Comments on: What Will Be Your Investing Strategy For 2009?

By: ekrabs

ekrabs — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:11:00 +0000

pharmboy, I don’t think that’s a bad idea SO LONG AS it’s to buy-and-hold and it’s for the long term (to give it enough time to rebound and correct).

Anything but that, I would not try to time the market.

By: TStrump

TStrump — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:22:57 +0000

I like your goal of buying a rental property – I plan on doing this to, but not in the city I live (Vancouver)
I’m increasing my monthly contribution – that’s right, I’m buying!

By: pharmboy

pharmboy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:22:40 +0000

I’m only able to invest about 15K this year in tax deferred accounts because of our income (250K in 2008). my wife and I are in our upper twenties. I want to dump it all in the first quarter to hopefully capitalize on the upswing.

Am I crazy to try buy load up while prices are low?

By: ekrabs

ekrabs — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:18:24 +0000

Most of my portfolio is in passive investments, and as far as that goes, I haven’t changed a thing in asset allocation or contribution schedule (other than to stop contributing when it’s maxed), and I plan to do precisely the same in 2009.

Now, a smaller portion of my money is used for stock trading. Truth is, I haven’t done anything the last month, and may not do a bit more into January. The short-term outlook doesn’t look good, but I could be wrong. I take that a day at a time….

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:39:12 +0000

I will try to begin putting a little more money into a retirement fund. I also want to set up a long term savings account in mutual or index funds to let sit there for 5 yrs or so.