Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 08, 2023

Not if you know your son at all, Mom, no.

I wonder where Be This Guy is. I hope he’s well.

When are they gonna eat that pie??

He had all of the paradigms. Now he wishes he had a pair of dimes.

So Mike, now you know where your screw-up genes came from.

So she invested in Paradigm.com, did she?! For shame…

Hold on for 20 years, it gets better. I remember buying shares in my S&P 500 mutual fund at 900!!

OH, NICE ONE, MOM! Guilt trip extraordinaire. . .

Always believe in your children and grandchildren.

Well, he has her eyes, but apparently, not her chin.

Invest heavy in the NASDAQ during the dot-com bubble? Been there done that.

.. this is Crypto today..

Ma Mike Doonesbury.Another character w ho’s been stuffed in the attic for too long(she never officially died).

She never left the farm, not even when it flooded.And WHERE is Mike’s younger brother, the one with the purple hair?

I knew a guy who did the same thing, he wasn’t happy in summer of 2002. He knew how to ride the increase in the stock values but could never pull the trigger to sell when the values dropped.

Sometimes, even if you wisely invest in indexed funds, it just doesn’t make any difference and the market goes down. If you are diversified, the value eventually goes back up.

If you were heavily into investments because you were greedy, you were just screwed.

“Trust me when I tell you not to trust me!!”

If she had actually invested in the NASDAQ index, say through QQQ, then it would have taken a drop but recovered and returned nicely. However, it sounds like she invested in individual stocks from the exchange.

The hot new thing for tech always crashes on the small investors.