Small investors flee stock markets.

When I invest, I invest on the fundamentals.

When I trade, I trade mainly on the technicals.
Question how widespread is the knowledge of the September (back to school expenses show up as September net stock sells) effect? Could the current trend simply be a matter of greater information being available to all and small investors just getting out of the way of the annual trainwreck early?

I don't know.

I doubt that small investors are aware of the September Effect. I think it just happens. And I don't trade it, but I'm aware of it.

Small investors have pulled money out of stocks for 16 months in a row.
Well thanks you gave it a shot.
 
As our economy hurtles towards its meeting with destiny, the political class seeks to assign blame on their enemies for this Greater Depression. The Republicans would like you to believe that Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank and their Community Reinvest Act caused the collapse of our financial system. Democrats want you to believe that George Bush and his band of unregulated free market capitalists created a financial disaster of epic proportions. The truth is that America has been captured by a financial class that makes no distinction between parties. These barbarians have sucked the life out of a once productive nation by raping and pillaging with impunity while enriching only them. They live in 20,000 square foot $10 million mansions in Greenwich, CT and in $3 million dollar penthouses on Central Park West.

These are the robber barons that represent the Age of Mammon. The greed, avarice, gluttony and acute materialism of these American traitors has not been seen in this country since the 1920's. The hedge fund managers and Wall Street bank executives that occupy the mansions and penthouses evidently don't find much time to read the bible in their downtime from raping and pillaging the wealth of the middle class. There are cocktail parties and $5,000 a plate political "fundraisers" to attend. You can't be cheap when buying off your protection in Washington DC.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article22294.html
 
Small investors are pouring into bond funds. They are going to get killed when interest rates reverse, as they inevitably will.

everyone small and big is pouring into Bonds because the signs could not be more clear that the danger of a substantial crash in the markets is real and looming.
 
Small investors are pouring into bond funds. They are going to get killed when interest rates reverse, as they inevitably will.

everyone small and big is pouring into Bonds because the signs could not be more clear that the danger of a substantial crash in the markets is real and looming.

Maybe.

http://runningofthebulls.typepad.com/toros_running_of_the_bull/2010/08/is-something-bad-coming.html

But I think that returns will be negative or close to it for bond holders over the next decade.
 
Another factor is that bonds are illiquid. Even treasuries 6 months after issue sell at a modest discount to more recent treasuries issues. Haven't seen data on gilt edges or Japanese bonds but I suspect the same is true for them.
 

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