If a 30-50% drop would hurt and require you to unretire, then you haven't won the game. I know someone who unretired after the dotcom crash because he thought he won, but the market told him otherwise
You've won when a 50-60% drop wouldn't cause you to lose sleep or change your lifestyle or unretire. I use that threshold because a drop of that magnitude has a real chance of happening over the next 25-35 years, the expected life expectancy of someone in their 50s.
There are people who think they won the game but still live in fear of a major downturn. IMHO those people haven't won. They're just trying to convince themselves they don't want to work anymore
You've won when a 50-60% drop wouldn't cause you to lose sleep or change your lifestyle or unretire. I use that threshold because a drop of that magnitude has a real chance of happening over the next 25-35 years, the expected life expectancy of someone in their 50s.
There are people who think they won the game but still live in fear of a major downturn. IMHO those people haven't won. They're just trying to convince themselves they don't want to work anymore
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