What a terrible decade

Quote from toc:

Oil is going to correct by 20%, so USD and Markets should see some bull charge! :D
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Really? So you think that oil could actually come down a full 20% from its all time high of $147 & change?
Wow... That's a mighty bold prediction.

Not to brag or anything, but I too can predict past events with an accuracy rate above 95%!



(Sorry... I just couldn't let an error like that go without one of my little sarcastic comments. Nothing personal, it's just my nature...)
 
Since you're asking about the future, no one will tell you the exact truth. And if, by chance, someone tells you the truth, you will never know that it is true until you see it happening.

Cutten's advice, though, is the best I've read so far in this thread, IMO.


Quote from Cutten:

Two options:

i) do your research, and buy and hold top-quality Buffett-style businesses selling for reasonable valuations.
ii) diversify and just spread your money and annual savings between index-trackers in REITs, stocks, bonds/TIPS and commodities. You should earn 7-8% almost regardless of what happens to stocks.

Alternatively you can mix between the two.
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The only thing that matters to me is that there always will be a market. I don't care if it goes down for the rest of my life i know i can still make money in it. Look on the bright side, if it goes down the next decade the narrow minded one strategy approach of mutual funds and mutual funds themselves will fail because people will take their money out. The mutual fund society misleads just about everyone about the stock market but then again they themselves are mislead by college institutions. College education and the stock market is truly an Oxymoron. Sorry for the tangent's.
 
Quote from simon1080:

Buy ACAS.
20% divy guaranteed through 2009 - 2010 :)
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$1K investment total return (approx.) for 10 years in:

ACAS= $4,650 (optionable) CEF
GE= $1,290 (optionable) Large Cap
HCP= $4,863 (optionable) REIT
HCN= $5,320 (optionable) REIT
MSFT= $1,350 (optionable) Large Cap
SPG= $5,930 (optionable) REIT
SPY= $1,560 (optionable) SP500

BRK.a= $1,930* (no options) Large Cap/Conglomerate; *stock price in 1998: $60K/sh
 
Quote from traderdragon2:

Thats my fear. The nowhere market for at least a decade or more. So where do you stash your investment cash? Not your trade cash, your investment cash. Shit.
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It might be good to look at all of it as trade cash...
 
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These are the 10 year rolling returns of the SP500 total return index (including dividends, not inflation adjusted).
 
Quote from traderdragon2:

21% return on the S&P in the last 10 years
This absolutely sucks for long term investors
A mere 3% investment vehicle would have done you much better

Meanwhile, everyone is going into debt in the US
The true US GDP is crap
Whats going to happen to this country in the next 10, 20, 30 years?

Your thoughts?
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Once Bush is gone this should change and we should make up for the slump.

The only problem I see is McCain will only do worse and Obama is an idiot so maybe I'm wrong.
 
Quote from Joab:

Once Bush is gone this should change and we should make up for the slump.

The only problem I see is McCain will only do worse and Obama is an idiot so maybe I'm wrong.
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Thanks Hilary
 
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