I'm very thankful that I'm NOT aboard the "U.S.S. Stock Market". I dipped my toe in the stock market in the mid-90s, it coincidentally took a 5% dip the following month, so I pulled out and invested in a portfolio of classic motorcycles, parts, and equipment.
I was taught to diversify very carefully, and with tremendous blessings from God (had to be Him, there's no way it was me), we should be insulated COMPLETELY from the stock market and only indirectly affected by the U.S. economy in general. I can simply halt sales of my bike collection if the market on them drops, and we'll still have a reasonable "hands-off" income stream that is based on necessities which have a very limited "economic climate" dependence.
All those nebulous ones and zeros turn me RIGHT OFF. There is no actual "product" behind the vast percentage of it. NO THANK YOU. Billions lost in minutes, when no tangible goods ever changed hands, nor was anything tangible destroyed by flood or fire. Simply the IDEA that something MIGHT happen, causing that level of devastation, is INSANE (textbook definition, really)