When To Buy & When Not


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Stock buys are made in the immediate term. The immediate term is encased within specific psychologies that are often different from the psychology that will cause stocks to rise.

Therefore, buy a stock when the psychology has turned positive.  That is, when the stock is on the rise.  Bottom-fishing is a losing proposition.
For example, GM today, July, 2008, is still a short... especially over 10.  I would rather wait and buy it when I perceive a changed psychology and when it is around 16... or somewhere below 5 depending upon macro circumstances.
When a stock is rising, opinion is shifting toward buying. Other investors of various sorts are of a positive opinion.
I do not need -- nor does my ego need -- to buy at the bottom.  I do need to make money.

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