Is the Market About to “Plunge Violently”?
SilverDoctors.com
October 30, 2015
“The music is still playing, so we’re still dancing.” For now, investors are still dancing to the music of central bankers globally. If this behavioral shift I’m looking for actually takes place, prices should react as Citi’s stock price did the day Mr. Prince found out the music had actually stopped.
That is to say, plunge violently.
By Brian Pretti, Peak Prosperity:
Emotions are running high for the investment community in the wake of recent market volatility. Up until August, we had been in the third longest period in market history without a 10% correction. Since then, stock indices sold off hard, only to bounce once again over the past two weeks of trading.
As you’d guess, the generic punditry has been out in full force. A good number of very well respected technicians are not mincing words: We’ve entered a bear market. No equivocation.
On the other side of the equation are plenty proclaiming a successful retest of the lows has been made, and now away we go. Earnings will be better next year. No recession in sight. Just another dip to be bought, right?
And certainly the truth is….No one knows. Especially in today’s world where global central banks can concoct further QE/monetary schemes at the drop of a hat. Let’s face it, at this point the global central banks are all in. In fact, beyond all in. Without question, the US Fed knows that if equities fall, they lose the high end consumer. (Wal-Mart shoppers have already long been lost)
I thought in this discussion I’d run through a number of indicators I’ve been watching that will hopefully help answer the key question – was the recent market turbulence a sign of a short-term correction, or something larger? We know there’s no single Holy Grail metric in this wonderful world, but I tend to think of indicators as mosaic pieces. If we can get enough pieces in the right place, we have a good shot at actually deciphering the “picture” of what is to come. And for that, we can only really rely on historical experience.
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