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Bd6r says

the PTB's are in a bind now

Their hold on power is weak. Their enforcers, like private security, law enforcement, etc, are part of the Pitchfork Mob, not part of them. Kind of like the French army in 1789. They know their hold on power is weak. To prevent us from knowing so, they distract us with Bread and Circuses, or by Divide and Conquer by turning us against one another with contrivances like Culture Wars, etc.

To borrow a quote from Mario Draghi, they "Will Do Whatever It Takes", for as long as they are able to get away with it, to prevent us from becoming a Pitchfork Mob.

WineHorror1 says

I went all cash a little while ago. When should I jump back in?

This is a fascinating question, because it's not clear if purchasing power of your cash is embedded in your question.

you dollar cost avg into the market. Historically, events like the current Stock/Crypto downturns are the best time to buy.

See Q1 2020. Be thankful for the crash. It doesnt happen very often. Buy all the way down and back up!

"Its not a funeral, its a sale"

WineHorror1 says

I went all cash a little while ago. When should I jump back in?

I don't believe you really did this but on the off chance it's true - now you have to be right twice.

Ok, the following is not my opinion but that of another trader I know.

The large cap indexes, like the Dow30 or the S&P500, are weighted so heavily towards the behemoths of industry, that when a seismic change occurs, they tend to become lagging than leading indicators.

So after many years of easy money, the Fed is now tightening up. When that occurs, it's time to look at the forgotten index and that's that of the Russell 2000.

Here's Russ ...



The Russell 2000 represents the small to mid-cap companies which have a much more difficult time in raising capital, paying their vendors, etc, & can't rest on their laurels like let's say a Chevron or a Proctor & Gamble.

For one full year, the Russ was range bound & not able to make leaps and bounds like their larger cap peers in the Dow30 and S&P500. When this occurs, it gives a type of leading indicator that the market players have reached some level of exhaustion and the smaller firms feel it, long before the 'Big Dogs'.

The chart above is a weekly candle stick and thus, shows that the Russ is testing the lower end of the year long price box. If it's able to sustain, let's say 2 closes below the box, then for the most part, the market is in 'near crash' mode.

So keep an eye on this. If the Russ is able to stay within the price box and both the EUR and the GBP are able to counter the USD rallies successfully, then the market will go sideways and be 'ok'.

FYI, this is not my opinion but that of another trader.

Patrick says

I've been expecting something like this ever since the scamdemic started, but I didn't realize stocks would get that enormous boost from the money showers. Now it seems to me that finally the many dead small businesses and the unemployment of the people who were kicked out of a job by Biden's mandates are rippling through the economy.

Sure, interest rates are up, but I think this downturn had to happen anyway. I really don't know how far it will go. Hopefully never will be cornered enough to be forced into selling, because that's how you really lose. At the moment, it's just theoretical. I had N number of shares yesterday, and still have the same number today.

I also suspect that Trump could tell this was going to happen sometime soon and didn't want to be president when it did, so he didn't fight the election fraud all that much.

Also interesting to me that we can have big consumer price inflation and big stock price deflation at the same time. So cash is not nece...

Makes me wonder if Trump knew he had to lose in 2020 so that the cheating, plandemic, great reset, etc. would be exposed to more people so that when the next election cycle comes, it's a clean sweep and real change can be implemented.

WineHorror1 says

I went all cash a little while ago. When should I jump back in?

Early 2023 waiting for the 3-year low last one in March 2020.

gotta to love value stocks!

stfu says

WineHorror1 says

I went all cash a little while ago. When should I jump back in?

I don't believe you really did this but on the off chance it's true - now you have to be right twice.

You're right, not ALL cash. I do have an account I have been in cash for about a year now because I was sure we'd run into problems. I'm not a big trader so that's why I'm asking.

Patrick says

Also interesting to me that we can have big consumer price inflation and big stock price deflation at the same time. So cash is not necessarily losing value if you plan to buy stock with it.

I think it is safe to say that expectations are driving the market. The pullback is directly related to consumer price inflation as the Fed has its feet to the fire to try to tame inflation via QT and interest rate hikes. Will be interesting to see what happens to RE in the long term.

Do I buy a house now or continue renting?

Lol!

If the rent is less then the cost of owning the equivalent house (interest, taxes, insurance, opportunity cost) then rent. Otherwise buy.

It's a complicated calculation, but not that complicated.

I'm no longer a fan of the NY Times, but they do have a good calculator for this:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html

I tend to ignore macroeconomics. You really don't know what is going to happen there, so just concentrate on value.

Patrick says

Lol!

If the rent is less then the cost of owning (interest, taxes, insurance, opportunity cost) then rent. Otherwise buy.

It's a complicated calculation, but not that complicated.

I tend to ignore macroeconomics. You really don't know what is going to happen there, so just concentrate on value.

Thanks Patrick for keeping it simple. We're moving to the Nashville area (from SCAL) and have never owned a home, so the wife is keen on owning. I'd hate to see the Fed ratchet up interest rates only to have me buy at the top of a bursting bubble, but I agree on the macroeconomic guesswork of that.

@porkchopexpress

I just added these two lines:

I'm no longer a fan of the NY Times, but they do have a good calculator for this:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?source=patrick.net

porkchopexpress says

I'd hate to see the Fed ratchet up interest rates only

I'd wait a bit before buying anything to see what the fed is actually going to do in the first say, almost half of this year. If they crash the market further everything will go down. Gold, silver, houses, stonx, the price to get your nails done at the local asian stripmall.

"everything bubble"

The real problem with RE is there has been very little building since 08 and so we're supply constrained. Due to that RE may hold up pretty well.

