I'm by no means a professional investor, but what I look at as far as short term isn't day-to-day or even week-to-week indicators.  I look at two things.  Year to date and 52 week performance.  Most of my investments are long term investments (5 years or more) that will take a correction just fine.

As far as investing in cryptocurrency, I've had several people ask about it because it seems so hot and an easy way to make a quick profit.  My answer is to stay far away from it.  There is no real tangible value there.  There are some people making money on it but I would wager that there are far more people losing a lot of money on it.

The thing is, the stock market isn't a "quick get rich" thing.  That very rarely happens.  The stock market is a long term investment to get better returns on your savings than you would get putting money into a traditional bank savings or money market account.  It's not really a source of income for the "average" person.

Regarding real estate, that's a tough one but again, it's not a short term investment.  Part of the reason for the last bubble and crash was the fact that people were buying real estate with "cheap" loans and "flipping" houses in order to make a quick profit.  Just my opinion, in the majority of cases real estate as an investment isn't really going to pay off for at least 10 years at the minimum.  Yes there are people that make money in the shorter term, but in the grand scheme of things real estate should be looked at as a 10+ year investment.

As this all relates to this thread, the President isn't driving the stock market either up or down so much.  Sure policy coming out of the administration is certainly going to have some effect, but it isn't the sole driver.  What we have been seeing is itchy investors taking profits.  Expect a few up and a few down days over the next couple of weeks.  On down days perhaps buy more (if you have cash available) and in the meantime just sit back and watch as the "losses" that you might have took this past couple of trading days come back.

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