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dividendchannel.com/drip-returns-calculator
brokerchooser.com/

Bull run today
Check them

STOP SLURPING YOU COMMUNISTS

DAWN OF FINAL THREAD

First for rate cuts and a mini.

mfw I get out of a bad trade with positive

UK market down

wtf why, we're barely affected

Haha you guys dare me to shit on my floor?

First for rate cuts and a mini.

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slurpers gonna be slurpin on something else after today (hint:it's what the kneepads are for)

we won't be seeing rate cuts for at least another month
we'd need something far more catastrophic to happen

you cant stop me

Watching an NTR JAV before the market opens, this morning.
She hasn’t broken yet.

baker, I hope you are ready to make a new thread every 10 minutes

Today was always going to be a crabby day.

retarded and wrong, everyone was waiting for black Monday, it was obvious

rate cuts

anon status:delusional

nothing ever happens +2% today

Pic related, sorry

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crash the market! do it! sell everything! withdraw all your money from the banks! -100% drop! create a cliff!~

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Biz lied to me it’s not black Monday it’s going to be GREEN today

just to reiterate:

I AM SELLING EVERYTHING

So anyone got any idea if Rolls Royce (UK) is going to get up to £10 anytime soon? Or at the very least back to 8? Or is this stuff going to kill all its momentum?

Yes, one day everyone just decided to panic sell for NO REASON AT ALL

Yeah I'm really not feeling like a big drop today.

If everyone believe it will be, it becomes reality.

Never forget, the market is powered by Waaagh energy.

literal proof that it is going to happen

GET OUT
MEEEOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW

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Exactly that is why we are able to have those sweet sweet low oil prices.

people unironically believing today won’t be a massive drop

This is one of the scammiest scampumps I've seen in a long while.

I'm holding and just hoarding money to buy the dip.

we will unironically close green today

market crashes because bots panic selling take it down

dont think it compares really

ok but seriously guys don't buy unless you want to get dumped on today

NASDAQ futures only down 2%

GREEN
MONDAY
INCOMING

Refer to

massive drop

I’m not seeing it, obviously things are shaking but I see ourselves closing green today.

things are so bad -3% feels like a nothingburger

guys its gonna dumACK

How does it make sense that markets in the country that started a trade war against the WHOLE WORLD at once is down less than markets literally anywhere else?

bullnigs...

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market isn't open
don't go by futures, every time i see tons of anons get fucking raped

give me the qrd on rolls royce, t212 gave me £11.50 worth cuz i used a promo code.

Because those countries haven't retaliated yet.

Virus link

Bull trap is baited and hedge funds are about to get exit liquidity. Thanks for playing.

Rest of the world circuit breaks

America just has a small red day

I don't think we are heading to a black monday, but I don't believe we will go almost unscathed either

If you unironically believe that then you should buy gold mining stocks.

maybe we'll crab today. maybe the sell off is ending

Because we're just that powerful little nigger boy.

-2.5%

lol, nothing ever happens

there will be an economic collapse.
there will be breadlines.
globalisation is over.
history is back.

But the futures indicate green monday

Because the US can absorb the shock, the rest of the world can’t. We have the buying power, the rest of the world doesn’t.
I really do think today will be a nothingburger and yuros and chinks will seethe.

the only thing keeping it from spiraling down the drain right now is copium that the tariffs won't last and that the rest of the world will bend the knee.

Futures reflect sentiment pretty well no?
Tariffs are as harmful, if not more, to the issuing country.

lost £1000 from my comfy S&S ISA

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

if nothing happens i will never trust Anon Babble ever again

he fell for the anti trump fud

oh no no no he bet against america

he didn't buy bread producing companies

I lost almost 2k euros

im down 11k but yeah

markets imploding across the globe

retards in this thread think the U.S. will be spared because of pre-market scams

KEK

The futures indicate green Monday anon why do you distrust market sentiment

why does bitcoin now track with the stock market? you can only really convert it into cash so I would've expected it to go up when stocks go down

£

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It's going steep red when US markets open

May the 5th is when it all goes down for good

t. knower

“Peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you.”

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No crash confirmed. Trumpconomy going to the moon

what manner of mental illness is this

Big manufacturing company, mostly defence and aviation, although starting to get a good chunk of the SMR nuclear stuff, hoping that will expand.
Got new management a couple of years ago, when they were on the verge of going bankrupt, who restructured and took them from about 70p in 2023 to £8 a couple of weeks ago.
I bought at 91p, so I'm pretty happy, but I don't want all my gains to evaporate, and I'm worried they been being carried along by momentum that might have just expired.

cope bobo. It's going to bounce

institutions have been building flows into it since at least 2017

cope

Yeah i bought thinking everyone would try to hide from the crash by buying crypto which should be completely decoupled from reality.

