Sentences with phrase «buying in bear markets»

I'm comfortable buying in bear markets, but I've still felt bad about losing money.

Buy in a bear market and sell in a bull market.

Not exact matches

The recent market sell - off is putting a dent in many large - cap Dow components, which are now sitting in bear market territory, but here's why two of these laggards may be worth a buy.

Normally this would put remarkable pressure on the price of gold — higher yields raise the opportunity cost of buying gold — but over the same period, the U.S. dollar has steadily weakened and is now officially in a bear market.

So unlike brokers, we have no conflict of interest pushing us to recommend high volumes of trades whether we believe in the potential of those trades or not We have no perpetual bias for a bull market as most of Wall Street has to be (to justify the heavily - weighted stance of «buy» vs. «sell,» a stance that always persists even in harshest bear markets) Instead of all of these kinds of anti-investor establishment motivators, we will sell our products on subscription, with a customer - friendly, overwhelming motivation to deliver an experience that will win very profitable renewals for many years to come.

Nor are we seeing aggressive buying from value investors (the rightful owners to whom stocks always return in a bear market).

This way, if a bear market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available at the maturity date so that you do not have to sell stocks, and in a bull market you can buy new bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit from the higher interest rates that high quality bonds give versus cash or CDs.

However, although sharp corrections are somewhat rare (they have only occurred in nine years since 1962), they have happened more often during bull markets than during bear markets, and thus have often presented buying opportunities historically.

Why trying to avoid a bear market can be a costly mistake for stock investors Double - digit gains have historically been seen in the 12 months leading up to a bear marketTrying to correctly time the market is a near - impossibility for any investor, and the potential mistakes are just as severe whether you're trying to sell high while you can, or buy low.

We were in a clear bear market 2 weeks ago, when I told you to buy NEO!

If you shift to buying value stocks late in the bull market, by the time a bear market comes, your portfolio will have a larger weight in relatively safe, value names.

(The unfortunate opposite of buying more heavily in bear markets).

If you want to ensure you get the big returns from stocks that investment writers highlight when urging you to invest in equities, you need to buy during bear markets to make up for the lousy returns from those years when you buy at what proves to be the top of a bull market.

If you bought VYM at the bottom of the bear market in 2009 and held through summer of this year, your total annualized return would have been roughly 16 %.

Investors can brace for a downturn by buying shares of companies that can thrive in both bull and bear markets.

But in bear markets, my strategy is a combination of selling short former leadership stocks as they break down (click here to see how it's done) and buying ETFs with low to nill correlation to the equities markets (such as commodities, currencies, fixed - income, and international).

If stocks enter into a new bear market in 2015, it would obviously bad news for traditional «buy and hold» investors who must hope and pray that stocks continue on an upward trajectory forever (hint: they don't).

As much as i want to buy buy buy, I think I'm going to buy with caution for this might be the beginning of a greater bear market and if i spend all my capital now i may not have any more for any other potential deals to come in the future.

As the secular bear market drags on, investors become more and more discouraged with their buy and hold positions and they begin to lose faith in the system, their strategy and stocks in general.

Some reasons to think a bear market may not be in the market's near future include low inflation and a relative lack of leverage (i.e., debt that is used to buy assets) that might be expected to exacerbate a downturn.

The investment fund transactions show the market is becoming interested in the stock, and while the buys are still very low, at around 0.29 %, one should bear in mind that Maserich had not been previously considered as something valuable at all, so even such a small buying volume may boost future performance.

Let's not forget that in BEAR markets previous / current supports (buy lines) end up being broken.

Once again buyers stepped in to buy the pullback and reverse the tables on market bears.

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Furthermore, I believe market timing can be the greatest detractor to our long - term returns whether we become overly pessimistic and sell into bear markets, catch the irrational exuberance bug and buy into the end of bull market rallies, or sell out too early in bull markets and miss some of the best years in the market.

