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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   2567 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 17, 2026

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Someone here I remember posting that they had sold their stocks and bought only oil stocks because of the war. And that they thought they could easily swap back when it ended. Now that the war has ended do people think that was true? SPY is back at highs. Oil etf (XLE) at one month low. In my opinion it would have been hard to swap back. And I assume he has not and he’s currently at a small loss. Market moves happen fast. Faster now than ever before. I’m not even sure if the war is over. Even now you are reading Trump tea leaves.

I'm hopeful, but I'm still skeptical that this past week signifies a true return to norm. I'm not that commenter you referenced, and I also haven't made any money from the Iran war... yet. A little after the war started, I had spent some of my high-risk investment money to get into a Vanguard energy-industry fund, which has mostly been responsive to oil prices, and I've certainly lost money after today, but I also decided to put more into it today, because of my pessimism that the market is a little too caught up in the hype. We'll see.

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