The market was overvalued as it was, then mix in tariff stupidity plus Trump flip flops all the time, it was an easy call.
The markets do not like chaos plus algo's trade a lot now so runs either way can happen easier, but you still have to consider the Trump factor. I will get out of this play with money and will not watch my gains melt, but Trump's ego will not let the stock market suffer under his watch or at least he will try to stop it crashing. He will talk a big game about not caring, but will do something like lessen the tariffs, and it will slow down the down turn but it wont stop it.
The other problem is the housing market, lots of people are priced out. Some markets in my area have 27 months supply of homes and most of the markets are over supply and half the markets are starting to decline in values and I am in Central Florida which is an active market. In my market the 700k to 1200k priced homes are dead. The next thing to fall will be the housing market, which will not help the market no matter if Trump starts making smart decisions for the economy or not. The fact he surrounded himself with yes men, is not a promising sign.
So, I sold everything I was not getting dividends on, and even sold a few of those. Mostly kept my Brazilian dividend stocks. Then invested 50% of that cash in shorting the market and have made a killing. Kept the rest of the cash and became part of Warren Buffets cash gang (lots of billionaires started bailing out of the market at the end of last year, so it just was not Buffet). I can go bargain hunting in a couple years. Right now, just let it earn interest which is much safer.
No matter what MAGA Regards will try to tell you, this is a bear market and will be for a while.
The last thing is JPow talks on Wednesday, if inflation is increasing because shit got more expensive from Trumps Dumb Tariiffs then he can’t lower rates. JPow promised two small rate cuts but if that’s off the table then the market will get real ugly which means I will be rich.