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#11 dcengr

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 02:07 PM

orderly and gradual trends are not desirable?

afternoon strength is not desirable?

in addition, there are 100's of individual stocks and a large basket of ETF's and Ishares that exhibit this trend..seems to be saying something.


They're desirable for buy and hold investors. For traders, who want to make 50%, 100% a year, they want volatility. Doesn't necessarily have to be in one vehicle. S&P can go up, oil can go down. But usually best when entire market gyrates.

No trader's gonna be happy with 10-15% gains a year.
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#12 OEXCHAOS

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Posted 07 February 2007 - 02:42 PM

Dood, the market started falling moments after this post!



:lol: You're going to take the "kiss of death" award from me!



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One should always consider all the possibilities. At our hospital we go through frequent drills, trying to simulate plane crashes, factory explosions, chemical spills, flu outbreaks, etc. Always try to suss out all those little things you never quite plan for.



Once again we've reached that "homeostasis" zone where there are heady bulls "all in" with "no risk below" and heady bears all in short with "no risk" in their position either. But what if NOTHING happens? I.E. the bull just keeps plodding along? Hasn't that been the great fooler of the current bull market? DECREASED volatility, shallow pullbacks and constant nudging forward?



Just one possiblity to consider.

(of course having said this the market will be up or down by a zillion points in the next few minutes....)



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