At least they don't have pitchforks AND horns. One guy has a rolling pin, guess he's more comfortable in the kitchen, and one guy looks like Weird Al Yankovitch, attracted by the beat of the crowd, I guess.
The market, even each ticker, goes up and down every day, whether bear or bull, so just flip-flip-flip. Play the bounces, get out clean, find the next trade. General market ups and downs are over-rated, just trade what you see. In a down market, everything is cheaper, which is GREAT! Happy trades!
I'll take it, the more the merrier. Since I'm not swing trading or holding anything, the more volatility, the more drops, the more panic, turmoil, and chaos, the better. You get it. I checked out your "Pink Panther" cover, will look at others. Fun. I'm also a songwriter/lyricist, so I appreciate the "alter-ego side." Happy trades!
Market can go to more extremes than human can perceive. So picking top or bottom is a sucker’s game. That’s not to say one cannot get it right once in a while, kinda like averaging down. The law of trading is statistics/probability.
That's a very bold claim, considering where we are now. Not even the Dot Com and Housing crashes had that much greater of a move, crash, correction. The only things that can possibly make the market drop below the March 2020 lows....is if a greater war escalates beyond just Ukraine. And Russia further plays with the energy markets, food markets. and a recession/depression happens. and Bitcoin crashes. and everything else under the sun. and Will Smith slaps another man.
If you view it through the eyes of big money, they always have to move the market. They have to pay huge carrying costs, millions a day, to keep the lights on and pay for those huge marble buildings. To stay in business, they use the models that have shown how to manage the markets in all conditions, studying what worked in the past 100 years, again and again, for maximum gain based on up and down markets. They make money in all markets, they have to. Study their game, what they are really doing, and how they work through bear and bull. It gives you a model to mimic them, flip when they flip, and an attentive trader can make money every day, regardless of what the market does. Technique matters the most, knowing how to flip with them. Probability is they always have to trade, they have no choice but to keep the market working for themselves, which means they have to keep traders coming in with fresh cash. So, what are they doing today to accumulate (scare traders out), OR release profits (pump up the market so they can sell). That's all they do, every single day, in any market. Huge fortunes are created from every crash. That's the game. As Lenin said, "the worse, the better." Happy trades!
But how do you know what big money is doing? The logic is if it’s easily known then it won’t work for long.
There are a few indicators, but the easiest way in practice is imagine yourself as them. They need to make moves to generate millions every day, all done using fear to move tickers. So, if you're them, how does what they're doing that day on a particular ticker help them? How are they trying t steer traders right then and there? If you study their behavior enough, you'll start to see the patterns. It's always only one of two things, it's that simple. They are either: 1) accumulating shares, or 2) releasing profits - - there is no third option. That's the basic game, in the simplest explanation, but it's the exact same game they've run for the last 100 years, nothing's changed other than it's done with computers now. The market is 100% manipulated, 100% of the time. It's always 1) or 2), study it that way, and if you learn to trade along with them, the way they're trading, you can win in any market. Happy trades!