I believe this Burton Cummings video probably represents how most investors are feeling about the stock market right now – But, don’t let all the negative market sentiment get you down and cause you to bail at the wrong time. While Burton may say that he’s scared, he loves the stock market. Consider his long-term [...]
Category Archives: Market Timing
Buying On The Dips
It’s never easy to be contrarian, especially when everyone else thinks the world is ending, investors are panicking, and markets are tumbling. But it often pays to be greedy when others are fearful. However, it takes balls the size of boulders to put one’s money where their mouth is, and buy on these dips. If [...]
Is It Safe Yet?
To many investment bankers working on Wall Street, information means everything, while sentiment and uncertainty are to be avoided at all costs. These people are serious about wanting absolute answers before deciding whether it’s safe to move their money out of cash and into equities. To support my point, here’s recently uncovered video of a [...]
You Don’t Need Eyes To See
I recently got an email from a reader wanting to know how I’ve been able to accurately assess market and economic conditions so consistently over the past few years, even though I’m not an investment, economic, or any other type of financial professional. I thought it best if I answered that question here, for everyone [...]
Roth IRA Conversion
I’m a big fan of the Roth IRA. I think it’s one of the best retirement savings tools available to the individual investor, and I always try to take advantage of it when I can. But, there were times when I couldn’t contribute. Back in May of 2006 there was a pretty significant change to [...]
Weekly Wrap
Another bullish rally in the stock markets this past week. The Dow ended up the week with 0.6% gain, the Nasdaq up 2.1%, and the S&P 500 up 1.4%. But where are we headed now? I mean, stocks can’t go any higher, right? What to do? What to do? Is it time to ditch stocks [...]