Investor excitement is building.

Monday’s Wall Street Journal website reported, “… the fourth quarter is likely to mark the end of the earnings
recession. Operating earnings for companies in the S&P 500′s stock index are expected to nearly triple on a year-to-year
basis.”

That’s not all. The Dow’s continuing its march ahead, looking like it may top 11,000 before month’s end. In fact, Just pick a market
indicator; it seems like they’re all advancing: DJIA, NASDAQ, S&P500, FTSE 100, Nikkei, the list goes on and on…

Thousands of investors desperately hope it’s not too late to get in. So, here’s what you can do:

STOP!

Because if you’re in stocks right now, you’re like a sitting duck on a quiet pond. Sure, the calm water makes you think you’re
safe…

But, you have no idea what’s lurking just under the water’s surface, or what’s taking aim at you from shore.

For investors, it’s almost as bad.  Their dangers, however, come in the form of “inconvenient truths” like these, recently taken
from the pages of The Wall Street Journal.

Fact: The last time we had a rally of this
magnitude was in 1930, at the beginning of the Great Depression. The stock market skyrocketed up 48%… Then plunged a disastrous 86%!

For the rest of the depression, stocks whipsawed up and down through investor’s accounts with sharp gains and sharper declines! Much
like what’s around the corner now…

Fact: A similar style rally of 45% chugged through
the recession in 1974 — then ran out of steam, stranding hopeful stockholders, leaving them bitter with unfulfilled hopes. So…

Fact: Unemployment continues to hover at around 10%,
but the threat of an increase continues to loom month after month.

Fact: Home foreclosures are soaring to new highs
every month

Fact: Commercial foreclosures are ramping up to the
same rates as residential — and many of these companies are listed on the NYSE — which will cause stocks to tumble

Fact: For too many business profits have not
risen… so price to earnings are out-of-whack

Fact: We had 95 bank failures in 2009 — actually
MORE than 2008!

Fact: GDP has not shown consistent growth — so
there’s no economic reason for the market to be at these unsustainable levels…

So when history repeats itself, the reckoning will be harsh. Which is actually good news to my readers, because…