Is it still the right time for investing in the stock market?
356050
Don't try to time the market.  There's a ton of money in the global financial market.  Just periodically invest by your asset allocation percentage.
441014
The best way to protect yourself against a stock market crash is to have a diversified portfolio and practice asset allocation, stocks, bonds and CDs and money markets.  If you have a long time horizon, ten years or more, you shouldnt worry about a stock market crash.  Because you have time to make up for it.  The closer you are to retirement, or the time you will need the money, the more of your portfolio that you should have in safer investments like bonds, CDs and money markets.  If you have a long time horizon, a well diversified and balanced portfolio, then a crash is a buying opportunity.
1053718
haha no! The market always changes dude, its now or never!!\n\nits a bit illegal but best of luck!
257397
Now is getting to be the perfect time to buy and hold. We just came out of a huge sellers market. Prices are not skyrocketing like we saw last year, and it is taking a lot longer for real estate to sell.\n\nNow is the perfect time to buy, interest rates are on the rise which really brings in a lot less buying competition, sooner or later interest rates will fall again, you can refinance and you will look like a genius, buying when everyone else was selling.\n\nBUY and HOLD, best wishes!!!
165166
it would certainly not be recommended deal to wait for another 6 months to see the market going high, rather investing the money now and see it growing my friend!!
769105
I agree with common sense, you should pick a well diversified portfolio and stick with it.  Many studies show that when people start switching in and out of investments, they actually make less in the long run because you will end up missing on some of the highest returns, there is no way of knowing then the highest returns will come about, the only way to guarantee them is to stay invested permanently.  market timing rarely works in the long run, you need a Crystal ball to be successful, plus this means buying stocks when they are doing badly and selling then they are doing well, and people always want to do the opposite.   If you are chasing a hot stock and jumping on the bandwagon, chances are you've already missed the boat.
740737
If I were you I would definitely stay out of the stock market altogether right now.  You need WAY more knowledge than it appears you have and any money you "invest" without knowing what you are doing is basically just outright gambling.\n\nAlso, you say is there a good "stock" when in fact the most important rule is to diversify and buy many stocks. If you buy only one, it could go bankrupt, which has happened to me twice in the past when I was young and didn't know better.\n\nWhen you do buy stock though, one good strategy is to find a product or service that has just come on the market and you and your friends love it.  If it is that good, then probably lots of other people will love it as well, which means more sales and more profit for that company.  Just make sure it is a product/service that is innovative and just came out, like....krispy kreme when people were first getting into it.
715858
You don't say how old you are, what kind of resourses you have or your knowledge of finance in general, I.E. do you know how the market works, listed vs over the counter, options, etc.?  Before you invest a dime remember the cardinal rule of investing: the public finds out after the money's been made.  In other words, if a stock is at a high it's not the time to get in.  Also, the corolary: if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true.  Finaly, don't invest money that you can't afford to lose, especially if you're speculating (which it sounds like you are).  Go to Morningstar.com and sign up.  It will be the best money you spend for ideas, research and analysis.  Read the Wall Street Journal and look for companies with a future.  You might want to put money in an index such as the S&P 500 especially if you think the market will keep going up (and it won't - it will correct).  Bottom line is that there is no easy answer to your question.  \n\nAvoid the following:\n\nemails with stock tips\nfax messages with stock tips\nany stock selling for under $5.00 a share (unless you're willing to lose all you invest in it\npenny stock\noptions\ncommodities\nfriends who say they "know a guy who knows a guy who said..."\n\nDo the following:\n\nUse a reputable broker either bricks and mortar (Merrill Lynch, Lehman Bros, etc, or a reputable on line broker like E*Trade, Scwabb, etc.\nPut half your money in a good mutual funds of either high or mid-cap companies - you'll have gains while you experiment\nPick a point at which you want to get out on the up side (on Wall Street the pigs get slaughtered) and stick to it\nIf a stock is falling, pick a point at which you want to cut your loss.  If it;s a good company you can always buy in at what you think the low is.\n\nGood luck.  If you find the secret let me know.  I stick to known companies with solid balance sheets and a track record.  Even so I've lost (Worldcom, GM and a few others).
1004282
Anytime is a good time to invest in mutual funds, if you take the SIP route.A SIP allos you to benefit from Rupee cost averaging, which means you buy more units when the markets are down & similarly you buy less units when the markets are over-heated.\n\nChoose a good fund based on your risk profile.\nVisit www.valueresearchonline.com to find out the top mutual funds in all categories.\n\nYour fund should be a 4 or a 5 ranker.\n\nAll the best.
301547
The gold market is suppost be a good investment right now.  Supposidly capable of even doubling in the near future.  But like any other stock investment nothing is for sure.
527352
just check on the analysists or join in to some companies who give details on investments. I am giving names of 2 sites where u can log on. But play safe as markets are very volatile at the moment.\nHappy Investing
488810
There are many.  Study the past few years.  Gold has been a great investment over the past year, but now it is going  down.  So buy something low and sell it high.  I think you should put some money into an online brokerage and buy a few stocks.   Right now world markets are down from their highs because interest rates have been going up in the USA.
