Hey, I'm ok with my ratios for that part. I have the other ends too. My wife has a 401k, deductions maxing out the bank's match, I have an IRA, plus a couple of long accounts for the long lower risk vehicles. Not arguing that respect. Don't have as much in the long stock area as I did have, looking for areas to build back, but it's pretty iffy with most. Don't really like gold or monopoly money right now, due to what might happen there in the future with those things geo-politically. I not comfortable shorting the market, just not my style, to each their own. I'll just step aside and have it go crazy with all of this liquidity the Fed is doing before that.
But all of that wouldn't be there though and wouldn't be a market much at all if it wasn't for all the short term trading daily. Nor would we be here talking about it. It is what it is.
You also have issues with long terms. Is it even keeping up with inflation, did an Enron debacle wipe out anything that took yrs, maybe decades of low risk "safe" returns. There can be major events (and boy we have a doozy coming in that is like nothing we have seen in our lifetime) that can just total an account.
If your young, one can live through it and recover -- maybe (many haven't). But if your older, those kind of hits and the kind of hits that are coming can be devastating. Just take the housing crash, look how many retirees that was counting on using their life's efforts in those "safe" long accounts. I saw plenty of them, trying to go back to work with all the age discrimination and time out of the workplace spitting back at them. I saw many of them cleaning toilets or going to gov assistance.
Needless to say the many people that lost their homes, some never to get one back, but they thought they had a solid investment.
I was originally responding to the futures of wheat/grain and really only was focused on that sector and what is it going to do and how to set up for that, not just any old stock picking. It was just a search for info and ideas to share, I'll definitely being doing hrs and hrs research on my own.
There is no way to stop the consequences of what's going on, ignore it will be the biggest mistake. On another note I see that JJG now is reaching new highs to the extreme. No brag, just a lucky dart throw, and just noting the one area of extreme in the market. Things are just starting to hit the fan is the note.
Kleptocrats: a ruler who uses political power to steal his or her country's resources.
Kleptocracy: government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed.
