[RicocheT]

This market is crazy. Up one day, down the next, repeat & rinse... If you watch you basket of stocks daily, you get the jitters.

Today, the reaction to the increased job numbers took stocks and precious metals down because the smart guys think the fed will raise interest rates sooner. That’s silly as the fed, just like the banks in Europe, needs to goose the economy by printing easy money way into 2016.

I say if you have a selection of good big cap dividend paying stocks, keep them and don’t sell just because of what you read in the finance pages.

[expat_panama]

We've definitely been having a sideways going nowhere market for some time now.  Worse, all our trusted signals as to future moves have been failing so a classic crash warning gets followed by a run-up and vice versa.  I'm with you with just sitting --not buyin' or sellin', but that doesn't stop me from keeping my watch list up to date.

The reason central banks don't raise rates is not for the economy, they may let folks think that they make economies grow but they know better. All they're good for is for avoiding inflation and they've done such a good job that now they're having to work to avoid deflation.  We're not the only ones w/ sideways bad signal markets I guess.