The stock markets aren't happy with the election results.

Hahaha. I don't have many hills of gold. Remember I'm divorced twice and have 3 kids. My child support it $5,175 and I'm in a nice BULLSHIT tax bracket; without any "write off" for that child support.

 

Third times the charm!

When are you back in town, Mags? I want updates on your research.

 

Time to update this thread?

 

I'm coming next month. March 10th-18th

 

With what?

 

as has been said, once the fed stops pumping and raises interest rates, the markets will fall back to earth and then some. this bubble is nothing more of wealthy investors getting a free ride on the government's dime. recent sell offs have been in response to hints that the party of fed infusion may be tapering off.

 

Well the idea behind the thread is the market is some kind of reaction of election results. If true, I guess the market likes the election results?

We sure haven't had the doomsday in the market some predicted would happen with Obama in office.

 

of course not. They're still keeping interest rates near zero and continuing pumping billions into the economy every month to keep it afloat. The "temporary fix" has become the new normal. When the new normal becomes the old normal, then shit will get mad real.

watch what happens to Japan in the next few months. preview of coming attractions.

 

seems like a smart person could capitalize on such an inevitable decline in the stock market

 

I know, I know . . . doomsday coming soon!

 

Yeah, why do you think the DOW is so high? Investors riding the bubble. They will abandon it all at once when it pops and it'll be messy. Right after the election, Bernanke and the FED went and started jerking the markets off again by having more Easing, this time open ended and tying it to the unemployment rate (wtf). $40b a month and then some....

market has reacted last week to hints that the fed may finally ease up on QE....which triggered a sell off late last week.

 

totally healthy economy, bro.

[video=youtube;6ZrdOw-FjeI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrdOw-FjeI[/video]

 

You and I must have missed the post-November national election and its stock market reaction.

 

No you didn't miss anything, election results haven't changed, Obama is still the president, which must means the stock market is still way down because the stock markets aren't happy with the election results, and the results haven't changed.

 

interestingly enough then, the sequester that's going to fuck up TSA and let criminals on the street is one month of the new QE passed after the election. :MARIS61:

 

You're kidding right? Did you see the market reaction at just the hint that the QE might be reduced? This market is completely artificial.

 

I think you should really understand the market though. The Dow is down from time of election, FYI. There are new laws waiting to be passed that haven't. There was a moment yesterday when there was a notion that there would be a tax hike and the Dow went to shit.

If you don't believe the Market is mainly speculative, then you just don't understand the market. There are reasons why a company with a high P/E still drops because someone sold off half their shares. Sometimes a hedge is taking profits, but the market sees it as some sign the stock will fall dramatically. That is speculative!

 

Basically the looming threat at that time was this "fiscal cliff" and what to do. What did Obama do? He kicked the can down the road and now its called the "sequester" and he'll scare everyone and then kick the can down the road a little more and more until we reach the end of the road. There is no recovery, everything that's happened has essentially been kicking the can down the road. You can't do it forever.

 

It will happen, but timing it is the difficult part.

I was all long until last Thursday. I started building up a short position today. I would be wrong this time. If so, I'll cut the losses and try again.