> Every time they tease it then don't act, the market takes a plunge.

Pretty sure the order of events is flipped. Last few fed meetings have been preceded by one sort of terrible economic news or another. (Last time it was the China slowdown.)

They've been indicating for a while that they would raise rates sometime in the second half of 2015, but it's been pushed off because raising rates when markets are weak could instigate an economic meltdown.

Before I thought it should be obvious that the stock market would go up when rates drop, and vice versa. But I remember one day about 1-2 months ago, the market plunged after the Feds said they might hold off on raising the rates and there wasn't any new bad economic news for a week.

All over the news, pundits blamed it as a sign of weakness because the Feds didn't ignore the stock market chaos. And now the stock market is dropping again because a rate increase is becoming likely again.

Whether or not rates go up or down, the direction of the stock market seems to be controlled by emotion or big investors that have access to secret information. Retail investors like us seem to be powerless and doomed to just hold our stocks while waiting for a recovery that could take decades to occur.

> Every time they tease it then don't act, the market takes a plunge.

The market keeps plunging on expectations, and then rebounding after they don't raise interest rates.

You've got that backwards - a rate hike has a downward impact on equities, because they are priced in dollars.

Yes, it looks like my observations were a little off.

What looks more accurate is Fed teases rate hike, market plunges for un-related reasons, so Fed doesn't go through with the rate hike... and the cycle repeats.