U.S. market long-term investors, are you worried about the Buffet indicator? What would you expect the overvaluation to lead to? How are you protecting your investments?
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The [Buffet indicator](https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php) is the ratio of the total United States stock market to GDP. The current ratio of 230% is approximately 75.15% (or about 2.4 standard deviations) above the historical trend line, suggesting that the stock market is Strongly Overvalued relative to GDP.
Does this mean the common advice to invest in something like US 500 or VOOG on the long term and forget about it should be taken with a grain of salt? U.S. market long-term investors, are you worried about the Buffet indicator? What would you expect the overvaluation to lead to? How are you protecting your investments?