Why invest in the stock market anymore?

Question

Wall Street is a joke at this point. If you had invested money in 1999, almost ten years ago, you would be waaaaayyyyy down in most index funds. TEN YEARS.

I don't want to hear about long term investing trends either. Gold and real estate is the only way to go at this point. Wall Street is totally corrupt.

New York investors know that everyone has their cash locked up in 401k's and IRA's and because it is locked up nobody can access it to avoid the ongoing slaughter. BUY GOLD. Not ETF gold shares, but actual gold metal bullion.

Answer 1

Canadian gold coins have looked good.  Currency and 99% pure gold.

Answer 2

If you are talking about US stock market, I am not agree with you. Since US market you can trade call or put and you have others option like option, future. You don't have to trade stock only, and you don't have to hold the stock for long term because of the tax.

Answer 3

If you really want to invest short term, then the idea of short sell is going to work at this moment. With most of the companies earnings down and so is their stock price, you should short sell.

Answer 4

Invest so you can lose your shirt.

Answer 5

It's an economic Jihad and we (The USA and allies) are being attacked, Don't buy gold, buy food and water. You'll need it, you cannot eat or drink gold. The pension funds are being stolen away and the whole economic structure of western  countries is under attack and no-one is taking action to stop it.

Our countries are too PW'd to react in an appropriate way

Answer 6

Your rant suggests to me that it might be time to start investing heavily in the stock market again.

When the little man gives up on an investment option and completely throws in the towel, history suggests the bottom must be near.

;-)

(For the record, one must keep all things in perspective.  I am up in my retirement portfolios over the last ten years:  I mechanically re-balance...selling what is soaring and buying what is falling...this plus a small allocation of alternative assets here and there over the years has kept my ten year annualized return well ahead of inflation.  Nothing spectacular, but more than enough to keep early retirement on the horizon.  

I should also add that I am way, way, way up over the life of my retirement investing (I began in the early 1980's).  While it is true that I benefited from the biggest bull run in the history of stock markets anywhere, my gains remain because I have remained a bull tempered by realistic assessments of turbulence.  

If you want my advice, don't take all of your money out the market in a panic.  If you have no money in the game, you cannot win if the bull comes.  And, don't kid yourself, no one will see the next bull until it is well underway and, if you are out, you will be inclined to stay out until much of the money has already been made.  If you have even a small (10%-25%) amount in the game, it will be easier for you to buy back in all the way up)

Answer 7

We've heard this before. (yawn)

Answer 8

Every one has their opinion, that's why there's chocolate and vanilla.

If you knew anything about the market you would know that investors/traders make money in a good market or a bad one, but then again that takes education and not immature ideas.

New York investors?? who ever they are, if you mean the NYSE or the AMEX, the world wide market place that every one uses as bench mark, they've been keeping this country going for years, financing many national and world projects, but this is known by most American investors but not by naive amateurs

The American markets have not only built America, but it's helped many of the citizens protect their wealth by giving their 401s, their IRAs and retirment plans.  Many seniors are living from the benefits of stock market investments, but very few can live from the investments in gold.

Many of us will keep to the American markets, and not beat on when it's down, but rather to capitalize on it' many opportunities.