Safety is an illusion. It's always been like this throughout humanity, Through bull markets, bear markers, flat markets -- and everything else in between. Life is about risks, and rewards. And the future, and work, and talent, and foresight, It's completely up to you where you want to go, how you want to play it, There will always be winners, and losers, in the game of life, The 1%, and 99%, essentially,
My best % years happen when finally find tops, took over 200 trades in ES and other commodities in 4 years. Problems with finding tops, there are much less added trades for my style of long term commodities trading whereas finding bottoms, always more deep declines to add. Studying/backtesting hedging ideas has allowed past few years to capture parts of declines, but been waiting for total collapse. But never really know till it's over. I love Bitcoin, short from highs and added on deep rallies, how low will it go ???? Maybe zero.
If supply exists... Gas used to be 25c a gallon in soviet union when "Investment Biker" was written, but try getting a gallon. Lot's of hoops to jump through to get that "cheap" gas, lol. Give poopy joe enough time and he just might duplicate that feat.