jerk chicken said:since the market will always go the opposite of what majority people think. since the majority of people in the stock market always lose money, or miss upside chances. if most people think there will be another dip, there will not be.
Rockslinger said:Actually, the market hit bottom in November and again in March so I doubt there will be a 3rd bottom. This will likely be a one dip recession because the first dip was so deep and so long that it is as severe as a double or triple dip.
This is unlike the shallow "Carter recession" which needed the deeper "Volker recession" to kill inflation. The cause of the next recession will probably be inflation, due to the vast amount of money being printed to bail out the banks now.
I guess what I can't get past is that most people live off the eqitty in their homes, now that they don't have that, now what, plus the fact that so many lost alot of their retirement savings in the meltdown, they're hoarding now, as I said earlier, I don't get it and probably shouldn't be dabbling in it.
My view is that moderate growth will return but employment will not, which will cause the rebound to be VERY slow.
I have made more money in the mkt in the past yr then at another
other time.
Mind you I trade almost daily
I love the volatility.
Unless a person has stocks invested it really does not matter which slope it takes.