Ted Spread Still Above 4

[Ivanovich]

Quote from stock_trad3r:

The vast majority of people with 401k's don't check the market as often as we do. Those that already were going to sell into panic did so already last week.

As usual, you're completely incorrect. People check it when the media has stories about horrific market crashes.

 

[ElCubano]

Quote from AMT4SWA:

Almost every friend I know is viewing his/her 401k online each night, almost like a scared prisoner looking out his cell waiting for the guard to come back and torture him more.

it's either the prison gaurd or the cell mate behind ya....either way ya getting some

 

[stock_trad3r]

Quote from Ivanovich:

As usual, you're completely incorrect. People check it when the media has stories about horrific market crashes.

And those that sold probably already did so last week.

 

[theboxer]

Quote from stock_trad3r:

And those that sold probably already did so last week.

If you call "bottom" every other day in a bear market, you're eventually going to be right, you f---ing moron.

 

[AMT4SWA]

Bottoms of accounts usually come before bottoms of markets....LOL!!!

 

[maninjapan]

A newbie question here, How do you figure out the the ratios for these spreads? Ive been reading about DV01's etc, but is there another way to do it? Dont have access to bloomberg....

 

[gaj]

Quote from theboxer:

That's a buy signal, isn't it?

in bull markets - yes.

in severe bears...no.

it's like forms of denial. the first is "it's going to bounce back".

the second is "please, let it bounce back". that's likely where we are now.

the third and final one is "i can't stand this stock market stuff and never ever will touch the stuff again, SELL!". see 1979/1980 for the most recent wide-spread example of this, although 2000/2001 saw it on lots of tech stocks...

 

[Nanook]

Quote from maninjapan:

A newbie question here, How do you figure out the the ratios for these spreads? Ive been reading about DV01's etc, but is there another way to do it? Dont have access to bloomberg....

TED chart: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=.TEDSP:IND

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[theboxer]

Quote from gaj:

in bull markets - yes.

in severe bears...no.

it's like forms of denial. the first is "it's going to bounce back".

the second is "please, let it bounce back". that's likely where we are now.

the third and final one is "i can't stand this stock market stuff and never ever will touch the stuff again, SELL!". see 1979/1980 for the most recent wide-spread example of this, although 2000/2001 saw it on lots of tech stocks...

I was being sarcastic - my point was that <i>everything</i> is a buy signal for this guy.