Vanguard S&P index fund
Vanguard Energy Fund
New Alternatives Fund
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All solid choices.
Love the Vanguard expense ratios too.
I got into the Vanguard Dividend appreciation fund (VIG) and the best news, it was last Friday…
Vanguard S&P index fund
Vanguard Energy Fund
New Alternatives Fund
Don’t go all-in. The market is still way too volatile. I would spread it out with weekly purchases over at least a year-long period. Two years is better. That way you can bridge “the bottom” and you’ll have an average purchase price that’ll be enviable even if the market crashes another 25% or so for brief periods. But the profit and earnings ratios are so good now that if you have at least a 5-year horizon, the odds are good.
Good choice on Vanguard, but this is a dead-cat bounce. We are likely going back down before we get real sustained movement in the upward direction.
Beware of the bear market rally…I am all in. I have no choice.
…I am all in. I have no choice.
What does that mean? If you think the market is going to drop another 30% why wouldn’t you get out?
Matt get secret insider stuff from Dem-Central. Buy stuff with good **profit and earning ratios. **
I can’t believe no one’s made “profit and earning ratio” joke yet.
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I’ve been buying all along. I have excess cash, why not.
Last week it was Alcoa Aluminum at $5.06/share. At that price, the stock yields something like 13%, unless they cut their dividend (possible). I’ve mainly been looking for stocks with high yields. Alcoa is already up over a buck since I bought it. Cramer said it was a $2/stock. Shrug.
Ah… the cruel irony of irony
Vanguard S&P index fund
Vanguard Energy Fund
New Alternatives Fund
Don’t go all-in. The market is still way too volatile. I would spread it out with weekly purchases over at least a year-long period. Two years is better. That way you can bridge “the bottom” and you’ll have an average purchase price that’ll be enviable even if the market crashes another 25% or so for brief periods. But the profit and earnings ratios are so good now that if you have at least a 5-year horizon, the odds are good.
I’m back in 20%.
more volatility still to come…
So Matt, you’re making money at the expense of all the working people whose retirements have been bankrupted. How very Republican of you.
I have been a saver for 24 years now. I dollar cost averaged all the way up and and then down in 2000 and back up and sidways and then back down the last year. I am 44 years old, I have another 20 years left to really save. Its risky to leave it in and its risky to leave it in cash. We have major inflation coming our way…its a crap shoot, no one knows what the market will do.
I saw my uncle get burned in the 1987 crash…he pulled out and never got back in until it was too late. He never recovered those losses…very few can time the market.
Besides I am sure I can fall back on SSI if I have too.
Thank you. Apparently so did quite few other people as there was quite a surge.
Tempted to go back buying Motorola stocks (employee program) but probably not enough cash to make it worth it.
Fred.
Me too,
I transfered to the IRA’s for 2009 and bought. 529 accounts also. All the buys were effective on the 9th
I enjoy my 1- 5 % going no where T bill / money market accounts . My investment model goal is preservation of principle . In a world where the market is programed to trade on its own , wild swings are a result of mindless trigger inputs from years before . I have never met a winner in the stock market ( unless it was employee company stock - insider trading - inherited stock )
6% gains aren’t much on a 50% loss recovery over 6 months .
…but this is a dead-cat bounce
Ha! I love this expression. I’ll have to find a way to work that into my conversation now. Hmmmm…