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How To Handle This Selloff: 18 May 2022

May 18, 2022 By Lowell Herr 4 Comments

How To Handle This Selloff: 18 May 2022 1

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With the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 1,000 points as I write this, how should investors handle this selloff?  Let’s take a simple example.  These suggestions assume cash is available.  Eventually the market will come back.  As long as the inflation is this high and approaching 10%, the market is not going to do well so patience is required.  Here are a few simple suggestions.

Set up a buying schedule where you establish limit orders following a pattern that might go like this.  One might go as low as to let X = 5 shares.

  • Buy X number of shares at a price 3% below the current price.  Multiply the current price by 0.97 to calculate the 3% limit order.
  • Buy X + 10 shares at a price 5% below the current price.  Multiply the current price by 0.95 to calculate the 5% decline.
  • Buy X + 15 shares at a price 7% below the current price.
  • Buy X + 20 shares at a price 10% below the current price.
  • Buy X + 25 shares at a price 13% below the current price.
  • If cash is available run this patter down to where the new purchase price is as low as 30% below the current price.

I think you get the pattern of shares and prices below the current price.  What ETFs to consider?  I recommend sticking with either VTI or ESGV.  Either will cover the broad U.S. Equities market.

If you wish to be a tad more adventurous, consider market sectors.  Over-sold sectors are:  Discretionary (VCR), Financial (VFH), Industrial (VIS), and Telecom (VOX).

Buy the end of the day, Health (VHT), Materials (VAW), and Technology (VGT) will likely move into the over-sold zone.  Set up a similar buying schedule for these sectors.

If you need to raise cash, sell off all bonds and treasuries and use that cash to set up these equity limit orders.  If you have ETFs you have been wanted to cull from the portfolio, do it and use the cash to establish these buying limit orders.

If readers have other suggestions, post them in the comments section provided below.

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  1. Lowell Herr says

    May 18, 2022 at 12:10 PM

    ITA Readers: I don’t think you need to be in a panic in setting a sequence of limit orders as it is highly unlikely we have hit a market bottom. We might even have months to set these orders so be patient.

    Lowell

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    • Richard Dougherty says

      May 18, 2022 at 3:17 PM

      Lowell

      Thanks for sharing the buying schedule described in your post.. I like the fact that it is weighted so that you are buying larger amounts as the price goes down and that it is a disciplined way to average into the market when it is in a down trend. I sold a position in the mega-cap value ETF, MGV today. I plan to use the buying schedule to buy back in.

      Richard

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      • Lowell Herr says

        May 18, 2022 at 4:26 PM

        Richard,

        I’ve been setting up several such buying schedules in the Relative Strength portfolios.

        Lowell

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    • Nicholas Demopoulos says

      May 20, 2022 at 5:02 AM

      Thanks Lowell, very helpful.

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