Cramer: Sure, Buffett Can Afford to Buy Here

Stock quotes in this article: GE , QCOM , NOK  

This is simple arithmetic.

These buys are of absolutely no consequence to him whatsoever. He may very well make fortunes on his buys. And he has waited until stocks are down.

But are you Warren Buffett? Are you as rich as he is that you don't need to worry about those big purchases? If you are, I say bombs away. Go with him.

If you are not, consider that, if you followed him with GE and then followed him today with this New York Times picks and those prices fell as much as GE did, you would be in a real jam.

Look, the easiest thing to do at all times is to say, "Stay the course." It's a natural. It is a terrific, easy strategy that can never be refuted ever because at no point are you ever wrong.

Ever.

I repeat, Buffett is the house. He is the casino. He can have whole months, even years, where he can get clobbered by the drop.

Can you?

Random musings: I think the futures should not have been down big this morning. That smelled like another S&P liquidation from still one more hedge fund. I continue to believe that tech leads us. Qualcomm (QCOM Quote), which I own for Action Alerts PLUS, should trade with Nokia (NOK Quote), which put on a pretty good face.

At the time of publication, Cramer was long General Electric and Qualcomm.

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