Can you count? Market cap went up more than 1 trillion in the US, QE2 was 600 billion, a lot of which probably went towards EM. Stupid retail guys...
You should be nicer to your beary friends here at this forum. After all it's thanks to people like me and the OP that the market can still rise ;)...
Well, no, I'll agree that it's impossible to predict the economy with any form of real certainty (i.e. it's always dependent upon human nature...
You seem to think you're smarter than the bears but your only arguments are: -Stock prices have gone up dramatically and the last time you looked...
I've already mentioned on this thread I am permabear-biased, there is no need to re-iterate this. On a MoM basis I don't disagree that current...
Yup, that's what I said, but you're still better off not trading and waiting for the market to be more accomodating most likely. Unfortunately...
The retail trading portion of the market is not large enough for the banks to lift immense amounts of money from them - They mostly lift money...
I wonder if this is a common human trait and what causes it and how to prevent it. Some talk about "shorting the pullback" and so forth. Of course...
Yes. 1) Rate hike (fear of) - More hawkish members on FOMC this year 2) Muni bond market collapse because a) investors will be getting margin...
Right. This'll be my one and only top call. The top is between now and 15 points on the S&P (so it will top out b4 1305). I really hate making top...
haha. Good luck picking bottoms once the bear market commences.
Going by the COT, institutions are massively short while the FED has printed not nearly enough $$ to justify current price levels, so what is...
Yes, China seems to be a much more prudent, wise and I dare say enlightened state at this point. (Yes I know they resolve internal issues with...
Well f*ck me I'm a pretty convinced bear but this market has me convinced we are going up now, so at least I stopped picking tops. I'm in Europe...
Ok, well, hat's off to any succesful CL trader. I think it's scary and unpredictable. I'm more of a position trader anyway. Tried daytrading,...
Randomness is a choice? hahaha. Dude. I've never really heard of a consistently profitable CL daytrader (swing trader yes of course, but...
Given the way intelligence and other relevant factors are distributed (normal) it's also unlikely that the division will be anywhere near equal...
Yup most likely.
Been saying that for weeks. Not only this, but also insider selling, short commercial interests, the economy is not really recovering and the...
I think the argument is much easier from both a psychological/animal spirits p.o.v. (unfortunately Alan Greenspan agrees so that takes away some...
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