How much are you still down from stock market crash?

July 4, 2009 on 7:06 am | By advertising | In marketing |

I am down to about 10% from recovering all my loses from dow 14K to dow 6500…..Only because I have been trading from the lows and keeping more and more cash on sidelines now. My mutual funds have fared much worse . Currently I am in 53% cash……What about you?
Richard, I have wised up and do not believe in Buy and Hold anymore to this scam of a market. That is why I am trading mostly now and taking advantage of dips.

Related posts:

  1. What have the last 12 years in the stock market taught you?
  2. I have some spare cash and would like to take advantage of the down turn in the market?
  3. How to make money in a falling market???
  4. I'm in the market for a new truck, but I need some advice from a dealer..?
  5. Do you believe the world markets are being manipulated by the banks and governments?

5 Comments

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

  1. I am ahead, I was in cash last September and went long in March. You need to find an advisor who just puppet this bull and hold crap. The stock market took a little breather the last month and is ready to climb the next few weeks. Sit back and watch. If you want to know more email me.

    Comment by Richard Z — July 4, 2009 #

  2. Down currently 10.1% from my Jan 1, 2008 high. But that does include buying a Ford Focus this year, so maybe down only about 8.5%. Indeed cash is a good holding currently at least some. Mine is about 26%. But it is certainly not accumulating much in the way of interest if any at all and if too much is sitting in cash the probability of recouping ones losses is remote indeed. It does appear as though the initial rally might be over with for a while. And the possibility that the bear market might find a fresh breath is not to be discounted at all.

    I have before me a copy of "Conquer the Crash" published in 2003. Not only did the book predict the crash, but it also predicted the cause of the crash. At the time the book was poo-pooed as the crash did not happen when the book predicted. Anyway to make a long story short. The book predicts it will be a good while before the economy recovers. It did predict that the Fed and the government would throw money at the problem with no results what so ever. I also predicts a flood of bank failures. I did not predict that the government would throw billions at AIG to keep it alive. It did predict that the likes of AIG and C would collapse.

    Comment by muncie birder — July 4, 2009 #

  3. Yeah, buy and hold is a thing of the past.

    As for the market rising in the coming weeks, i wouldn’t put too much confidence in that. The market is becoming increasingly harder to predict.

    Comment by Yahooooo — July 4, 2009 #

  4. You have had an excellent performance in the face of a tough market. In fact, you should consider changing careers into financial services. I think a 35 to 45 percent cash position is appropriate in the present market because the uncertainty regarding future earnings remains.

    Comment by thomas p — July 4, 2009 #

  5. I had been in a cash 70% position from late 2007, missed a bit of the final rise, but when the market dropped to 7000 (TSX) I went back into equities so that I had only 12% left in cash.

    With the market at 10,000 (tsx) I am not hurting. I do not want to be back into cash because the current market is showing less upward momentum and no persistent downward momentum.

    Most firmly I am avoiding long term bonds because I am anticipating an increase in yield on the assumption that our inflation rate will increase.

    Comment by donfletcheryh — July 4, 2009 #

Leave a comment

Copyright © Search and Search, Discussion of Advertising and Marketing