8 ways investing is broken

Even with stocks at multiyear highs, trading volume is low and everyday investors are staying away. Here's why we're still on the sidelines.

By Kim Peterson, MSN Money

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lboro
Sep 18, 2012 7:49AM
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A 3 day waiting period for all buys and sell.  Your banks does it when you try to cash your pay check...so does your pension (401K) when you make a change order. 
No-Vestor
Sep 18, 2012 7:40AM
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Investing in Wall Street is about the same as investing in a Atlantic City casino.  The market cannot sustain it self without main street participation.  The government can only prop up the Street for so long with worthless paper money.   It will all collapse.  Main street will survive as it is doing now.  There is little interest in this mess on Wall Street by people who see that the deck is stacked against them.
Marvin Shelley
Sep 18, 2012 7:40AM
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,Anyone who sends their money to Wall St should expect it to shrink. I cannot believe that intelligent people would send their hard earned money to those sharks.

The stock game is fixed by a handful of folks and with their computers they can manipulate the DOW up and down with the click of a mouse.

Proof? Bernanke gets heartburn, DOW drops 150 points.

The next day, Buffet states economy is recovering and it jumps 125

Next day Unemployment drops 0.01%, DOW jumps 140

Next day, Iran says they hate Isreal, DOW drops 200 points.

They use any lame excuse to bump or drop by huge amounts and make mllions either way.

And you think you can outsmart them?

Idiots lose money in real estate. Smart investors make 20-50% in real estate - at least mine do.

Get yourself a smart AND HONEST RE broker and you will get great returns like my clients do.

 

truthhurts402
Sep 18, 2012 7:39AM
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I am one of the lucky few I still have a defined pension plan.  The company has tried to take it several times but I have met my retirement requirements and I don't think they can take it now,  I am eligible to retire any time I want.  I can recall a few years ago when these 401K's were all the rage.  Companys were forcing their employees into them.  I'm not very keen when it comes to wall st and investing and I have stayed away from it.  I have seen people through the years lose everything they had just trying to invest their money so it would stay up with inflation.  These people are crooks above all understanding.  We don't know the tip of the iceberg just how much these people have stolen and what they are willing to do to get it all.  They will never have enough until they have it all.  Heres the kicker.  They have most peoples retirement money and they will steal it all before its over with.  There are alot of Congress people who want to give them the social security too.  When they get the social security they will have it all.  Old people will be such a burden on society that they will have to be put to sleep.  Only the healthy that can work and generate income will be needed.  When they get sick, same thing.  These dark demons of wall st will run the entire show.  people will starve and they will laugh.
LEE MARSHALL (Powell for Prez)
Sep 18, 2012 7:36AM
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Congress won't fix this mess. Congress is part of the problem. I find it rather odd how congress can do inside trading deals but somebody like Martha Stewart goes to prison for doing the exact same thing congress does and tells us not to do. The market is rigged and nobody in congress will sacrifice their cash cow. Not a republican. Not a democrat. Nobody.
jong98
Sep 18, 2012 7:35AM
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Another reason why we need better government regulation. We could never hope to do this on our own without the goverment's resources
tell
Sep 18, 2012 7:33AM
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Stinking wall street
groovygirl72
Sep 18, 2012 7:32AM
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Washington is in bed with wallstreet, thats whose really running the show.
groovygirl72
Sep 18, 2012 7:30AM
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Pump and Dump  for sure. Theres never any recourse for the average person.
groovygirl72
Sep 18, 2012 7:29AM
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There inside trading on the housing market. If there something affordable for the little guy, sure theyll advertise the property, AFTER ITS BEEN SOLD. I stay away from any and  all shenanigans theyre involved wityh. And theyre LEGALLY doing this.
demonslayar194
Sep 18, 2012 7:29AM
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Audit the federal reserve and all will be clear.
groovygirl72
Sep 18, 2012 7:25AM
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Crooks! I opend ira several years ago , the money SUDDENLY VANISHED, they ripped me off and I will never sink a dime in something like that.The stock market on wall street is whats WRONG with America.

lakeside barbeques
Sep 18, 2012 7:14AM
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Because they are greedy slugs.  And when they are not looking, like when they are busy wasting 80K on whores, there will be an uprising.  Can't wait...
Rigley Neff (rigleythedog)
Sep 18, 2012 7:13AM
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What's great about all those great financial wizards is they couldn't light a match if their lives depended on it. When it falls they'll be first to go!
wdf franklin
Sep 18, 2012 7:10AM
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       Investing, sports, and war have rules that can lead to legitimate gains.  However, be not misled.  Financial circumstances can be manipulated to appear to be what they are not.  Fakes and deception are common on a field off equal players on both sides to create opportunities. Generals order activities to confuse and misdirect the enemy.  Recognize when signals are being manipulated.
Guns and Gold
Sep 18, 2012 7:02AM
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You missed all those inside traders in our US Congress. You can't expect much better from Wall Street when the rule makers have twisted the rules to thier advantage.

 

That, of course, brings us back to the lack of leadership in our Country. Obama isn't leading our Nation.

 

The sheep are being sheared because of their own lazyness. You can't just hand your hard earned money over to a broker and expect a miracle. You must read and research and make your own decisions. I am 65 and soon retired, I would never hand my funds over to any inexperinced 25 or even 30 year old. I am perfectly happy calling my own shots.

 

My first broker was an old and wise fellow. My second broker was a shoe salesman just before he became a stock broker. I began calling my own shots with the second broker, finally after many years I stopped paying absurd commissions and moved the whole pile to Schwab. The internet abounds with research sources.

Why378
Sep 18, 2012 6:26AM
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Now that the fed supports the pump and dump strategies of the crooks on Wall St., no one is safe. Let's see how fast this crooked run-up in the indexes falls apart. Most likely right after the election it will fall like a rock, the smart money will all be out by then, and the rest of us loose 50% of our retirement accounts. They wait until January to go all in again, have the fed release news, run the market up and the cycle starts all over again. While this is nothing new, at least Greenspan the terrible let us build wealth for at least 6 years before letting wall street steel 1/2 or more of our money.
USA - Common Sense
Sep 18, 2012 6:21AM
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Where does the money come from to pay all these salaries on Wall Street?  It comes from fees which is more or less skimming off the top.  How much money has to be made to give you a fair return and pay these outrageous salaries?  Just another ponzi scam.

Someone (ecologist)
Sep 18, 2012 6:14AM
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And this is why Romney needs to get behind keeping Obama's bill to rein in abuses in the financial industry. Richard Cordray isextremely qualified to run the agency, yet the GOP opposes him. Why? Because he wants a level playing field!
JOHN DOE 2
Sep 18, 2012 6:03AM
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If you read Rolling Stone you would already know all this.
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