Forbes Video: Why I'm Worried About U.S. Stocks, Catalano

By SIMON CONSTABLE

The trick with investing is always to buy assets that are undervalued and then patiently wait until their true value is appreciated by other investors. You buy low and then sell high. That’s the theory, anyway.

The question at the moment for many small investors is whether to jump headlong into stocks now that the economy is looking at least somewhat steadier. Maybe not, says Vinny Catalano, global investment strategist at Blue Marble Research.

He thinks that U.S. stocks look expensive by a number of different measures. Those measures include looking at the ratio of the stock prices to the earnings of the companies, as well as similar valuation methods. Catalan explains himself in this video. Watch, listen, and learn here.