Itsallaguess,
I find one of the best ways to deal with online trolling is to just call it out for what it is so that everyone can see.
For years, you have occasionally posted off-topic comments on the threads I make here, with claims about me, and you continue today in dragging up unrelated ancient threads which derail this thread's topic of discussion.
It's important to note that I have never done anything similar to you or to your various threads on your own topics throughout the board. Why would I? Your posts in this manner have been reported and taken down by admins before, yet you still continue to do it.
It is absurd for you to
go back to 2016 to find a random unrelated post you find objectionable, add various layers of your 'interpretation' and then try to derail a topical thread about
the impact about Russian sanctions on shares in February 2022 into being 'a discussion about compscidude in 2016'.
Perhaps though, in these times of high housing costs, I should be glad for the opportunity to live rent-free in your head for most of a decade?
I've posted on investing discussion boards in various other countries that I've lived in over the years, and you just never see long-term spiteful/petty behaviour in online investment forums anywhere else, the way we see it in Britain. There's also something really vile and dirty in British culture about people either cheering on harassment of others from the sidelines too - or passively tolerating it without saying a word.
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Anyway, this is offtopic, but to counter
obvious disinformation you have posted about me & the market inappropriately on this thread:
Here's one of my favourites from back in 2016 - December 15th 2016 -
On 15th December 2016, I personally felt the market was toppy & dangerous.
On March 16th 2020, it reached 4898 and remained available to purchase under 5000 for 2 weeks. In inflation adjusted terms, 4898 is even lower still.
Every £7010 you had invested in the FTSE100 on 15th Dec 2016 turned into £4400 of spending power in 2020. (plus a few dividends, minus a little bank interest).
It is baffling that you talk as though none of this actually happened. Or that you try to 'interpret it' when the facts are obvious and clear.
Anyone who had £7010 invested in the FTSE100 on 15th December 2016, had less than £5000 of total spending power remaining over 4 years later, with dividends included. And that's that.I said it was dangerous, that there was a chance of substantial drop in the market, and yes, it was dangerous, yes there was a substantial drop in the market to far, far below the level at which I warned.
In fairness - this was not the case everywhere. A few markets surged onwards to valuation levels only seen once before in all of history (the SP500, specifically). And in fairness, the UK market did continue on a little bit higher still before the big catastrophic crash arrived.
Many other markets besides the UK were much lower in 2020 than in December 2016. EUE.MI, for example, the index of 50 biggest European companies, was substantially lower by March 2020 than it was in December 2016.
The fact the danger subsequently increased further before the mousetrap snapped down doesn't mean the danger wasn't there at all. Just ask any mice that got caught in it, and needed to access their wealth in 2020 during a global economic crisis.
And where are we today? The FTSE closed at 7330 yesterday (or around 6200 in inflation adjusted terms). It's over 5 years later and we're still around or well below the level of December 2016 (depending on how you look at it).
The danger already present by late 2016, was proven painfully and incontrovertibly in March 2020. To deny it is to deny the existence of reality.
Who cares though? This is not the thread to (
again) drag up unrelated posts from December 2016.
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The topic of this thread is the potential impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflict on market and shares as a moment of market discontinuity.For the second time in 2 days: let's keep subsequent posts in this thread strictly to the thread topic. Start other threads as you like, to discuss other topics or people.
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Sources:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetar ... calculatorhttps://uk.investing.com/indices/uk-100-historical-data