Range-Bound at Best: The Long View on Stocks Isn't Much Better, Says Value Investor

WOW!!! I LOVE THIS HYPE!!! The markets will begin to now reflect true value. The bad debts are being sold as talking heads begin to cheer. Short term money managers and traders who rely on hype will jump from one story windows. The real value in watching all this unfold comes from long term guidance and value investing. In the future the price of a financial security will be closer to fair valuation. This is great for long term investors who need real guidance to base buy/sell decisions. It's a refresher course in basic buy/sell psychology. Future market movers are those who survive the next five to ten years, vs. market traders who survive the next couple of weeks. Go long on good performance and large cap stocks or lose your butt playing short term spreads. Good luck to all who invest in America. My view bucks recent trends and suggests investors should go long, and BUY BUY BUY...! Eat some beans and call your financial planners. SMILES...

"Value Investing" works best in a high-inflation environment, and lags horribly in a deflationary, range-bound environment. I'd expect a chubby guy with a mis-shapen head and a funny accent to know that.

So history does matter?

It's clear now that the SOB Bush gave us each a measly 300 dollars ($150 Billion), and gave (without any regulation or oversight) his rich highly connected bank buddies $700,000,000,000....knowing that there would soon be these strict regulation put on the banking crooks and other super rich he helped create and encourage with favorable legislation, and neglected oversight.....I say hold him criminally accountable, and open an investigation of his entire time in office, including the war he illegally started (which basically destroyed World economies), and the DEATHS that unnecessarily resulted from his reckless invasion.

geithner miss the whole point of transperancy today by not giving details to hi's plan and living a gaping hole for the market to bear. itshows ignorance and irisposible behavior. hope for the sake of all of us investors that he comes back tommorrow and gives details and puts some direction and confidence to investors.

I wonder what John Bogle's recommendations are considering the current state of the market. He of course was of the opinion one should just dollar cost average into a total stock market index fund such as fidelity or vanguard total stock market index. He said in the long run you will beet 80% of mutual fund active managers doing just that. For the average cautious investor like myself, I'm hopeful that someone out there, who knows a lot more than m,e can explain whether or not this is still good investment advice. Money market funds are paying 1% to 2.5% interest. Isn't this a good time to buy?

Investors shouldn't be concerned with values all the time. Short term trader and guys with infinite wisdom talk about it a lot but who cares! They key is building an dependable and diversified income stream. When you retire, you want income right. Does it matter if your account shows a value of 500K or 800K? Yeah the bigger number looks good, but it's a point in time value and will change many times. Buffet has compounded his cash flows many times over in the past 20-30 years. He doesn't even pay a dividend because he is better at putting the cash to work at appropriate times, which in turn increase cash flow. If you have land, stocks, bonds, Cd's and it meets the income requirement, than the rest is history. If it doesn't work, you have poor investments or didn't save enough!

RICHARD DENNIS- aside from his flaming liberal political posturing...is my hero.

"Buy on the rumour and sell on the news" happened once again. Last Thursday and Friday, that 600k job loss report did not scare investors which were optimist on the bank plan. Once the plan is finally announced, everyone panicked. How is the "value driven investing" applied here?

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My money is on the Squirrels in the Park

SING4BEER-You are drunk!! Yes. Bush (and Clinton!),is one piece of this financial mess and puzzle, ..remember CLINTON signed NAFTA into Law, not Bush)..DID you vote for your (11% approval rating) congressmen back into office?? Congress is THE MAJOR REASON, we have this mess is because CONGRESS PASSES THE LAWS!! They approved this TARP first! They approved PAULSON, now GEITHNER (all goldman sachs investment house guys)....and OBAMA is acting alot like BUSH and CLINTON. THEY ARE ALL LOOKING FOR WAYS TO INCREASE GOVERENT SPENDING BY TAXATION ON YOU AND ME BUDDY!!...SO go ahead buy another beer and be sure to add that Sales tax to the total it!! (it all helps this bailout...... remember??)

Y'all got to read this: "Implications of Growth in Credit Derivatives for Financial Stability" by Timothy F. Geithner, President and Chief Executive Officer http://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/speeches/2006/gei060516.html He concluded "Let me conclude by reiterating the fundamental view that the wave of innovation underway in credit derivatives offers substantial benefits to both the efficiency and stability of our financial system." Now you know why we are in this situation and why Timothy hasn't yet had details on how to reverse engineering what he engineered!

buy beaten down stocks with good return on equity,positive cash flow,no or very low debt,with enough cash in hand atleast equal the long term debt.and with positive working capital.and atleast 20% next year growth forecast.keeping all these things in mind u r gonna be fine.

buy beaten down stocks with good return on equity,positive cash flow,no or very low debt,with enough cash in hand atleast equal the long term debt.and with positive working capital.and atleast 20% next year growth forecast.keeping all these things in mind u r gonna be fine.

buy beaten down stocks with good return on equity,positive cash flow,no or very low debt,with enough cash in hand atleast equal the long term debt.and with positive working capital.and atleast 20% next year growth forecast.keeping all these things in mind u r gonna be fine.

For those of you who don’t know (or who have forgotten - which apparently seems to be just about everyone), Henry Blodget is no longer a Wall Street analyst. You see as it turns out, a while back, he was banned from the securities industry for life. In 2003, he was charged with securities fraud and instead of defending the indefensible, decided to pay millions of dollars without admitting or denying the charges. As part of the plea deal, he was banned from the securities industry for life. Mr Blodget is one of the genuine poster boys for the Wall Street crap-fest that lead to the .com bubble. That bubble, of course, led to billions of dollars in investor losses; most suffered by his rank and file investors of course.

Does anyone other than me notice a remarkable resemblence between Blodget and Geithner??? No, not so much physical, although they're certainly both world class smirkers... I mean a moral, an ethical, and a character resemblence. Do you see it?

Does anyone else find it odd that the market is said to have done this from "1996 to 1982," which was a 14 year bull market? Of course, stocks did go down during that period if you take the 14 years in reverse. Also I was not aware that time went backward for those 14 years.

cincottk - Tuesday February 10, 2009 06:23PM EST Does anyone else find it odd that the market is said to have done this from "1996 to 1982," which was a 14 year bull market? Of course, stocks did go down during that period if you take the 14 years in reverse. Also I was not aware that time went backward for those 14 years................................................................................................................... Typical media reporting. Accuracy does not matter anymore. Exmple: Local newspaper did an article on my business. They got nearly all the facts wrong. Another one is a Wal*Mart ad several years ago for a 300 Mega watt hand held FRS walkie-talkie (the batteries could not even put out 5 watts). And if you could transmit at that power level, the poor user would vaporize in seconds........................Remember: big media reporting is FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY!