Comments on: Enough with the self-flagellation: We’ve just lived through a ten-year bear market

By: The Investor

The Investor — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:09:03 +0000

Hi MoneyEnergy – Remember this article is 9 months old… I posted it on Twitter as a reminder of how far we’ve come in less than a year. I’m not quite so gung-ho after a huge rally in 12 months. I do think the ten years following the March lows will be good for shares, but we could well have had a few years worth of gains already…

Absolutely agree that trickling in an eschewing timing is the way to go. Unfortunately I dabble with timing and trading around the edges of my portfolio.

I say unfortunately not because it hasn’t been profitable *so far*, but because a little luck is a dangerous thing

By: MoneyEnergy

MoneyEnergy — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:02:29 +0000

It’s certainly what I do – drip in as I get the money… I can’t time or even pick out bull/bear markets anyways – these are just categories placed on the data after the fact – better to just look at fundamentals and whether there’s a good growth story going forward for each stock. I certainly hope you’re right – and the one “good” thing about inflation is that it would lift all the stocks, too… it’s about time we had some more dividend increases!
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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:33:15 +0000

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By: The Investor

The Investor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:10:02 +0000

Business Week now agrees with me:

“We need a 63.79% advance just to break-even for the decade,” Silverblatt says. That’s not going to happen by Dec. 31. “The last negative decade was the 1930s, -41.77%,” according to Silverblatt. Annualized, stocks lost 5.12% so far this decade; in the 1930s decade of the Great Depression they lost 5.26%.”

(http://www.businessweek.com/investing/wall_street_news_blog/archives/2009/06/stock_market_ch.html?campaign_id=rss_daily)