Curious-What are investors doing

short them all...they have gotten there last bailout from us. the federal reserve bailed them out and to pay for it the fed robbed our money's value by printing trillions more dollars.

time for the fall...

on Wall Street.

I am a small time investor of my own money. I was never duped into putting money into an index fund. Do you remember the DOW was at 14000 in Oct. I am not sure when the DOW was this low, inflation adjusted. Sept 06 without inflation I do know.

I look for small companies under a dollar that are growing and offer something a little different than everyone else. But in a huge sector that needs new ideas.

Also look at junior mining companies. Many are scams out there claiming everything under the sun. Good ones are sitting on multimillion or billion properties. It is only a matter of time before they see real value in their ground.

wealth for a very long time like long enough to retire? This is my question. Don't you think it's strange? I think most things that we produce lose value over time. So, let's say if there was no money, how do you expect to produce a large quantity of something and save for a long time to retire? I would think it's impossible. You are especially screwed if you are a farmer or a fisherman because what they produce don't last for a long time.

But, with money, I think people automatically assume that you can save wealth for a long time. To me, this is very strange.

The way I look at this is that money is a claim check for a part of the economy as a system that continously produce wealth, therefore, by owning a part of the economy you might be able to preserve wealth. It's kind of like stock certificate. But, at the same time, owning a part of the economy is a nice way of saying taking the fruits of someone else's labor in the economic system, in my opinion.

To me, the only way to justify this is if you put in extra to the economy. Then, when you later take something out of the economy, you can argue that you are just taking the extra that you put in earlier, therefore, you aren't really taking the fruits of someone else's labor.

To me, this is the concept of saving wealth and I think it can be expanded to a concept of investing.

"first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property" -Thomas Jefferson

a lot to learn. These are some very interesting times that I think if we survive would be interesting reading 20 years from now.

>>What are investors doing?
It will fall on a spectrum between Leaping for joy and leaping out of windows. Depending on how far sighted you are.

Or, if you work in the newsrooms of a major media outlet, the answer is "hallucinogenic drugs".

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big time investors remove big money from the market and go on summer vacation for 3 months. this is of course after they have pillaged everything and anything they can, and have bilked billions of dollars out of tax payers and consumers, for their own million dollar bonus'. so while all of you work in the heat of the summer, they will be off to alaska, or in Cancun/Cosmel...having the times of their lives.

anyway...because they will pull major money out, or secure their postions for the summer...things "should" retreat in the markets for a bit...or go sideways.

as they wave goodbye, saying,"have a good summer working...slaves."

A suggestion. Do some basic research into the way markets work, and keep in mind the lessons learned from "Human Action" by Ludwig Von Mises.

By who?

Are you saying that economic reports manipulate the market?

Not sure what you're saying here.

I've been in the securities business as a professional trader.

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Besides having our stash of metals, my husband and I trade currencies for a living. We trade for ourselves and a few close friends and family. The thing I like about the currency market is that whichever way the dollar goes I can make money and I can make a better ROI (return on investment) than other investments. for instance so far this month I have made 10%. while that sounds outrageously untrue, others who trade currencies will vouch this is a realistic percentage. My husband and I have been trading for over 4 years and are very conservative. As a matter of fact we are so conservative our fellow trader friends find our method boring. I am telling you this so if you know someone who is a currency trader and they will show you their results (that's what we do with our friends) then perhaps you can put a little aside for them to trade. Do you have yours investments all in an IRA? That should be no problem since we trade our friend's IRA's ( or portions of them).I do want to say daughter4liberty that I hope you can do something besides keeping your $ in stocks. I could go on and on but I'll only bore you further.

Getting divorced, filing bankruptcy, getting forclosed on, thinking about working until they are 75, and likely suffering from ulcers and uncontrollable bowel movements by now if they haven't already become full blown alcoholics or comitted suicide. I think other than that, 4 or 5 are making some money.