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How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by gchokov »

dsfsdfd wrote: post #15

Look at the ftse 100 over a 30 year time frame and tell me you can't make a guess as to what's coming. Go here and click on 'all' in the zoom menu https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXFTSE%3AUKX&ei=qlLcVZHi...

Double bottom, that's what happens. Expecting more heights. Long FTSE! edit: Stock market theme is huge for click baits and zerohedge readers. No extremes are healthy and there's too much drama around this.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by idibidiart »

aikah wrote: post #8
draugadrotten wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Greed is good as Gordon Gecko put it, and science concurs. http://time.com/41680/greed-is-good-science-proves/

Define "good".

If you'd like someone to defined Good for you, I'm afraid putting it in quotes, like "stupid", is not a good start.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by venomsnake »

gchokov wrote: post #23
venomsnake wrote: post #16

Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

Devastated means you'll run with a machine gun in some mountain and protecting your family. Do you realize this, teen?

I lived trough the fall of the Eastern bloc. It was a time of great opportunity there. I want one now too now when I am at proper age to take advantage of similar effects. There was no need for hiding in mountains.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by jazzyk »

qrendel wrote: post #19
venomsnake wrote: post #16

Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

Hope this is sarcasm. No one really wins from a recession. Sure you may make some money if you go short at the right time, but it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.

Periodic corrections/recessions are a necessary and healthy part of capitalism. Unfortunately, stock markets (and other asset classes) have been vigorously propped up by central banks in recent years (especially so after 2008).

Market corrections (and recessions) separate the good from the bad. Right now, there are many banks/companies which should not be in business at all. And they lock up resources which could be used elsewhere, and more efficiently.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by venomsnake »

qrendel wrote: post #19
venomsnake wrote: post #16

Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

Hope this is sarcasm. No one really wins from a recession. Sure you may make some money if you go short at the right time, but it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.

Not at all - the only way to get to the top of the social ladder is during times of great stress on the system. As a person with no family I can only win. There are no downsides for me.

And it is quite fun to see people losing money and fortunes. The look in their eyes when they realize how fragile their world has actually been ...

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by pjc50 »

venomsnake wrote: post #24
gchokov wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Devastated means you'll run with a machine gun in some mountain and protecting your family. Do you realize this, teen?

I lived trough the fall of the Eastern bloc. It was a time of great opportunity there. I want one now too now when I am at proper age to take advantage of similar effects. There was no need for hiding in mountains.

I assume "take advantage of similar effects" means loot your neighbours?

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by brianwawok »

qrendel wrote: post #19
venomsnake wrote: post #16

Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

Hope this is sarcasm. No one really wins from a recession. Sure you may make some money if you go short at the right time, but it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.

people that have a lot of cash to buy in can win from a recession.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by dsfsdfd »

switch007 wrote: post #17
dsfsdfd wrote: post #15

Look at the ftse 100 over a 30 year time frame and tell me you can't make a guess as to what's coming. Go here and click on 'all' in the zoom menu https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXFTSE%3AUKX&ei=qlLcVZHi...

But why? Because of similar events/conditions? Because the two busts were roughly 6 years apart and it's 7 years since the last?

Because it looks to me like the stock market has a tendency to follow an exponential curve - or at least a high degree polynomial. I also believe that to a certain extent the stock market is bound to the real world and in the real world growth is currently not following an exponential/high degree polynomial curve. The tension between the two is causing an oscillation to develop which overrides the tendency for high disorder in price movements.

In short I think that over long time periods stock markets show some degree of predictability. They are not perfectly disordered because the they are bound to systems operating in the real physical world which display predictable behaviour.

Re: How Sick Is the Stock Market?

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Post by kjdal2001 »

venomsnake wrote: post #16

Which is sad. I really want to see the global economy devastated. It will be quite fun.

This isn't the place for trolling.

From the guidelines: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."

Expressing joy over the suffering of others isn't civil. Lets not turn this into reddit.

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