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Don't be sorry RMI, there is plenty of fresh green clover for everyone - just climb into the arena. Mindylou says that where stupidity is practiced, suffering soon follows. Being bullish is never easy and when it becomes too easy the game will be over. I'm reminded that during the high degree third wave structure such as this one we will see the best in volume and breadth statistics (plurality) the closer we get to the epicenter of this same price structure. The epicenter contains the point of recognition and when volume explodes we are there - but that's only 50% done.
 
Stock Market Rally With No Pullback - Business Insider

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Wow, after the strong close today and looking towards more up days.

Please use me as a contrarian indicator

Heck, even Amoeba got in today... and I didn't :blink:​
 
I'd bet there are plenty of investors who liquidated their stocks along the 2008-2009 decline and are now wondering why they did such a silly thing as that. The buy and hold strategy that got them into that mess now seems to be working purrfectly, now that they're no longer in the game.
 
Birchtree said:
I'd bet there are plenty of investors who liquidated their stocks along the 2008-2009 decline and are now wondering why they did such a silly thing as that. The buy and hold strategy that got them into that mess now seems to be working purrfectly, now that they're no longer in the game.
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Maybe they needed a new crystal ball too...
 
Ok, I am going into the C fund tomorrow, no matter what the 7734 my very broke crystal ball says... total waste of an IFT 3 days ago...
 
RealMoneyIssues said:
Ok, I am going into the C fund tomorrow, no matter what the 7734 my very broke crystal ball says... total waste of an IFT 3 days ago...
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I just don't see what other people advocating the "I" fund are seeing. In my world, I see strength in the following order S, C, I with S being the strongest and I being the weakest. Could change tomorrow or next week but that is what I see today. Am I oversimplifying things or are some people making this more complicated than it should be? :confused: Not trying to be a smartass here. Just trying to learn. Would be nice if the I fund fans would chime in on what they are looking at. ;)
 
jpcavin said:
I just don't see what other people advocating the "I" fund are seeing. In my world, I see strength in the following order S, C, I with S being the strongest and I being the weakest. Could change tomorrow or next week but that is what I see today. Am I oversimplifying things or are some people making this more complicated than it should be? :confused: Not trying to be a smartass here. Just trying to learn. Would be nice if the I fund fans would chime in on what they are looking at. ;)
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I agree with you on your strength order, but I ignore the I fund since it has done nothing but wasted my time. I fund might be a good trade if you are holding it for a long time (not BT long, just longer than a week or two), but I just don't see the advantage. Lets see what the I-funders say (if they read this thread, well, I know BT does)...
 
jpcavin said:
I just don't see what other people advocating the "I" fund are seeing. In my world, I see strength in the following order S, C, I with S being the strongest and I being the weakest. Could change tomorrow or next week but that is what I see today. Am I oversimplifying things or are some people making this more complicated than it should be? :confused: Not trying to be a smartass here. Just trying to learn. Would be nice if the I fund fans would chime in on what they are looking at. ;)
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It was the Yen, With it soaring to a whopping 100 to the dollar the expectation was Japan exports would be cheap and that would cause more orders to flow in. ADD the QE of Japan at the appropriate time and it should have created an economic tsunami for the country. This would have provided a stabilization to their flailing economy and better for the overall global markets. HOWEVER, it appears that even with the 2.9% the Nikkei experienced that day it went over 100, the risks are still being evaluated. What was a sortof "no-brainer" has kind of settled down version of sideways hope.

I may start a slow withdrawal from the I Fund next week if it shows some weakness there.
 
I got partially into the I fund for a few reasons:

It was the best fund last month

There is a currency war ongoing, and the Federal Reserve has pretty much fired all of its bullets so I can see that other country's currencies should fall in relation to ours and the hope in those countries is that a deflating currency would spur their economy

Bad economic news recently primarily in China and Europe was expected to mark the bottom/turnaround point in those areas according to a few sources I watch/read so I was hoping to catch the upswing.

I've found that most of my mistakes are when I move to safety and watch the bull run without me, so I'd rather make fewer moves. If I don't see a real strong reason I plan to stay with my current position for several weeks or even months.
 
jpcavin said:
I just don't see what other people advocating the "I" fund are seeing. In my world, I see strength in the following order S, C, I with S being the strongest and I being the weakest. Could change tomorrow or next week but that is what I see today. Am I oversimplifying things or are some people making this more complicated than it should be? :confused: Not trying to be a smartass here. Just trying to learn. Would be nice if the I fund fans would chime in on what they are looking at. ;)
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The global leader of stocks is the U.S. The I fund will come around again in a few months. Stick with the S and C funds for now.
 
Loading up on cheaper shares! :) My day will come.

I'm tempted to change my contributions to 100% I Fund.

50/50 S&I
 
Pill said:
Loading up on cheaper shares! :) My day will come.

I'm tempted to change my contributions to 100% I Fund.

50/50 S&I
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First post ever and hope I don't screw this up. I was thinking the same thing. Anyway, this is what I did. On 1 May, I made a move back into the market and the transaction took effect when the markets open 2 May. I went 33% C, 34% S, and 33% I Funds. I have to say I was a little nervous to have that much exposure in this market. But I check and recheck to make sure what I was doing wasn't totally insane. Well it paid off and I’m up 4% since 2 May and well over 12% YTD as of today.

This market is really strange, especially for a May market. F or G Funds, they are worthless. I have one trade left for the month and will just ride it out no matter what, but I won’t be getting out of this market. The “I Fund” is really looking good this week and I think it is really undervalued compared to the S and C Funds. The only thing I might do is consolidate into one fund if I feel trouble on the horizon, but I WILL NOT go to F and G funds. The reason is, the end of May has been historically strong. Also, I want to have 2 trades going into June to exploit it with an in-out-in scenario with a safe heaven G third trade if I need to.
 
The dollar will most likely consolidate in the near term and the European stocks will play catchup. I'm in the I fund as a large cap play as the individual stocks participate as a proxy of exports into the emerging markets. I just want the growth.
 
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