wh$$ is going on with this market!? can't take it anymore!! help!

[southall]

Its a pretty sick thought, but a war/blood on the streets is always good for volatility.

I remember back in 2006 it was slow, then for a month we had the Lebanon War of 2006, i remember my account making new equity highs at that same time.

Sad state of affairs that when volatility gets so low a traders thoughts go this way.

 

[StarDust9182]

I have heard that the student loan bubble is now being bundled and resold similar to mortgages a few years back - "they" are working on yet another solution for us.

Kind of brings a tear to your eye.

 

[S2007S]

Quote from StarDust9182:

If FED and government policy are buying houses and markets, running debt infinitely higher, juggling figures, and telling us everything is fine - go back to sleep; I guess they are working hard on the solution as we speak!

 

[S2007S]

Quote from StarDust9182:

I have heard that the student loan bubble is now being bundled and resold similar to mortgages a few years back - "they" are working on yet another solution for us.

Kind of brings a tear to your eye.

Yea student loan debt is near or at

$1,000,000,000,000

No worries.

Isnt an education worth that much

 

[hitchslap]

It's amazing that so many of these type of threads are started so often on trading forums, year after year, but nobody learns.

The Indicies are geared to go up OVER TIME.
They HAVE to go up OVER TIME.
DOW WILL hit 25000 for example (maybe not for a few years, but it WILL hit it)
Regulations are in place to help the markets on the rare occasions when it crashes to stop people benefiting from downside (uptick rule gets introduced, down limits, new trading rules etc etc etc)

The odds are very much against someone who shorts something like the ES, DOW, Ftse, Dax etc.

Don't fight the Fed

 

[MarketMasher]

Survivorship bias.

 

[piezoe]

Approach every day without bias. The markets are always irrational, that's there nature. Every trader could benefit from reading Soros.

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from piezoe:

Approach every day without bias.

Exactly

 

[MarketMasher]

Quote from piezoe:

Approach every day without bias. The markets are always irrational, that's there nature. Every trader could benefit from reading Soros.

Is it even possible as human beings to have no bias?

Maybe you can have a bias - but know when you are wrong.

 

[ofthomas]

Quote from kmgilroy89:

Today was the worst day of the year for me. Volume just wasn't there. Everybody must have been waiting for the Pope or something. That said I should have lost a lot less after looking at the charts.

1.6M contracts traded... you must be moving some major size for "volume just wasnt there"...