At record high, U.S. stocks look to extend breakout --Weekly Thread Feb. 16

Weekly investment & finance thread ^ | February 15, 2015 | Freeper Investors

[abb]

“How much is enough, Gordon? When does it all end, huh? How many yachts can you water-ski behind? How much is enough, huh?”

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

My CUSO advisor recommended today that I move a large sum of my retirement funds into PIMCO long/short and some into a gold fund. She seems convinced it’s time to bail. That begins to feel right, although “hanging tough” in equities for the last three years has paid well for me. Thoughts?

TC

[Vermont Lt]

But....I NEED to get ALPHA, 20% a year....thats what CNBC tells me every day. You mean they are wrong? //sarc

[Vermont Lt]

Without knowing your age, it would be impossible to tell. I would go light on the gold, although some is good. The demographics of the world do not support a huge move in gold.

I think we are near time to bail. I am 54 and I am just back to where I was before. Taking a much more conservative approach now.

[abb]

Be careful on the bonds. Once interest rates begin to climb, they will be under pressure. I bought a short term bond fund about 3 months ago, and I’m already a little behind on that purchase.

[expat_panama]

Nobody knows for sure what direction prices will take tomorrow, next week or next month but as for 20 years from now it's a very safe assumption that stock prices will quadruple and gold will go pretty much nowhere --my reasoning is that's what's been happening for the past couple hundred years. Most of us would like to know more about what's going to be happening sooner than that so  these questions boil down to what we need and what we're willing to do. 

I'm able to check things through out the day so I can say I'll buy within 3 or 4 % of a good price and sell if it goes up 20% or drop it if it goes down 8%.  Other folks might be available for checking say once or twice a month, and off hand I'd imagine they'd be happier just opening a stock index fund and maybe monitoring longer term cycles. 

Longer term cycles seem to say we're in for a ten-fold increase over the next couple decades --OK, a few dips on the way but they should be followed by strong bounces.  There's never a guarantee on that but there's no guarantee the sun will come up tomorrow either.