Seven Reasons Not to Invest in the Stock Market in 2010

Year-end is high season for stock market predictions. When to get in, what stocks to buy, whether to buy gold and on and on.

Can you name a single "guru" who told investors to get out of the markets before the crash of 2008 -- andto buy back in before the recovery of 2009? If the talking heads can't call the worst recession since the Great Depression and one of the fastest recoveries in 80 years, why should you rely on their current predictions?