If you have been invested in the stock market since or before 2025, how bad/down is your portfolio after 4 weeks of war?

Down enough to stop checking daily, long-term brain is winning over short-term panic.

down more than i expected tbh but just trying not to panic sell

13% or so. Still investing as usual, buying the (extended) dip as it were.

Pretty bad but this is all theoretical money until at least 2045 to me. What I really need is for people to stop electing cynical dumbasses or galaxy brain-funded billionaire technocrats to office so this country can get some stability.

lokking back one month it is about -3,5% The last twelve months it is up 13% So no reason to panic

-4.35% Pretty well diversified, but not immune. Biggest hit for me was VAP, AMC, CCP and GMG. VAS and WES also pretty ugly - all since 27/02 I’ve actually hit my exit point on a couple of holdings though (Woodside and Evolution) since this began so I’ve freed up some cash ready for the inevitable buy back She’ll be right

I don’t know. Some insignificant amount that just represented normal volatility as far as I’m concerned. I assume I’ll live through at least one more 30%+ downturn. This is nothing.

I retired 6 months ago and I’m down about £200k - trying not to look tbh! Thank goodness I built a 2 year cash-like reserve as I’m now using it!

It has decreased by around 5% as I have invested in funds that focus on mature dividend paying companies in mature industries. As I don't have too much exposure to speculative industries that aren't profitable as of yet, my loses are significantly lower than the average market drop.

The moment the Nazi pedophile traitor won the presidency I bought defense industry ETFs, gold, and silver. Because I knew two things: 1) Everything he said about being against new wars was a blatant, obvious lie that a four-year-old could see through, and 2) He will definitely cause precious metals to spike because Republicans are terrible for the economy, always, always, f****** always. Turns out, I was correct on both counts.

Bought the dip in march 2020. Im still up. I just buy index funds and I don’t even look at them. Investing is boring. I have some individual stocks for fun that are also up big. Axon and Listnook cooked For me.

My portfolio is doing great… if red is your favourite color

All bloody red

I don't know, I'm afraid to look

What we buying boys lol

I’m down like $200k, but I’m not bothered. It’s a long-term plan, not short term. 

If you can’t handle red, you’re overexposed.

I took half out because it overperformed in the last couple years and I believe the market is overinflated with AI. So I tried to time the market. Turns out the AI bubble is still strong, but the Donald made my bet work anyway.

I started my investement account in October 2024. Did well for the first four months or so. Then Trump started tariffing everything and the whole thing took a nosedive so bad it took six months to get back to break even. In the six months since then, it made some nice gains again, then Trump started bombing Iran and six months of gain was wiped in four weeks. And some hard data points: From 1 January to 26 February, my account was at +2.33%. Since that high it dropped to -3.38% today. That's 5.71 percentage points dropped IN A SINGLE MONTH. At least I have the luxury of reminding myself it's onyl money, and I'm not the one getting bombed *yet*. But f*** that orange shitstain of a human being and f*** everyone who still supports him.

Invested in GME since 2021, still up 42%. Still holding. Still buying.

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Down but I’m not out.

I invested only a small amount just to understand the market, Started as a day trader and lost nearly half of my money, switched to swing trading and increased my capital by 43 percent. I just got really lucky to be honest, I invested in the shovels rather than the miners and it kinda worked out for me.

So what I’m hearing is you all are just fine with the war?

About 4.15-4.5% down

I havent looked. And I dont look when its up. Time in the market beats timing the market.

My portfolio of ETFs are down a few percent, but they're still in the black by a significant margin. I invested a lump sum just before Putin invaded Ukraine and it was in the red for at least a year after that. If I can handle looking at that type of loss and not panic sell, I can handle this.

Only down 4% year to date. Edit: actually after yesterday I’m up 1%

Well it’s grown quite a lot and now its down a bit

I’m up around 10% down from 37% before the war launched. I am staying profitable by selling covered calls on positive days and buying back on down days.

About 8% thus far this year. 🤷 don't usually check it because I'm not withdrawing any time soon.

Down more than I expected… learning patience the hard way

I'm down 8.7%. But A: my dividends just hit, so that's buying more shares on the c****. B: My monthly purchase hits tomorrow, so that's buying more shares on the c****. C: I'm still up 20% from 3/31/25 to 3/31/26. D: This is nowhere near the worst bath I've taken. Second quarter of 2022 was a 15% drop. First quarter of 2020 was 19%. Third quarter 2015 was 10%. I'm copacetic.

6%?

