{"id":479,"date":"2014-10-07T23:42:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrismiles.wphelp.ninja\/2014\/10\/07\/y2k-15\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T19:50:51","slug":"y2k-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Y2K&#8230;15?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Haven&#8217;t the last 5 years been nice?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Has your 401k or IRA finally recovered it&#8217;s losses from the previous 9 years?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong>If so, good! It&#8217;s about time! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">It&#8217;s nice to see investment balances up a little better than they were 15 years ago, right? (We won&#8217;t mention how a CD would have made you more money)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Is it possible that the next year, two, or three, could rob you of your gains?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">I&#8217;m going on a limb and making a prediction. Of course I can&#8217;t tell the future, but I can recognize patterns from years of stock market experience. In fact, I trained over 200 students how to trade stocks and options and watch for patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PREDICTION<\/span>:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>We&#8217;ll see down years in 2015 and 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RECOMMENDATION<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><\/strong><strong>I legally can&#8217;t give you one, especially since I&#8217;m guessing and because I&#8217;m no longer licensed to tell you where to put your retirement funds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Also, each of you have unique circumstances and I would have to know your situation better before referring you to my investment advisor for better options.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong>I will warn you that whenever people become complacent about their money in retirement accounts, don&#8217;t get worried, and are actually excited, that&#8217;s the exact time many lose a lot in their accounts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Why am I convinced there will be a Y2K15?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><\/strong>Because history tends to repeat itself in the markets, especially when political decisions are being made. Also, have you noticed that the market hasn&#8217;t gone down for awhile? Guess when the market looked similar to when it does now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">See the S&amp;P 500 chart below&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-478\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" alt=\"SP500Chart 1994ThruOct2014\" src=\"https:\/\/qax.bwr.mybluehost.me\/moneyripples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_SP500Chart_1994ThruOct2014.png\" height=\"245\" width=\"600\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Notice 1994 to 2000?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">It went up for 6 years in a row, and then down 3 years. It wasn&#8217;t until 2007 (4 years in a row) when it barely hit the highs of 2000&#8230;and then it went down again for 2 more years, and finally hit 2000&#8217;s highs in 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">So up for 6 years, down for 3 years. Up for 4 years, down for 2 years, right? It&#8217;s pretty typical to see twice as many &#8220;up&#8221; years as there are &#8220;down&#8221; years.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Guess what? If 2014 stays near where it is, this will be the 6th year in a row that the market went up, just like the mid-late 1990&#8217;s before we hit Y2K!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Could we be at, or near, the top of the market right now?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Could NOW be the best time to find OTHER WAYS to make your retirement money increase in case of future down years?<\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">My hope is that when it does happen, and it will at some point, that you will be quick to act and find other ways to make money rather than waiting ANOTHER 7-13 years to make your money back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Note: I was typing this when the market was just starting to decline that day from 17,000 points. We&#8217;ll see how this plays out.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t the last 5 years been nice? Has your 401k or IRA finally recovered it&#8217;s losses from the previous 9 years? If so, good! It&#8217;s about time! It&#8217;s nice to see investment balances up a little better than they were 15 years ago, right? (We won&#8217;t mention how a CD would have made you more <a href=\"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/?p=479\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Y2K&#8230;15?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-and-podcasts"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash-300x218.jpg",300,218,true],"large":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false],"tf-client-image-size":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",120,87,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false],"bloom_image":["https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/images_Stock Market Crash.jpg",480,348,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Chris Miles","author_link":"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/author\/chris"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/moneyripples.com\/money-ripples-st\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Blog and Podcasts<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Haven&#8217;t the last 5 years been nice? 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