{"id":5012,"date":"2011-02-21T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=5012"},"modified":"2011-02-21T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:09:00","slug":"5-more-year-of-the-bear-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/5-more-year-of-the-bear-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"5 more years of the Bear or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this and then read it again.\u00a0 Interesting and thought provoking.\u00a0 If we could only glance into the crystal ball and know when to get out once and back in at the proper time.\u00a0 But alas that is not possible.\u00a0 I have been selling some <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>stocks<\/strong> this year, clearing out those that have not made a move with the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>market<\/strong> and dumping some others, just because they no longer fit my mixture.\u00a0 I had put some of that <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>cash<\/strong> last fall into the Dominator\/Dividend <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>stocks<\/strong> and some high paying MLP\u2019s.\u00a0 They have done well but I wonder if now is a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> to thin more of that to cash?\u00a0 I am sure that by April I will need to take some of those profits, if they still exist.\u00a0 I am however more of a long <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>term<\/strong> holder by nature so I am struggling with the thoughts of moving more to cash.\u00a0 On another front my 401K has limited places to hide?\u00a0 If the bond situation is in trouble as all say and the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>stocks<\/strong> are set for a drop soon there is no other <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>place<\/strong> in that structure to be but in a General \u201cStable\u201d fund that is maybe 50\/50 bonds to stocks.\u00a0 It requires more study at present to <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>make<\/strong> an informed decision.\u00a0 &#8211; WD0AJG<\/p>\n<h3>Chicken Soup for the Underinvested Soul<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/author\/joshua-m-brown\/\">Joshua M Brown<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>February 19th, 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everyone is now wishing they were 100% invested in stocks.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not 100% long.\u00a0 You probably aren&#8217;t either.\u00a0 Sure, we&#8217;re long &#8211; but is anyone &#8220;long enough&#8221; for this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bespoke<\/strong> is calling it the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bespokeinvest.com\/thinkbig\/2011\/2\/18\/the-zero-gravity-market.html\"><strong>Zero Gravity Market<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antigravity.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"antigravity\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/antigravity.png?resize=514%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I survey my long positions, I find myself very much in the middle of the herd <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>right<\/strong> now&#8230;tech and energy are by far the most well-represented sectors.\u00a0 This is the stuff that is and has been working so perfectly, so why go out on a limb?<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the ledger, I&#8217;m still running with a decent-sized short-<strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>term<\/strong> bond allocation (through funds\/ETFs) that can be adjusted on a dime.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also holding what feels like way too much cash.\u00a0 Since January 18th, most of the profits I&#8217;ve taken have not been redeployed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/2011\/01\/18\/yellow-lights\/\">several signs<\/a> pointed toward a <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> for caution.\u00a0 Alas, caution has been the enemy over the first 6 weeks of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>This week I spoke with three different prospective client households &#8211; three extremely smart people, well-educated and wealthy enough to have a good understanding of how the world works.\u00a0 They are fully in <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>cash<\/strong> and fixed income.\u00a0 They thought it was the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>right<\/strong> the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>thing<\/strong> to do.<\/p>\n<p>They are miserable.<\/p>\n<p>They do not understand how this could be happening and they are cursing themselves for having listened to people on television or talk radio.\u00a0 Worse, they are tempted to throw big money at the S&amp;P locomotive just to <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>make<\/strong> that feeling go away &#8211; just to <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>make<\/strong> it stop.\u00a0 I regard my responsibility with these potential clients as being to stop that from happening <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>right<\/strong> away.\u00a0 There needs to be some discussion about longer-<strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>term<\/strong> cycles and where we may be in them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Russell 2000 (small caps) is inching to within 2% of all-<strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> highs and large cap <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>stocks<\/strong> are 15% away.<\/p>\n<p>And the interest rate <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>thing<\/strong> is still a freak show that will begin to be resolved shortly, it&#8217;s all unprecedented as we&#8217;ve been told 9 million times.\u00a0 Just because we&#8217;re sick of hearing it doesn&#8217;t <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>make<\/strong> it any less true.<\/p>\n<p>So my approach to soothe the underinvested soul is to pass on &#8220;My Favorite Chart on Earth&#8221;.\u00a0 It comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stocktradersalmanac.com\/sta\/home.do\"><strong>The Stock Traders Almanac<\/strong><\/a> and I keep a copy at my desk.\u00a0 You may have seen it on this site before, it&#8217;s the one that keeps me focused on the practice I&#8217;m building whenever I get bogged down in the fact that the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>market<\/strong> has essentially round-tripped since my career began in the late 90&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/My-Favorite-Chart-on-Earth.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"My Favorite Chart on Earth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereformedbroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/My-Favorite-Chart-on-Earth.jpg?resize=635%2C350\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This chart may be helpful for your own head <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>right<\/strong> now, it tells us a few things:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 There is always <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> to invest and get more heavily involved<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 This secular bear cycle could still have a few years left in it after all (if 16 years is the average length of secular bears then 5 more years of range-bound activity would be the norm)<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 The real rally, the one that breaks us away from this range, will be so powerful that missing the first 10% of it won&#8217;t mean a hill of beans.<\/p>\n<p>The message here is to relax and catch your breath.\u00a0 No panic and no melancholia, they won&#8217;t solve anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this and then read it again. Interesting and thought provoking. If we could only glance into the crystal ball and know when to get out once and back in at the proper time. But alas that is not possible. I have been selling some stocks this year, clearing out those that have not made a move with the market and dumping some others, just because they no longer fit my mixture. I had put some of that cash last fall into the Dominator\/Dividend stocks and some high paying MLP\u2019s. They have done well but I wonder if now is a time to thin more of that to cash? I am sure that by April I will need to take some of those profits, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/5-more-year-of-the-bear-or-not\/\">&#8220;And Now the Rest of the Story &#8211; &#8220;5 more years of the Bear or not?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-5012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbs","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 more years of the Bear or not? - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/5-more-year-of-the-bear-or-not\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 more years of the Bear or not? - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I read this and then read it again. 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