Comments on: A Visual History of the Stock Market From 1996 – 2007

By: nakita hearts

nakita hearts — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:20:31 +0000

wow i understood none of this

By: JACK PASSERELLO

JACK PASSERELLO — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:25:56 +0000

The Stock market’s value has followed the total AMOUNT of money available for investment.
It has NOT followed the intrinsic value of the stock available for sale.
The AMOUNT of money available for investment has increased by the granting of tax free IRA’S and
other retirement and investment instruments over the years.

Check, (CHART) the HISTORY of the DOW and other averages and you will see the rise in prices EACH time the government has added to the amount that can be invested in all these IRA’S ETC.

Our grand dad’s did not buy stock but you do because the GOVERNMENT allow’s you to do it at a tax savings.

We have so many million’s of people investing their tax free or tax deferred money in stock ( IRA’S ETC ) that the stock takes on a false value in response to a government created overload of supply and demand.

We have OVERLOADED the stock market with TOO MUCH money CHASEING the same old value stock.

It’s a matter of INTRINSIC value beeing TOO low in both the stock market and the housing market.

Things will settle down when the cost of stocks and homes return to their INTRINSIC value.

By the way, the INTRINSIC value of a home is the INSURANCE REPLACEMENT VALUE that is paid if your house burns down.( Plus the bare lot) —-NOT the inflated price that you paid for it if you bought it the last 5 years.

I have not owned stock for 37 years Thank God. ( CD’S are my friend)

Not a gambler———JACK

By: gary tyndall

gary tyndall — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:55:37 +0000

going by what most of you have said ,that is having investments over long or short term ,your gains have been minimal if any ,nothing like the projection ,offered or forcasted,the coclusion that i come to. is aint worth letting these over paid under acheiving theiving slobs play with your hard earned monney.they never actually produce anything of value to anyone ,nothing physical,they play with numbers and and peoples lives ,which mean nothing to them ,and after a hard day sitting behind a computer ,they go off to fancy drinking den a waste your money ,waiting for thier obscene annual bonus for f#$%ing up ,all trading should stop and they should get proper jobs ,selfish scum ,i have met many of them and they laugh vigaruosly about their balls ups ,not a care for the people they destroy

By: How to Get Rich Leveraging Debt — P2P No Bank

How to Get Rich Leveraging Debt — P2P No Bank — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:09:30 +0000

[...] those rewards. Instead, you’d be muttering into your coffee as the news comes in on how well that stock you could have had is [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:19:20 +0000

I used to believe the pundits who said you should stay in for the long haul but not anymore. If you can get in on a rising market trend and get out on a downward trend you can maximize your gains over time and minimize loses. Sure, you may miss a little of the beginning of the rally and take some of the decline but over time you will do better. I never recovered from the 2001-2003 era by staying in. You never make up the compounding gains (rule of 72). I know people who have done this and last year I lost 60% of my 401K and they were up 2%. Hey I wish I were up 2% last year! Anyway – realize some brokers will tell you to stay in because they make the most money on stock funds and the least on money markets so they don’t want you to take your money out of stocks. Just my opinion. Have a prosperous 2009!

By: Mark S

Mark S — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:02:39 +0000

When I saw how the stock Market reacted to Obama’s “spread the wealth” speech, I became nervous. When I saw he was gaining in the election, I dumped my Mutual funds and went to a 90 day T-bill fund that has always been between 3 and 5% APR. I also saw how many trends were going in the economy as well. You have really keep a close eye on your retirement accounts every day.I just sat and watched the market crash. I am sorry so many people lost their money.

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:19:17 +0000

thanks for your wise foresight. Don’t you feel stupid now?

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:17:24 +0000

my brother-in-law has lost about 2/3 of his profit sharing retirement plan. It has grown great and then crashed about 3 or 4 times in the last 25 years. I did a hypothetical what-if with an online calculator. He would have about 4 times his current total if he had invested in stable funds at 6%. Plus, he wouldn’t have had all the worry and anxiety.

By: Kathleen Johnston

Kathleen Johnston — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:11:34 +0000

I wish that I could get a decent explanation of what these charts (graphs) are really showing. I am a physicist with an excellent backgound in math and it is clear to me that something is wrong here. If you just calculate the derivative of this chart or plot it seems to indicate a slope of 10%. I have been putting money into a 403(b) with a University match with a fairly conservative mutual fund. I started this in 1992. My account as of today is only worth the cash I put in it. Where exactly are my gains. According to your chart or plot I should be at least 10% higher in value. So what happened? I would have been just as well off to put my money into coffee cans and buried it in the back yard.

By: cw_dancer

cw_dancer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:58:15 +0000

So you’re saying even though we’ve droped back to roughly where we where in Oct 98 we shouldn’t be worried? I sure hope you know what you’re talking about!