Its time we had a short talk about your investing habits lately

I am sure a lot of relatively new investors are taking time to review their portfolios given the previous 7 straight weeks of decline.

There are a lot of complex market phenomena happening right now and /r/stocks has turned into a routine recap of only mega-cap tech downtrends, and ETF generalities. Previously to the pandemic and the unpredictable 2 year bull run that followed the market was a much slower game.

I saw this post https://old.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/uv23ss/can_we_stop_posting_about_index_funds_and_move/ and the discussion moved me, but there is a fundamental thing missing that i think the sentiment of is important.

The price action we see in a given day just 2 years ago would unfold over months.

Culturally; not just /r/stocks but most financial subreddits have hordes of pre-positioned individual users and automated users that are ready to give their biased opinions at the near mention of a stock symbol. Many new and old are holding into positions in different companies that lack fundamentals and have an inability to rationalize fair market value. They will fight any discussion asserting their thesis as the dominant one by numbers and voting, and not by discussion. Often I see this result in mentioning (that used video game company) turn into a religious discussion before it turns into a realistic discussion about decreasing available disposable income and the contracting of the Specialty Retail sector as a whole.

Its not a new issue, but its going to be the worst its ever been now as we transition to the new price discovery phase in a bear market. And i hope people vote to generate more discussion, before they vote against information they don't like.