Stock market up - giving me jitters

[Anonymous]

After watching the market go down so much in the past 15 years, I've been amazed at the past year's rise. I feel like it's so good I should get out. I'm fighting to maintain my "buy and hold" mentality. And I never thought I'd be so nervous watching it go up.

Anyone else out there with a similar affliction?

[Anonymous]

I'm up nearly $75,000 in January alone. I took $50k off the table, and am letting the rest ride. Figure, worst case I paid for a new Tesla Model S.

[Anonymous]

I am also nervous especially with the anti businesses anti wallstreet rejects who were elected.

[Anonymous]

There is pent up demand in every segment of the economy. We will have a bull market for the next ten years. Btw, anytime wall street is not regulated it self-destructs. As long as the Republicans don't destroy the working and middle classes we'll be fine.

Thankfully most Americans know that Grover Norquist and Mitch mcConnell are flat out nuts. Unfortunately for the Norquist crowd, they are such an incestuous group that they have no awareness that their era and their power has ended.

[Anonymous]

Regulation creates wealth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm up nearly $75,000 in January alone. I took $50k off the table, and am letting the rest ride. Figure, worst case I paid for a new Tesla Model S.

Couldn't afford one of those so put 1k in Tesla instead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is pent up demand in every segment of the economy. We will have a bull market for the next ten years. Btw, anytime wall street is not regulated it self-destructs. As long as the Republicans don't destroy the working and middle classes we'll be fine.

Thankfully most Americans know that Grover Norquist and Mitch mcConnell are flat out nuts. Unfortunately for the Norquist crowd, they are such an incestuous group that they have no awareness that their era and their power has ended.

Explain for us very stupid, non economic types. I'm reading that Warren Buffett and that guy who predicted the real estate collapse and other billionaires are pulling their money out of the market seeing it headed for massive collapse, brought on in part by the inability of Obama and Congress to effectively govern (and yes, I blame both sides).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is pent up demand in every segment of the economy. We will have a bull market for the next ten years. Btw, anytime wall street is not regulated it self-destructs. As long as the Republicans don't destroy the working and middle classes we'll be fine.

Thankfully most Americans know that Grover Norquist and Mitch mcConnell are flat out nuts. Unfortunately for the Norquist crowd, they are such an incestuous group that they have no awareness that their era and their power has ended.

Explain for us very stupid, non economic types. I'm reading that Warren Buffett and that guy who predicted the real estate collapse and other billionaires are pulling their money out of the market seeing it headed for massive collapse, brought on in part by the inability of Obama and Congress to effectively govern (and yes, I blame both sides).

Every time there is a boom or a bust, at least one person gets lucky and can be shown to have predicted it. Obviously I cannot compete with Warren Buffett's tarck record. The person who predicted the housing bust is a professor at NYU Stern (Nouriel Roubini aka Dr. Doom). Some interesting insights on here>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini

[Anonymous]

Cite please on Warren Buffet pulling all $ out of market due to inability of Obama and Congress?

[Anonymous]

Berkshire has invested heavily in banks during the past several years and like Joe Kennedy who invested heavily in banks during 30s, Buffett too will be richly rewarded.

Extra - Extra - Read all about it - Berkshire B Breaks $100 Next Week!!!!

The House and the Norquist crowd blinked and they are not ever going to try to play the shut down the government card ever again. Even Bobby Jindal said recently that the Republicans have to "stop being the stupid Party".

The gig is up for the gun toting, bible thumping, protect the wealthy, purge the poor Radical Republican Party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cite please on Warren Buffet pulling all $ out of market due to inability of Obama and Congress?

Surfed to the link via cnn.com last week. http://www.moneynews.com/Outbrain/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265/?PROMO_CODE=FE8A-1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cite please on Warren Buffet pulling all $ out of market due to inability of Obama and Congress?

Surfed to the link via cnn.com last week. http://www.moneynews.com/Outbrain/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265/?PROMO_CODE=FE8A-1

Quickly read the article and found it to be interesting. However, I have a couple questions. I'm not familiar with the publication "MoneyNews", is it a real journalistic publican or is it an infomercial blog? I truly do not know. Secondly, people sometimes confuse the difference between Bershire Hathaway and Warren Buffett's personal stock portfolio. I know he has been buying real estate for his personal portfolio for perhaps 18 months now because he felt that market had bottomed and homes were selling at fire sale prices. I would think purchasing individual homes for resale would be too insignificant for Berkshire to enter into, but perhaps not so as part of Buffett's person portfolio.

Also, for Berkshire and Soros to close positions in certain companies from time-to-time and to purchase something else or just to keep the proceeds in reserve waiting to make a new purchase is not unusual. Reducing and adding to positions are what Buffett, Soros, and Paulson do all the time. They may have changed some positions, but it is unlikely they have dumped all of their equities holdings to take positions in cash or gold.

These men are investors, not Doomsday Preppers.

[Anonymous]

www.bogleheads.org , people. Go to the site and read the philosophy. The basic thing is by the time you'll feel "good" about investing in the stock market, then everyone is feeling the same and buying stocks, so they are... wait for it.... more expensive. You are buying high. When everyone around you panics and you decide that it's too risky to be in stocks then you sell... low.

So what you need to do, because you can't predict the future, is allocate and diversify a portfolio, and then rebalance from time to time. Don't try to time the market or pick stocks. www.bogleheads.org has a whole philosophy based on living below your means, investing in a diversified portfolio and slowly over time gaining wealth. Check it out.

[Anonymous]

No one's heard of the January Effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_effect

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one's heard of the January Effect?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_effect

It's usually the first few days of the year, not the entire month.