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Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 2:00 pm
by ochotona
From my friend Lance Roberts:

"Last week, we further reduced equity risk further bringing exposures down to just 40% of our portfolios. On a rally to the 200-dma which fails, we will reduce risk more and add negative hedges to portfolios."

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2018 1:17 am
by boglerdude
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dsh ... n-6-25-mom

Why would you loan someone money to buy stocks?

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 4:10 pm
by ochotona
The stock market drop today was epic. It was like when a newborn baby's poo migrates out of the their diaper and up their back. Yechhh.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:36 pm
by Kbg
ochotona wrote:
Tue Dec 04, 2018 4:10 pm
The stock market drop today was epic. It was like when a newborn baby's poo migrates out of the their diaper and up their back. Yechhh.
Actually only #10 most volatile this year...I think I heard that Bloomberg (mute if wrong)

However, A+ on the visuals!!! LOL

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:00 pm
by ochotona
The Schwab talking heads - Randy Frederick, Liz Ann Sonders, Kathy Jones... are getting really bearish. If you read their tweets, you get a sense of this.

@lizannsonders
@randyafrederick
@kathyjones

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 1:39 pm
by Tortoise
If they had predicted the timing of the stock market downturn in advance, then I'd be impressed.

Just about anybody can look at a stock market graph and say, "Yup, sure looks like the graph has been sloping down for the past month or two," and then tell a story that rationalizes why it might continue to go down for a while.

::)

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 1:42 pm
by dualstow
Yep. I love that people can make a living off of it.
Turns out you *can* profit from predictions, but only if you are the predictor. And you don't have to be right!

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:16 pm
by Cortopassi
My rebalance for Jan has turned from cash going into about 50% bonds and 50% gold and selling some stocks to

6% bonds, 17% gold and 75% stocks.

I'm not sure I like the turn of this....

My PP at a low for the year now.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:46 pm
by Xan
Cortopassi wrote:
Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:16 pm
My PP at a low for the year now.
They have medicine for that now. :-)

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:52 pm
by dualstow
Xan wrote:
Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:46 pm
Cortopassi wrote:
Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:16 pm
My PP at a low for the year now.
They have medicine for that now. :-)
That crosses my mind every damn time I use pp in a sentence. O0

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:20 pm
by Cortopassi
dualstow wrote:
Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:52 pm
Xan wrote:
Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:46 pm
Cortopassi wrote:
Wed Dec 19, 2018 3:16 pm
My PP at a low for the year now.
They have medicine for that now. :-)
That crosses my mind every damn time I use pp in a sentence. O0
HAH!

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:36 pm
by Smith1776
It’s funniest when people are arguing about the strategy and keep saying “PP” in the middle of a bunch of serious statements. ;D

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 12:31 am
by ochotona
A lot of the stock market selling he's going to turn out to be tax-loss harvesting. people talk about a Santa Claus rally but the Santa Claus rally really doesn't statistically take place until after Christmas.

Postscript Dec 25 - Lance Roberts looking for 2620-2650 as a possible oversold rally target.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:09 pm
by whatchamacallit
Wow. Up 5% today. Great example of reason to never get out of market. Even for a day.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:10 pm
by dualstow
whatchamacallit wrote:
Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:09 pm
Wow. Up 5% today. Great example of reason to never get out of market. Even for a day.
+1. Time in the market not timing the market.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 11:23 pm
by Cortopassi
Not every day you see 1000 points, wow.

Still, my rebalance is now buy 98% stocks, a sliver of bonds, and actually selling gold. Interesting.

We'll see what that looks like when I really will rebalance in early Jan after contributing to my IRAs.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:42 am
by Kriegsspiel
dualstow wrote:
Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:10 pm
whatchamacallit wrote:
Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:09 pm
Wow. Up 5% today. Great example of reason to never get out of market. Even for a day.
+1. Time in the market not timing the market.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170911171 ... -time.html

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:48 am
by dualstow
I took a look. While I agree with the author that holding stocks long term does not magically alleviate risk and turn them into bonds, it is the only way to fly if you are going to hold stocks at all. I mean I would rather shun equities altogether rather than try to time. How bout you?
Kriegsspiel wrote:
Thu Dec 27, 2018 8:42 am
dualstow wrote:
Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:10 pm
whatchamacallit wrote:
Wed Dec 26, 2018 3:09 pm
Wow. Up 5% today. Great example of reason to never get out of market. Even for a day.
+1. Time in the market not timing the market.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170911171 ... -time.html

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 9:22 am
by Kriegsspiel
My objective is to have enough assets I don't have to worry about it.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:35 am
by ochotona
Ned Davis Research, in their monthly outlook, has lowered the stock allocation for their portfolio for risk averse investors to 40%. Normally it's 55%. This is the most cautious they've been since the GFC of 2008.

"On December 20, we reduced our recommended stock allocation by 10% and shifted it to bonds in our balanced account strategy. We have reached the downside extreme of what we would ever recommend for stock allocation, which has ranged from 40% to an upside limit of 70% since first constraining the allocation in 2008."

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:29 pm
by Kriegsspiel
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The Buffet Indicator is at 130. My total stock allocation right now is just under 50%.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 2:23 pm
by dualstow
Dow is now out of correction territory.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:41 pm
by ochotona
Is the U.S. Stock Market Bubble Bursting? A New Model Suggests “Yes”

GMO White Paper, Marn Tarlie, January 2019

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx16Ir ... sp=sharing

Key Points
■ A new model suggests that from early 2017 through much of 2018, the U.S. stock market was a bubble.
■ Driven by negative changes in sentiment, the bubble started to deflate in the fourth quarter of 2018, in spite of strong fundamentals.
■ Our advice, consistent with our portfolio positions established in Q1 2018 – as usual, we were early – is to own as little U.S. equity as your career risk allows.

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:19 am
by boglerdude
Bulls dont die of old age. Where's the malinvestment? China could poop the bed. Oil could go up, if high rates squeeze frackers

Re: Stock scream room

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:59 am
by ochotona
boglerdude wrote:
Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:19 am
Bulls dont die of old age. Where's the malinvestment? China could poop the bed. Oil could go up, if high rates squeeze frackers
Malinvestment... Everything?

Buying back shares with covenant lite BBB corporate debt (wink) instead of property, plant, equipment, R&D?