The very short week to come.....as we limp and crawl and drag ourselves toward year end....in ONLY five and a half weeks. Economic data returns, retail earnings feature in holiday-shortened week https://finance.yahoo.com/news/econ...d-week-what-to-watch-this-week-123746898.html
I currently sit on a year to date gain of....+22%. In any rational world this should be EPIC....for me and most investors. BUT.....the insanity of the day to day markets is a constant BUMMER. i guess the big lesson this year is to simply....IGNORE it all. Of course....posting on here every day does not make that possible. So I end up being an investor SCHIZOPHRENIC.....a long term investor for life.....but....commenting on the day to day markets. I try to start out each day looking for and posting any content I can find that deals with LONG TERM INVESTING. A lot of days I am successful and get to post two or three or four articles about the long term. THAT....is the real message for investors and readers of this thread. The day to day stuff...all the drama and fear-mongering, and BS.....is MEANINGLESS. It is the "stuff" that we have to ENDURE as long term investors. Over the long term it does show one thing.....that no matter how INSANE the short term is......we can continue to put up good returns over each year and into the long term. That is the BIG message of this thread....that IN SPITE of all that happens......success is still possible. We are ALL in control of our own life and the destiny of our family. As "little people"......we have perhaps one or two routes to get to financial success and family security......the stocks markets....the real estate markets.....and....small business. For me it was business....earlier in my life which gave me the initial resources to put into the stock markets and build wealth. I say to ANYONE reading this thread.....I make this CHALLENGE to anyone reading this thread.....will YOU join us? Will you take the first step to financial security? Will you become a LONG TERM INVESTOR? There is no need to repeat how to do this.....the thread contains just about ALL you need to know to get started. What is key is YOUR dedication and desire to do more in your life and create INDEPENDENCE for yourself and hopefully one or two generations in your family. Whether you can join this site or not....whether you post or not....JOIN US. Be SELFISH......do it for YOURSELF.
As to the above......I recommend that anyone just starting out on this thread......GO BACK AND READ THE FIRST 50-100 PAGES OF THIS THREAD. I had a lot more motivation and time to post in detail back than. I have now been doing this thread for so long that it feels like repetition to me to rehash much of what I said in the past on here. There is a HUGE amount of detail and discussion in those early pages of the thread. Those 50-100 initial pages of posts are the GUTS of what I advocate on here. Most of that old information is STILL......the TRUTH....when it comes to successful long term investing.
