Is the stock market over heating?

gadgetmind

Nicholas-bloody-Parsons wrote: »

Balls of steel needed for this game.

And feet of clay, a heart of gold, and a knob of butter.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

Nicholas-bloody-Parsons wrote: »

And if you had decided to sell tomorrow you would have been about 2% better off than today too! Bad day to sell. All panicky sellers today. :mad:

Balls of steel needed for this game.

The Nikkei 225 fell 7.32% overnight so I would need it to rise 9.32% from 1am tomorrow until 7am. It might do that it might not but I quit while I am ahead I think.

Until I have read tim hales book.

Hope you are ok today grizzly1911 too

bowlhead99

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

I am guessing today is a "correction"?

Every day is a correction. The market moves to where the prevailing sentiment says it should be.

In context, 6660 to 6680 is where the market was last Friday morning. Now 4-and-a-half to 5 business days later, it is in the same place. That is no major correction. If at the end of the year you looked at the historic charts drawn from weekly or monthly data points, you wouldn't see it.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

Bernanke shoulda just keep his big gob shut.

Yes of course, because politicians and representatives of large banking institutions are always thanked by the public when they are not transparent with the facts of what is going on, and allow the the market to continue unchecked.

You probably have a bit more to learn about macroeconomics and investments generally before you pile your £20k into something more complex than a savings account. Stick around and read for a while.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

bowlhead99 wrote: »

Every day is a correction. The market moves to where the prevailing sentiment says it should be.

In context, 6660 to 6680 is where the market was last Friday morning. Now 4-and-a-half to 5 business days later, it is in the same place. That is no major correction. If at the end of the year you looked at the historic charts drawn from weekly or monthly data points, you wouldn't see it.



Yes of course, because politicians and representatives of large banking institutions are always thanked by the public when they are not transparent with the facts of what is going on, and allow the the market to continue unchecked.

You probably have a bit more to learn about macroeconomics and investments generally before you pile your £20k into something more complex than a savings account. Stick around and read for a while.

I was talking tongue in cheek about bernanke.

Any

gadgetmind wrote: »

It's nice to think that but their records show otherwise.

I know what you are saying, but there are good ones and there are bad ones. No one has crystal ball to know what is going to happen!
At least they have some experience.. I surely couldn't do better then Neil Woodford for example!! Don't have the nerves:D

Days like today and what is to come is the perfect example of why drip feed... over time your contributions are averaged so you don't buy just when at high..

grizzly1911

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

So is everyone here selling up?

Fine thanks:)

No, everything will be fine don't worry.

Has your book turned up yet?

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Fine thanks:)

No, everything will be fine don't worry.

Has your book turned up yet?

No not yet its been dispatched though. I'd just like to say thanks to you redbuzzard bowlhead gadgetmind for your kind suggestions and help

I guess I have been lucky in my speculations on the workd markets especially for a noob. But I have some serious reading now. Not sure what risk score my last two months antics would be! But seriously thanks so much

vectistim

Nothing happening for me today. Were I not looking at these threads I wouldn't have even noticed today's downward movement until it came up on the news later.
I do need to do some rebalancing - specifically that will mean a partial sell off of a demutualization share as it's now somewhere round about 15% of my stocks and shares investments, and some of the money coming out of doing that I think I will chuck at Africa and Central/South America.

redbuzzard

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

I love Ewe Redbuzzard

Steady on.

I've sold nowt today. Just the AAS.L (Aberdeen Asian Smaller Cos IT) top up I mentioned.

It's quite funny watching the trades in that. The price hasn't moved much all day at -5% or so, but first there were pages of sells, then pages of buys, then sells again, now it's back into buys.

The FTAS is now back up to -1.8%, and the DOW has put 100pts back on in the last hour or so to -0.1%.

Who said it wouldn't register on the year's chart? Give that man/woman a coconut, if that's not too premature...

I'm off to watch some paint drying.

Jegersmart

gadgetmind wrote: »

The S&P 500 has always tended to yield less than the FTSE 100 and it actually got as low as 1.11% in 2000 when the markets were over-heating.

http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-dividend-yield/

sure, but treasuries yielding just over 2%.......:O

That's my point.

J