Posted on 02/07/2018 2:31:29 PM PST by SMGFan
In the “old days,” when good news was reported, the Stock Market would go up. Today, when good news is reported, the Stock Market goes down. Big mistake, and we have so much good (great) news about the economy!
9:59 AM - 7 Feb 2018
That’s because good news leaks out or is spread to insiders beforehand causing the price to go up. Then they sell when the news is made public. Its called “buy the rumor, sell the news”.
In the “old days” ( prior to 1987 ! ), actual, for real, warm bodied PEOPLE made the decisions re what to buy & sell! Were there times when the old “herd mentality” also took over? Yes, of course it did; however, now, a very large portion of trades are done by MACHINE PROGRAMS, which is why the markets going up or down, make almost NO sense at all.
No; that’s NOT the case nor why the markets now act weirdly most of the time.
I think he’s subtly calling MSM out and Soros types for talking it down...
Mr Trump is a real estate guy, not a stock market trader....
Rather simplistic statement and not always true. If the economy gets too hot it creates concerns about inflation and rising interest rates and movement from stocks to bonds. The stock market is a multiple variable equation and quite complex. It has done quite well since Trump was elected but markets won't keep going up forever.
The Donald set himself up for this one. He kept touting the record high stock market and now he gets the blame for when it falls.
Truth is neither were his doing. The stock market has been a house of cards for years now.
Perhaps he was trying to say that there is more good news than bad ... the good news should outweigh the bad. The market shouldn’t go into convulsions over rising interest rates ... all the good news (rising wages, rising profits, lower taxes,etc) should balance/ outweigh that.
The stock market has often sold off on economic “good news” for as long as I can remember.
A lot of it has to do with money being moved to more attractive investments.
I don’t think major market moves are that nefarious; it’s more likely that the good economic news is going to cause the Fed to raise interest rates, which causes distress in the stocks markets.
Interest rates have been ridiculously low for a very long time. The Obama stock rally was completely built on extremely low interest rates and HUGH gov bailouts. Nothing else.
The Trump stock rally will have much more solid economic footing.
This selloff is a healthy, natural pullback.
Good time to buy.
One person’s good news is another person’s negative news.
i think a lot of people don’t realize all the trillions that were pumped into the economy over the last 10 years. Most of it was borrowed money and it had no where else to go when interest rates were zero.
Yellen speaking about the 33 P/E was the truth that spooked the market. For decades 10/20 P/E was normal but cash continued flowing into the market because it simply had nowhere else to go.
Now that the economy is truly growing and inflation/wages are rising and interest rates rise. We shall see what happens with all that Obama fiat money.
Wages are so depressed, unions dead and the labor market flooded there is zero chance of wage inflation.
Our financial advisor is expecting several up-to-10% “corrections” this year. We are in what they call the “Euphoria” stage of this nine year bull market.
Even with todays market price, Earnings and EPS are still tracking quite nicely.
You have to be poised to buy because the dips don’t last very long.
The Leftist Media Complex begged for the stock market to collapse. You could taste their pleasure at seeing millions lose their wealth. They are our Enemies, they are communist scum.
Yellen did her best to sabotage the market on her last day and she succeeded. She is an obama toadie and hates Trump and real Americans.
I am glad she is gone. The market will bounce back.
This is true. All my cash was tied up and I couldn’t place some big buys I wanted to on the dip.
Saw an article that pretty much said nobody really knows what the actual triggers are these days....I’m still thinking a lot of this one is a combination of the Fed raising rates/profit taking/needed correction/taking advantage of the timing for new investments as the tax cuts take hold.
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