U.S. stock futures lost ground Monday, putting the Dow industrials on track for a fifth losing session in a row as trade-war fears continued to weigh on global markets.
U.S. stock futures lost ground Monday, putting the Dow industrials on track for a fifth losing session in a row as trade-war fears continued to weigh on global markets.
seattle prattle wrote:
let the stocks fall where they may. I am positioned to buy on a massive dip, should one come.
What does that mean?
You are out of the market? Or shorting it?
Duz that mean wrote:
seattle prattle wrote:
let the stocks fall where they may. I am positioned to buy on a massive dip, should one come.
What does that mean?
You are out of the market? Or shorting it?
i don't have nearly enough balls to take out anything but the smallest of short positions.
No, it means i am in a bit more cash than usual in case there's better entry points below. In my brokerage accounts, that means about 8% in cash. I know that's not much but it's more than than i normally do.
But come to think of it, if you take into account the triple leveraged ETFs i have significant holdings of, i guess i'm a lot more than 100% in.
Dow threatens to erase all of 2018's gains with Tuesday's potential tumble
Has a tit-for-tat tariff spat between China and the U.S. shifted from a skirmish to a full-blown trade war?
That is certainly how financial markets have been reacting. Tensions took a turn higher on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump late Monday threatened to impose tariffs on as much as $450 billion in Chinese goods, further ratcheting up tensions between the two largest economies in the world.
Four of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, June 18, 2018. The top performer this year is India's BSE SENSEX with a gain of 5.13%. In second is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 3.75%. In third is France's CAC 40 with a gain of 2.60%. Coming in last is Shanghai's SSE with a loss of 8.63%.
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/06/18/world-markets-update
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Portia wrote:
Four of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, June 18, 2018. The top performer this year is India's BSE SENSEX with a gain of 5.13%. In second is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 3.75%. In third is France's CAC 40 with a gain of 2.60%. Coming in last is Shanghai's SSE with a loss of 8.63%.
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/06/18/world-markets-update?
As of Tuesday June 19, 2018 considerably less return on all of the above. On our world watch list is the 3 month CD up 1.85% and the 12 month CD moving higher at 2.35%.
Porsche wrote:
Portia wrote:
Four of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, June 18, 2018. The top performer this year is India's BSE SENSEX with a gain of 5.13%. In second is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 3.75%. In third is France's CAC 40 with a gain of 2.60%. Coming in last is Shanghai's SSE with a loss of 8.63%.
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/06/18/world-markets-update?
As of Tuesday June 19, 2018 considerably less return on all of the above. On our world watch list is the 3 month CD up 1.85% and the 12 month CD moving higher at 2.35%.
Hmmm...earn 3.75% in less than 6 months with the S&P, or wait more than twice as long for a 2.35% return from a CD?
I am not so much concerned with the return on capital as I am with the return of capital.
You’ve got to go out on a limb sometime because that’s where the fruit is.
Last year we said “things can’t go on like this” and they didn’t, they got worse.
seattle prattle wrote:
Duz that mean wrote:
What does that mean?
You are out of the market? Or shorting it?
i don't have nearly enough balls to take out anything but the smallest of short positions.
No, it means i am in a bit more cash than usual in case there's better entry points below. In my brokerage accounts, that means about 8% in cash. I know that's not much but it's more than than i normally do.
But come to think of it, if you take into account the triple leveraged ETFs i have significant holdings of, i guess i'm a lot more than 100% in.
So if the market goes south, you go down with it. How is that being "positioned to buy on a massive dip."? Why would that prompt you to say "let the stocks fall where they may"?
No brainer wrote:
Porsche wrote:
As of Tuesday June 19, 2018 considerably less return on all of the above. On our world watch list is the 3 month CD up 1.85% and the 12 month CD moving higher at 2.35%.
Hmmm...earn 3.75% in less than 6 months with the S&P, or wait more than twice as long for a 2.35% return from a CD?
