Stock Market DIVE A Mirage

[WillPower]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

 

[kyzr]

Its a little more complex than that. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, as well as Boeing have been in the news lately. The "trade war" with China has the markets spooked. Everything should get back to normal if Trump and Xi can work out a win-win deal.
The markets are pushing for the Fed to lower rates?!
The stock market is not for the nervous nellies...

 

[Mac1958]

Individual days are meaningless. Individual weeks aren't much more.

The funniest posts on this topic are those that use EARLY MORNING FUTURES as some kind of meaningful political indicator.

We're a silly species.
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[WillPower]

I looked a half hour ago and the drop was around 1.5% of market value. It's not as if large, continuous drops or gains aren't noteworthy if there's a fundamental problem like derivatives. I was with both Lehman and Bear Stearns back in 2007 and lost $165K....somebody got that money...it didn't vanish. Funny thing was I didn't believe a word of what my broker was telling me....either to get in or get out....a new woman had me mesmerized and I literally got caught with my pants down.

 

[McRocket]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

LOL...wow, you are REALLY desperate to spin today's equity day.

 

[WillPower]

LOL...wow, you are REALLY desperate to spin today's equity day.

Get lost ya zit-faced little turd.

 

[McRocket]

LOL...wow, you are REALLY desperate to spin today's equity day.

Get lost ya zit-faced little turd.

LOL...another linked, fact-based, intelligently-worded reply on the economy from good ole WillPower.

Have a wonderful day.

 

[WillPower]

Those SHOCKED at this premeditated drop might wonder what the leftist tech tyrants did to facilitate it. Hillary's billionaires often act in concert trying to diminish Trump's rocket ship economy. Somebody take a look at how Tom Steyer's portfolio changed in the past 24 hours.....like I said, nothing to see here folks....it's all for show, not for dough.

 

[Flopper]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

On a daily basis, trading stocks is gambling, maybe with a slight edge in your favor if you really know what you're doing. The reason for the stock market is to provide liquidity for stockholders. Without liquidity, few stockholders would own stock thus limiting investment capital.

 

[caddo kid]

Its a little more complex than that. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, as well as Boeing have been in the news lately. The "trade war" with China has the markets spooked. Everything should get back to normal if Trump and Xi can work out a win-win deal.
The markets are pushing for the Fed to lower rates?!
The stock market is not for the nervous nellies...

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for rates to be lowered when the economy is running along as good as it is claimed to be by Trump.
And besides that, Trump himself is the one that has been whining for months that interest rates are too high.
Anyone with any sense knows that Trump is a con man when he boasts to the entire planet that the economy is, "the best ever" and in the next months worth of Tweets he is saying rates are too high.
UNFUCKING believable; at best ...............

Still difficult to believe such a fucking con artist got into The Oval Office ............ very dangerous ..........

 

[WillPower]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

On a daily basis, trading stocks is gambling, maybe with a slight edge in your favor if you really know what you're doing. The reason for the stock market is to provide liquidity for stockholders. Without liquidity, few stockholders would own stock thus limiting investment capital.

The little guy is LONG GONE from the stock market..now it's mostly institutional investors and inside-traders who will eventually end up in Rikers Island.

 

[caddo kid]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

Sorry but a one day loss in market value of TRILLION$ is not a mirage. LOFL ...........

a BUNCH of somebodies lost their asses today.

You must be a Trump supporter.

 

[McRocket]

Those SHOCKED at this premeditated drop might wonder what the leftist tech tyrants did to facilitate it. Hillary's billionaires often act in concert trying to diminish Trump's rocket ship economy. Somebody take a look at how Tom Steyer's portfolio changed in the past 24 hours.....like I said, nothing to see here folks....it's all for show, not for dough.

So this drop was premeditated?

Nothing to do with actual, macroeconomic concerns...just some premeditated conspiracy?

 

[boedicca]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

LOL...wow, you are REALLY desperate to spin today's equity day.

^^^ Diagnosis: Terminal Projection ^^^

 

[WillPower]

^^^ Diagnosis: Terminal Projection ^^^

But he learned a new word in school...."macroeconomics"....he even spelled it correctly.

 

[boedicca]

^^^ Diagnosis: Terminal Projection ^^^

But he learned a new word in school...."macroeconomics"....he even spelled it correctly.

Well, even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

 

[toobfreak]

The Wall Street insiders create these "panic" sessions to fleece the rubes. If there was any wealth created or lost in the stock market it would matter, but that's not the case. A sells B 100 shares of stock and B either plays long or short. A has his money back plus maybe a profit or a loss. B is holding a gamble. Nothing was created...wealth only changes hands in the Big Casino. And besides, this is Trump's economy to play with and like every other day, week, year, smart investors average gains of about 10% over the long haul....it's a sideshow.

That's what I want to see: Trump bring back the $1000 bill with his face on it.

 

[occupied]

Everything Trump touches rots. He is the anti-Midas, destroyer of wealth. If there is any way for him to cause a recession he will find it.

 

[WillPower]

Everything Trump touches rots. He is the anti-Midas, destroyer of wealth. If there is any way for him to cause a recession he will find it.

A "recession"....like the 8 years we suffered under Barry the Fairy? Let's see.....5M new jobs, lowest unemployment in over 50 years, Wall being built, new AMCA, NATO now paying their bills...600,000 new manufacturing jobs....some "recession".

 

[Flopper]

Its a little more complex than that. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, as well as Boeing have been in the news lately. The "trade war" with China has the markets spooked. Everything should get back to normal if Trump and Xi can work out a win-win deal.
The markets are pushing for the Fed to lower rates?!
The stock market is not for the nervous nellies...

Yes, they should get back to normal but this is an old market, the longest bull market run in history which began in 2009 with the DOW at 7550. I doubt this is the end of this bull market but it seems very possible that it is the beginning of the end which may not come for months.

Hopefully Trump will pull one his announcements of a "great agreement" sort like the one with NATO, Mexico and North Korea. That would at least give me time to clean up my portfolio.