The dance never stops.

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We have the buying power

The only reason you have buying power is the system your country put in place after WW2 where other countries rely on the US dollar to conduct trade, even between themselves. The very system your orange chimp is trying to tear down as we speak. The world provides goods and you provide paper currency, that's it.

we're the fucking main character bitch
the whole world bends to our will
hold my bags bobo

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government energy policy is absolutely murdering our manufacturing base so I'm not optimistic
if ed miliband gets sacked next month then buy

Nah, if it goes green for even one second Trump will start seeing red and start ranting on social media again. The markets must implode for the great reset to begin. The retirees need to be poor as shit as well.

I have no stocks when do I start buying? Today, tomorrow or end of week? What stocks are going to get pumped?

futes dumping

tariffs are good for America, why wouldn't our stocks go up?

website doesn't check for daylight savings time

lmao

today will be green and short sellers will get wrekt

huuge resistance at 5000

“The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure.”

what did he mean by this?

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That's priced in

Priced in

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The retirees need to be poor as shit

Everybody knows that. Me? I have decades left to buy the dips. Boomers? Not so much.

Reminder, it's dead cat bounce. don't fall for the black monday fake news. Corpos jus slurping retail till EU news leaks.

daylight savings time isnt real, i refuse to acknowledge that it exists.

now

I admire your delusion

Tesla -7% again

market open

How many days until Tesla goes bankrupt?

someones bags are getting filled today
just who I wonder

Wait are the mumus going to pull off a green monday?

So if I just keep my money invested, the loss should convert to profit in a couple of years right guys

About 14 days.

Huh?

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A deal will be made by then. Europe already capitulating and china will also by then. Trump has this in the bag

Strategic Verdict
HOOD: High conviction short if VIX >50 and S&P breaks 4,800.
RIOT: Too binary; use options to limit risk. Prioritize shorting weaker miners (e.g., MARA, if debt-laden).

High conviction short

High conviction short

MicroStrategy, $MSTR, saus unrealized loss on digital assets for 1q $5.91 billion

they're just posting anything now

(((someones))) bags are getting filled today

just who I wonder

There is no deal.

unbelievable delusion

any other recommendations jav anon?

*Decades

SOXLsisters... we're the only one dumping...

not part of the plan, it's just a side effect. everybody knows this.

he thinks rebound candle will manifest today

whats the new BTC price liquidation number at now?

Trump lost touch with reality

yeah after two decades you might break even

If the tariffs go into effect as proposed, completely unchanged.
Massively, like hitting the circuit breaker every single day for weeks.

Wednesday specifically would be a 20 percent drop, likely bigger than the monday and tuesday drops and will probably get a cool name like 'bloody wednesday' or something.

what is DCA

sorry :(

How much do you think it will drop today? -5%? -10%? -20%?

I just pruned my non-dividend holdings and plan to buy a few puts on the open. So it's gongo up today

And the top income tax rate would need to be above 90%

-6% and no more to avoid le breaker

60 MINUTES TILL BAGGIES COME ONLINE

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5-10 percent, same on Tuesday.
The BIG drop will be wednesday, where the markets will plunge 20 percent as the Tariffs come into full effect.

uh huh and where are you getting this money from to lower your average? think you're gonna keep your job in depression?

what will be the strongest in one year, the dollar or the EURO, and why?

somewhere between -4 and -8

About 5% drop is my call. Maybe a bit more or a bit less.

PEOPLE ARE JUMPING OFF MOSCOWS SKYSCRAPERS
PUMP THE OIL PRICE BACK UP YOU ORANGE RETARD YOURE SUPPOSED TO DO OUR BIDDING

It will grow by 2%. Total rebound.

Trust the pla-ACK

it's not a forex market general nigger

Euro will lead for the next 4 years. Because USA will keep pushing musk's companies (which will keep falling)

PEOPLE ARE JUMPING OFF MOSCOWS SKYSCRAPERS

nice, source

Hour and some change left

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everyone expect a drop, so we will go up today

65k afaik
not far off now!

thanks a lot for your input

drop

that's cute bobo

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE.

TOTAL MARKET CRASH ON WEDNESDAY, IM PRAYING FOR IT

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This will be a fake n gay "crash" mark my words.

slurpers think they're slurping when they buy 50$ of SPY

so do i sell or buy

yes

you have no power here
weekend was nothing but mega fud

Sell breh

you buy 100k and short 100k
this will allow you to always profit :3

Futures recovering

long vix niggas in a nutshell

wake up

market is rebounding

What is this bullshit

GME will be green while the market bleeds at close. I'll be back after gloat.

whats the new BTC price liquidation number at now?