Bought in Feb. 2024, still up 30% so far overall. Way more than I expected back then, so I'm not too concerned. Yet.

Welp. I abandoned all shares at the end of last year. (Except for the scraps). This latest stupidity on the Orange Muppet's latest caper has been a Godsend. I bought in as soon as the market crashed. 😀

My portfolio is up, actually. But I'm also invested in some sectors that benefit from some of the issues going on(non-defense related). For instance, $CLMT is up 30% this month. It's a specialty refiner that is also building out a huge SAF operation. Jet fuel has doubled in price, and they get the sweet subsidies to boot. $UAN is up 20%+, they're a US based fertilizer manufacturer. Nearly a third of the world's fertilizer production travels through the Strait of Hormuz.

My wife and i lost about 50k in our retirement accounts in March. Feels bad but well, we know it just means this months contributions are going to be worth a little more in terms of shares purchased

It’s not. Only down if you sell.

$350k

When I retired, the DOW was hovering around 10,000 (2010). I can handle a drop from 49,000 to 45,000. This isn’t the first time a drop has occurred and it won’t be the last. The key is to not panic sell.

My portfolio is up about 350% over my contributions. But I also have 20 years in the market with monthly contributions. I do not worry about the annual fluxes, I am still 20 years away from retirement likely.

Terrible way to look at it. I’m up more than 100% over the past three years. Being a few points off my all time high isn’t a big deal. Zoom out.

I don't look at it like that. I see buying opportunities.

down 11% but just leaving it alone, been through enough of these to know panic selling is how you actually lose money. Hank doesn't care about my portfolio anyway, still wants his walk on the greenbelt.

Down 2.4% atm but we’re green this morning Was around 4-5%, basically nothing either way

It’s doing ok due to a couple of lucky days when I bought VIXY to hedge

Best time to double down is now. Even better tomorrow. In the long run stocks go up.

I’m up ytd! Barely, but thats a win. Thanks, puts.

Buying the dip.

Down, but I'm reasonably certain a certain someone might have an 'accident' before I start losing sleep over it. Combination of time in the market always beats timing the market, and the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent. But I'm not foolish and didn't put a bunch of stocks on my credit card or play around with shorts or any nonsense like that. It could be a downturn for another 30+ months and I'll still be able to pay my bills.

Not down but majority of my gains have diminished. I’m up but treading water. Flirting with being even. Yesterday’s close helped tremendously. IMO a lot of “investors” were already down on risky plays like crypto and penny stock semiconductors prior to this Iran war. If you had been buying normal s&p500 funds before 2025 you’d still be up currently like myself. My S&P is the only position that’s up. My 3 stock picks are down since war but are also very close to being even. When this war ends which it looks like it will very soon the market will be right where it was originally at and more likely than not rip past and make new highs when the fear goes away. As far as the controversy of everything being unaffordable I think it’s something we’re just going to start having to live with. I don’t think a crash is coming. People are spending money in the economy whether yall believe that or not. Consumer spending is what keeps our economy up. When consumer spending stops then we have a problem

From its peak right before war to today: down about 6%, however still positive 8% so overall I still have a gain. No plans to sell anything for several months. I'm mostly in dividend ETFs, generating 7-8% interest income that auto-reinvests.

6-10% depending on account. 🤷‍♂️. Up 20-60% in those same accounts trailing 12 months so no earthly idea why anyone is so panicked about a few weeks.

I’m up 14% this year. Mostly from my SQQQ sold gains. Moved out of metals and the indexes holding majority cash and a short term treasury.

After the Venezuela affair I went pretty hard on Chevron and Exxon shares. Stupid idea to buy after they had already gone up, I know, but I already had a bunch of shares so my average cost basis would still be under the current price. This proved to be a great move with the start of the Iran conflict. When SPY was still in the 670s, I liquidated half my non-oil stocks and kept the rest, and oil made up about a third of the money I still had invested. That provided me with the hedge to avoid the worst of the last few weeks. Been getting battered the last two days but it's definitely alright, I've anticipated this. I will NOT be selling the oil stocks because I've gotten a pretty good entry on them and I don't see them going back to their pre-war prices anytime soon. I've also been slowly DCAing back into tech stocks over the last 5 or so trading days On my strictly buy-and-hold retirement account I saw a decline of 11.47%. That's about 6.65% now, thank goodness.

Meh, down like 8ish%. Not too worried

Patience

Was down almost $1M USD at my bottom from all time highs. It's not really a concern tbh

For those of us who lived thru 2008/09 this, liberation day, etc. All just giggles in comparison, it'll be fine.