Conceptually, market timing is simple, buy during bear market lows and sell in bull market highs.

Having seen the share market's ups and downs since he started buying shares in the 1960s, share market 85 - year - old trader Frank Hirst knows a thing or two about the bears and the bulls.

Remarks: Due to their conceptual scope — and if not explicitly stated otherwise — , all models / setups / strategies do not account for slippage, fees and transaction costs, do not account for return on cash and / or interest on margin, do not use position sizing (e.g. Kelly, optimal f)-- they're always «all in «-- , do not use leverage (e.g. leveraged ETFs), do not utilize any kind of abnormal market filter (e.g. during market phases with extremely elevated volatility), do not use intraday buy / sell stops (end - of - day prices only), and models / setups / strategies are not «adaptive «(do not adjust to the ongoing changes in market conditions like bull and bear markets).

An important observation that Mr. Napier makes in his studies of the most damaging bear markets is that even if the initial move off of the bottom is lacking volume, once a new higher level is reached, the market should begin to attract buying interest.

Look at what almost destroyed the banking industry along with the housing market back in 2008 happened precisely because people bought in at a low - interest rate and forgot that in a short period of time 4 to 5 years the rate would then go up to whatever the market would bear at the time.

In a falling bear market, slowing momentum could suggest that the price is near a support level and traders are looking to buy at a bargain, which could reverse the bear trend.

The same rule can apply when adding / buying stock in the depths of a sustained bear market after a severe equity valuation reduction.

It probably won't yield the best results in a strong bull market, but it will yield better results than a buy - and - hold strategy in a sideways or bear market.

Technically, while the stock is in a bear market (its 50 - day moving average is below its 200 - day moving average), it did just flash a «buy» signal on the MACD, which is a momentum indicator.

Rather than simply buying and holding, many active managers try to predict when securities are over - or undervalued, moving in and out of positions to avoid bear markets and profit from any subsequent bull rally.

Anyone with market experience will recognize the culprits: panic selling in a bear market, chasing after «hot» stories in a bull market, selling low and buying high... all of these are quantified in the above table.

The appeal of buying puts is that they can help manage risk in a volatile market or one that seems to be headed into bear territory.

Cash is an important asset category to protect your portfolio in bear markets, and provide capital to buy assets when they are at bargain values.

A broker won't lose money when a stock goes down in a bear market because the broker is usually nothing more than an agent acting on sellers» behalf in finding somebody else who wants to buy the shares.

It's easy to imagine that happening in a bear market, when investors are no longer in a buying mood.

The cost averaging principle allows investors to buy more units in bear markets and fewer units in bull markets.

If you bought VYM at the bottom of the bear market in 2009 and held through summer of this year, your total annualized return would have been roughly 16 %.

A little extra cash will help in two ways 1) Cash won't decline in the next bear market, and 2) you can use it to buy when the market is down.

On the S&P 500 chart, such timing maneuvers — while ultimately counterproductive from a pure profit standpoint (because the investor is buying in at about a 12 % higher price than where he or she sold)-- could almost be understood, given they would have spared an investor the emotional pain of the bear market.

Recently, I thought I'd put more money into the account to buy more stocks since the market is in a bear phase.

It's easy to be a buy and hold person in a Bull market, but not everyone can do it in a Bear market.

Rather than treating ownership as a short - term vehicle for profit in the mode of a day trader, buy - and - hold investors retain shares through bull markets and bear markets.

«Buy and hold» is always lionized in a bull market, and castigated in a bear market.

I view it as a great sign of strength that, in the worst financial markets since the Great Depression, your company could earn money, grow tangible book value, buy Bear Stearns and WaMu and expand our franchise.

But if you sell your stocks in a bear market, this might mean three things: (i) You may be selling your stocks at a loss; (ii) You are making no gains nor loss, meaning that you are selling the stocks at a price at which you bought the stocks; or (iii) You are selling at reduced gains.