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The Stock Market Takes Another Dive - Steer Clear ?
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....... Even with todays yields I maintain a regular investment if I think it will return more than cash
Spot on monkey - I think
The problem appears to me that you can be tempted to look at what you might have done and what thus you might have gained - if you had made every call minute by minute. An analysis that can sadly only lead to pain
On the other-hand achieving your reasonable goals can lead to satisfaction
But hell I still find it annoying to miss the bottoms and the tops :rotfl:I believe past performance is a good guide to future performance :beer:0 -
It's only annoying if you weren't doing something else with your money at the time, and that thing being what you thought was best at the time you did it. I missed buying a boatload of Barclays when they went through the floor and I was convinced they would bounce back since I had tied cash up in something else that was giving me a good return. If I had had a load of cash sat in my current account at the time and still missed out then that's a different story.0
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But hell I still find it annoying to miss the bottoms and the tops :rotfl:
IKWYM, but as I know it's impossible to ever hit more than a tiny minority of bottoms and tops, I'm getting more chilled about it with every passing year.
My "bottom feeding" over the summer has also made my portfolio look all pretty and green, so that gives me some cheer!I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.
Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.0 -
There are professionals who are clueless about getting the peaks and troughs so I don't try.0
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Most peaks and troughs I'm clueless about. I have a feeling though that I have more of an insight into this one than most, even professionals. I intend to go back into long term investing in due course. My background is the oil industry.0
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Rather disappointed that despite the fall in GDP and technical double dip recession being declared that the markets haven't fallen. Keeping fingers crossed that the repurchase of funds from my ISA transfer happens before any major rises!Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0
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Chill dude - long game.0
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The only sure way to make money out of the stock market is to do what the professionals do. Gamble other people's money. Then you cannot lose your own “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0
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Rather disappointed that despite the fall in GDP and technical double dip recession being declared that the markets haven't fallen. Keeping fingers crossed that the repurchase of funds from my ISA transfer happens before any major rises!
Its all about USA. UK was already crap growth, our currency rose strongly recently just because QE was put off and USA is more likely0
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