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To: da_cheif™ who wrote (4278)	3/7/2013 5:10:11 PM
From: theamericanway	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14245

its easy being bearish today, u r having a posting fielday today, the market is close to a crash day wouldnt u say? its da americanway :) Member 8433347 retirementplans.vanguard.com

To: da_cheif™ who wrote (4278)	3/7/2013 5:13:18 PM
From: The1Stockman	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14245

Let me say this, ... and you can take it anyway you wish, I've spent plenty of time on this subject, I cant add anymore so you will have to forgive me if I refrain from further opinions. First we have the Bulls: Lets define a bull market first. A bull market is when everything in the economy is great happy, rich and positive, people are finding jobs, (GDP) is growing, corporations are hiring and giving raises and stocks are rising. Things are just plain peachy keen and rosy! "ARE THEY AS SAID ABOVE RIGHT NOW"? Remember those days when picking stocks during a bull market was easier because everything was going up. one has to keep in mind that, ... bull markets cannot last forever, and sometimes they can lead to dangerous situations if stocks become overvalued. If a person is too optimistic and believes that stocks will continue to go up, he or she gets careless and overly greedy. Now for the Bears: A bear market is when the economy is bad, recession's ongoing or is looming, ... corporations are laying off and cutting pay. Bear markets make it tough for seniors and lower/middle citizens to enjoy a pleasurable life style. When an international stock market is being manipulated by Governments through central banks by printing fiat, the results have always been negative, they almost always create a false sense of wealth and just when the public get on board, they pull the trigger and take the floor out from under them, just like they've done in recent rallies. Now a look at our other friends, the Chickens and Pigs. The Chickens, ... are always afraid to lose anything. Their fear overrides their need to make profits and so they turn only to money market funds and CD's or get out of the markets entirely, but the always have something to fall back on. While it's true that you should never invest in something over which you lose sleep, you are also guaranteed never to see any return if you avoid the market completely and never take any risk. The Pigs, .. they are a much different story they are high-risk investors looking for the one BIG score in a short period of time. Pigs buy on hot tips and invest in companies without doing their homework, their due diligence. They get impatient, greedy, and emotional about their investments, and they are drawn to high-risk securities without putting in the proper time or money to learn about these investment. Professional traders love the pigs, as it's often from their losses that the bulls and bears reap their profits. There you go, ... which one are you? If the fed's were not printing money hand over fist and injecting it into the markets to fabricate how hunky dory everything is, .. would you be a bull or a bear? I am not a bear by the way, ... but I do see that we are topping off and its not to say we cant go higher, I just dont think its sustainable. Call me a Chicken, not a PIG As a Chicken, ... I can always eat the PIG when it dies. LOL.