do you not work with hedging mechanisms to mitigate stock losses? Have worked on the corporate desk and private individuals desk back in the day, I was always astounded as to what the differential drops were between the two groups of investors, say over a 5 year time frame. private investors were always stock or fund buyers and in later years structured products but either way other than a token weighting in AAA bonds that was it. corporates would invest in a lot more put options, currency hedges, commodities etc as part of their overall portfolio.
I would be surprised if anyone on BM has lost as much as I did in the markets over such a short time frame of about 48 hours (think it was the year 2000) with a range of call options I bought and put options (I sold/underwrote ) on the nasdaq tech sector just before it crashed - still piss myself when I look back as I was an arrogant twat who thought he had the Midas touch :-)
people are going to have sit-this one out if they are holding stocks and shares and possibly expect some further drops I said this a few weeks ago the strength of short term global markets hinge on how the covid19 story plays out in the states and for how long, if we see any necessity to implement an Italian style lockdown over there ( even in an individual state) I would not be surprised to see another 20% - 30% drop from the indices price closes from yesterday.
