{"id":15906,"date":"2020-03-13T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=15906"},"modified":"2020-03-13T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T11:30:45","slug":"its-not-time-to-panic-its-time-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/its-not-time-to-panic-its-time-to-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Time to Panic, It\u2019s Time to Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&rsquo;t any sort of instruction manual for dealing with what&rsquo;s happening in the financial market right now. The action is unprecedented. We&rsquo;ve never seen this sort of a decline from an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>It was just three weeks ago that the S&amp;P 500 traded as high as 3380. Yesterday it closed near 2500.<\/p>\n<p>Folks were too optimistic three weeks ago. People were willing to pay 20-times earnings for stocks that were growing revenues by only two or three percent. It didn&rsquo;t make any sense. But, all the financial television talking heads told us to &ldquo;get on board&rdquo; or else risk missing the ride.<\/p>\n<p>I was on the other side &ndash; preaching caution. And, I was wrong for several weeks as the market just kept pressing higher. My forehead is permanently dented from banging it so often on my desk.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions are entirely different today.<\/p>\n<p>Folks are scared. The market has fallen so far, so fast. The destruction of wealth over the past three weeks is unlike anything we&rsquo;ve ever seen before.<\/p>\n<p>And&hellip; I&rsquo;m buying stocks.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s painful. It&rsquo;s scary. And, it doesn&rsquo;t feel right.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why I know it&rsquo;ll be profitable. Maybe not today, or tomorrow. But, several weeks from now, I suspect the market will be higher than where it is today.<\/p>\n<p>In calmer times, we all laugh and talk about how we&rsquo;ll know when it&rsquo;s time to buy stocks because it&rsquo;s the last thing you&rsquo;ll want to do. Well&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>If you were thinking about plowing money into the stock market three weeks ago when the S&amp;P was trading at an all-time high, then you have a much better buying opportunity today. The only question is whether or not you&rsquo;ll take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the time to panic. This is the time to buy the stocks you wanted to buy three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>There might still be some downside action in the days ahead. But, we&#8217;re closer to the end of this correction than to the start of it.<\/p>\n<p>Best regards and good trading,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casey-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/misc\/jeff-clark-signature.png\" width=\"200\" style=\"max-width:200px; width:100%;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Clark<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong>Reader Mailbag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Today we&rsquo;re sharing a touching message from <em>Jeff Clark Trader<\/em> member Charles&hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 4px solid #ccc; margin: 0px 30px 0px 10px;padding-left: 15px;\">\n<p>Jeff, I started with <em>Jeff Clark Trader <\/em>around Thanksgiving 2019. I profited on nine of ten of my first option trades. I have a lot to be grateful for. When I followed your advice, you were right about 95% of the time. Right now, I&rsquo;m about even on my trading. The losses were only on the stock investments that I was already holding.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve earned about $19,000 (since January 1) from options trading. My wife has been sick with a mysterious illness. It was reassuring to know that although she was running up medical bills, I was earning enough to cover the bills as I waited.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes God tries to tell us something! The biggest earning days were during her medical tests. I can honestly say that I am eternally thankful! God bless.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>&ndash; Charles<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn\u2019t any sort of instruction manual for dealing with what\u2019s happening in the financial market right now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[7],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-15906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-jeff-clark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=15906"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=15906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}