MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO WAIT THINGS OUT: ALL MAJOR STOCK MARKET INDEXES HIGH AND ROUGHLY THE SAME IN TERMS OF RELATIVE OPPORTUNITY

Posted on by Joseph M. Brennan Jr.

For the first time in a lengthy period of time all of the major stock market indexes I track are roughly the same in terms of relative comparative analysis. So, everything seems a bit high right now and there is no comparative outlier in terms of compelling opportunities. To me this means it might be best to sit tight and wait for a pullback before putting additional money to work unless you’re a higher risk investor who tends to dollar cost average into the stock market on a regular basis.

I currently track each of the following major market indexes: S&P 500 index (e.g., SPY ETF), an equal-weighted version of the S&P 500 Index (e.g., RSP ETF), the Total Stock Market index (e.g., VTI ETF), the Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF Shares (VTV – value stocks of large companies), the Nasdaq (e.g., QQQ ETF), a Mid-Cap Stock Index ETF (e.g., IJH ETF), Russell 2000 index (e.g., IWM ETF), and the International Developed Market Index ETF (e.g., EFA ETF). The first seven are major U.S. based indexes, while the last one tracks international stocks of developed countries outside the U.S. and Canada.

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