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mogley98
When the market fluctuates up and down like this hasn't it been an indicator of an eventual drop or correction?

Isn't it named something like the VIX?
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  • He Dog
    ride it out. In the end, though it may take a while, it has always surpassed where it was when it tanked.
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  • Don McManus
    One theory is that since the 2 year bond has a higher rate of return than the 5 year, those that are super-duper smart, or are a series of 0s and 1s have determined that recession is in our future.

    Who knows?

    To some degree, we are all invested in the future of the US and by extension the future of the US economy. While I have hedged my bet with gold, silver, property, and cash, if one has significant assets it is unwise not to be invested in the market and therefore directly exposed to such fluctuations.

    Cinch up tight and ride it out, cowboy. If you are still vertical when the bell rings, you've done alright.
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  • Rocky Raab
    I distinctly remember the Dow falling to 577 in 1974. I had just started buying mutual funds the year before. From there, it has shot up to its present 25,000.

    I never sold out, I never stopped buying, and you can guess the result.
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  • JimmyJack
    A healthy market will have correction.
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  • wpage
    Good advice. Stay the course. It always recovers after the big guys take thier cut...
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  • Rack Ops
    quote:Originally posted by mogley98
    When the market fluctuates up and down like this hasn't it been an indicator of an eventual drop or correction?

    Isn't it named something like the VIX?



    $VIX.X
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  • select-fire
    Play at your own risk
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  • thorhammer
    We are entering a bear market, all the stock buy backs from the tax breaks to Corporations are ending. The VIX at 8 to 10 shows market calm, when it goes from 23 to 25 in one day like today, than fear in the market is just starting. I forsee a train wreck ahead.
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  • droptop
    Not sure about the future but today the fluc in fluctuations was very apparent.
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  • He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by us55840
    The stock market is "legal gambling" and nothing more.

    Throw your money into the pot and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.

    If you can't afford to lose, don't play.

    So simply even a caveman knows it.
    [:D]



    Nope, more simple that that even. The average American investor buy in high when he has confidence in a bull market. Then he panics when the market falls and sells low. The recipe is buy low, sell high, stay the course. It really is not rocket science or higher math, but it is long term. Day traders get creamed, well daily.
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  • truthful
    There are at least two changes that have occurred in stock trading over the past few years that may be changing the application of historical trends to today's market movements.

    The first is vastly smaller commissions on trades. For most of the history of the DOW and other indexes, a stock trade was expensive, sometimes several 100s of dollars.Today's commissions are so small, often under $5.00 per trade, that they aren't even a consideration. A stock trader can move in or out of a stock for less than the cost of his morning coffee.

    The second is computerized, AI, trades. It no longer requires a trader to watch the price of a stock and decide when to buy/sell and for what price. Today there are all sorts of computer programs that will do the decision making for you and they have access to all kinds of information you do not.
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  • popgun
    Didn't catch his name, but saw a big shot on Fox Business today who said that the Dow coming back to negative 80 after having been down about 700 was proof to him this is just a correction, and that the Market is still strong. He said speculators were causing the wild fluctuations and they'd soon get out and things will settle down. I hope he's right.
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  • bpost
    I have the answer!

    Nobody knows for sure what will happen but lots of people make big profit when the market moves. Others, not so much.
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  • spasmcreek
    having fluck uations is how some make MONEY....natural or created
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  • toad67
    Amazing to me that a group of people who buy and sell have that much control over the market.
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  • mogley98
    I guess that depends on how long you can ride it :) Suppose the heirs would still do well

    I think a nice safe 5% would be nice if rates ever go up enough again to get that. That way you can keep pace with inflation and relax like they did in the ole days :)

    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    ride it out. In the end, though it may take a while, it has always surpassed where it was when it tanked.
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