Who Hid The Stock Market Up Button
A few weeks ago, the stock market up button was in clear sight and great demand. Then smoke and mirrors of fear driven panic filled the room and hid the up button. It shone the light on the down button and the market fell 1000 Dow points. One could argue the markets needed a break, which gives investors a chance to put their money in companies who have declared the rest of the year to be sound and fruitful.
We are in the middle of a sweet spot in hi-tech stocks and that may last for many more years with a few hiccups along the way. People the world over demand the latest computers, cell phones, cars, etc; all filled with the latest hi-tech chips and software … Intel-INTC, Microsoft-MSFT, Oracle-ORCL, Cisco, CSCO, Texas Instruments TXN are all on track for record profits. Demand will continue no matter what political shenanigans are being performed in various countries.
The fact of the matter is, people do not need to lose money by investing in a stock market generated by fear mongering propaganda of misguided experts. The Euro zone will not collapse, China will still grow at a reasonable rate and the new financial regulations will become a sound confidence booster. Volatility brings with it great opportunity to make large amounts of money for people with a longer time horizon than what is dancing around them at any given moment.
Many media investment experts change like the weather. They will give a prediction about a stock and when it moves in the opposite direction of what they first expressed, they will come up with an opposite viewpoint, as if they never uttered their first prediction. This effects the emotions of the viewers and they dance to the melodies of panic and alarm.
If you endure dancing to the rhythms of greed, fear and doom, then you may find the orchestra has left the room along with Elvis and you are right in the middle of your own investments demise.
However, if you enjoy the authentic rhythms of the stock market band, without expert driven, greed, fear and doom dominating your emotions, you will be In The Mood to boogie with growing prosperity.
You will understand that the wise, intelligent, value investor always dances to the beat of an reliable drummer ... When you keep a good percentage of your money in a safe guaranteed place, you can, with wisdom, invest the rest in sound companies with great management, no debt and world leading products and service.
You can invest a sufficient amount of money without margin and be satisfied to take enough profit without waiting for a home run. In time, you will be well rewarded with, Top Ten Value Hits, that you took the time to research in a bona fide manner.
Every human being is born with a genius that can detect the difference between erroneous advice and authentic information. Think of it this way…
"A cow and a snake are drinking the same water from the same river at the same time. However, one will produce milk the other poison."
Water can be likened to thoughts, which can be easily tainted if we allow the illusions of fear and greed to take the place of the true human nature of love and joy. The genius within recognizes the difference between people who live with good intent and those who are only out for greedy-self-gain.
When you tune-in to the intuitive genius within, be aware, you have mastered the authentic steps to the ins and outs of the stock market dance that will continue to play its musical charades.
In mid-June the experts will be focusing on the next quarters results.
The room will clear fear driven smoke and mirrors and the up button will come into view once more. Then the markets may be dancing to the latest tune of companies beating earning forecasts. Would anyone care for the next waltz?