All these extremists articles both bullish and bearish are ridiculous.
We aren't going into "the greateset depression", and we aren't going to have a "massive market surge" either.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=179600
Things will get bad again sometime next year...
Nice try monday morning quarterback, but-
You are a fucking moron.
POT is trading exactly where it was back in February despite the huge market rally. POT is some 20%+ LOWER than where it was in May! All that while commoditiy stocks have gone ballistic due to the falling dollar and...
"Free markets" in the U.S.?
ROTFLMAO.
Were you in a coma for the last 2 years?
Tarp, PPIP, Mark to Market accounting changes, Bear Stearns-Wachovia-Wamu forced buyouts, AIG bailout, General Motors bailout, etc,etc.
"Free Markets". LOL. Hysterical.
Question-
Stock_trad3r blew out his $3000 Ameritrade account buying mega beta stocks at their 2007 highs. If he averages $.70 cents a week from each of the 200 houses on his paper route, how long would he need to continue being a paperboy in order to refund his account?
BLSH,
Answers to your questions-
I think the economy is dogshit in the rust belt, California, Nevada, and Arizona. In the NYC area (going by what I've seen) everything returned back to "almost normal" around the spring/early summer.
I think the risk/reward is awful at these levels, but...
BLSH-
Serious question, not flaming-
We all know the market is being manipulated up with free fed money, accounting changes, low volume, cooked books, shadow inventory, collapsing dollar, etc, etc, etc.
At what point do you throw in the towel on your relentless doom and gloom threads...
No fucking way.
There should NEVER be halts in today's market. Let the guys who can read and react to news profit.
Halts just allow big money to manipulate prices to their best interest.
That was the most overhyped "worst recession in 70 years".
Don't know anyone who was laid off since the recession began in Dec '07.
This "awful" recession was pretty much contained to the rust belt and parts of California and the southwest.
Here's is where I get attacked by the "world...
Stealing wealth and freedoms from U.S. citizens while the average putz sits at home getting fat watching reality television.
The true powers must be laughing at how easy it is.