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Re: Stock scream room

Post by pmward » Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:48 am

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From my perspective we are seeing Wall Street manipulating increased volatility to drive profits. Returns must be made and for insiders and professionals that is aided by increased volatility. The fact that market touched on January highs when the future prosperity of the world is hanging by a tenuous thread and suffering from historically high unemployment says to me that this is past the realm of irrational...there is gamesmanship going on.
Unemployment has actually been flat for over a month now. The increase in weekly initial claims has been made up for by the decrease in recurring claims (i.e. the people going back to work are making up for new job losses). In other words, for the moment, unemployment has peaked. If you look back at recessions in history, the stock market bottoms and starts going up usually a few weeks before the unemployment peak. It did the same here. This is nothing different than any other recession. The only difference is the speed it happened in. But from a historical standpoint, it's not irrational, it is following the same playbook it always has. In June 09 you probably would have said the same thing you are saying now and look how wrong you would have been. The market is forward looking, not backward or even present looking. If you are looking backwards, or even in the present, you are always going to be disconnected from the market. The market historically performs BEST when things are really bad, but looking slightly less bad going forward. If you wait for past looking economic data (that lags by 3-6 months) to catch up in order to feel safe you will always miss the boat. The stock market is the tail that wags the dog. When CEO's start seeing their stock price going back up, their confidence increases and they start to slow layoffs and even start hiring again.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Vil » Mon Jun 15, 2020 9:05 am

pmward wrote:
Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:48 am
The stock market is the tail that wags the dog.
Wondering how the appearances of new GI forum members and more forum hits relates to the stock market ..
Can recall Xan mentioned the hits increased during the worst market days in Feb/Mar. But guess if being any sort of indicator, sadly GI forum would be quite laggine one (for Boglers) ;D

PS. I am not a new GI forum member, I am here since 1st Jan 2020 hahahaha
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:08 pm

Stocks up on Russell changes, though the changes will happen June 29th.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by pmward » Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:48 pm

dualstow wrote:
Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:08 pm
Stocks up on Russell changes, though the changes will happen June 29th.
What changes? You mean the yearly reconstitution?
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:12 pm

pmward wrote:
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dualstow wrote:
Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:08 pm
Stocks up on Russell changes, though the changes will happen June 29th.
What changes? You mean the yearly reconstitution?
Yes, although I didn’t know that’s what it was called until you mentioned it.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by pmward » Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:47 pm

dualstow wrote:
Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:12 pm
pmward wrote:
Tue Jun 16, 2020 3:48 pm
dualstow wrote:
Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:08 pm
Stocks up on Russell changes, though the changes will happen June 29th.
What changes? You mean the yearly reconstitution?
Yes, although I didn’t know that’s what it was called until you mentioned it.
Ah, yeah they do that every year. Not a big deal. It's a poor time to hold any Russell based funds though, because people front run the reconstitution and that forces the index fund providers to have to basically pay to rebalance. I read somewhere that this costed the average Russell fund something like 1% every year vs the index. Russell indexes were made to be indexes not funds, haha.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:14 am

NASDAQ is at an all-time high.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by mathjak107 » Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:57 pm

So it looks like this is now the price for buying in to the 2021 and beyond economy ....the 2020 show is cancelled ....all tickets today are priced for next years shows
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Post by vnatale » Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:34 pm

mathjak107 wrote:
Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:57 pm
So it looks like this is now the price for buying in to the 2021 and beyond economy ....the 2020 show is cancelled ....all tickets today are priced for next years shows
Just to be clear you are NOT talking about "music" shows but making some form of analogy and referring to the pricing going on in the financial markets?

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Re: Stock scream room

Post by mathjak107 » Mon Jul 06, 2020 3:04 pm

Yep ...the stock market has pretty much closed the books on 2020 ....the prices we are at now get us in for the 2021 and beyond show
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:02 pm

Rebalanced out of an International Growth fund that has risen 25%+ YTD (top holdings include Alibaba, Tesla and Amazon - 11.4% in North America). Felt like the wrong move so hopefully its the right one ;D
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:18 pm

There was basically no point to getting out of the market before the crash. (I didn’t).
Amazing recovery. I’ve been trimming my vp, though.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:22 pm

dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:18 pm
There was basically no point to getting out of the market before the crash. (I didn’t).
Amazing recovery. I’ve been trimming my vp, though.
Seems logical to trim some gains on shares purchased during the decline (no tax implications). I convinced myself to at least rebalance to the more aggressive 80/20 stock allocation and not all the way back to 70/30.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:57 pm

buddtholomew wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:22 pm
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:18 pm
There was basically no point to getting out of the market before the crash. (I didn’t).
Amazing recovery. I’ve been trimming my vp, though.
Seems logical to trim some gains on shares purchased during the decline (no tax implications). I convinced myself to at least rebalance to the more aggressive 80/20 stock allocation and not all the way back to 70/30.
Oh yeah, trimming is often sensible. And I have to admit I was envious of Ocho when I learned that he did more than trim at just the right time. Envious no longer.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Xan » Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:42 pm

dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:57 pm
buddtholomew wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:22 pm
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:18 pm
There was basically no point to getting out of the market before the crash. (I didn’t).
Amazing recovery. I’ve been trimming my vp, though.
Seems logical to trim some gains on shares purchased during the decline (no tax implications). I convinced myself to at least rebalance to the more aggressive 80/20 stock allocation and not all the way back to 70/30.
Oh yeah, trimming is often sensible. And I have to admit I was envious of Ocho when I learned that he did more than trim at just the right time. Envious no longer.
Where is that guy? I hope he didn't get COVIDed.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:30 pm

Ocho started posting less frequently even before coronavirus hit. I hope it’s not my fault. I know he wasn’t happy with some of my posts about immigration and ICE happenings.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Tortoise » Sat Jul 11, 2020 1:43 pm

Last time I saw him here, he was threatening to quit his job since some of his coworkers were refusing to wear masks. So maybe he’s been busy with that.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Libertarian666 » Sat Jul 11, 2020 3:14 pm

dualstow wrote:
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Ocho started posting less frequently even before coronavirus hit. I hope it’s not my fault. I know he wasn’t happy with some of my posts about immigration and ICE happenings.
I put him on ignore quite awhile ago. He wouldn't discuss issues without irrelevancies due to TDS.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:24 am

I read most of it and don't understand how Buffett is a "predator" because he bought Amazon shares. In fact, besides the newspaper example, he really hasn't done anything wrong. The author has a beef with capitalism and and capitalism isn't perfect. What a weird target. But not because Buffett is folksy and friendly.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Wed Aug 26, 2020 3:06 pm

buddtholomew wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:22 pm
dualstow wrote:
Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:18 pm
There was basically no point to getting out of the market before the crash. (I didn’t).
Amazing recovery. I’ve been trimming my vp, though.
Seems logical to trim some gains on shares purchased during the decline (no tax implications). I convinced myself to at least rebalance to the more aggressive 80/20 stock allocation and not all the way back to 70/30.
Quoting myself here.
Updated AA in VP to 75/25 to SWAN.
I mean who has 50% gains in an International Growth fund...
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:25 pm

I ❤️ stocks.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Smith1776 » Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:37 pm

dualstow wrote:
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I ❤️ stocks.
Me too! :D

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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Cortopassi » Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:28 pm

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I've been rebalancing stocks down on this way up. Going against all the rules, but this run seems really out of whack.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kriegsspiel » Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:14 pm

I love stock, I've been investing in quite a bit recently. One day I hope to be a bouillonaire.
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