Four Reasons To Ignore Market Timing And Focus On Happiness

Ted

FYI: (This article was written one year ago today, but is just as true today as it was then.)
With global angst going up several degrees, there are myriad reasons to feel nervous about stocks. But that shouldn't compel you into timing the market - focus on your prosperity and happiness instead.
Regards,
Ted
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/11/column-wasik-cycles-idUSL2N0QH0QV20140811?feedType=RSS&feedName=everything&virtualBrandChannel=11563

Don't Worry Be Happy: Bob Marley:

Dex

Tell that to the Japanese - 25 years. I don't think we will have that type of decline and for so long. However, maybe a drop and then a trading range for many years - % and years your guess. The cause if you want: Fed foolishly raising interest rates, terrorist attack, war, and then VAT, raise in tax rates to pay for debt, war, aging pop, increasing entitlements.



The article is too focused on the US stock market. Through out history there have been stock markets that have crashed and burned.

Worry and be happy.