Other 401k's

The median 401k account is about $18.5k. And that is right now after a 5 year bull market, so half of that could be gone in a year.

I plan on having that much after the first 2 years but most of these other people must have accounts older than that.  To me, its crazy how people invest so poorly.  Im putting $5k in my account each year.  But thats easy for me to say.  I have been really interested in trading for almost 8 years now.  Most never learn more than what I learned in my first few months.

Some people may not put in as much as I do or they may put in much more.  Percentage gain is best to compare, if it were possible.  But if I can grow my account larger than the median within a few years, then that means my account could double every 3 years or so.  My account growth would be steep.

Competition is not fierce, its scarce.

German Union

After two world wars Germany learned they should take over europe economically...is that a word?  The EU is basically a half-ass version of the united states of europe.  But its half-ass on purpose.  Germany got  everyone to buy more german goods while germany produces more goods.  The overall efficiency of this has kept and or created wealth in europe but most of the benefit is felt in Deutschland.   The eu is keeping countries like spain, greece and eastern europe in a stagnant recession permanently.  Either the eu will fade away over time or it will become the united states of europe, an actual nation.  It cant stay the same.  Once eastern europeans who remember communism die, the people will more likely understand how the germans are screwing them over.

Tesla

Tesla is struggling to sell their expensive luxury cars in china, where hardly anyone can afford a $100k car and almost everyone lives in apartments with no plugs outside.

Picasso

A picasso painting l'femme d'alger is estimated to sell for $140 million, a record.  Sounds like a market crash is coming.

Out-there corporate ideas

Another confirmation that the economy is at a top, large companies are going public with unusually bold plans to expand.

Nintendo wants to start making cell phones.
Apple might make a car.

401k

There are 3 different stocks that I would buy in my 401k.

A total bond market fund- rising
A total stock market fund- peak
Cameron stock (oil ind.)- valley

I will keep buying cameron until the total stock market fund drops about 40% or so.  then i will buy that.  I will sell CAM when it is atleast $90 since im buying it around $45.

I will try to constantly buy low and only sell high.  Im not sure what I will buy if all 3 are high but maybe I could add a 4th, the stable value fund.

Buy buy buy

Wish I could buy the euro, its at 12 year lows today, dang.

The euro is almost equal to the usd.  This has happened from the perfect storm of a crash in oil prices, problems with greece and ukraine, ecb will buy over a trillion in bonds, currently a strong-sounding american economy with low unemployment (also cuz of low oil prices, even with layoffs in the oil industry).  Buy eur/usd like a maniac if u can.  there is no fundamental change anywhere, just a big hiccup from the oil sell-off and thats almost over.

Buy at 1.10 or lower, could sell at 1.50 within within a few years if u want to wait that long.

Startups

Too many people are interested in startups, or new companies.  There is excess money and time.