Money Starts to Pour Back Into Stocks

**Autoin Chance** · 02-05-2013, 11:02 PM

I agree with you, at least this period. money is flowing to stocks (or Asia region, maybe).

**disneysteve** · 02-06-2013, 04:45 AM

Of course. People never, ever learn. They sit on the sidelines until the markets hit record levels and take that as a sign that it is time to buy in, when prices are hitting all-time highs. Then when there is a correction and prices drop, they pull out and hide in the corner until prices climb again and repeat the insane cycle - buy high, sell low.

**Gailete** · 02-07-2013, 06:43 AM

I've been very happy to follow my little stock market account and my Roth IRA (which is really little) and see the prices rising

I invest in them when I have a certain amount of money set aside so I'm not looking at the prices as such, unless it is a completely new stock I am investing in then I look for it to be on the low side. But those numbers are making me very happy and since they all pay dividends, the amount of shares I have are also increasing. It may not seem like much to those of you with lots stashed away, but to finally have a little bit feels good.

**disneysteve** · 02-07-2013, 07:31 AM

Originally posted by Gailete View Post

It may not seem like much to those of you with lots stashed away, but to finally have a little bit feels good.

We all started in the same place - with nothing. I bought my first shares of stock around 1990 and opened my first mutual fund account in 1992 with $50. I still have that account which now holds about $60,000! Plus other accounts have come along the way so that we now have a mid-six-figure portfolio. But it started with $50 way back when. Keep investing regularly and consistently and it will grow over time.

**Gailete** · 02-07-2013, 08:14 AM

Yep a little bit at a time. My account is up to almost $3000 and never more than $100 at a time usually put in and sometimes it takes several months to save up that $100. My son has started also investing little by little and we both have shares of the same stock and it is funny for him to ask 'how much was my dividend because it should have showed up on Friday and they have increased the dividend'.

This is my autistic son and to be discussing the stock market with him is such a miracle!

Money Starts to Pour Back Into Stocks