Financial history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. You can't be stupid enough to trade off anything I say.... I'm lucky they let me out of the straight-jacket long enough to trade.

J. P. Morgan

"Sell down to your sleeping point"

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

If it stops the bleeding.....

Do I say "it's different this time".

The real problem is that sentiment wise I have to believe it........

8 comments:

tradewell said...

Today panic button hit a level higher than Oct '87.

Eric said...

"panic button"?

I just can't take another night of this....
I hate day trading..

tradewell said...

I get Gary Savage's newsletter (The Smart Money Tracker).

If you're rolling your eyes - don't! He's special, I think he's alien :)

I think it's his proprietary reading. Quote:

"On another note the Panic button hit a 9.5 today. That’s the highest reading ever. The next two closest were 7.8 in Aug. 82 and 7.6 in Oct. 87. "

I have to say, I'm hating day trading as well. I LOVE swing trading. I had much higher reward, much better success rate and just overall, peace of mind.

I made like 75 roundtrips (trades) this month so far and net result is$4,500 or so. Pathetic.

Eric said...

Ya, it's just draining. I also hate doing it from the short side.

Eric said...

You see the stuff about how investors so don't want equities, the ran into the 3 month treasury at $4, return on 10K over a year.

and to top that off, they hate the treasuries so bad, that they ran into gold.

tradewell said...

If they slash rates -> hyperinflation, no cut -> deflation.

Let's watch...

PS. And I hate SKF.

tradewell said...

futures are looking flat :)

Eric said...

by morning they will be down 200. It's why nobody wants to hold stock overnight.

I have almost no optimisum.... Monday.... maybe then

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