everything they can to protect against major losses.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:28 PM
Apr 2025

The change in investment strategy is obvious. I still lost 3% of my retirement funding overnight. Single digit loss may not seem like much to some folks, but in one day? Yes. This is a bloodbath.

I have been desperately trying to get my house market ready to sell so I can flee Florida. I think I've lost the window and there is no way I am going to be able to relocate to Virginia before everything crashes. Call me Chicken Little, but I don't see a good end in sight here. No reason to believe the administrations mismanagement (stupidity and cruelty) is going to abate any time soon.

Pacifist Patriot

(25,050 posts)
25. I'm not sure there is much of a bottom. I have been expecting the worst since 4:00 a.m. on November 06, 2024.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:33 PM
Apr 2025

FloridaBlues

(4,581 posts)
40. The over built housing market here in Fl will stop. My house on market here past 35 days .
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:50 PM
Apr 2025

I have to still hope for the best on selling. Don’t have an option right now.
Good luck to you!

mnhtnbb

(32,636 posts)
24. Losses verge on $10 Trillion since Inauguration
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:32 PM
Apr 2025

of the orange a$$hole. Largest two day wipeout in history, says MarketWatch

https://www.marketwatch.com/

Ping Tung

(3,003 posts)
29. Not to worry. The financial prince of darkness knows how to handle bankruptcies........from experience.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:40 PM
Apr 2025

He'll conquer Canada, Greenland, Panama, Haiti, Venezuela, and Hollywood
and then sell them to his pal Putin for $1 trillion each

mikelewis

(4,505 posts)
31. But don't worry... when it comes back up 1200 points he will claim a 1200 point victory!!
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:41 PM
Apr 2025

In 4 or 5 months... Smart... And Fox will pat him on the back.

flashman13

(1,383 posts)
36. Often the markets rally (at least gets less bad) at the end of the day.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 02:45 PM
Apr 2025

I expect it just to get worse today. Trump has undermined confidence and sown doubt. No reason to think we are approaching the bottom of this crash. Monday morning will tell the tale.

mnhtnbb

(32,636 posts)
47. Individual investors put $4.7 Billion
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:08 PM
Apr 2025

into stocks yesterday, buying the dip.
Again, MarketWatch headline.
https://www.marketwatch.com/

SunSeeker

(56,151 posts)
66. I got out of stocks in January and only bonds & cash in my 401k now. But we are still getting hurt.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:37 PM
Apr 2025

Sure, we are better off than folks holding Nvidia and Apple. But nobody is escaping untouched from the building shitstorm.

Xipe Totec

(44,347 posts)
51. I feel liberated from the burden of having all that money invested
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:12 PM
Apr 2025

Now I understand what Trump is liberating; our wallets.

Wiz Imp

(5,960 posts)
63. As of this moment, the S&P 500 is down over 5%
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:31 PM
Apr 2025

That's after yesterday's drop of 4.84%. So about a 10% drop in the span of 2 days.

OverBurn

(1,250 posts)
71. I was afraid to look at my accounts today, I did anyway. I've lost over 250K since the traitor took over.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:45 PM
Apr 2025

Trump is the biggest traitor in American history. He is bought, paid for and solely owned by Putin. Only way to explain all the stuff he's doing. He's destroying us from within.

mnhtnbb

(32,636 posts)
79. Ouch!
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 03:59 PM
Apr 2025

I've been watching this last hour. I've lost--in two days-- the equivalent of what I receive in net Social Security benefits for a year. Two days.

obamanut2012

(28,633 posts)
82. My parents are freaking out -- this has wiped out a huge chunk of their retirement accounts
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 04:05 PM
Apr 2025

They are almost 80.

I don't even want to know what is happening to my pension investments.

surfered

(7,852 posts)
86. DOW down 15% from its high in January.
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 04:07 PM
Apr 2025

The Stable Genius did file for bankruptcy 6 times.

Wiz Imp

(5,960 posts)
87. S&P 500 closes down 5.97% (after a -4.84% drop yesterday)
Fri Apr 4, 2025, 04:15 PM
Apr 2025

Point drop was -322.44 which is the 2nd largest single day point drop ever. Biggest drop was -324.89 on 3-16-20. Yesterday's drop is now the third biggest single day drop.

S&P 500 is down 14.0% since the beginning of 2025
S&P 500 is down 15.6% since Trump's inauguration.
S&P 500 is down 17.4% since its peak in mid February
S&P 500 is down 10.5% in just the past 2 days

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