FAQ: The Stock Market is At an All-Time High: Should I Wait for the Market to Go Down To Invest in Stocks? RPF0014

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In today’s show, we tackle a Frequently Asked Question about whether I should wait to invest in stocks because of where the market is at. The Dow closed above 17,000 last week. Inevitably, here are the four articles you will see all week: Stocks have more room to run! Stocks are in a bubble and […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Radical Personal Finance Podcast. Today is July 7, 2014. I'm your host
0:27.6	Joshua Sheets and on today's show the question that we will be dealing with is with the market at an all-time high
0:35.8	should I wait for the market to go down to invest in stocks? Stay with us. Today we deal with one of my favorite questions which is exactly this one.
0:57.0	Should I wait for the market to go down to invest in stocks and with today
1:01.5	being July 7, 2014, let's see as I read this right now I'm
1:06.5	recording at 2009 p.m. today and the Dow Jones Industrial Average according according to Google Finance, is at 17,023 points.
1:18.3	And in case you didn't pay any attention to investment news over the weekend.
1:22.8	Closed at an all-time record high on Thursday.
1:26.0	Last Thursday before the 4th of July holiday
1:28.6	at 17,000 points.
1:31.0	And so any time you read, and the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ also are doing and have done very well
1:36.7	But the Dow is what captured all the news over the weekend. So any time that we are dealing with
1:42.0	with market high points we get to deal with the questions of what
1:46.4	should I do with my money because of the market high and today I'm gonna set you
1:51.1	free my gold of today's show is to set you free from most of the market
1:55.9	commentary and talk about when it matters and when it doesn't matter and how you can figure out
2:00.8	what applies to you. So stick with us for that show. Before we
2:04.0	begin a couple of quick just announcements and updates on the show. First of all,
2:08.7	thank you for listening. I am starting to see several of you listen more and more and I really appreciate it.
2:14.8	I want you to know that I appreciate each of you who is listening.
2:18.9	It means the world to me.
2:19.8	I love to teach.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.