Ghost of Igloi wrote:idiot investor,
...I would bet that fundamental investment strategies will be a better bet going forward. Of course you have to believe that this time is NOT different.
Igy
Hi Igy, thanks for weighing in. I've been following this thread with intermittent interest from some time, and over that time I've compared what the various actors have said and/or predicted with what I've been able to observe.
You strike me as well-meaning but a consistently doom and gloom, risk-averse kind of guy, and if I followed your advice over the past couple of years I would be doing moderately worse than I am (but at the same time would probably have avoided some bad decisions and reduced the volatility in my holdings).
agip strikes me as a consistently sunny optimist who is maybe sticking his neck out a little beyond his actual knowledge.
maserati strikes me as a conspiracy-theorist, protecting his money with a bit of a tinfoil hat attitude.
coach d strikes me as the rational voice of reason, an informed, active investor with a fairly deep knowledge of past market behaviour that he exploits to his evident (claimed, anyway) advantage.
I'm probably wrong about all of you, but that's how I read the tea leaves in this thread, hence my question to coach d.
Best of luck to all of you, I meant no offence with my generalizations, although I recognize that generalizations nearly always come across as offensive.