Well, I hope all the investors are happy! I lost over $10,000 in the last

[napi21]

week in my mutual funds withh my 401K!!!!!

I've never been able to figure out the logic of the market, but it's really pi**ing me off now! I'm invested in fairly conservative mutal funds , but the nutcases on wakll street are still driving me nuts!

[spindrifter]

1. This is why they want us to

privatize Social Security--so we are subject to the vagaries of the market.

[napi21]

3. Yeah well, screw that! I'm leaning toward investing everything in the

Euro! I already talked to my broker about that. The dollar is going south, and the NYSE is just crazy!

[Deja Q]

7. vagaries of the marketers.

[MissWaverly]

11. do you realize that if we did that, we would be retiring on

2 coupons worth 99 cents off at Taco Bell.

[spindrifter]

14. And we'd probably be garbage surfing to get those

coupons.

[MissWaverly]

22. yes, indeed

Hey, looking for coupons at the bottom of the garbage is trickle down economics!

[MissWaverly]

2. OMG, let's hope this country can right itself

I am so sorry, I am losing money too.

:-(

[napi21]

5. That might not sound like much to some, but my total investment is

$150,000. That's 6.6% loss in a week! I'm 62, and I can't afford to loose that much!

I already asked my broker about inventing in Halliburton, but he said by the ime you and I hear about the run-up, it's over, and he's probably right!

SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

[MissWaverly]

9. Hey, I feel for you, I wish that we could get Gore in WH

after all he was elected, the rest was a charade, just a charade, now we have a leader asleep
at the wheel.

[htuttle]

4. My brother, the stockbroker, explained it all to me one day

He said, "Stocks go up because people buy them. Stocks go down because people sell them. Nothin' more to it than that."

'Fundamentals' don't have nearly as much to do with it as 'mood'. Herd mentality.

[napi21]

6. You're right, and I know that. My problem is with the radical

MOOD of the major investors! I know they are the ones that make things happen, but they change their minds on every whim imaginable!

[Thickasabrick]

8. I have conservative funds too....they lost a ton this month but

then again they made more than that loss through the first quarter of this year. Patience. Some funds are not for people who freak at the ups and downs. It will level itself out and turn around I predict as soon as Bernanke announces what he's going to do to interest rates at the end of the month.

[MissWaverly]

10. freak, we are not talking about freaking

but these continual 100 point drops will set off a panic, the housing market is already
starting to bust.

[Thickasabrick]

15. The market through the first quarter was bound to come back

down. We have been experiencing 3 and 4 year highs. Did anyone seriously think it was going to stay there or keep moving up? The housing market is slowing down - it is nowhere near busting.

Look at the Dow for the past 5 years. When we start dropping to 2003 levels....then I'll panic.

[MissWaverly]

21. When, you panic please announce it here

If it's a correction, I will just grit my teeth and bear it.

:-)

[Thickasabrick]

24. I still think we've got a couple more bad days ahead - Bernanke

is too well understood. I read an article last week where the CEO of a large investment firm lamented the old days and wanted to go back to when investors had no idea what Greenspan was talking about - they could only make speculative guesses. Bernanke needs to become a little bit more "mysterious".

My jaws are somewhat sore from my personal "teeth gritting" following today's performance. :shrug:

[MissWaverly]

25. bring back vodoo economics

[CabalPowered]

12. CD Ladders are looking better and better

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/rate/deposits_home.asp

I'm getting 5.5 on 5 years from my local credit union which isn't going to beat inflation but it's better than a loss.

[survivor999]

19. Hmmm... Inflation is less

than 5.5 % per year... Are you saying that after taxes you lose to inflation? Even then, unless inflation shoots up you are ahead....

[iamjoy]

13. Welcome To The Ownership Society

dontcha just love it?

[larrysh]

16. Hmmmmmm.....

Here's what I don't understand.....In April, my trust fund was up $35,000 from the previous month. With the same exact mix of mutual funds and tax-free municipal bonds, May was down $17,000. That's a 52,000 movement in 60 days.....and yet the investment mix did not change!!!!

[lpbk2713]

17. You need to Listen to Limbaugh. He says the economy is doing just great.

But then what does that asshole know.

[NNN0LHI]

18. Thats why I don't gamble

My nerves can't take it.

Don

[LiberalHeart]

20. I feel your pain. I'm down tens of thousands...

And big bills are coming due that must be paid. I hate to pull money out with everything in such terrible shape, but there's no choice...

[paparush]

23. The market is just 'unsettled'.

[MindPilot]

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[newyawker99]

27. kick

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