Thursday, February 11, 2016

2016: The Year of the Hairless Monkeys

China is on New Year's Holiday all this week, so we're doing them a favour and selling their stocks for them. That way they don't come back to a lot of extra work, like counting their money. I'm, sure they'll repay us on Monday which is a U.S. market holiday...

"We've seen this before, I just can't remember when"
FXI ETF: U.S.-listed large cap Chinese stocks...



"It's only a loss if you sell"
Buy and hold zombies have all been told that their only losses were all THEIR fault. Because, if they hadn't ever sold, there would be no loss. So, this time, they'll hold to zero, and they won't have that tremendous dilemma of "when to get back in"...

"And this is vaguely familiar as well"



"I can see where this could be construed negatively by some"
Global Dow



"I'm not one of those zombies, I'm selling at the top this time"
Nasdaq New Highs - New lows (6 week average):



The Value Line Geometric Index measures the return of the MEDIAN stock. Which is currently at the exact same level that crashes took place in 2011, 2008, and 2002. I'm sure it will be different this time, given the state of the 'Conomy...

"This is another one of those IQ tests"