No one will carry you out on their shoulders if you manage to do it but you will definitely get carried out on a stretcher if you get it really wrong with your own capital. Abandon any hope or intention of catching the bottom. Are people screaming in pain? Or are they still looking for a bottom? Or have they given up entirely? There is no math to this, a lot of it is “feel”.Ĩ. Pay attention to the squishier things in a crash moreso than you would normally. Watch sentiment more closely than technicals or fundamentals. The stocks you bought on a flyer one day or the companies that have been disappointing or where the story has changed – sell ’em on the rips.ħ. Even the worst markets have short-term bounces in the midst of the chaos, use these bounces to get rid of the things that make you ill on the red days, even if you’re taking a loss. Fine, but don’t forget the “things I will sell on the next bounce list”. The first list everyone knows about and talks about – the “if they get cheap enough I’ll buy it at that price” shopping list. I could tell you war stories you would not believe, kids.Ħ. Because broker-dealers and clearing firms can and will raise equity requirements right at the moment of maximum pain and force you to sell out later – and lower.
Also, margin balances must get cleaned up immediately, take the losses, I don’t care. I have a prenuptial agreement with every position I put on and we get divorced cleanly in a crash situation if need be.ĥa. You must separate your feelings for a particular asset class, sector or individual stock and recognize that the higher the volatility, the worse they’re gonna act in the short-term. The moment you recognize the crash, kick the small caps, biotechs, emerging markets etc. Make sacrifices by reducing stock exposure by beta and volatility. Because that would be $200 billion in supply hitting the stock market at once – they would crash it all by themselves! Too Big To Keep It Real has always been the problem with the wirehouse advice model.ĥ. Do you really think they would ever make the sell call? Can Morgan Stanley really say “Sell 20% of your equities”? No. And then let’s say they felt there was serious trouble ahead. Let’s say Morgan Stanley runs $1 trillion in stock market wealth for investors. Ignore the asset-gatherers and the brokerage firm strategists, their job is to calm markets and soothe investors. There’ll be a time to “know your stocks” but this ain’t it.Ĥ. Anyone covering specific stocks needs to know when the macro gyrations trump whatever earnings they’ve estimated or the conference calls they’ve listened to. They are only looking out from within their own little bubble and they cannot comprehend the other little bubbles around them let alone the whole bathtub. Don’t listen to “stockpickers” or sell-side equity analysts. Correlations always get jiggy in crashes, stocks become commoditized like bushels of wheat that must be liquidated regardless of the underlying businesses.ģ. If you happen to buy a stock and it rips higher, it will not be because of your research, it will be because the market went up. Your drawings and calculations will not work here. Pencils Down! Whatever trendlines or individual stock research you were working on needs to be shelved for the moment. Better to be wrong in hindsight on the nomenclature.Ģ. Once we’re past down 10% in the Dow Jones Industrial Average from wherever the peak was (yes, the Dow is a way better crash gauge than the S&P 500), you can stop saying correction and start saying crash. You want to survive this crash and the next one? Then follow Downtown Josh Brown’s Rules for Surviving a Crash:ġ.
I’ve had my ass kicked a million times by crashes but have gotten better at avoiding these things with each successive postmortem I’ve conducted. Pay attention because my entire career has been spent against the backdrop of one big slow-motion crash amid the secular bear market that began in the spring of 2000 and probably won’t end until later this decade.
Below are my 10 rules for surviving a stock market crash, as originally posted August 19th, enjoy and learn – JB I don’t try and guess the close on days like today but the open is a freak show of negativity. The Ten Crack Commandments, Notorious B.I.G. Your game on track, not your wig pushed back
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