7th inning of a bull market high oil prices high gas prices speculative mortgage market additional interest rate hikes ahead whats going to hold this market up?
throw in a cold winter and inflated natural gas prices will cripple the consumer. buy gas reserves buy coal short consumers
Now ... .. the REAL interesting thing is how the re-insurers will be dealing with this. Terrorism, wars, destruction - it takes a hefty toll on reinsurer's no-longer-so-deep pockets. Luckily, it all comes back in form of more expensive services, products for consumers - as well as nice tax-hikes on income, services. What goes around, comes around. Last year the talk was about how reinsurers could not take a bad hurricane season - but the alarm-sirens are silent for now. But that's my first concern - and with ever rising consumer debt-levels it's a sneaky long-lasting effect.
Keep that in the back of your head. Your time will come. But 'till then, trade what you see, not what you wish. And always trade with a stop loss you've determined before your entry price - the best losers in the short run are the long term winners. Cheers!
monster short interest. Markets don't fall with high Short interest, they wait to exact the most pain to the most people possible. Longs know that holding short is a negative game (dividends, etc) so all longs gotta do is hold it sideways and the shorts squeeze us to new highs on their own backs.