SHORT EVERYTHING!!!
Posted on 09/28/2015 6:25:25 AM PDT by xzins
Computer programs now in place prevent big one day crashes from taking place. The result is that the big financial managers are given time to shift their holdings as they manage a steady decline. All the while, small investors are told to hold steady and play the long term game. Who knows if that’s good advice or not?
PING!
Can’t argue with your post, and observations.
Much that goes on does not make sense.
Would appreciate sage advice for near as possible sure thing ethical investment recommendations yielding good honest returns..
“I think a correction is underway, but we’re NOT going to have a rapid, steep decline because money managers are shifting assets around to avoid what happened in 2008.”
I agree. It’s going to be a slow, drawn out and painful descent, much like being pecked to death by chickens or eaten alive by fire ants!
Money Managers, The Fed and anyone ELSE playing ‘Footsie’ with OUR MONEY have theirs, so screw the rest of us.
*SPIT*
Obuma says he has made this Country solid, there is NO problem with jobs, there is no problem with money, there is no problems with other countries, in fact, he called the ISIS a ‘JV’ team...
Do you really believe that the gutless media is going to say anything that is REALLY going on????
Some people can be mighty stupid......
The German decline is what has me most concerned. China's 40% drop is huge, it cannot be overlooked.
But the German decline has been ignored or hidden or both. They are the financial foundation of Europe. If Asia and South America go into recession, then maybe the US could weather that. But not if Europe follows suit.
It is the nature of markets to go up and down. First the price is unjustifiably low, then it is unjustifiably high. That is what happens when humans trade stocks.
The US Dept. of Agriculture hides the fact that it is now the National Food Stamp Agency, with most of its budget dedicated to welfare. It will never be allowed to close because over 50 million depend on EBT cards to eat or to sell on the black market for drugs, prostitutes, and guns. As in all government agencies doling out billions of our tax dollars, there is absolutely no control over the corruption that is endemic in all federal programs.
I always look to Charisma News for my stock market advice.;-)
Every upper middle class doctor, engineer, and lawyer I know is counting on buying the right real estate instead of investing in the stock market. They have a point. Income plus potential appreciation plus real ownership. Lots of advisors absolutely don’t like real estate. But these friends will reply to the advisors that they are speaking about ‘the RIGHT real estate’.
I don’t know real estate, so I don’t know what is ‘right’ and what isn’t.
“Would appreciate sage advice for near as possible sure thing ethical investment recommendations yielding good honest returns.”
My strategy has been:
Get myself out of debt; consumer first, then pay like heck on the farm mortgage.
Buy land if you can.
Take advantage of EVERY pre-tax dollar vehicle you can through your employer should you be lucky enough to still be employed.
Buy PHYSICAL Gold & Silver as a hedge. Nothing on paper. You need to hold it in your hot little hands!
Bullets, Beans and Gasoline. Prep, prep, prep!
I’ve been at this for about 14 years now; have lost very little in the markets (blue chips mainly and a mix of international, some bonds) and G & S filled in those gaps. I’m selling our Little Farm and retiring to our Big Farm at the end of this year to farm until we starve to death or they smoke us out, LOL!
Since 19MAY2015 the Dow Jones, when it was at a high of 18312.39, has lost over 2,100 points as of today. That’s something like 11.5%.
“over 50 million depend on EBT cards to eat or to sell on the black market”
Those EBT cards should really be called dEBT cards!
I hesitated, too, but the reports on various countries is information that isn’t being consolidated and presented in any concise way that I’ve seen other than in this article.
It was very close to dropping below 16000 last week. The Volkswagen crash (more pressure on Germany) and the Caterpillar decline (signals weakening large building projects) will take it below 16 in my opinion.
I don’t see the stock market crash of the last year of Bill Clinton. It was around April of 2000 when the markets went into freefall and Clinton did nothing to try and stop it.
The new computer system won’t allow it. I think they shut down at a 3% or 5% decline in any one day. (I don’t remember the exact number...sorry.)
Who does that benefit IF the decline is going to continue? Answer: those who have huge amounts to shift and the ability to quickly shift them. Just my opinion.
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