What's an Investor to Do Now?

Buy cammo paint, guns and ammo

buy .....Ball...ther be a run on Mason & Ball fruit jars now..... rats don't eat glass.

The answer now is to review the market; and see what to ditch. You may not realize what you can do to make money in this market. Plan to go toward chemicals, solar, and some energy.

Draw your own line in the sand and entrench there.

I am going to wait for the "dead-cat-flop" we should see in the next 10 or 20 days from the Bailout. Then I'm moving to more international stocks and some high yield bonds. Get me back to 11,000 ot 11,500, then I'll lock in some losses and move.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW BABY!!!

Good thing they passed the Trillion Dollar Bailout! Oh, wait, Ummmm ... that did not help did it??? Did anyone really expect it to? It's like throwing a pebble in a lake. Government can't buy us out of this one. Why??? Because they spent 55 Trillion dollars so far bailing us out of other problems. No more money left to borrow with a 55 Trillion dollar debt. I guess after we pay that back over the next 50 years we can start over again. Oh wait, ummm ... maybe we can start building products again? There is an idea! Oh yeah, while we are at it, maybe we can start using our own fuel to do it! Like Coal and Nuclear instead of send an additional 700 Billion overseas every year to buy oil. Hmmm ... think it is time to maybe elect people that get it. This mess is brought about by the voters who put these people in office.

Rampant inflation = precious metals - cash doesn't hold value in such an environment

Vote "em out...Vote 'em ALL OUT.

I guess the time is coming that Americans will have to do what they do in other parts of the world. Build products to sell and save money to buy things.

I'm really concerned about this. If we have another depression, I don't think the people are going to be as well mannered as the last time. You might make money in this market, but when the dust settles, it'll be worthless. Prepare for the worst!

invest in the ATF stocks - alcohol, tobacco and firearms

I am not a prophet....Some are having losing faith,some have a heavy losses,some are staying on hold for recovery,many are panicking,market is getting down heavily.........THE BIG QUESTION IS ........ARE WE IN THE BOTTOM..THAT IS FOR SURE.....ARE WE IN THE RECOVERY WAY.......MAY BE..........IS THERE A HOPE OF RECOVERY....THAT IS FOR SURE.....WHEN......JUST WAIT IF THERE IS A RALLY OF NONE STOP 3 DAYS IN A ROW FOR EVERY WEEK TILL CHRISTMASS AND NEXT LET SAY UNTIL NEXT APRIL....THE FRACTION OF A RALLY MUST BE 3/4 FOR EVERY WEEK UNTIL THE DOW JONES INDEX GO UP TO 12500 POINTS ABOVE.....BY THE TIME WE ARE SURE THE MARKT IS ON PATH TO RECOVERY.......DJ INDEX MUST RETURN 12500 THEN I WILL SAY RECOVERY IS NDER WAY........GOOD LUCK.

This is easy, Move back home with mom & dad, Hell I'm only 51, Mom & Dad won't mind. I hope my room is still empty. My other choice is to stand with your legs apart, Put your hand firmly on your butt, Pull head between cheeks & kiss your Butt good by. Paulson is gonna be the most hated thief in this decade. May he rot in hell.

What good is diversification when everything is going south?

Well, call your financial adviser as I did ,only to hear a recording stating office would be closed until 5:00 p.m. which is closing time. Mysterious!!! If I cannot not talk to my advisor during a crises , when do I need him? How about you? Can you reach your advisor???? What did he suggest you do? Did he /she hide?

I guess short selling wasn't the problem. I guess the BAIL OUT was.

Cash is king! Don't be fooled by these hucksters. The Dow has still a couple more 1000 points to shed, with false rallies along the way. I see it stabilizing around 8000. Stay in cash till then.

why worry and by happy. we are have to work till 65 anyway. market do good = better retirement. market sink = tighting the belt. we'll still live and be happy!

Wiki: Negligence: "It can be generally defined as conduct that is culpable because it falls short of what a reasonable person would do to protect another individual from a foreseeable risks of harm." This market collapse was foreseen by Sonders, Roubini, Leib, Schiff, Faber, Rogers among others. To not protect against such an impending tsunami when you heard such them ring the alarm bells is negligent if you are managing other peoples money. Diversification is not reasonable form of protection in the event of foreseen risk. Diversisifcation seems only reasonable when one considers risks that were not foreseen. Managers need to find more reasonable conduct to protect their clients assets than the modern portfolio theorie's diversification mantra. I see very little evidence in a market crash of statistical normal behavior for stock price movements that the theory was based upon. How many Black Swan 7 sigma events do we have to witness before we can topple the house of cards that the efficient market hypothesis has built up?