Comments on: Don’t Invest In The Stock Market

By: kue

kue — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:21:40 +0000

I was thinking about investment. but second not! thanks for the comment…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:43:47 +0000

Yeah, and THEY’RE ALL OUT TO GET YOU!
Those big fat cats… lying around dreaming about how to steal your money out from under your mattress.

Oh, any they’re watching you too. Be careful, they’re all out to get you.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:03:16 +0000

Stock Market sucks!!!! The big millionaires are stealing your money! Dont put your money there!!!!

By: Vasanth

Vasanth — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:34:40 +0000

Defintly that gain is some one losses. The price should have some point goes down or up . going down , the guy who bought it for 500 will take the loss.

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:51:48 +0000

Wholeheartedly agree with your comments concerning investing in stock. It either will work for you or it won’t based on the education you acquire about investing and time you are willing to spend being a watchdog over your investments and how you interpret the direction it is going. The future is anybody’s guess and that’s about all it amounts to..a guess. It’s either a hit or a miss and that’s the simple description inspite of all the convincing or confusing rhetoric of stock analayists. Timing and good luck be you a amature or expert in the financial world of investing.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:16:53 +0000

I don’t really understand how this article makes a case to ‘not invest’ in the stock market.

At the end, the author says he invests in index funds as opposed to actively managed funds.

Index funds are still the stock market.

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:12:37 +0000

How the hell can you go broke investing in a company like Johnson and Johnson or Coca cola when you buy them at a reasonable price?

I think J&J is trading at 11 P/E now. It’s the ones who invest in companies they don’t understand that really feel the burn.

“When dumb money realizes its dumb money, it ceases to become dumb” – Warren Buffet

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:03:43 +0000

I agree with you 100% Christine! I have never done anything but lose in the stock market. Yet growing up, I was always taught that was the ‘right’ thing to do.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:01:10 +0000

The stock market appears to be just a fools game. The only one’s that get rich on Wall Street are the people that work there.

I really do not know where to put my money for retirement. CD’s sound like about it.

At least I do not lose money with that.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:43:09 +0000

It’s absolutely true that many people go into investing and somehow forget that they stand a good chance of losing money. But by actively managing your own individual stocks, and by adhering to strict buy and sell rules, it’s definitely possible to make money in the stock market.

Of course, this is not a long term buy and hold strategy, but unfortunately, buy and hold usually turns into “buy and forget about.” Most people get into trouble not because they buy incorrectly, but because they are reluctant to sell. If a stock’s price is tanking, pull the trigger. Either keep your gains, or keep your losses small.

This is a strategy I’ve used successfully for the past 15 years.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:04:46 +0000

I have written off the stock market entirely. The stock market is just legalized gambling and I lost a log of money when I tried to learn and play the game. Buy a company you know – a small cap that is well managed and good potential for return. I put most of my assets into this stock as it was shooting to the moon and expected to make a lot of money – then it came crashing down hard. Turns out when there are not a lot of investors, insiders can play “pump and dump” and manipulate the stock. Not at all like the advice you read in books. That was before the crash when the market was good. Then a close relative lost everything in the crash since they were stupid enough to borrow on margin. It’s just a gambler’s racket and I don’t have the smarts or the time to learn to play with the “big boys” and even hope to win. So I will stick with what I know, and is tangible, and can see and hold – real estate. This time last year as then market was going down another 10% each week and Armageddon was in sight, I cashed out a retirement account early and took the 10% hit for early withdrawal (just another week’s loss in the stock market) and paid off the mortgage on my house. No matter what happens next I have a roof over my head that’s paid for and no one can take that away from me! I think that all the billions of dollars in the retirement accounts in this country where we are forced into stocks or bonds is artificially propping up the market. What happens when all the baby boomers try cashing out all their retirement accounts at the same time? The next great depression? If I had my way, I’d take all my money out of my current employer retirement account if I could and buy up old historic houses, fix them up, and rent them out. Once the mortgages are paid off, then you have your own annuity income for life without having to worry about some insurance company going broke and losing your life savings that way. In my opinion, the stock market is for gamblers,and I cannot afford to gamble away my life savings. I have lost way too much already! I am through with the stock market forever!

By: Cheap Bastard

Cheap Bastard — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:00:57 +0000

I said the “best” analog. What investment more stable than stocks pays what savings accounts paid 3 years ago?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:34:33 +0000

The only stocks worth holding for the long haul are dividend paying. The ones that don’t I hold for a few months at most.

By: govenar

govenar — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:27:38 +0000

I don’t think that’s a good analogy. A savings account has no risk of losing money and is a reasonable place for money that you need in the short term. You can’t just replace that with stock dividends since the risk is so different.

By: Cheap Bastard

Cheap Bastard — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:22:54 +0000

Consider this: savings accounts suck right now because interest rates suck.

The best analog to a savings account with decent interest is a stock that pays dividends. Until interest rates improve, stock dividends are the best way to go.