FED weekly balance sheet number released a little while ago, shows once again slowing of their purchases and declining rate of change. They have already been ending QE while everyone is paying attention to the date they say they will stop.
That's usually for humor or an early warning sign for a scary selloff. Except for tech, it's not that bad.
How about that zero-risk? Seems this thread should be retired, because we are now in a bear-market drawdown over time that has not been seen since shortly after the thread was started, with the 2008 crash. It could have been argued that the Q4 2018 was the end, but that was with Trump, with Newbie Powell, COVID, and before war and inflation. This time it is different
Unless they have a new nick the OP of this topic hasn't posted here in 8 years, so I'd say this thread is at least that long past its time.
Keep it open for nostalgic value. The first post highlights market psychology at the top. Maybe it should be a sticky.
Welp, I guess it is up to makloda to request the thread be closed. And since he no longer exists, it will stay open forever. By the way, there is ZERO nostalgia now for a thread title that says zero risk. when the title has misled investors into 3 bear markets since it's inception. Clearly, there is PLENTY OF RISK.
With the massive Fed printing after COVID there was 'zero risk' in the S&P 500 up until January 2022. There are still people on ET at the moment who think the S&P has bottomed or very near bottoming and will blast off again soon to make new highs. The zero risk, buy the dip, mentality is still alive among many bulls.
That was true before ZIRP, and will be true for as long as there are markets. Markets couldn't exist without it.
Im not sure it exists in other stock markets, like the UK, Germany, Japan etc. It seems to be a Fed thing since Greenspan. The Fed Put. The fed will always come in to save the US stock market. There is no risk just buy the dips..