Now if only we could go back in time and make our investments with hindsight.
Dummy.
Now if only wrote:
Now if only we could go back in time and make our investments with hindsight.
Dummy.
It has been mentioned here several times that you are not required to sign your posts.
Now if only wrote:
Now if only we could go back in time and make our investments with hindsight.
Or with foresight for those cautious investors of the past five years.
Porsche wrote:
As of Tuesday June 19, 2018 considerably less return on all of the above.
Not really.
No brainer wrote:
Porsche wrote:
As of Tuesday June 19, 2018 considerably less return on all of the above. On our world watch list is the 3 month CD up 1.85% and the 12 month CD moving higher at 2.35%.
Hmmm...earn 3.75% in less than 6 months with the S&P, or wait more than twice as long for a 2.35% return from a CD?
Looks like you need to mark that down by about .40%. At this rate by the end of the month you’ll be negative on the year just like the Dow.
Try to keep up wrote:
Porsche wrote:
As of Tuesday June 19, 2018 considerably less return on all of the above.
Not really.
You need to check yur cyphering bucko. Like the other poster said at this rate they’ll all be negative on the year just like the Dow. Thems CDs lookin mighty swell.
Hello all, haven't posted for a while. I have been busy implementing my bug-out strategy and am going overseas to close on some RE next week.
REAL diversification is having some financial instruments, some currency, some metals, some productive business, some livable RE, all preferably in various countries and denominations. And multiple passports/citizenships, maybe the most important thing.
By next week I will have expanded my international holdings meaningfully, giving real options. I now have options in 3 independent currencies and 4 different countries. I am still totally unconvinced that our current system will not meet with what amounts to disaster, either quickly by one mechanism or another, or slowly by inexorable and unreported inflation and currency devaluation.
Finally the public is getting a small taste of the real collusion and corruption that exists at the highest levels in the US, with the FBI and CIA being exposed. I know that it's the same in banking and finance. Those who don't believe in "conspiracies" among a few power brokers are childish fools. Yes the same mechanism exists everywhere, but nowhere else I have seen do members of the general public actually believe the cover-up lies that are told.
If you have the option, don't be on the wrong side of history. There are many better places in the world than the USA, by any measure you would care to use--economic, intellectual, artistic, environmental, ideological, social, practical, whatever. I am glad that I have actually ensured myself options that are quick and easy to implement. Yes it has cost me to do so, and I am glad that I am in a position to bear those costs.
US equity markets are still a joke, the currency has more power than you think, and world monetary policy is a shambles, especially in China.
Nobody wants to make a move, because any movement at all, of whatever sort, will result in detriment unless a vibrant new market sector opens, something on the order of a practical source of fusion power. Failing that, it is business as usual. We are in more than a stagflation, we are in the doldrums, where only traders are making money sloshing and banks are making money on fees, but where nothing economically growing is really happening.
I plan to follow the spread of civilization as I see it, in reverse. As I age, I will go from North America to Europe, progressing toward what used to be the fertile crescent. I might die in some place around the Mediterranean.
YMMV, but for me it is strange times, time to execute on some plans and start anew.
I wish you all well, just offering my 2 cents with some rambling and examples. Also, I hope Igy is doing OK.
Marketwatch wrote:
Dow threatens to erase all of 2018's gains with Tuesday's potential tumble
Has a tit-for-tat tariff spat between China and the U.S. shifted from a skirmish to a full-blown trade war?
That is certainly how financial markets have been reacting. Tensions took a turn higher on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump late Monday threatened to impose tariffs on as much as $450 billion in Chinese goods, further ratcheting up tensions between the two largest economies in the world.
What's a matter with that Trump? Is this what you get when you put a fvcking BILLIONAIRE in Office? Tariffs? Trade wars? Conflict with China? What the hell is wrong with him?
☝️My fvcking 401(k) is looking more like a 201(k)! I ain't rich like Trump. I've had to actually work for living and I need my retirement income last for awhile.
