Stock Investing..?

[busdent]

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anybody here into stocks?

 

[DillonA002]

What is you stock market forecast for 2015? I am not very optimistic about stocks this year. Last year stocks performed so well, but this year, the key stocks indices doesn’t seem anywhere close to that. I won’t surprise if I see a decline for the first time since 2009.

 

[danchoi03]

I would love to see a decline again like 2009, but there is no driven force to make it happens unless WWIII breaks out. Since gold price is stable and cheaper than last few years, I would buy a lot of gold. If you are not too comfortable where the market is heading, look into buying options 3 years out and buy the stocks when they are heading into decline. I do this with my wife's trading account although we started out very small but it works great for my buying strategy.

 

[Ollivander]

Nice job digging up a thread from 2006.

 

[grivacobae]

Kudos to commitment...
Small cap stocks are the way to go

 

[Julian Delphiki]

For the most part, Stocks are a scam.

 

[danchoi03]

For the most part, Stocks are a scam.

How so?

 

[Ollivander]

For the most part, Stocks are a scam.

The finance major in me disagrees. However most of my investing will be in a Roth IRA and mutual funds. Maybe ETFs.

 

[akog]

How so?

"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" did a good job of convincing me that, unless you have really great sector-specific expertise, index funds are the most reliable investment...

there may be brokers or fund managers with real expertise, but it seems so hard to sort the good from the pretenders... and track records seem almost useless because there are so many funds and of course the unlucky ones all get forgotten, leaving all the lucky ones to claim expertise

But the real joke is all the BS surrounding quarterly earnings and the ridiculous price-to-earning ratios of so many stocks. If that doesn't convince you it's all mostly voodoo, then I don't know what would