Down goes the Dow

Low quality wrote:

Infinity has no end wrote:

And how does any of this relate to the exponential model you were downplaying?

Really?

You honestly cannot follow the thread?

I think I follow just fine, thank you.

It's been established that the exponential model is intended for large periods of time, several decades. But Igy's last example referred to much smaller time periods. Thus my question.

Perhaps you can answer it now that Igy has admitted that he cannot.

No, I pointed out that you are too dense to draw a simple connection between facts. But you are a troll and that is what trolls do.

Igy

American Express 3rd Quarter Earnings

2015 Revenue $8.2 Billion, $1.24 EPS

2016 Revenue $7.8 Billion, $1.20 EPS

EBay 3rd Quarter Earnings

2015 Revenue $2.1 Billion, $0.45 EPS

2016 Revenue $2.2 Billion, $0.36 EPS

Agreed. I could not draw a connection between an exponential model drawn from long term (several decades) historical data and the short term numbers you provided. Then again, neither could you. I guess that makes us both dense.

Hello, McFly! wrote:

Jeffy Tull wrote:

Someone does not know the meaning of hypothetical.

I already said that, but thanks for verifying.

Yes. Let's see who it is.

Show us the hypothetical in the following statement under discussion.

"You can't have everyone indexing...it will just make the big caps scream higher and ignore the small ones. Seems to me a strategy to find the ignored stocks will have to start working at some point soon."

Read more:

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

EBay 3rd Quarter Earnings

2015 Revenue $2.1 Billion, $0.45 EPS

2016 Revenue $2.2 Billion, $0.36 EPS

🍒

Nice.

Post some cherries Earnie's way.

3 minutes! Do your alter egos are with each other as to who goes first?

Verizon beats! Financials and tech are killing it!

Earnie wrote:

Verizon beats! Financials and tech are killing it!

Earnie- ings FactCheck on Verizon:

2015 Revenue $28.9 Billion

2016 Revenue $26.8 Billion

2015 EPS $0.99

2016 EPS $0.89

Igy

U.S. stock futures on Thursday pointed to a muted open, as traders braced for a raft of economic data and largely shrugged off the third and final presidential debate.

Investors are waiting for readings on jobless claims, existing-home sales and a key Philly Fed index.

S&P 500 futures inched up by 1.65 points, or 0.1%, to 2,139.75, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures edged higher by 23 points, or 0.1%, to 18,148. Nasdaq-100 futures tacked on 5 points, or 0.1%, to 4,835.25.

"Last night's final debate of the U.S. presidential campaign appears to have passed off without initiating any significant change in sentiment for the electorate," said Tony Cross, a market analyst for TopTradr, in a note.

"Hillary Clinton remains in the lead, according to the polls, and the fortunes of USD/MXN certainly play this out with the pair briefly testing territory as low as 18.50," Cross added.

The Mexican peso on Thursday was little changed against the dollar, after earlier rising to its highest level against the buck in six weeks. The currency is seen as a good way to gauge Donald Trump's chances in the race for the White House, and some analysts argued its brief rally was a sign the Republican nominee hadn't fared as well as his Democratic opponent.

K5 detector wrote:

3 minutes! Do your alter egos are with each other as to who goes first?

I take this as an admission that you cannot support your claim that the following sentence is hypothetical:

"You can't have everyone indexing...it will just make the big caps scream higher and ignore the small ones. Seems to me a strategy to find the ignored stocks will have to start working at some point soon."

How many minutes that time?

Hi, K5/Igy! I never made that claim. Did you again forget to take your meds today?

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

Log,

Give me an example of QE in past market history.

Igy

Logician wrote:

QE, market stalls, earnings declines, etc. have all occurred repeatedly through history. I don't think you would suggest that earnings declines caused the recent market highs. Likewise one cannot arbitrarily state that market stalls and earnings declines are necessarily caused by QE.

U.S.: 1930s & 1940s, 2007+

Japan: 2001

K5 detector wrote:

3 minutes! Do your alter egos are with each other as to who goes first?

So what is the total of all of the names he's posted under up to now?

Log,

OK I suppose from your Wikipedia support you can say 1930-1940s US was QE. And I suppose that is an argument to say what central banks are doing today is not an experiment. However, it is pretty obvious that "quantity" of QE is unprecedented in financial history and one reason you have $Trillions in global bonds trading at a negative yield. There are many that argue that exactly the slow economic growth and stalled markets are the result of QE. And you cannot prove it is not the result of QE.

Igy

K5 detector wrote:

Hi, K5/Igy! I never made that claim.

Sure you did. I copied and pasted your statement.

Did you again forget to take your meds today?

You are so clever with your completely original incessant references to tinfoil hats and taking meds. How did you ever develop such a unique brain?

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

And you cannot prove it is not the result of QE.

Igy

I don't have to. The burden of proof is on the accuser. That would be you in this case.