Someone trying to send a message or what?

If you don't need the money or aren't tracking the market actively, then stay the course and continue the purchases. It is called dollar cost averaging.

However, if you are active with the technical side of the market, you can get extra bumps by selling and buying at the right time. Despite Wall street saying you can't time the market, you can. You aren't likely to sell at the peak or buy at the trough but you can come close. There are many tools out there that help.

The extra 2-3% you get per event can add up pretty well over time. Free money
 
Nick is spot on.
For simplicity, overlay the 50 day and 200 day moving averages. An old system used to verify trend by positive or negative crosses of the 200 by the 50. Longer term and old school but not a bad verification system.
 
If you don't need the money or aren't tracking the market actively, then stay the course and continue the purchases. It is called dollar cost averaging.

However, if you are active with the technical side of the market, you can get extra bumps by selling and buying at the right time. Despite Wall street saying you can't time the market, you can. You aren't likely to sell at the peak or buy at the trough but you can come close. There are many tools out there that help.

The extra 2-3% you get per event can add up pretty well over time. Free money
the only time I had any success timing the market was when I figured out every time Obama made a speech about Bank of America, it was time to buy. He would talk about them, they would drop drastically then make it back after a while, till Obama made another speech about them.
 
What do they say about the heat in the kitchen?

Oh yea if you can't take it, get out. No one forces anyone to be in the market.
Bullshit! When the government put us on perpetual very low interest with inflation and taxation outpacing interest then equity and it's associated risk became the only game in town.
 
There are alternatives. Depend more on cash, less on credit, don't dive down the consumerism black hole.

To be honest, I'd rather we go down a deflationary hole where cash is king, credit brokers watch their livelihood disappear, and the economy is controlled by default at the local level. Yeah the transition sucks but so do all of them.

Everyone will adjust.
 
only game in town? You are not limited to investing in the USA, there are many options, including trading commodities. It seems to be the only game in town but only to the those with limited vision.

Inflation will show its ugly head in the first term of Trump. We need to inflate our way out of debt. The hashing out that never happened in 2008 will happen now, trumps deregulating steps so far will be a springboard for an actual recovery. We need to shed the winners of the last bail out.
 
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There are alternatives. Depend more on cash, less on credit, don't dive down the consumerism black hole.

To be honest, I'd rather we go down a deflationary hole where cash is king, credit brokers watch their livelihood disappear, and the economy is controlled by default at the local level. Yeah the transition sucks but so do all of them.

Everyone will adjust.

Very true. Consumerism and debt should really be avoided. Cash is always good.

Look at the economy at a Global level when investing. Despite the rhetoric about Asia, there are diversified funds out there that focus on the Pacific Basin and completely outpaced the S&P for the last 2 years
 
Inflation will show its ugly head in the first term of Trump. We need to inflate our way out of debt. The hashing out that never happened in 2008 will happen now, trumps deregulating steps so far will be a springboard for an actual recovery. We need to shed the winners of the last bail out.

Have we seen any real inflation in the last 20 years? I say no. It's way past due.
 
Watching the market to closely can be costly.
Not watching the market can be costly.
Somewhere in between is the answer.
From my observation the insiders load the market up for 20-30 years with Joe 6 pack's money then clean them out.
Rinse repeat.

R
 
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Very true. Consumerism and debt should really be avoided. Cash is always good.

Look at the economy at a Global level when investing. Despite the rhetoric about Asia, there are diversified funds out there that focus on the Pacific Basin and completely outpaced the S&P for the last 2 years
My last review with my investment advisor was focused on the split between domestic and emerging equities and also on the inevitable rise in rates.

I'm well positioned.........