I'M DOWN $35K TODAY BUT I HAVEN'T LOST A DIME!

Nearly a $36,000 drop in my investment account. Just today. And notice I said dropped, not lost. I haven't lost a dime because I haven't sold anything. Somebody inevitably asks the same question. Okay, but what percentage of your portfolio is that, Mark? And I get why they ask, but that's not the point. Whether it's 1% of what I've got or 20%. The lesson doesn't change what investing actually looks like. Some days the market takes from you. The dollar amount what you do on days like this, what matters. Everybody likes posting their green days. Nobody likes posting the red ones. So here it is, a real number from my real account on a red day. Because if you only ever see the wins, you'll get a warped sense of what investing actually looks like. And days like this, some are not disaster. They're the cost of admission. Going all the way back to the 1950s, roughly 46% of all trading days have ended red. And then a typical year, the market drops around 14% at some point, every single year. That's an ugly stretch. But here's the part that flips it. Your dollar cost averaging, like I preach, your money buys in at a lower price. That's the same automatic investment buys more shares because everything just went on sale. That's dollar cost averaging, working in your favor. Look, I know it's not as fun as watching the green days. But the market's been through way worse than today and just kept on going. Don't panic red and you neither should you. It always bounces back. And here's where somebody always jumps in. It always bounces back until it doesn't. And that's fair. So let me answer straight. If you follow me at all, that funds the S&P 500, the biggest companies in America. And if the S&P 500 doesn't bounce back, my portfolio is the least of my problems. That's not a market crash at that point. That's the whole country. We'd all have bigger things to worry about than our investment portfolios. So what am I doing today? Absolutely nothing. My investing is automated. I buy on the same day and the same amount every month. If that day is green, I buy. If it's red, I buy. I don't get a vote either way. It's automated, so it just happens. So what do you do on big red days? Panic and sell? Or do you buy more since it's on sale? Or nothing? Let me know in the comments. And while you're there, don't forget to smash that follow button so that we can grow our net worth together.