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When to start buying stocks again? More

When to start buying stocks again?

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  • You buy stocks for the long term. Even in market downturns, there are good stocks to buy, based on the company, their past performance, and their industry. You buy them, hold on to them for twenty years, and that's supposed to make you rich. I see the idea behind it easily enough -- look at any graph of the Dow Jones over time. The trend is always higher. Even when we get these big corrections, they hardly ever last for long. Remember, this whole explosion upward to 14,000 was started after some serious cor

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      by Otter ( 3800 )
      For retail investors, absolutely. By the time you're alerted to a drop, it's too late for you to get out.

      I was wondering when to move more money in, not when to try to get out.

      • No time like the present. The Dow may drop a little more, but just like the breakthrough of 11,000, I suspect once people get their heads on straight again it will start shooting up. A lot depends on whether the Fed cuts interest rates. I have a suspicion they won't, to make those people who made risky investments suffer just long enough that they get it into their head that it was a bad idea. I don't expect to see the Dow start making significant gains again for at least 30 days, so you may lose money in t

  • but Thurston Howell III always said "Buy low and sell high" and look how it all worked out for him.
  • So, where do you think this is all going to bottom out?

    At the bottom?

    On a more serious note, I'm of the opinion that more..."events" are on their way, so we'll be seeing quite a few "false" bottoms this year.

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      by ces ( 119879 )
      On a more serious note, I'm of the opinion that more..."events" are on their way, so we'll be seeing quite a few "false" bottoms this year.

      You ain't kidding. When you look at the worse case scenarios the picture isn't pretty. I'm thinking we're not going to actually see bottom until say 2010.
  • I just bought a whole lot of these really cheap shares in some company called SCO. I have a feeling their going to accomplish quite a bit!
  • I think we've still got a few more months of woe ahead as the mortgage issues continue to shake out and possibly roil the international currency markets a bit. That should clear the decks for a typical rally at the start of the new year...

    Of course, I don't have anything riding on the outcome directly right now. My retirement money is in mutual funds that I tweak the balances on maybe twice a year, so I try to not to focus on short-term fluctuations too much.

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