I think it's a bad sign when they can write an article and get it out in under 25 minutes...but by the time they release the article, the market has gone up by half the amount it fell on opening. This market is severely flawed.
The average person should not have to worry about the market... ever. It shouldn't be the massive, speculative thing that it is today. Short term trading, as it is, needs to stop. Business does not work like that and their stock prices should not either.
This is a very surface level explanation, I could write a paper and go on forever. To sum it up, we shouldn't have huge corrections because we shouldn't have 'cheer-leader'ed it up in the first place.
The point of a market is that the price signal reflects all publicly available information available at an instant in time. If more information becomes available, or if the information is uncertain and can be interpreted many ways, the price should jump around. That's what makes it an effective market.
The average person doesn't have to worry about the market - they can park their money in an index fund, buy when they have spare money, sell when they retire, and forget about the price in the intervening years.
And they don't. The market, the real-time market, is there for those that need it. If you're not one of those, just ignore it.
If you've really got a problem with ignorance, do the grown-up thing and attack the ignorance rather than the person.
A wildly ignorant comment (that could be remedied by a simple reading of the comments on this story) probably deserves downvotes as it doesn't add to the discussion at hand at all.
That said, this whole comment section probably deserves a big downvote as it is largely not very good from top to bottom.
It reduces the ignorance in those who read the comments and draw conclusions from what is upvoted and what is downvoted (even though most people won't admit that they do it even to themselves).
It doesn't take much money to invest in the stock market. Do you consider yourself thrifty? That's the major criteria for becoming an investor. Living below your means and saving. I have been in the working world for ~8 weeks now and already have some investments lol.