No! I don't have to show you no stinkin' tools/methods/charts....Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:Share with me which tools/methods/charts/ you're getting these negative/expensive feelings from. Maybe I'm just hearing the sunny side...
No! I don't have to show you no stinkin' tools/methods/charts....Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:Share with me which tools/methods/charts/ you're getting these negative/expensive feelings from. Maybe I'm just hearing the sunny side...
brewer12345 said:Pssst... yield curve inversion, for starters.
Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:Which has predicted 15 of the last 5 recessions, or something like that?
And then theres that Karl Malden guy who says we'll see a 43% drop in a recession, even though I dont think thats happened more than once or twice?
brewer12345 said:Risk premia on other paper (and maybe stocks, too) will creep up.
Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:Sounds like a name for a health smoothie, doesnt it?
Your points are well taken Brewer, and market timers are well advised to seek out as many indicators and measurements as they can.
I'm in. Staying in. If I had more money to put in, I'd put it in. Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war. Makes no difference to me. 20 years from now, lets look back and see if it mattered.
Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:Sounds like a name for a health smoothie, doesnt it?
Your points are well taken Brewer, and market timers are well advised to seek out as many indicators and measurements as they can.
I'm in. Staying in. If I had more money to put in, I'd put it in. Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war. Makes no difference to me. 20 years from now, lets look back and see if it mattered.
DanTien said:Lets pose a situation for you.
How did you handle the 2000-early 2003 "correction" did you ride it out without touching anything knowing that everything would be ok? Did you get burned at all?
Its one thing to say I have a 20 year horizon, but are you going to stick with it when you see a drop from 11000 to 7600....If you didn't budge then you are a smart investor with large cojones
Hey, Dan, you know the answers to this situation. It's buy & hold, not buy & forget-- that's what sell stops are for. We didn't retreat but we sure danced around a lot.DanTien said:Lets pose a situation for you.
How did you handle the 2000-early 2003 "correction" did you ride it out without touching anything knowing that everything would be ok? Did you get burned at all?
Its one thing to say I have a 20 year horizon, but are you going to stick with it when you see a drop from 11000 to 7600....If you didn't budge then you are a smart investor with large cojones
DanTien said:Lets pose a situation for you.
How did you handle the 2000-early 2003 "correction" did you ride it out without touching anything knowing that everything would be ok? Did you get burned at all?
Its one thing to say I have a 20 year horizon, but are you going to stick with it when you see a drop from 11000 to 7600....If you didn't budge then you are a smart investor with large cojones
Regardless of how many times you traded, you're probably still right.brewer12345 said:What is funny is that Nords and I were buying the same kind of thing (SC Value) in the midst of the bear market, but I bet he did a LOT more trading than I did.
Hi Alec, with any luck the contraction started today. Good luck with your portfolio.ats5g said:Hi Dan, [as Brewer said] IMO your son should be praying for a contraction in valuation levels [a large market downturn]. See Bernstein's The Duration of Stocks.
I started investing in 2001 at age 26. Most of my contemporaries had been "making a killing" with concentrated tech portfolios. I made it through the bear market by doing some reading, like Bernstein's books, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, and some of Terrance Odean's easy to read articles [which scared me into no trying to do much analysis or trading, especially Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment ]
I decided that a very good strategy was to try to own everything [large caps, small caps, int'l, REITs, and bonds]. Once I realized that no amount analysis was going to help me move deftly from one asset to another, I tried to set up a portfolio in which I wouldn't lose the loser's game.
Another "trick" that helped me to ignore the short term performance of my portfolio was having some rather unplanned children [not recommended of course].
- Alec
Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:In early 2000 I sold my technology stocks, because there was clear evidence they were grossly overvalued...P/E's in the triple digits, people who had no idea what they were buying or why they were buying it.
I went into some boring old balanced funds, REITs, energy and precious metals. Sold all of those in the last 2 years because my ER and marital/parental status changed. The reits, energy and precious metals had run up substantially and I didnt need the boring 'get rich slow' funds anymore with a working wifes income.
The overall equity markets have recovered a bit since the minibear we had over the last few years. Earnings have been solid and consistent. The real bad guys like enron/worldcom/tyco etc have been cleared out. Martha Stewarts madness was brought to an end. The sun came out.
Some segments look a bit overpriced. But I'm mostly in target retirements and TSM right now, with a big dollop of Value thrown in for fun.
If the dow ran up to 18000 in the next year, I'd probably consider the relative valuations...in as much as i could articulate them. And if they looked as dumb as they did in 2000, I'd sell.
I still dont see very many measurements or 'experts' feeling that this market is overvalued. Not that i listen to them with any great heed. I see moderately fair prices all around except for perhaps some oil and metal stocks. The bond market looks stupid to me, given that longer maturities STILL havent gotten spanked and money markets and CD's are paying better than short bonds.
But I wouldnt hesitate to buy in right now if I had extra cash laying around. I also wouldnt be completely shocked by a 25% drop. Or a 25% runup. Aside from the unique insanity of 1995-2000, I doubt I'll make many portfolio changes for the next 15 years.
If I get the urge to "do something", i'll do 2-3 days of research, and then fully restructure my wifes $35,000 403b...for the third time. Gets it out of my system.
Yeah that would nice, but I wouldn't want to see my fellow forum members suffer. Although if I warn everyone to get out of the market & buy CD/MMF/bills/Tips and then wait for "blood in the streets" (was that Warren that said that?) opportunities I would feel less guilty.brewer12345 said:CFB will no doubt answer, but let me suggest that the best response to something similar for your son would be very different. From 2000 to 2003, I mostly just gritted my teeth and bought, bought, bought stock. Some of the buys I made back then were the big slam dunks. Your son should be praying for a market collapse.
Nords said:Hey, Dan, you know the answers to this situation. It's buy & hold, not buy & forget-- that's what sell stops are for. We didn't retreat but we sure danced around a lot.
I should warn the rest of you dirty market timers that this week our retirement portfolio hit an all-time high. That means the market is going to back off at least 5% in the next couple of months...
In the next few months our 13-year-old is going to take her first steps into investing. Once we teach her about stocks, bonds, & mutual funds, we're going to start with half her minimum investment in a Fidelity small-cap value index and the other half in an international fund or ETF. Maybe she'll decide that she wants to invest in individual stocks, but she sees how much time I spend on it and she'd rather be doing other things. No bonds for the next decade or two, and no CDs until she starts thinking about a home down payment...
I'm convinced that's how a lot of market anal-ysts get their predictions.Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:I pulled 18000 out of my rear measuring device.
So is that the same device you use to measure a butt-load of pepper for the steaks?Cute n' Fuzzy Bunny said:I pulled 18000 out of my rear measuring device.
I rarely take advice from people -- especially not people giving free advice on an internet board. Although I must admit that the advice you get here is probably worth every penney you pay for it.Cool Dood said:I never take advice from people who say "premia"
Well sgeeeeeee I'd bet there will be some good energy stock trades tomorrow. (March 1). Now that's one you can believe.sgeeeee said:I rarely take advice from people -- especially not people giving free advice on an internet board. Although I must admit that the advice you get here is probably worth every penney you pay for it.
Even if you're right . . . predicting one end of a great trading opportunity does not guarantee superior profit.JPatrick said:Well sgeeeeeee I'd bet there will be some good energy stock trades tomorrow. (March 1). Now that's one you can believe.
That quote's about to be lost in a sea of sincere imitators:DanTien said:Although if I warn everyone to get out of the market & buy CD/MMF/bills/Tips and then wait for "blood in the streets" (was that Warren that said that?) opportunities I would feel less guilty.