San Diego Housing Bubble News and Analysis

Look at the first headline in the column on the right.

Go long, so wrong, so long....

....the debtocalpse continues

No, you should have gotten back into the market around March 11, 2009 or so. All you'll be doing now is facing a higher risk of catching a temporary top.

Short term bonds and/or TIPs.

I'm just sayin'.......

Ox,

Indulge yourself and go short. I did quite well with a number of these shares last year. The bust is coming and you'd have to be blind to not see the writing on the wall with this current rally. It's over inflated and when it bursts it will be much worse than what we saw last year!

http://www.proshares.com/funds/index.html

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no one knows.

except me.

crash is coming in all assets, gold oil stocks everything.

but ya gotta put your money somewhere...

This is the wrong place to ask about getting into the market.

Back in January or so someone brought up this subject. When I suggested it would be a good time to start dollar-cost averaging into the market, I was promptly poo-poo'd.

I think the market has had too good a run to simply plop a pile of funds in right now. Prices have gotten ahead of earnings. But, assuming your time horizon is a decade or more, I would look for entry points to drop a few bucks in here and there.

this type of question is meaningless without knowing time horizons, risk aversion and general life philosophy.

it's kind of like asking generically,

"Should i marry this woman?"

"Should i marry this woman?"

No need to buy. Just rent!

Sorry, I think you already missed the boat.
It's funny folks are talking about gold, markets have been up a lot since the beginning of the year, in some of the most unusual places...

Ford, AMD & chip companies, storage, telcos just to name a few

I'm wondering when folks should get out.

Like matter, money is neither created nor destroyed, well I'm sure about the destroyed part atleast. The amount of money out there is finite, so what goes into gold or stocks comes from somewhere, i.e. gold and the stock market cannot both continue to go up, unless they are being propped up by money that is being printed. I may have been wrong to get out 2 weeks ago, but I just don't see the fundamentals improving. Anyone who watches Bloomberg may have noticed that the experts are just astounded at this "recovery". If it doesn't make sense,then something is afoot.

Exactly right.

While it may indeed go on for a while longer (thinking about Q3 or Q4 of 2010), I'd be looking for an exit right about now.

"Like matter, money is neither created nor destroyed"

This is simply not true.

Looking at Rich's Finance and Investing articles on the right, at the end of October 2008 he argued the market was priced for good returns.

He was probably right on valuations, but there was still a lot of anxiety, especially as terrible holiday retail numbers came in. Still, if you bought then and held through the huge February dip (or doubled down!) you made a pretty nice 15% or so annual profit.

Rich's article on the right suggests stocks are overvalued right now. That doesn't necessarily mean sell, sell, sell right this minute, but I'd be hesitant to buy into the general market: as always there probably are specific bargains to be had for those more savvy and in touch with the economy than myself.