Welcome welcome Jack. (Personally have so much angst right now, that when I think of an image of how much that might be, in two attempts a day-old hot cheese sandwich popped up.) It was outside, the second time, in the leaves under rhododendron lutescens (the "most yellow") rhody. [Forget CNBC, get yer new paradigms here.]
I sort of wait for people who know some facts to come along and give their opinion/info and am grateful for it.
~ The market's history gets a lot of weight, yah. But we're only talking a century (heehee), right?
~ Matters not much to me, but this could be a new era. One of the rationalizations for spouse and me entering the mkt was an earlier sensation of...what...a change in history. Not easy to define and facts are not my forte. Do know that's it's hard or impossible to tell when one is on the approaching edge of a shift. Can't really be argued, either. Also, would never BET on it.
~ Making money at this, most truthfully looks harder and more worrisome than it did last year; and it wasn't sleep-walking then. So the people who don't want to bother are probly elsewhere-ing, as they should.
~ But are mutuals going to do well? Hmm.
~ Cash in the right periods is good. Very good. But over 30 yrs, it's not good enough. (Generally.) My cash is waiting for the right place to go back to work. Has to. And the mkt is truly one of the best/easiest formats. Others must think so too. There may be a massive correction or not; but these people are now of the training/psychology that they will get back in. Heck, it's a market.
~ Valuations: I like companies squished down, beaten up in alleys by mobs of meansters. I can't figure why people buy stocks at full value. There's still downside risk in both, but... It seems to me the steady climb up, say of Intel from 49, works well (very) under certain conditions, but jeez be careful now. Buying or holding stocks near their highs seems weird to me.
~ I don't know. Even writing these things seems strange. Wore my little head out thinking about it, I guess. Didn't take much. Opinions are appreciated tho. Perspectives, especially. |
