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To: pstuartb who wrote (287353)	10/27/2010 7:45:35 PM
From: LTK007	Respond to of 306849

Thanks, what a telling chart. Regards caution, my assets( i have zero debt) can get me and wife from age now 69 to 79, with sufficient comfort but no wintering over in Arizona(i live on DownEastCoast of Maine-winters can be savage:) Now i want more, mos def, but the risk of hit at 69, changes one's mattr's bigtime-so istudy and study for that window of opportunity, so i can winter over in Arizona--but the wild ass trader is was starting in 1997 in long gone. But any move i make would but to get 100k and that is it:done:finished: only worry then is i will liveinto my 90s---can't have that:) i live however we the pain that i would be rolling around in money if i hadn't unloaded the stocks i bought at bottom--TC/MTL/NGD/SLW and several others--but at 10% gain i thought that's enough, i had little confident regards what was ahead: Bbt they never stopped going up for months after--i estimate i would have had at least a 250% gain AFTER taxes--So It Goes-o my:) So i wait for another windoe, wait and wait:)Max

To: pstuartb who wrote (287353)	10/27/2010 9:24:29 PM
From: James Hutton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"I think retail investors are gone for this generation. Boomers got burned once on tech stocks, and then many got burned a second time on real estate. Now retirement is looming and they can't afford to take risks anymore even if they wanted to. 401ks are getting raided to pay bills. From here on out for a lot of years, I think the stock market will just be the pros. Just a dwindling number of fund managers with their algorithms and a few isolated traders who've managed to walk through the valley of death and survive" Maybe that's why these things go in 17-20 year cycles. It takes that long to completely fleece one generation and bring in another naive set of suckers. If you use 2000 as the end of the last equity boom, then we've got another 7 years, unless of course we really do turn Japanese.