RE: 3.8% loss - just need reassuring3 Sep 2021 01:15
It depends how long you've been investing, if it's recent then 3.8% loss is normal. Most cannot time the market. Over the long term stocks will go up, that's why the term ' transfering from the impatient to the patient. If you been investing 10 years, down 3.8% means your doing something wrong.
Usa stocks are at ATH... UK stock are close to pre pandemic level and not far off ATH. Any shocks to the market and its a long way down, but the course in recovery looks good to me as it is now. Re RR, post dilution were sitting pretty high.. I can't say it's up from here as we can still fall a distance and still be in an uptrend as paper handed investors are shaken out.
All I can go on is, UK recovery looks OK.... USA is very overvalued but the market favours equities for now short term. RR has many negatives, debt levels, divi gone, asset sales, smaller company, very much the frontline of COVID shocks. Boris traffic light musical chairs, international border bans still in play.
I see positives, better than expected trading update (in profit early), asset sales to being the debt down, flight numbers increasing, World learning to live with covid, vaccination rates increasing.
For the short term this can go up or down, I don't think it'll be an easy ride though... medium and long term this will increase.
But you have many other factors out of RR performace that can create small and big shocks on the way. If your not in profit you'll feel it more than someone that is.