Gold and silver dropped yesterday so I decided I needed more pain, drama and agony in my life and bought. World tensions are high in most countries. I seem paralyzed at this point in the stock market. I guess Crimea was just sword rattling and nothing else but I just have a bad feeling.
That's pretty much the consensus of them that don't know much more than you and me but for some reason get paid to spout wisdom.
On Thursday of last week stocks fell and IBD posted conditions as 'market under pressure' --sort of like when the traffic light goes yellow and it's 'proceed with caution'. That's also a good time to not flinch no matter how much we want to close our eyes, because since then we've seen this:
OK, so stocks may crash next week. We can flinch then and for now my understanding is we take our 'measured steps'.