S&P 500 closes above 1,500; Dow nears 14,000

[llubon]

There is money to be made----- companies making record profits---economy improving. Keep the momentum.

"The bull market kept its momentum Friday as the Standard & Poor's 500 index closed above 1,500 for the first time since Dec. 10, 2007, and the Dow Jones industrial average finished less than 30 points from breaking 14,000."

"It was the fourth straight week that Wall Street's three major indexes finished higher, with the S&P 500 and the Dow hitting new five-year highs again."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...-1-25/1863691/

[bmorepunk]

Those who panicked 4-5 years ago and yanked out their money at the bottom will now dump money into equities at peak.

[cprenegade]

Those who panicked 4-5 years ago and yanked out their money at the bottom will now dump money into equities at peak.

The market tank was one of the best things for my 401k. After the first big drop, I switched 100% to the fixed interest fund. Then, after the bottom and the market started to climb again, moved it back to stocks. My 401k is actually ahead of where it would have been had the market simply continued to grow at its slow but steady rate. If you waited until the market was near bottom, shut down, and then waited until recently to jump back in, you absorbed all of the decline and none of the rebound.

[Creekman]

The market tank was one of the best things for my 401k. After the first big drop, I switched 100% to the fixed interest fund. Then, after the bottom and the market started to climb again, moved it back to stocks. My 401k is actually ahead of where it would have been had the market simply continued to grow at its slow but steady rate. If you waited until the market was near bottom, shut down, and then waited until recently to jump back in, you absorbed all of the decline and none of the rebound.

Very true!..I followed a similar course.

[flyboy56]

"That the stock market is manipulated is no longer in question. One explicit goal in the Fed's zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) is to drive capital into risk assets such as stocks. That is a first-order, transparent policy of manipulation, i.e. a centrally managed policy aimed at managing markets to meet a key central-planning goal: creating an illusion of prosperity via an elevated stock market and the resultant "wealth effect" for the 10% who own enough stocks to matter."

"Insanity has reached new heights. SPX has risen this morning to challenge its massive Rising Wedge formation at its very apex. At the same time, it has formed a new Orthodox Broadening Top nested within the original formation. There is no doubt in my mind that the markets are headed for disaster."

"The new for today is that the Long Bond has broken beneath the Lip of its Cup with Handle formation. This signals the largest shift in the bond market, from a 31-year-old-bull market to a secular bear market."

And we know investor are moving out of bonds and into equity stocks which is driving up the stock market.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article38311.html

[llubon]

More from flyboy's UK site:

"The true reality in today’s AmeriKa is that individual liberty is the most despised activity that any citizen can exert in their lives. Both the popular state worship culture and the authoritarian hoodlums that run the government are so fearful of armed independent citizens, that they are eager to burn the Bill of Rights. Face it, the government is committed to force you to be a ward of the state and will kill you if you resist."


http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article38482.html

[flyboy56]

More from flyboy's UK site:

"The true reality in today’s AmeriKa is that individual liberty is the most despised activity that any citizen can exert in their lives. Both the popular state worship culture and the authoritarian hoodlums that run the government are so fearful of armed independent citizens, that they are eager to burn the Bill of Rights. Face it, the government is committed to force you to be a ward of the state and will kill you if you resist."


http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article38482.html

So what's the problem?

[llubon]

So what's the problem?

Paranoia of the disturbed and mental health.