So whats up with this sell off 9-20-2021

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Rickshaw Man, Sep 20, 2021.

  1. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    The recent 2week down pullback & Monday selloff.

    No more overnight holds for me til ath mkt
     
    #161     Sep 23, 2021
  2. hafez50

    hafez50

    Were down a laughable 3% off ath’s after 3 straight yrs of eye popping returns.People freaking out . If we ever fall 30-40% and go sideways for 4-5 yrs(which were due for ) I suspect mass suicides .
     
    #162     Sep 23, 2021
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  3. Yeah. It's a bit amusing. People should be fat on profits by now, but I've seen a lot of people being spooked by this minor drop in the big scheme of things.
     
    #163     Sep 23, 2021
  4. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Likely this or likely that but I'm never sure of anything.

    Who is "they" that will make shorting hard, and how?
     
    #164     Sep 23, 2021
  5. hafez50

    hafez50

    It’s so predictable . It’s been near a record time since we had had a 5% correction . In normal yrs we get 2 10% corrections . So a few % down and we get the bears coming out of the woodwork. From Cramer to Morgan Stanley. But of course the mkt will always punish the early bears thus the quick 3% run off the lows the other day. I still think we go lower but it will be choppy as 100 mil day traders out their buying the dips. I’ve been doing this 32 yrs . Been humbled many a time . It’s how you handle the humblings and what you learned from those humblings that determines your long term success .
     
    #165     Sep 23, 2021
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  6. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Oh yea you have to go way way way back .. to March. Then last Oct, and Sept and June and March '20 LMAO 35 friggen years
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    #166     Sep 23, 2021
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  7. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    Right Hafez...

    I'm back to daytrading 2dh gaps like I did CCL PLTR today, finishing by 11

    No more bear/bull bias, trade what I see vs think
     
    #167     Sep 23, 2021
  8. themickey

    themickey

    Those who hold gold will be ok, not because gold is any good, but because they are conditioned to living with a POS.
     
    #168     Sep 23, 2021
  9. Someone in this thread said we would not trade above 4450 in September. There's 5 trading days left of September and we already printed > 4450.

    The subject of news is interesting, too. For the last few years I've discarded news completely in my own trading except for being aware of news releases and patterns related to specific news releases such as FOMC.

    In a bull market like this good news are good news and bad news are good news. So it's hard to make sense of it, IMO. On single names it may be different. I wouldn't know.
     
    #169     Sep 23, 2021
  10. Monday was your buying opportunity. There should be no mystery about what the FOMC is doing.
     
    #170     Sep 23, 2021
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