216354
If you have to ask that question in this public forum, I doubt that you are positioned to risk your money in any stock today. Stock market prices are driven by Public Perception and not necessarily by the value or the income of the company. Take a look at Exxon Mobil (XOM) for the last 6 months while oil and gasoline prices were going up. XOM is down 5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial is up 7.5%. Investors who put down their money without doing their homework are easily fleeced by brokers, some who hang around chat rooms hoping to get young investors into their areas of service. Remember one thing if nothing else: stock trading is a net zero business; it produces one loser for each winner, and the loser is usually the little guy who buys (through a broker) what the big guy doesn't want. Study how the market works, find newsletters that have a good history of recommending stocks, invest your money in a step after step manner, maybe 20% each month for 5 months, and be ready to sell even if at a small loss if the value of your selected stock decreases by more than 10-20%. You will have to set your own loss limits. Good luck, but don't rush.
516200
Great question, I'll try to help you as comprehensively as I can.  The best advice I can give you is ignore the "hot" trends.  Hot trends just get you burned. Nobody can predict the stock market, if they say they can they're lying.  If they could, they wouldn't tell you, they'd make billions on their own.  \n\nSo, knowing that going in, knowing that we have no crystal ball, what's a sensible investor to do?\n\nBuy a diversified series of HIGH QUALITY, LOW EXPENSE mutual funds. One good piece of advice is that especially when just starting out, owning individual stocks is just way too risky. In many cases, it's more akin to gambling than investing. So go with mutual funds, which are much more diversified, and therefore spread the risk among many, many more holdings. The key, of course, is buying quality. So make sure you hit ALL the asset classes, like Large cap stocks, small/mid cap stocks, international stocks, emerging markets stocks, government debt, corporate debt, hi-yield debt, foreign debt, emerging markets debt, real estate, commodities, and precious metals. That's 12 categories right there, so with $1200, you're talking about $100 each. This is called asset allocation, and it's a step beyond simple "diversification", which most idiots think is buying a hardware tech stock AND a software tech stock.\n\nAdd systematically on a monthly basis. That means make sure you put the same amount of money in every month, no matter what.  Soon you won't even care what any of the markets are doing. They're up? Great! Some of my investments are worth more. They're down? Great! Now I'm buying quality investments at an "on sale" price.\n\nThen sit back and re-balance each year, back to your original percentages. Again, this is called asset allocation. It's is very important, perhaps the most important thing you can do with your money. The thinking being, what's BEEN hot is more than likely not going to STAY hot. All markets are cyclical. There's hundreds of years of data to back this up. Yet some people still think they can ride the next hot wave. They usually wind up begging on the street for beer money.\n\nNow, this sort of portfolio should average 8-12% per year, so just split the difference and say 10% on average. Will it do 10% EVERY year? Of course not. I'd be surprised if it EVER did EXACTLY 10%. That's an annual average. With that average, your money should double roughly every 7 years.\nSo, if you're starting with $1200 or so like I said in my example, then in 7 years , even if you added no more money, you should have about $2,400\nin 14 years you should have about $4,800\nin 21 years you should have about $9,600\nin 28 years you should have about $19,200\nin 35 years you should have about $38,400\nin 42 years you should have about $76,800\nin 49 years you should have about $153,600\nin 56 years you should have about $307,200\nin 63 years you should have about $614,400\nin 70 years you should have about $1,228,800!\n\nOf course, if you keep adding money in that $100 a month, you'll become a millionaire MUCH sooner. The key is discipline, and sticking in when markets are up OR down. Don't try to time the market--you'll NEVER get it right.\n\nBy the way, here's a handy formula:\n\n$100/month x 12% x 20 years = $100,000.\n\nSo if you need $300,000 in 20 years and have no idea how to get it, just save $300 a month and you're there. If you don't get 12%, you'll wind up with less naturally. But IF you still wind up with $250,000, I'd call that one hell of a failure.\n\nOh, and if you qualify on income limits (generally, if you're a single filer and make under $90,000/yr), and do this all in a Roth IRA? Then every penny will be 100% TAX-FREE. That's a deal that's too good to pass up. That's why I tell anyone who's under 30--if you make under $90,000, and therefore qualify to do
973369
The stock market is a good investment for young people because it beats most other investments in the long run.  The return can sometimes be as good as 20% with an average of 8-10%.\n\nThe drawback is risk, and our self-defense against risk is diversification, meaning spreading the risk across different companies and industries.\n\nHere's what you can do now:\n1. Open an account with TD Ameritrade at\nhttp://www.tdameritrade.com\n\n2. Consider buying as many shares of VTI as $2000 can buy.\nThe reason is that VTI represents the entire US stock market so well that it can reduce your risk.\n\n3. After you've made about $500,000, consider investing some of your money, say 20%, overseas.  You can easily do so with Oakmark.\nhttp://oakmark.com/
74870
Unless you already have $5mil, wake up and stop dreaming. Stock investing for a 1 year time frame is inappropriate. You stand a substantial chance of ending up with less at the end of 1 year. For that short of a time frame, CD's, money markets and conservative bond investments are more appropriate, but the prevailing rates are low and you would need to start with$4.8 mil or so to reasonably have a chance to reach your goal.
26566
certainly! a good 1..\n\nits an ever expanding company... so.. returns may be slow initially.. but the prices r bound to go up!!