Comments on: Is This A Bear Market?

By: Is the Current Market Drop Bad, Good or Irrelevant?

Is the Current Market Drop Bad, Good or Irrelevant? — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:34:52 +0000

[...] a lot of fear about the stock market right now.� As Mike wrote recently, we’re in a bear market.� You read about people who are upset, people who are excited, and people who don’t seem to [...]

By: Sampson

Sampson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:15:23 +0000

Unfortunately, I didn’t exactly predict the bear market, since I pumped all my funds back into the market, but into individual equities. I just got fed up with getting dinged by mutual fund fees.

By: Dividend Growth Investor

Dividend Growth Investor — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:40:45 +0000

We’ve been in bear market since July

We acceletrated the declines over the past 4 weeks however so it feels like the bear just started…

By: Canadian Money

Canadian Money — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:13:18 +0000

Check my blog for today’s forecast.

I’m expecting the Bear to continue for the present. I’m out of all long positions. Only hold HXD.TO, an ETFund short position. It shorts the TSX Comp Index.

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:44:50 +0000

Sampson – you should write a book about how you predicted the bear market! You might make a bit of cash with it.

By: Sampson

Sampson — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:09:09 +0000

I’ve had the exact same well though out luck as you. Earlier this year, I liquidated 90% of my mutual funds to buy individual stocks throughout the year, and a couple of weeks ago, started converting my wife’s portion into ETF’s.

As I result, I’m beating the market by an astonishing 10%. I guess that would mean something any other year, but not now…