Quote from JSSPMK:
LC, with all the talk about banks being nationalized & if markets still work pricing in events like that before they are due, then a LDD to 650-680 is around the corner, is it not?
Another way to look at this beyond a daytrading perspective.
The first drop from 1500 to 1200 is 200 pts and 20%. That took 2 months.
Rested 1 month.
Then 1300 to 900 is 400 pts and 30%. That took 2 months.
Rested 1 month.
And then 1000 to 750 is 250 pts and 25%. That took 1 month.
Rested 2 months.
Now 950 to at least 750 now is 200 pts and 20%. That took 1.5 months. And we are not sure if the bottom is in yet.
My guess is that we are not in a fast panic sell off phase, but long grinding bear mode. The panic sell-off is over since the 1st spike low at 750.
It can be 2 to 5 months as a minimum because people are waiting for results - better quarterly earnings, better econ #s, etc.
This long grinding process can result in 2 scenarios.
1. If we get a adam and eve type bottom across 12 months span, then it will lead to an important low where the mkt will take off to new highs at lightspeed. i.e. new bubble in the making.
2. If we grind to a new low, then stock mkt may no longer be considered as an asset class and it will be dead for a long time, similar to a dead penny stock. i.e. great depression.
Based on NDX, case #1 is very probable. Based on Dow, #2. S&P is somewhere in between.
The implication of Dow is very important as it has the most # of financial components - it clearly means financial sector will be gone for good unless they can reinvent themselves into something else.