[quote]Here is some useful advice for average investors: dump all your stocks and stock mutual funds.
Next, ignore the market until your morning newspaper headline reads: “S&P500 CRASHES TO 600″[/quote]
Wow, some really bad advice in this thread.
We’re 16 months into the recession and 15 months into the bear market. 3.8% annualized GDP decline on front pages of newspapers. Expectations of the worst recession since WW2 fully priced in to the stock market. Unimaginable P/E’s on every corner. Government fully committed to print as much money as necessary to turn things around (spending bills passing even despite every single republican voting against).
If you sell today, a year or two from now you’ll regret it. If you’re all-cash and you don’t go in today at least partially, you’ll regret it too. Buy miners (but not gold!), buy exporters, buy NASDAQ index funds.
Stay away from gold and gold miners. Anything is better than gold: forex, asian stocks, european stocks, even U.S. stocks. Remember about the ticking time bomb which is the 700 metric tons of gold in vaults of GLD, ready to rush into the market when the recession is officially over.
