This is an amazing read and chart, via Barry Ritholtz, showing the current percentage of assets allocated to equities. It's an ugly picture, but also shows we might be at the bottom (or very near it) of the sell off. BTW, this is the worst percentage decline of the stock market since the Crash of 1929 (see the second link).
Individual stock allocations: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/individual-investor-stock-allocations/
Comparison of percentage declines in the stock market: http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/11/graph-worst-crash-since-great.html
Chart of The Day: Investor Stock Allocation
Chart of The Day: Investor Stock Allocation
nowhere else to go but up.
there's no such thing as a negative number so the downward risk is a finite one...upwards is infinite
there's no such thing as a negative number so the downward risk is a finite one...upwards is infinite
