Do younger investors recognize the value of real estate investing?

[hallmark1]

Or, have they been 'spoiled' by what they believe to be the 'fast and easy' money offered by certain aspects of stock market 'investing', along with a belief that there's no downside and only upside?


The Wall Street Casino, 2020/2021-style vs. Tried and True Wealth-Building Through Real Estate!

GameStop, a video selling brick and mortar hemorrhaging money, is the perfect poster child for the power of 'chat room' investing' gone wild!

And, a reminder of the 2018 article from
Bloomberg Opinion
...
'Rational Markets Theory Keeps Running Into Irrational Humans'
https://www.bloomberg.com/.../rational-markets-theory...

Some will likely make millions from these parabolic moves but, you don't want to be the last one standing when the music stops!

For tried and true investing and wealth building, real estate is the asset class
Hallmark Abstract Service LLC
will stay with!

 

[John Walkup]

True! It's the GFC all over again, but at a microscopic scale: derivatives leading the market. In 2008 it was derivatives based on mortgage backed securities that tanked the market. Here it's the retail 'wall street bets' crowd picking a somewhat thinly traded stock and loading up on call options squeezing the market makers to own the stock to hedge their risk. As it rises, the more underlying needs to be owned. All good until the music stops. It used to be that derivatives derived their value from the underlying, but now it seems the underlying gets pushed around by the derivatives. The tail is wagging the dog!

 

[Noah Rosenblatt]

I was at 499 Park Ave, at Tradescape in 1999 and 2000 for the dot com melt up and bust and when I see things like this. Its a traders market right now. Feels like the last leg of it..the higher we go from here, the faster and deeper the coming fall.

John mentions the gfc and mbs connection, today it feels like its an everything bubble. Best thing that can happen is a quick 50% bust, followed by a shallow rebound to set up a longer term sustainable growth pattern. Sounds bad, but a puking will have to happen to stock markets at some point when liquidity gets pulled out

 

[Noah Rosenblatt]

AMC and GME - out of control!

 

[David Goldsmith]

Koss.

 

[Noah Rosenblatt]

Koss.

insane!

 

[John Walkup]

Wow - crazy times!