Stacking, Is That What I Am Trying To Do?

I got into the stock market 27 years ago though my job. When the market crashed I bought more. Fast forward I will retire 11-1-17. Money will not be a problem. I now have over a million. Thanks stocks

I have to agree with the OP, my grandfather had millions in the stock market by the mid 2000's.
He lost almost 60% of his money during the bailouts, and then still had the stock brokers hounding him to reinvest.

My dad lost his entire 401k overnight, around $100k. My family is stock paranoid at this point.

Chip Jones is a perfect example of how the stock market gives better returns, glad someone spoke up. Kudos and a hat tip to him.

Also, one of the reasons WHY we keep going higher in this market is because there are many skeptics out there versus those truly in the market.


this applies to both market professionals and your average mom and pop investor, sadly, BOTH have missed this entire run since 2008 and are about to miss as it really ramps up here.

Unfortunately what will happen, once again, is as this market ramps up towards the end, THEN the late comers will jump on aboard and about then is where things will fall apart.

Buying silver and gold as a main investment yields horrible returns. Banking on the end of the world, fiat currency, depressions and other disasters is a fools game. The market has come back each and every single time and will continue to do so.

but hey, whats that saying about leading a horse to water....

do yourself a favor and do NOT put all your money into gold and silver.

My dad's entire estate was $7 million. The gold only amounted to 0.2% of the total.

However the gold was much more stable in value than his royalty trusts, which I also liquidated at close to the peak of the market. Within 6 months the trusts dropped 70-80% in value because of drops in the oil and natural gas prices that underpin their high yields. The conventional equities - including energy stocks - in his portfolio were much steadier than the trusts.

There was also a fair amount of real estate. As with the trusts, the value was fairly unstable, especially for raw land out in the boondocks. Land is valuable where people live, not where they don't.

After another week of researching, and watching videos on the internet, I've come to the conclusion that silver is not something I wish to accumulate a large amount of. So silver is out, and I will have to think about some other form of precious metal investment, something that I can convert easily, if for some reason, the bottom falls out of the economy.