{"id":66116,"date":"2026-06-05T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=66116"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:46:58","slug":"my-worst-day-ever-and-what-to-do-if-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=66116","title":{"rendered":"My worst day ever. And what to do &#8212; if anything."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As of 3;45 PM EST Friday June 5 (today), my portfolio is down a gigantic 5.32%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I watch the selling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can buy on the dip &#8212;but the dip keeps dipping, so I&#8217;m not doing that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can sell. I&#8217;m not doing that. Because I feel confident in what I own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Getting hit the worse are the semis and the memory stocks, especially MU and SNDK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s today\u2019s chart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Todays-stocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If we plotted these for the year to date (YTD), it looks far less gruesome. We&#8217;ve had a huge run this year, especially among the memory stocks. I&#8217;m still way up. You should be also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ixic2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8221;ve been finishing up a long blog. But I wanted to get this out. And say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t panic. Don&#8217;t sell. Don&#8217;t buy. It may get cheaper&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a great weekend. Hug the kids, the grandkids and all the mothers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stay well. &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 3;45 PM EST Friday June 5 (today), my portfolio is down a gigantic 5.32%. I watch the selling. I can buy on the dip &#8212;but the dip keeps dipping, so I&#8217;m not doing that. I can sell. I&#8217;m not doing that. Because I feel confident in what I own. Getting hit the worse [&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-66116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116","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=66116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66119,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116\/revisions\/66119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}