Fears

: To find some direction in this rudderless market, ask yourself three questions: 1) What scares me 2) What can I actually do about it 3) Would that solution eliminate my fears or just shift my worries from what scares me now to what is likely to scare me next The idea here is to get a better understanding of risk, because your ability to withstand risk — or to balance it out — will go a long way to determining what, if anything, you do to allay your fears now, according to Market Watch. Truthfully, if you built a diversified portfolio to begin with, you took all of these same fears into consideration at the start, which is why most experts suggest riding out turbulent times in place, without giving in to the sum of your fears. It a logical reaction at a time when you can talk to strangers or neighbors or friends or financial advisers and come away convinced that everyone is flummoxed by the market terrible start to the year and what it portends going forward. Barron Buzz: Time to buy the banks Barron editor Jack Otter and senior editor Jack Hough preview this week Barron magazine, including why it may be time to buy bank stocks. Say your biggest fear is a market meltdown, and the way you think you can allay that fear is to pull all your money from the market. Also, why investors may want to give some tech stocks in the Nasdaq 100 a second look. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.