Should I sell all my investments before Trump stuns the nation...

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. "But nobody has a fool proof formula for investing success."

Sure they do. Just ask Warren Buffet if he has a formula.

BainsBrain and Progree make valid points, the most important one in my mind is the old axiom;

TimING the market is not nearly as important as time IN the market.

However, one should invest in such a way that they can sleep at night. If you don't have the stomach or perhaps the investment horizon to calmly weather storms, then reallocate toward safer securities.

I was a broker from late '06 through mid '09 and I can count on one finger the number of my clients that were burning up my phone after March of '09 (when the market bottomed and started back up) with buy orders. Those were the days BTW, that you could buy Ford stock for $2.00/share and General Electric for less than $10

If you liked a stock at $20, why in the hell wouldn't you like it at $10?

Giving specific investment advice to total strangers on an internet message board is unethical to say the least, and could be catastrophically damaging at the most, so I won't do it, even though I held the licenses to do so, had you been my client.

So it is best to say, assess once again your tolerance for risk, adjust your portfolio to suit that tolerance and relax. Things are never as bad as they might seem and are rarely as good as they appear.

Best investment advice I ever heard;

"Sell what's expensive, buy what is cheap"

Another good one;

"Never invest in anything that is not easily explainable to a 5 year old."