Just checked that demand vs supply on Safaricom and things things really look thick...

considering the bear at hand due to cgt terrorism dollar and the rest its time to try other businesses or lay a low profile which other business can one do ?

@subaru You asked a question and in that question you revealed the real reason why majority of dabblers in stock investing will never make money. I assume you want to make money, right? Good! Now let's assume that you a farmer. And it's april. All around its wet weather, other farmers are planting and no one is harvesting and making deliveries to the market. Do you (a) go round saying, now that nobody is harvesting, what other business can one do? or (b) join the other farmers in planting. Obviously based on your question, you want to do other business, maybe buy a few quails or go on holiday (lay a low profile in your words). Now come November, on your way to market you will see farmers making their deliveries to the market and you will suddenly want to be a farmer again. The only tiny problem is that you did not want to be a farmer when it was planting time. Moral of the story, rethink your understanding of how the stock market works or you will lose money as others get rich. This is planting time

The stock has no feelings about you

The Market

Views on the market and where it's going?

I have no idea were the market is going to go. I prefer it going down. But my preferences have nothing to do with it. The market knows nothing about my feelings. That is one of the first things you have to learn about a stock. You buy 100 shares of General Motors (GM). Now all of a sudden you have this feeling about GM. It goes down, you may be mad at it. You may say, "Well, if it just goes up for what I paid for it, my life will be wonderful again." Or if it goes up, you may say how smart you were and how you and GM have this love affair. You have got all these feelings. The stock doesn't know you own it.

The stock just sits there; it doesn't care what you paid or the fact that you own it. Any feeling I have about the market is not reciprocated. I mean it is the ultimate cold shoulder we are talking about here. Practically anybody in this room is probably more likely to be a net buyer of stocks over the next ten years than they are a net seller, so everyone of you should prefer lower prices. If you are a net eater of hamburger over the next ten years, you want hamburger to go down unless you are a cattle producer. If you are going to be a buyer of Coca-Cola and you don't own Coke stock, you hope the price of Coke goes down. You are looking for it to be on sale this weekend at your Supermarket. You want it to be down on the weekends not up on the weekends when you tend the Supermarket.

The NYSE is one big supermarket of companies. And you are going to be buying stocks, what you want to have happen? You want to have those stocks go down, way down; you will make better buys then. Later on twenty or thirty years from now when you are in a period when you are dis-saving, or when your heirs dis-save for you, then you may care about higher prices. There is Chapter 8 in Graham's Intelligent Investor about the attitude toward stock market fluctuations, that and Chapter 20 on the Margin of Safety are the two most important essays ever written on investing as far as I am concerned. Because when I read Chapter 8 when I was 19, I figured out what I just said but it is obvious, but I didn't figure it out myself. It was explained to me. I probably would have gone another 100 years and still thought it was good when my stocks were going up. We want things to go down, but I have no idea what the stock market is going to do. I never do and I never will. It is not something I think about at all.

When it goes down, I look harder at what I might buy that day because I know there is more likely to be some merchandise there to use my money effectively in.

thanks for the ideas any other ideas available to help a wazuan survive this BEAR