How can one survive a recession?

Should one get out of the stock market and stay with cash? or should one invest in gold?
I am clueless.

Dont panick and pull... The stock market will bunce back it always does... If it doesnt we have problems far beyond money... However, having said that you should never put all your money in one place so make sure that you have a plan B in place

Invest in copper and avoid the ham tax

burn ure money

just sit it out

If you are worried about where to put your money then you are better off than most of the nation.

Hold on to your cash, do not make any unnecessary purchases and ride it out. That is a the safest. I personally would invest in nothing right now.

stay with cash and snatch up good deals on the stock market when every thing hits its all time low you might suffer a few years but it will pay off

My advice to you
>stay with the cash
>you may invest it in a bull stock and wait it out...
>u may pull your cash out and head home.

But if i were you , i would have taken the second option.

The longest recession I can recall is 10 months. Everyone can survive it. Hang onto nerves of steel and invest in the stock market, but diversify. Stick with blue chips on new purchases. Buy low, sell high. You know the mantra. You may be more comfortable investing in a mutual fund which spreads your money out over the market. Most of all, back to the nerves of steel, there has never been one decade since the beginning of the stock market, that anyone who has diversified has lost money when they just held on.

Edit: To avoid confusion, let me clarify that by "decade," I mean specific decades, not just any 10-year period. For example, the 1920s, 1960s. In other words, 1920-1930...1960-1970, etc.

Actually, unless you're versed in commodities trading, even gold at this point is risky. Of course, if you know how to trade in currencies via the Forex, you can make some money in shorting currency pairs, but only if you are very very careful. Otherwise, I would look to invest in notes or other types of paper. The equity markets are not finished in their corrections, and as 75% of all stocks follow their indices, you will only fail (unless, you are an avid short seller).

If you have stock in Pepsi, McDonalds, Microsoft, IBM, or any of the NASDAQ 100 , then don't sell your stock, keep them and don't let go of them. During a recession, a lot of stock drop in value but once the recession is over, the value will recover and eventually will be worth more in th future then when you first bought them.
To learn about what NASDAQ is go to : http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/reference/Inde...

When you own a piece of stock in a company, then you are a limited liability owner of that company. IN fact you have NO liability at all. That means, when a company goes out of business and has to sell all of it's assests, the company must pay back all it's dept to the banks or any type of creditors that leant money to that company. Typically when a company goes out business, it's due to them not making a profit and unable to pay its bills and unable to make it's payments to the bank that lent them the money to operate. Therefore, the business must Sell Off it's stuff and pay the bank. However, only the owners are stuck with the LIABILITY of having to pay the banks back. AS a STOCK holder, you are NOT held liable for paying back depts owned by the company. The only bad thing therefore is your stock will become a worthless piece of paper if the company goes out of buiness.

I've survived 2 so far. I am assuming that you have invested in good stocks. If so, just stay put. The storm will eventually subside.