Investing to Wealth

Filed under: Comfort Zone Investing, Headline news, Recession

Ted Allrich is the founder of The Online Investor and author of the book: Comfort Zone Investing: Build Wealth and Sleep Well at Night. In this weekly column, he'll offer advice to investors who are just getting started.

Two emotions run the stock market: fear and greed. We've seen greed hit its apex in the late 90's when some stocks with profits were selling at more than 100 times their earnings per share. Others had no earnings at all but lots of "eyeballs" (a new metric for dot com stocks). Unfortunately those eyeballs never got monetized, and many of those wonder stocks are names long forgotten. In hindsight, it's easy to ask: why would anybody buy those stocks?

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Comfort Zone Investing: Should you even be buying stocks? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.