House prices have actually gone up and there's no let down in sight as long as work from home is a big thing, rates are relatively cheap, inventory is restricted and unfettered immigration continues.

porkchopexpress says

Patrick says

Lol!

If the rent is less then the cost of owning (interest, taxes, insurance, opportunity cost) then rent. Otherwise buy.

It's a complicated calculation, but not that complicated.

I tend to ignore macroeconomics. You really don't know what is going to happen there, so just concentrate on value.

Thanks Patrick for keeping it simple. We're moving to the Nashville area (from SCAL) and have never owned a home, so the wife is keen on owning. I'd hate to see the Fed ratchet up interest rates only to have me buy at the top of a bursting bubble, but I agree on the macroeconomic guesswork of that.

If the price didn’t go too high there, try start looking for deals for your primary residence. I suspect the inflation will continue as the corrupt gov “spending” $T that we don’t have and lack of new building activity should push prices higher. But again it’s complicated math.

FJB says

porkchopexpress says

I'd hate to see the Fed ratchet up interest rates only

I'd wait a bit before buying anything to see what the fed is actually going to do in the first say

Remember, we're in a free market capitalist system and not a centrally planned Soviet system!

You can tell, because we have to know what a centrally planned, private central bank decides to do, and we KNOW they wouldn't be corrupt. I mean, if they MIGHT be corrupt, certainly they would be audited, right?

</sarcasm>

People, we're in the early stages of soviet style communism. Not what Marx stupidly wrote about, what happened in Russia.

richwicks says

You can tell, because we have to know what a centrally planned, private central bank decides to do, and we KNOW they wouldn't be corrupt. I mean, if they MIGHT be corrupt, certainly they would be audited, right?

Great argument for a decentralized currency or asset like bitcorn!

By June all mask mandates nationally and vaccine mandates will be over. Democrats can’t afford to lose midterms to what is now a flu.

They will pass a smaller build back better bill…. The stock market will roar back with all the new money and EV cars for everyone at a $15k discount. It won’t end well… but they really have no choice.

That or a new deadlier virus called Covid 2.0 hits our shores this summer and lockdowns all over again.

Good prediction, in the short run the S&P is looking very close to the 200 day moving average. It's do or die time I think.

Actually it's below the 200:



this is bad juju...

DJIA 33,334.03 -931.34 (-2.72%) As of 11:50AM EST.

Uh, Oh. There go some more Hummers from the portfolio. Will I have to cash out the crap shacks and find a trailer park in Texas?

Its lost a year of gains, aside from massive inflation propping it up it could loose another 10% easy

It’s down 11.8% in 2022 so far.
That’s not as much as it gained in 2021.
Edit: when I refer to the stock market, I mean the W5000 index (Wilshire 5000)=“total stock market index”.
I’m not interested in the various sub-categories therein.

DJIA 33,172.96 -1,092.41 (-3.19%) As of 12:40PM EST.

RC2006 says

Its lost a year of gains,

Years? It's roughly where it was last June.

Rin says

Ok, the following is not my opinion but that of another trader I know.

OH it was you that mentioned the Russell index yesterday.
Turns out your buddy called it.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/markets-tank-nasdaq-sp-correction-territory-russell-2000-bear-market-territory/?source=patrick.net

I wonder if people are going to make a connection between the stock market crashing and Biden being in office.

They should. His foolish shutdown of the Keystone pipeline raised energy prices, and therefore inflation. Not to mention his unconstitutional mandates and the resultant job losses.

Everything that was feared about Trump was false about Trump, but is true about Biden:

- destruction of economy
- disastrous foreign relations
- descent into authoritarianism
- censorship
- racism
- corruption (notably the overt extortion of Ukraine to pay Hunter)

Let’s wait to see whom Biden blames for the drop in stocks; it’s the nail in the coffin for November 2022.
Even bleeding heart Democrats like money and are annoyed to see it go “poof”.
Of course, so do the infamous “independents”.
Interest rates are probably not going up much, so stocks should come back; GameStop and Peloton and others probably not.
Either way I will have to hang on because my greed exceeds my fear.

Patrick says

I wonder if people are going to make a connection between the stock market crashing and Biden being in office.

Not a crash (yet). The SP500 is up about 11% since the inauguration.

Lately this song has been running through my head so much…

https://youtu.be/DDOL7iY8kfo?source=patrick.net

porkchopexpress says

Patrick says

Lol!

If the rent is less then the cost of owning (interest, taxes, insurance, opportunity cost) then rent. Otherwise buy.

It's a complicated calculation, but not that complicated.

I tend to ignore macroeconomics. You really don't know what is going to happen there, so just concentrate on value.

Thanks Patrick for keeping it simple. We're moving to the Nashville area (from SCAL) and have never owned a home, so the wife is keen on owning. I'd hate to see the Fed ratchet up interest rates only to have me buy at the top of a bursting bubble, but I agree on the macroeconomic guesswork of that.

Just like marriage, buy in haste, repent at leisure. If you've got enough of a war chest to rent for a year or two, do that. You really need to get to know the city, then the various neighborhoods. Every house purchase/sale is up to a 12% round trip, so choosing unwisely will cost you again and again.

FJB says

bitcorn

At first I thought this was a typo.
https://bitcornproject.com/?source=patrick.net
It's real!

As long as my dividends aren't cut, I'm good.

Patrick says

Everything that was feared about Trump was false about Trump, but is true about Biden:

I think it is self-preservation smart for a president to choose a loser VP. Obama did.

Golly. I have already torn all my hair out and it's rebounded a percent.

Predictions of the next 5-10 years?

A lost decade, or full steam ahead due to printing presses?

That was a heck of a comeback - I maintain an overall bullish stance for this week.