MSTR doesn't have a traditional liquidation price. The only way to kill MSTR is to push its stock price below the conversion price when a round of its convertible bonds matures. Next squeeze opportunity is December 2025, where MSTR needs to be above $39.80 to avoid having to pay off its debt. After that, the next squeeze is February 2027, where MSTR needs to be above $143.25.

It's possible to sink MSTR, but it'll need to be an enormous and sustained dump to do it.

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Playing both sides like a true entrepeneur

buy some today, buy some tomorrow

I WILL NOT BUY I WILL DCA
I WILL NOT BUY I WILL DCA
I WILL NOT BUY I WILL DCA
I WILL NOT BUY I WILL DCA
I WILL NOT BUY I WILL DCA

Fed announces "closed board meeting" for today

think you're gonna keep your job in depression?

Of course.

POWELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
YOU BASTARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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he dumped? slurp eet

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panic
shorts are fucked

How hard will anti trumpers seethe if the market actually recovers

The only think fake and gay is wipepo breaking all their own rules because they can’t sell shoes and tshirts.

People trying to frontrun unpredictable events will always get fucked

Powell raises rates

I have faith

Recovers what? Premarket? Thursday+Friday dump?

we are ending mega green kek

kek dumb churka serf triggered

Market needs to crash further so i can buy

this might actually change some things

The markets always recover. The dip and the fear is what is unnecessary

just woke up lol not looking good for my overnight sqqq buy

1 hour till nothing burger. Time to make coffee.

they're gonna bail out and then the doomp will be one to remember for ages

Powell about to cut rates
US market to skyrocket
BVLL MARKET

No cuts.

what would happen

Told you we're going green.

100% tariffs

magats: please Jerome, lower rates 0.25 pts

I stayed up 22 hours for a pump?
im going to fucking bed.

What does this mean
Did Trump get his way or are they planning to take him out

ghibli this

His mandate is to keep inflation down though. Why hand Trump what he wants when he's the one fucking everything up

nothing really
they arent going to cut rates

Fuck I can't read boomer...

Leagues of Bogonoff

kek

literally a nothingburger

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MIGAtard retardation

Can't wait to retire in 10 years bros.

This isn't going to matter.
You're a fool if you think a few rate cuts can stop a market collapse.

Of course he knew.
He is the best.
But seriously even if he knew(he did) then why would he say he knew? How does that benefit him to say he knew it would fuck shit in the ass

Am I the only one who thinks this is bearish? This means the crash has gone far enough that it's becoming a liquidity crisis.

it's literally a regularly scheduled meeting

it's nothing, they do these monthly

liquidity crisis

Words words words just start the printer already.

He’s bending the knee anon
Interest rates will fall and the economy will rebound

You just didn’t trust the plan

Unless Trump threatens a hit on Jpow to his face, I don't think the rates are going down any time soon. I have conviction in how much south their dick measuring contest will take the market.

say it powell
say you're hiking rates
just do it, DO IT YOU PUSSY

you are being had by random xitter accounts purposely baiting engagement

Most of their money comes from airline service and engine leasing contracts which is why they got bodied by COVID. They've been feeling overpriced to me for a while from momentum around being the "best performing" FTSE stock, but there was some genuine hope there which justified it imo from their CEOs efficiency drive, new engine development and small modular reactor stuff which people were hyping up for energy security.

Future performance will be based on how deep you think this recession is going to go. A downturn in global travel will hit their bottom line hard, but they are a core UK defence co. and the best military aero engine manufacturer outside the US so they should actually benefit from global instability like Ukraine escalating or a Sino-Taiwan war.

Been riding them since they were sub-100 just after COVID. I sold most at 430 and the rest at 811 last month (smug), but bought back in at 740. I'll probably get more if they get below 550 for any length of time. It's a small part of my portfolio, happy to just sit on them for now as I just like them for being a rare UK non-finance co doing genuinely excellent stuff. I often see their R&D investment doing good work out and about in academia where I work.

cryptonigs and retail don't even know what a board meeting is

Literally means nothing, lmao.

It's pretty easy to understand, are you simple? (Yes)

ui have desided zat ui ar postponement le tariffs antil le May hon hon hon

This is a pre-scheduled fed meeting, not an emergency meeting. They hold these regularly in between their public announcements.

Stop panicking.
Take your social media tin foil hats off.

