LOL. So in my original post that began this thread (when I reached $1M), I jokingly mentioned that my milestones can be used as market-timing cues, because back in 2007, when I had reached $500k, I stayed there for one whole day before the bubble burst and the market crashed down, and it took 5 years to return to $500k.
When I reached $1M and started this thread, no such dramatics happened, so timing the market off my milestones was just a joke after all.
But now when I rebirthed the thread to note our $2M milestone on 2018-09-20, we got about a week bouncing around on either side of $2M before the market again came crashing down! Two months later it's about 10% down and our net worth is around $1.85M. You all should have sold! It's not a joke after all! I'm genuinely cursed!
But hey, at least it's cool to not be particularly bothered by "losing" $150k! (and now that we're married, I decided we should spend the last couple months of the year filling up my wife's unused 401(k)/HSA/Roth IRA space, so the market drop is nice for that!)
I guess if the every-other pattern holds, my next milestone ($2.5M?) should be a safe one, while $3M will be your next "SELL!!!! THE TOP IS IN!!!" signal. You have been warned.
(in reality, we may never hit $2M again, if we retire before then anyway)