{"id":56362,"date":"2021-11-30T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=56362"},"modified":"2021-11-30T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T19:09:33","slug":"lesson-one-panic-never-works-lesson-two-keep-our-heads-lesson-three-buy-the-dip-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=56362","title":{"rendered":"Lesson one: Panic never works. Lesson two: Keep our heads. Lesson three: Buy the dip &#8212; NOW."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oih! This is one jittery market. On Friday we learned about Omicron. And the market went down. Big time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Monday we learned that Omicron&#8217;s ills were mild. And the market went up. Big time. Round trip. No gain. Just pain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Tuesday (today) Moderna&#8217;s CEO said\u00a0 existing coronavirus vaccines would be less effective at combating omicron. To confound the gloom, the New York Times had an editorial this morning &#8220;<em>Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;The Omicron variant is creating a lot of anxiety<\/em>,&#8221; said the Times&#8217; editorial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No shit. Anxiety up the ying yang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Journalists, writers and reporters love to make fear, especially about something (like omicron) they know so little about.<\/p>\n<p>Blow up the fear. Attracts readers and viewers. Sells ads for more stuff we don&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So, it&#8217;s a perfect time to buy the dip. Buy our favorite stocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They&#8217;re now cheaper. Mega cheaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Buy them quickly. This afternoon, they&#8217;re already bouncing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My favorites may not be yours. However, look at MSFT, GOOGL, NVDA, NFLX, AAPL, AMZN, CRM, GNRC, NET, TTD, INTU, F and UNH.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Look also carefully at CRWD and PYPL\u00a0 Both have taken big hits recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Favorite cartoons (to keep our spirits up)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cattle-truck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kindergarten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/chainsaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Trampoline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been researching and reading much since the grandkids went home Saturday. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then today&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Buy The Dip<\/strong>&#8221; opportunity popped up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">By God, was I ever right about steering clear of ALL China stocks. Xi has the world&#8217;s largest stick up his place the sun never shines. His latest nonsense is to cancel China&#8217;s Internet celebs.\u00a0 Read <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/communist-party-cancel-culture-targets-internet-celebrities\/21806541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>this.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you tomorrow. &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oih! This is one jittery market. On Friday we learned about Omicron. And the market went down. Big time. On Monday we learned that Omicron&#8217;s ills were mild. And the market went up. Big time. Round trip. No gain. Just pain. On Tuesday (today) Moderna&#8217;s CEO said\u00a0 existing coronavirus vaccines would be less effective at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56362"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56383,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56362\/revisions\/56383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}