[VideoDoctor]

It may be days, weeks, months or even years away, but inevitably...

Geez! I could say the same about death as well.

[bigbob]

The market is a reflection of investor confidence, and right now there’s no other place to invest and make a return. That’s not likely to change unless something change the level of confidence.

[BipolarBob]

If one is nimble buy FAZ or TZA on the way down. These are 3x Bear stocks which can pay off handsomely if there is a severe drop in the market. Be sure to stay glued to the monitor if you follow this though because if the market goes back up, you will lose more than you want to think about. Sell at the bottom if you can. Gold and Silver will probably rise during a panic sell-off.

[grania]

I just checked a 100year chart. After a pretty sharp rise in around 1994, the market has been pretty stable at a bit above 10,000. The recession brought it down a little. This current run-up to over 15,000 is really too steep to be sustainable, and it probably would've plunged already if it weren't artificially propped up by low interest rates on savings. Add to that a lot of corporations are making pretty good profits....at least partly by keeping labor costs down.

So sure, there has to be a correction when the ptb decide to do their profit-taking thing again, when they're convinced the little folk have their money back in as much as they will.

I've still got a little money in stocks, in pretty good small companies that didn't reach their potential because of the recession. I can't decide whether to sell them or to hold on, hoping someone buys them out.

[glorgau]

What nonsense. The stock market is at new permanently high plateau.

[babygene]

This may be true, but it’s not obvious.

It seems to me that when the government prints money, non-dollar assets increase in value as the value of the dollar decreases in value...

[CIB-173RDABN]

The stock market is like Vegas without the floor shows and free drinks.

[chris37]

No, not really, but can’t earn interest anywhere else.

[SilverMine]

Are You Prepared for a Stock Market Plunge?

YES!!! are you?

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[GBA]

Party until 2015?

[Jimmy Valentine]

If you are speculating, price is important. If you are in the stock of stable, well managed companies, with lower price/earnings ratios, then it is about dividend income.