why there is sudden down?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by stocktrader2007, Oct 11, 2007.

  1. Here are a couple other tels the market told us yesterday.

    People ask me can you learn anything by watching CNBC this is what I learned early yesterday.

    1) Suddenly the orange 5 points over a record started blinking and flashing. As we have discussed before until we act like we have been here before which we have we are never going to slice through.

    2) A chastened Bob Passani who last time had to be given an early vacation when he cheered at 14,000 and all but guaranteed higher prices only to lose a quick thousand points-- well he signed off " Check My Blog " I almost fell out of my chair.

    3) Mark was on the floor with that heavy set lady who is a floor broker. She does not have nare a brain cell in her head. She was quite worried during the Housing Mortgage collapse now she is quite bullish. Why? Mark pressed her... " well I'm doing pretty good and my friends are... " she mumbled. Complete disconnect from reality and a good contrary indicator.

    4) Sue Herrarah was all a twitter, The Dow was taking back everything it had lost and things were looking wildly bullish.....

    CNBC is The Easiest contrary indicator out there.
    No doubt they revved up the hype because FOX is starting to run commercials with has been Neil Cahuto and a bunch of sexy ladies pushing their business channel... Once againCNBC is left with egg on their face.

    And once again it's vacation time for Dear Mr. Passani. When will they learn? ~ stoney
     
    #81     Oct 12, 2007
  2. jimcrist

    jimcrist

    The rate of the drop combined with the duration was pretty impressive. I think it had something to do with the elimination of the uptick rule. I'm an equities trader and almost half of my trades are shorts but I think the elimination of the uptick rule was a mistake. Fear is a stronger emotion than greed and I think the uptick rule kept things in balance.
     
    #82     Oct 12, 2007

  3. Oh no markets surging

    maybe it was time 2 buy

    so easy to make money

    As I said yesterday there was no compelling reason for the selloff and therefore the market would rebound.
     
    #83     Oct 12, 2007
  4. wow market keeps going higher

    any short that didnt cover yesterday is getting decimated
     
    #84     Oct 12, 2007
  5. Here we are folks an hour earlier than yesterday and we should start going down any minute. Ready to lose all these gains....

    6.80 x 7.20 SPX slips BELOW last pullback low & takes out intraday mov avg support on 5 min chart
    13:09:04 Comment BIDU slips below initial price support at 310

    13:00:19 Comment KEY intraday support levels on some of the market high flyer leaders : AAPL,164,GOOG 623 & BIDU,310
     
    #85     Oct 12, 2007
  6. LOL!..priceless..absolutely priceless

    News cannot be traded?...hahahaha..your killing me, stop it..LOL!

    Btw, the news is not bengin. See, like most things, it depends. Sometimes the news is the catalyst for a major move, sometimes just noise and often times totally irrelevent.

    News is factored in the instant it becomes public? So when xyz raises guidance or GS u/g's abc, the stock instantly ticks to a new level and trades flat til the next news? Don't think so.
    You have a lot to learn my friend. A direct wire to my account may be less painful but it's up to you how the wealth transfer is made. No matter, I wouldn't quit my day job anytime soon if I were you.
     
    #86     Oct 12, 2007
  7. How about the longs that didn't cover yesterday? You lost 120 points on the YM since yesterday tops (on paper of course).
     
    #87     Oct 12, 2007
  8. Um the dow is 14000 points..thats less than a percent
     
    #88     Oct 12, 2007
  9. Yes, and the "wow market keeps going higher" was less than 0.5%
     
    #89     Oct 12, 2007
  10. I was referring to today

    Final 2 hours of trading should be huge
     
    #90     Oct 12, 2007