How deep is the bottom of this investment market?

If the market is turning to bearish; at what point this year will the market bottom out?

Is anyone planning to load up on stocks at that point?

Who says it would bottom out this year? Or next? Nobody can say that.

To a get a "general" idea of what happened during the last recession, take a look at these charts: http://www.financialsense.com/editorials...

Surely this recession won't follow the same patterns. But you can use that chart to get some general idea.

Just remember not to place much "hope" on something happening when you expect it to. History has a lot of examples of bear markets occurring for long and unpredictable amounts of time.

Someone who had purchased stocks prior to the crash of 1929, would have waited 25 years before breaking even.

Keep that in mind. Do you want to buy stocks this year when you "think" the market has bottomed, only to find out later it didn't really bottom.

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Bout here.

Buy low, buy high, buy buy buy

I don't know where the bottom or top is, and I don't care. I continue to buy using dollar cost averaging in a well diversified portfolio.

Don't pay attention to the media which is more than happy to tell you it is raining when they are standing outside holding an umbrella.

Market in India will remain volatile and profit booking will
continue. April 2008 onward it will pick up it will not fall below
18000 mark.

How deep is immaterial. Look for the fundamentals of shares, buy on dips and sell on highs, make sure u get sufficient gain.

No one knows how "deep" the stock market will go. The stock market continues to confound all the experts for the simple reason that it's impossible to predict the future. There's been a lot of selling, so lots of people have lots of cash and I can tell you that all of them are planning on loading up on stocks when they think the market reaches a bottom.

My advice: look at the prices for individual stocks, and when they become screaming bargains, consider buying. The bottom of the market as a whole will not coincide with the bottom for each individual stocks. Some sectors, such as materials and energy and heavy construction, probably have a lot longer to fall. Other sectors may be near a bottom already.

When you think a bottom has been reached, ease your way in slowly. There's many a false or sucker's rally on the way down. If it is really the bottom, then you'll have plenty of opportunity to buy.

People have been trying to call tops and bottoms since stock markets began. Its still more of an art than a science. Tops and bottoms can only be clearly seen in hindsight.