i agree with you.

index shares have limited risk/rewards ratios.

others may be a different kettle of fish altogether. If index shares make this 2% gain, the rest may be looking at multiples.

but certainly, i am prepared to sell all at anytime i think it is over.

All shifus, this is my first time going into equity, have been following all shifus' link threads closely.  Being buying into the S-chips too by spreading out the counters (just in case getting stuck), most of it are making reasonable & little margin except Abettera (not moving at all).

What should I do at coming week, based on all shifu's experiences in the market, should i reap the profit & get out of the equity market? or go on with it? Please kindly advise.

We are in very good company with our bearish outlook for the stock market.  Insiders at companies in the aggregate are still unloading their companies’ stock at the most rapid clip at least since October 2007, when the stock market peaked and the current, as-yet unfinished, second downleg of the Supercycle Bear Market started.  (endnote 1)

Insiders are those corporate officers, directors, major shareholders and others have an inside track on the future earnings outlook for their companies, as well on the relative attractiveness of the price of their companies’ stocks.  Insiders’ buying and selling activity is a particularly useful market indicator over the short term (weeks) to intermediate term (months), especially when used in conjunction with other market timing indicators.

Insiders normally sell about twice as many shares as they buy, since they receive shares of stock from their employers as part of their total compensation package and need to sell in order to get at the money.  However, in the five weeks ending August 12 and reported today, August 14, by the WSJ’s Market Data Center, insiders sold a whopping $2.2 billion and purchased only $62.2 million in their companies for a huge sell-to-buy ratio of 36:1, or 17 times normal (table below). 

Selling to buying in technology stocks was a huge 61:1, or 24 times normal.  And remember that technology stocks lead the market, so the insider selling in that sector is an extraordinarily bearish indicator for the direction of the stock market. 

This latest report, which includes insider activity when the S&P 500 index made its 1018 intraday high last Friday, in itself is another major sell signal for the stock market.  Taken together with the sell signals from insiders’ extremely high levels of net selling during the previous four weeks, the reconfirmation is an additional, extremely bearish signal.