Conference my ass
Dump it

Will Bobo win or will the Crab win?
I lean on Bobo, since these tariffs would really mess up the real economy, but who knows.

It's already clear that germans don't want the EU to put countertariffs

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

Take your social media tin foil hats off.

They won't because it's addictive as crack. That is why i am heavily invested in META.

this, but only this monday

You are gay and poor

enterprising people

is that what we're calling kikes these days

People will work harder, live a more moral life

are you 12

The general prevailing sentiment is bearish, and going against the herd has rarely been a great idea, at least in the short to medium term. It may not be today, but we likely go down further from here.

Indonesian market open tomorrow after a long 2 weeks eid break... I'm scared...
currently down -10%

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board meeting closed due to AIDS

No refunds, retard.

it's a quote

yeah its either that or crab

Let's call it Cheeto Monday then

Wake me at -20%

I will start putting on hoodies and shoplift from CVS if times get tougher, count on it.

Hmm, may just have to ride it out then. Up enough I guess that hits shouldn't be that painful. Hopefully this business means they'll be more likely to get the big SMR contract in the UK too, Yanks have probably lost enough goodwill that their companies won't get it.

Didn't work out well the last time.

This is, quite literally, the gayest day I've ever seen. And I've seen gay days, let me tell you that. The gayest you can think of

AI is getting disturbing man

Navarro is on cnbc saying talk of recession is silly since Trump is going to release tax cuts

Did you look into a mirror today?

Should I sell my Apple stock before it’s too late?

they will pull a double trick so we get one of those mega candles

wake up

when does the market open?

11 minutes

sounds like nigger behavior

Looking at to many 2d girls can do that to you.

less than a bong, roughly 40 bings

enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

that's certainly one way to put it.

Nah tho. Buy buy buy. Work harder, do door dash on the side, buy everything you can. Skip lunch, default on your leases, do everything you can to buy (tomorrow, after the nuke goes off). Think like a billionaire. The billionaires are buying because to them money is no longer a necessity, it's a weapon of war. Liquidating now is like selling your cow to buy milk.

that's a BOY and that's GAY and that's a GOOD THING

Which is wild cuz semis are exempt from tarrif

Thar girl looks sus

The amount of calming talk is usually proportionate to how much things are fucked.

i deserve a cosplay gf.

my bad i'm very tired, 40 minutes

too late

day of ze crash™

destroying venti's bussy like trump destroyed the stock market

they keep doing it

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wheres her penis

girl

I like how this is scheduled 15 minutes before open. Almost feels intentional.

the new trend is breadless breadlines

Probably is.

they just need to mention excluding US companies from public procurement and a digital services tariff to nuke the markets

URSULA: EU TO HASTEN PIVOT TO DEVELOP TRADE AGREEMENTS WITH MEXICO, ASEAN

well these days all activity happens in pre and on hours is just crabbing or on a wilder day small moves within that set range

america is propped up by slave nations across the globe
my taxes in a foreign country literally pay for your retirement and pump your stock market
going isolationist will destroy america because all its citizens are mutt retards with 90 IQ

Navarro is saying everyone's overreacting and Trumps plan is perfect

0% tariffs on USA is not enough to make a deal, according Navarro

URSULA: THE EU IS READY TO NEOGOTIATE 0x0 TARIFFS WITH US, BUT WILL RETALIATE IF NECESSARY

Post YFW it actually does happen, total market collapse

audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/ebs/live/1

Watching everyone spitefully time their events to fuck other countries over has been the best part of the last 48 hours

1% chance

Bro I play gacha games. I've got an entire harem of 1% chances. And soon, we all will.

ALL THAT I WANT
IS TO WAKE UP FINE
TELL ME THAT I'M ALRIGHT
THAT I AINT GONNA DIE
ALL THAT I WANT
IS A HOLE IN THE GROUND
AND YOU CAN TELL ME WHEN ITS ALRIGHT
FOR ME TO COME OUT
HARD TIMES !
GONNA MAKE YOU WONDER WHY YOU EVEN TRY
HARD TIMES !
GONNA TAKE YOU DOWN AND LAUGH WHEN YOU CRY
THESE LIVES !
AND STILL DON'T KNOW HOW I EVEN SURVIVE
HARD TIMES. HARD TIMES !
AND I GOTTA GET TO ROCK BOTTOM

OOH!

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0% tariffs

NO NO NO N O NONONONONONON

Do bugs have protein?

