Volatile financial markets
Stocks, bonds, and currencies are all undulating due to the Ukraine issue.
A major power like Russia launches a full-scale military invasion, and the world responds with sanctions.
Moreover, the United States continues to face inflation. I have never experienced anything like this. No one knows how this will ultimately end. In the first place, exclusion from SWIFT is also a first-time experience, and while one might have thought such a possibility was not entirely unimaginable, there probably was no prior scenario for it. Also, I feel that information about it has not been reported accurately or sufficiently.
There are widespread asset freezes by central banks (foreign exchange reserves), but the impact of this is unknown.
The fundamentals analysis is based on “learn economic and financial theory, study the past, understand the current situation, and forecast the future,” but there has been no similar past, and it is difficult to grasp the current situation, so it is difficult to forecast the future.
Details will be written gradually in the future, but essentially,
(1) whether Japanese stocks or U.S. stocks, when prices jump, short them. If they fall, buy back (or maintain the short). It might be better to start with selling. Using CFDs is an easy route.
Until now, a strategy of buying on dips has been effective for a long time, so I consider this a major change.