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Strategies & Market Trends : Sharck Soup -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Goodale who wrote (16284)	4/16/2001 12:47:57 AM
From: DlphcOracl	Respond to of 37746

Goodale: I do not have any dividend-paying stocks that I am in or can recommend. If the market heads lower, the few percent a dividend will pay will be meaningless compared to the decline in the individual stock. A sinking market drags everything down with it. One thought: since real estate market has held up well through all of this, REITS may be worth exploring since many of these pay 8-10% dividends. I should mention that it is not my inherent nature to be bearish and I am looking for a spot to jump back into the fray. My "bearishness" is more a function of my uncertainty and confusion with regard to market movements. Last week's NASDAQ surge caught me by surprise and I feel it is too late to jump in now. I think we will retest the lows over the summer, possibly during the earnings warning season for Q2. However, as the year proceeds, I feel that the odds are with the bulls. Bear markets in the absence of inflation can only last so long and the Fed interest rate cuts will begin to influence the market toward the end of the year. Unlike the most extreme bears on this thread, I think the Fed will ultimately prevail and the mantra: "Don't fight the Fed" will prove correct. I still have difficulty seeing the NASDAQ going below 1500 despite the many knowledgeable posts on this thread that see NASDAQ at 1000-1100 later this year.