Trumps team of cronies defending him, I feel like they are rubbing their hands together whenever I look away

a lot, more than beef

chlorinated chicken good actually

someone shoot ursula

What does this mean

EU's Von der Leyen: We are ready to negotiate with the US on tariffs

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Ursula pumping US markets
Black Monday CANCELLED

Liquidating shorts/everyone sold at next available price on market open and were correcting up a little

MARKET CRASHED
ISRAEL PRAISED
PLAN TRUSTED

but they don't have meat, where is the protein stored

we are mad but unsure if we doing anything yet

no thanks, dont want your imaginary worthless slop

Nasdaq futures actually managed to touch the top of the 2021 post-COVID pump highs. Ok, this crash is actually getting a bit ridiculous and hysterical at this point.

Zensurula.

because Ursula has just said that the EU will likely retaliate

EU cucked lmao

KILL ALL GERMANS THEY'RE FUCKING IT ALL UP AGAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

WHICH IS IT???!

no stocks

Sad.
Many such cases.

New

Sorry, but not buying your food, burgeranons. I just can't trust it.

NO BLACK MONDAY
TOTAL EU CAPITULATIOn

I'm running out of KEKs here plz

Wait a minute, we are getting taxed...to pay for a tax cut...on ourselves

What a man can’t warm his hands? Don’t you know how hard that is since the dems waged their War on Coal?

the tweet is incomplete. Ursula said negotiating would be ideal, but recognizes that Trump is unlikely to want to negotiate ao they are preparing tariffs

eu bureaucracy at work
indecision and fickleness, taking 50 years to react and drafting a plan, likely going to cuck in the end anyways

very normal eu stuff

Hopefully this business means they'll be more likely to get the big SMR contract in the UK too

don't count on it, government procurement is absolutely fucked and we'll pick some no-name swedish company because of our amazing civil service rules
besides this government hates nuclear for no reason

We are already breadless. Call me crazy but all of the artisan and specialty breads at grocery stores are PROOF we are actually living in a simulation.
Nobody buys this bread. Ever. I never see it in someone's cart. I never see someone checking out with a massive red pepper asiago loaf the size of a basketball. In all my years I've never walked into a friends home and been offered a baguette or a fresh slice of focaccia.
I've never even heard of a "Sourdough Boule" and respectfully I am not sure they even exist.
Nobody is baking these. Nobody is buying these. Nobody is eating these. They are just there. Every time. Just like last time. Being walked past.
The bread is a decoration. The bread is a simulation.

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In all my years I've never walked into a friends home and been offered a baguette or a fresh slice of focaccia.

because you're POOR

I'd be humbled but not broken

We rolling a 1% SSR Economic Collapse-chan

those 'artisanal loaves' probably cost pennies to actually make and warm up in the store

I came from nothing and I'll go back to nothing, so what have I lost? Nothing!

now that you mention it.
very sus

we havent even reached the dip yet.

MSTR and GME are the best stocks and have outperformed the S&P and the mag7
Hard money is more valuable than fake money (ticker USD)

You dont know what goes into making semis do you?
You dont know what they put semis in do you?

Hunter gatherers nightmare.webm

Yes we have retard. Tariffs are being negotiated and big money has already repositioned their China and EU positions to cash and are about to long the US. Long term US exposure is now much more favorable over Asian and European exposure

Demons?

I made some bread the other day. Chocolate chip sourdough

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Yeah. Demons are very expensive imports now.

Don't do it anons... it's not worth it

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Makes sense thanks

kek eu wont do shit. bunch of rambling women

not going to M&S where they turn all the excess "artisan bread" into god tier garlic bread

They put so much fucking garlic butter in them, shit's amazing. Pretty good value too.

bro wtf is that even good it sounds like a cursed af combination

Sounds like you're a CONFUSICAN

We're fucked boys.

easy for billionaires to not panic, they will live in luxury and have underage girls sucking their dicks no matter what happens

Kekked

please don't sell or you're not a patriot

oh yeah those definitely feel like they are for show. such absurd prices and indeed never do you see people getting them

Going to be a lot of people who were previously ultra rich finding themselves in negative equity if it gets much worse

No they aren't.
Stop chasing memes.

That will only happen to the moderately rich. The ultra rich could lose 99% of their money, exit the market entirely, and still have enough money to achieve the highest standard of living possible from now until the end of civilization.

It's called capitalism. Whoever has the capital wins. Cash is not capital, but labor, land, and equipment are.

POST'EM

Lots of paper billionaires/almost billionaires with all their money stuck as shares backed with mortgages.

If you've €2b in shares in 3-4 major companies backed by $1bn in finance, it can be hard to liquidate in a shaky market without risking bankrupting yourself