October is time for patience, not fear
A few weeks from now, when the hoopla of the 25th anniversary of the 1987 crash dies down, you'll be glad you took your time.
Tuesday was a hideous day. But how hideous? I think we're taking out the big winners and shooting them -- stocks like the ones I'm telling you to buy from here until the end of the year in pyramid-like fashion. There are big price breaks in stocks such as Google (GOOG) and Amazon (AMZN), and I think the jitters over the specter of earnings season are really playing havoc with them.
This is a tough time in the market. October always brings out the willies -- whether it's because five years ago the market was at a top or because we have seen a crash and a mini-crash in October. At times, the month gives you a clocking as mutual funds take profits before year's end.
It could be more pronounced than ever this year because funds may want to anticipate a change in the tax code so they can beat it at their fiscal year end, which is in four weeks for many funds.
Nothing is tougher than buying into a vicious sell-off -- like Tuesday, when Apple (AAPL) was down $12, Google was on its second plunge in a row and Amazon was taking a big header.
Many buyers want to be in only when the stocks are going up, not down. But I believe you have to leg in with your deep-in-the-money calls and, hopefully, hold out until January, then begin your buying.
Take your time. A few weeks from now, when the hoopla of the 25th anniversary of the 1987 crash dies down, I think you will be glad you did.
Jim Cramer is a co-founder of TheStreet and contributes daily market commentary to the financial news network's sites. Follow his trades for Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust and is long AAPL.
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The problems -
1. no Federal budget in over 3 years
2. NAFTA - now has a strangle hold on America - the loser in NAFTA - AMERICA
3. Uncertainty in the tax code
4. ObamaCare
5. 40 years ago - America has to be energy independent - 40 years later ZILTCH has been done
6. An inept Government - Congress would be fired in the public sector.
7. Off balance sheet unfunded liabilities - Federal government on down to the local level - especially with unrealistic pension returns - Social security is called an entitlement -but we pay into it and your emplyer matches what you pay. If that is the case, then life insurance is an entitlement.
8. An economy of over regulated and over taxed business environment making foriegn courtiers more attractive to do business in.
9. Dept. of Education - when formed in 1969, first school year - high school graduation rate about 70% - now it is about 72% - and many people with a high school education have not been taught the things that they really need to be able to survive in the real world.
10. A government that snubs the Constitution and Bill of Rights..
11. An administration that picks winners and losers and who has created a divided country with class warfare.
12. A President who is polar opposite of Rev. Martin Luther King - and has damaged race relations - starting with his Whitehouse beer summit.
13. A non enforced immigration policy for 40 years
the people in power want open borders for lowest wages.
reagan did his amnesty 33 years ago. from that ocurance the next flood surged over the line. now we have the "dream act" and various off spring legal ideas. except none of the power people will simply SAY the borders are now open.
drive interstate 8 thru arizona (or look at it on a map) and you'll understand why arizona imposed their own rules. if you can walk, you're in. the rio grand "river" is a trickle. no such thing as a **** anymore.
the USA government has allowed arizona and other border states to become NEW MEXICO's without their own state approval.
>>>>> the look the other way immigration policy from Mexico and Central America create a downward push on the American worker and his ensuing lifestyle. <<<<<
| Where are Jim, Tim, and Franklin now? and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Barack Hussein Obama President and " Commander of THIEVES ! " |
Show This to those Americans who LOST THEIR HOMES !!!
Chicago politics in Washington.
NOW THE LYING LIAR EXPOSED: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & HIS CRONIES
NOW thy are saying they NEVER blamed Libya on the film.
Never.
Really?
I heard Obuma say it at least 4 times WEEKS, after the murders.
I heard Hillary say it over and over.
I heard both of them BEG the heathens, for forgiveness. "It wasn't us" "please"
"We HATE the film."
Crying like the wimp Obuma is
They said MORE negative about the film than the rape and murder of our ambassador.
IMPEACH THEM
THEY LIED PEOPLE DIED
MK 44 . This is how it works. The Fed gives no cost money to the banks by the tens of billions each and every month and THEY buy oodles of Stocks with it instead of loaning it out to small businesses that inevitably go bust
Really?
A) I've seen him BOW to a heathen before. Look on the net for Obuma in heathen garb and BOWING like the wimp he is. RING ANY BELLS ?
B) Because no one ever saw him prayer - it doesn't mean he's not a closet Muslim.
C) We have his own words:
"I stand with Muslims if an ugly wind shifts"
THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME AND ANYONE ELSE WITHOUT AN AGENDA
Wave Dear Leader bye bye - He's done !
Actually the Taiwan immigration change is likely part of a larger strategy in managing China.
The U.S. is going to have to let Taiwan go to China. As the Taiwan is assimilated into the PRC system, the Taiwan citizens who don't want to live under the new "laws", will need somewhere to go.
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