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by Danno "Without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet." ~Brian Shelby (actor Jason Lee) in Vanilla Sky (2001) ( YouTube link ) Without the market risks, there would be no market return. Assuming you are well diversified, more stocks/risk means more return over the long-term, and more volatility over the short-term. If you can't handle that, you might need to tweak your allocation. Stocks got whacked again yesterday, and that never feels good. It was a bitter day. We're basically back to where we were 12 days ago, and where we were in Summer 2021. But instead of staring at your account and panicking and looking for nuclear bombs in the sky, let's just chill out a little and look at data. 1st: 12 days ago we then went up 6%-8% in the following 2 days. 2nd: This volatility started in Q4 2021 when the Fed began shifting the expectations about raising interest rates. In my opinion, for now, this is still more important to the stock market than w