Comments on: Waiting is an action but ignorance is not http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2008/12/08/fully-invested-in-stocks/ Everything to do with thickening your wallet Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Finance Matters http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2008/12/08/fully-invested-in-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-17441 Finance Matters Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:28:10 +0000 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/?p=600#comment-17441 A little off topic but I just want to announce my new entry into the blogoshere. CC, Preet, TMG and others have inspired me to give it a shot. Comments, suggestions etc for a newbie like me are not only welcomed but encouraged. A little off topic but I just want to announce my new entry into the blogoshere. CC, Preet, TMG and others have inspired me to give it a shot. Comments, suggestions etc for a newbie like me are not only welcomed but encouraged.

]]> By: Sampson http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/2008/12/08/fully-invested-in-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-17429 Sampson Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:15:57 +0000 http://www.thickenmywallet.com/blog/wp/?p=600#comment-17429 I wonder if you shouldn't be pumping a little money in though? I don't recall reading if you fancy yourself a dollar-cost average type person or not so maybe this doesn't apply to you. I've skimmed many research articles and read their abstracts ;) that suggest DCA works only when assets are falling (such as now), so if you use the strategy in up-markets, then you'd better be using it (and maybe pumping more money in) during down-markets. I fancy myself a value guy so the tough part now is using future earnings as any sort of accurate metric. How much of the pre-crash market run up was fueled by credit, and will we ever get back to the free-wheeling spending of those years? My personal bet is soon enough. I wonder if you shouldn’t be pumping a little money in though? I don’t recall reading if you fancy yourself a dollar-cost average type person or not so maybe this doesn’t apply to you. I’ve skimmed many research articles and read their abstracts ;) that suggest DCA works only when assets are falling (such as now), so if you use the strategy in up-markets, then you’d better be using it (and maybe pumping more money in) during down-markets.

I fancy myself a value guy so the tough part now is using future earnings as any sort of accurate metric. How much of the pre-crash market run up was fueled by credit, and will we ever get back to the free-wheeling spending of those years? My personal bet is soon enough.

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