⚠️ Danger! Volatility Ahead!

Traders versus investors in volatile markets... SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES [The Oxford Club Special Opportunities]( Danger! Volatility Ahead! Matt Benjamin, Senior Markets Expert, The Oxford Club [Matt Benajmin] Most market forecasters expected 2022 to be a volatile year for financial markets, with the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding and the Federal Reserve beginning efforts to cool off an overheated economy. But this is just crazy! The new year has delivered wild gyrations in markets, and not just over weeks, but intraday too. On Monday, markets plummeted in the morning, sending the S&P 500 Index down 3.6% by lunchtime, only to recover in the afternoon and finish the day up 0.38%. We saw a similar pattern on Tuesday, with stocks dropping until noon and then staging a recovery. Forget "buy low and sell high." Let's go with "buy in the morning, sell in the afternoon!" It's no wonder that the [CBOE Volatility Index]( or VIX, is sky-high at around 30 as of midday Friday. That's up from about 16 when we started the year. And the [CNN Fear & Greed Index]( is firmly in "Fear" territory. [Fearful Markets]( We briefly dipped into [correction territory]( in the S&P 500 this week before large cap stocks rebounded on Wednesday. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is well into a correction, down more than 13% from November highs. I expect this volatility to continue for some months, especially because the Fed has stumbled in its communications to markets about when and how fast it plans to raise its benchmark interest rate to begin cooling the economy and containing inflation. What to Do Now If you're a long-term, buy-and-hold investor, your best bet is to sit tight. Corrections don't last very long in general (about 54 days on average). And bear markets, which are worse for stocks, are also somewhat short-lived. If you have a few years to watch stocks recover, you shouldn't be panic-selling. If you're a trader, these are salad days. Traders love volatility because they see opportunities when stocks rise and when they fall. I asked my old friend Head Trade Tactician Bryan Bottarelli, co-founder of Monument Traders Alliance and The War Room, about this. He sent me a quote he keeps in mind in times like these... "There is no easier way to make money in the market than to buy a great company under pressure due to short-term concerns." That comes from Barron's Roundtable member David Giroux. Spot on, Bryan. It's definitely clear that Bryan has been keeping that in mind these days. He and his fellow co-founder, Head Fundamental Tactician Karim Rahemtulla, have an astounding 83% win rate in their research service [Trade of the Day Plus](. As I've mentioned before, Bryan and Karim thrive on volatility, and they're some of the best traders in the game today. 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