KODK - 3 Awful Robinhood Stocks to Avoid Like the Plague in August
It doesn't matter how long you've been an investor -- nothing could have prepared you for this year's roller-coaster ride that was precipitated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Over the past five months, equities have plunged faster than they ever have, as well as delivered their strongest quarterly performance in more than two decades. Volatility levels have simply never been higher.
For long-term investors, this period of heightened volatility isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's given investors the opportunity to buy into game-changing and innovative businesses at a perceived discount. And history shows that every single stock market correction (save for the current COVID-19 correction) has been eventually erased by a bull-market rally.
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