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Old 10-08-2008, 10:14 AM   #81
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Wow, TIPS are getting murdered worse than stocks today. TIP (the ETF) is down 3.3%. Is the market changing its mind about inflation and instead fearing deflation now?
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Old 10-08-2008, 10:47 AM   #82
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Wow, TIPS are getting murdered worse than stocks today. TIP (the ETF) is down 3.3%. Is the market changing its mind about inflation and instead fearing deflation now?
for the last few weeks it's been the end of the world trade. oil down, gold up, t-bills yields way way down
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You should know part of the cause Zig...oil is still dropping like a rock and it was a big piece of the inflation boost we've had over the past 3 quarters.
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Wow, TIPS are getting murdered worse than stocks today. TIP (the ETF) is down 3.3%. Is the market changing its mind about inflation and instead fearing deflation now?
Ummm - yep! But it's also due to the "flight to quality" (i.e. US Treasuries) that happens when financial eruptions occur.

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You should know part of the cause Zig...oil is still dropping like a rock and it was a big piece of the inflation boost we've had over the past 3 quarters.
Poor Ziggy!!! What ever happened to the Law of Supply and Demand?
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over the last year i've seen a chart that shows NYSE leverage going back to the late 1960's. 1973, 2000 and 2007 were the peaks in leverage and it took 2 years of a bear market to deleverage from the peaks.
What do you mean by NYSE leverage? Margin balances?

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Can we say that we are already 1 year into that bear market? 1/2 down, 1/2 to go?

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margin balances along with the leverage of the big banks, hedge funds, etc. total leverage

Safe Haven | NYSE Margin Debt Shows More Selling Ahead

there was a similar article earlier this year with a chart going back to the 1960s. you'll have to search for it
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Can we say that we are already 1 year into that bear market? 1/2 down, 1/2 to go?
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Sounds about right to me. 1550 to 1000 1 year.

If you think 800 is the bottom - we might get there quicker than 1 year - maybe by the end of the year - then slowly up from there?
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Sounds about right to me. 1550 to 1000 1 year.

If you think 800 is the bottom - we might get there quicker than 1 year - maybe by the end of the year - then slowly up from there?
Hell, at the rate we're falling we'll be there next week.
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Sure doesn't seem like it would be hard to get to 800 from here the way things have been going lately. Sure has been looking to me like a V pattern.

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Ya know I might just watch a KC Chief's game to take my mind off all this.



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So far it looks like an "I" pattern.
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Sure doesn't seem like it would be hard to get to 800 from here the way things have been going lately. Sure has been looking to me like a V pattern.

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Wow, did anybody look at Vanguard funds' YTD returns as of tonight? It is ugly... I am not going to post them here in case some of you guys would rather not know...
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I'm down just over 23% YTD and that's starting with 40% fixed/cash. Barf.
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Where is the bottom? 40% off the S&P or DOW, or are we looking at 50%?
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GD-I was about 90% so we have a long way to go.

Cramer says to sell into any rally, raise cash and be ready to get in when prices recover.
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And I'm sure he's going to tell us just before that happens.

At least four or five times.
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Where is the bottom? 40% off the S&P or DOW, or are we looking at 50%?
Let me check my crystal ball on that one.... Oh, drat, it's not working today!! Guess I don't have the answer.

I am still hanging on for the rest of this roller coaster ride, and my knuckles are beginning to get a little white. With my ultra-conservative AA I really didn't expect to be losing six figures in less than a month like this.
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