Stocks: What To Buy After A Bear Market

When there is a problem in markets, when there is a bear market for instance, you can make a lot of money coming out the other side if you own the companies and the stocks that came through the period unimpaired, the companies that earnings keep going up through the hard times. These are the companies that lead the recovery on the other side. (SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Gold: Not Rushing To Buy

I am not rushing in to buy. I still expect a better opportunity to buy sometime in the next 2 or 3 years. If that happens I hope I am smart enough to buy more. (SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF(NYSE:GDX), iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Markets: Looking To Buy A Russian Tourism Company

I am looking for more investments in Russia. I am trying to buy into a Russian tourism company because I am optimistic about Russian tourism. More people are coming to understand that Russia ((Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (RSX)) is a good place to invest. Russia is not a huge debt nation, it is not like Portugal or the United States. (PSI 20 Index, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Avoiding The Urge To Trade All The Time

If you are not seeing any extremes, its best to fight the natural urge to stay busy and make "this-might-kinda-work" trades. These trades will just distract you, cause stress, and run up your commission bill.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

A Fundamentally Sound, Hated Market

I cannot think of any stock market right now that is more hated than the Russian stock market (Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (RSX)). I have learned over the years that if you buy something that is really hated especially if it is fundamentally sound, you are probably going to do OK.

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Stock Market: Only A Few Generals Are Holding The Market Up

Often you find in markets that marginal companies start going down first and in the end its really just a few generals that are leading the charge. Most stocks are going down but because the generals are big they hold the market up and people thing everything is OK but the Advance/Decline line is deteriorating. I have seen it many times and it has been happening in the U.S. in the last year or two. Last year only one third of the NYSE stocks were up. (Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX), Amazon (AMZN))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Investing: Russian Ruble, Short-Term Russian Government Bonds

I bought the Russian Ruble recently, one of the beaten down currencies. What I actually did, I bought short-term government bonds in Rubles. They have a high interest rate and if the Ruble goes up I will get a double play. (Market Vector Russia ETF Trust (RSX))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.