What is Your Take on the Announcement Effect with Unemployment #s?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by zghorner, Mar 30, 2020.

  1. As the jobless claims number was forecast to be 1.6MM and turned out to be 3.2MM, I think the market went, "Whee! Worse than expected means EVEN MORE STIMULUS... YEA!"
     
    #11     Mar 30, 2020
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  2. Overnight

    Overnight

    Indeed. And there is also the end-of-quarter rebalancing going for many portfolios. Wonder how much of this upward move is caused by that.
     
    #12     Mar 30, 2020
  3. 3 million was expected by everyone except the analysts, number wasn't much worse, BTFD.
     
    #13     Mar 30, 2020
  4. ElCubano

    ElCubano

    Short is faster return harder to catch, long slower return easier to catch. Always forever no matter what when and how, longer term.
     
    #14     Mar 30, 2020
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  5. no. i move to mostly cash on my 401k before the big drop. now i'm slowly averaging it in after the 30% drop recently. you ask me how i know? i said it is from my 10,000+ hours of screen time looking at charts everyday.
     
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    #15     Mar 30, 2020
  6. Yes!
     
    #16     Mar 30, 2020