Originally Posted by BradM

The "market" isn't a great way to look at it. Look at individual companies on the rise.

What's your goal? Long term wealth, short term in and out?
Pepsi/coke etc are companies that will never die. I invested a bit in them and they will continue to grow for 20 years when you want to retire.

If you want wham bam thank you mam ... still depends on the individual stocks and what they do.

I personally think the bottom will hit at around 7600. At that point all consumer confidence will be gone and those houses on the market will be sold for DIRT. I would buy as much real estate as possible at that point and expect it to be 5-7 years for it to recover. But you'll do well.