It’s so easy to make money in the market these days 😀 If you bought the Dow Jones index 18 months ago, your investments would be up 30% today!
But the chart below may be a strong signal that these good times will likely be ending very soon! *gulp* 😯 The darker green line indicates the Dow stock market index today and its performance over the last 18 months. As you can see it’s mostly good news 😀 But the lighter cyan line above represents the same index, also over an 18 month period, but 85 years ago.
As you can see the 2 lines are very similar so far 😉 There’s probably something fundamentally the same within the different periods of time that’s driving this synchronicity 😕 It was right around this time of year back in 1929 when the market had a major correction, and by summer of 1929 the Dow had lost 20% of it’s value from the peak in early January. Does this mean the Dow will do the same this year in 2014? A 20% correction is not that rare for the stock market, and if the Dow continues to follow the historical trend set 85 years ago then maybe it’s time to sell some positions and lock in the profits. I mean, look at how eerily similar the 2 charts are 😐
If you believe we are in for a downturn then maybe add more bonds, like XBB, to your portfolio as a bit of protection. But if you think the charts lining up is purely coincidental then carry on with your stock investing. Personally I have no idea what to think about this data so I’m going to sit on the fence and hold all my long positions, and will not buy any new stocks until April.
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lets hope the market DROP so i can buy 🙂
I’m thinking the same thing 😀 I’ve got some margin room available now to play around with.
I have ZERO debt again, so bring it on! I’ll buy big if it does drop… All that said, Is the market likely to drop? I doubt it personally as many “good” companies have good cash on hands, and real growing revenue (organic and through M&As). Invest in quality companies, with a little speculative growth stuff for spice and the hills and valleys will even out trending upward over the longer term. The only issue for me of concern is debt. There has been no solution to the world debt problems, and that could spark another buying opportunity, I mean correction… – Cheers.
You paid off that debt pretty fast 🙂 Congrats on being debt free again. Yeah, correction and opportunity are opposite sides of the same coin. Despite some people losing their shirts in 2008/2009, I bet lots of investors made a killing coming out of the subsequent recovery 😀
If the have high quality dividend paying stocks, then not to worry. Use the market drop for the opportunity for buying high quality stocks in low price. I usually buy stocks in summer time.
That’s an interesting strategy. I wonder if ice cream businesses outperform in the summer months 🙂