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(BusinessWeek) Unlikely Financial analysts see bull market ahead   (businessweek.com) divider line 8
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Arkanaut
2011-11-22 08:35:43 AM
Well, one of these should be likely.
 
lewismarktwo
2011-11-22 08:39:38 AM
You know what I see? A wildly swinging computer controlled clusterfark of epic proportions that slowly rises until the next major preventable farkup occurs. Forever.
 
Incontinent_dog_and_monkey_rodeo
2011-11-22 08:58:44 AM
Horrible sign, actually. Insiders are not buying at all, it's just share buybacks by companies to pad their numbers. Says nothing about the strength of the companies, it's just that much of the higher up's compensation is based on share price.
 
incendi [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 09:29:31 AM
Sometimes I wonder if stock prices are so controlled by the interactions of different computer-run high frequency trading algorithms that are carefully calibrated against each other that every time an individual investor like me makes an individual stock purchase, it throws a wrench into the whole works (i.e., the program goes "wtf, I don't understand why someone would by 78 shares of this, abort, sell everything") and that's why every time I buy something it immediately tanks for at least a month.
 
plcow
2011-11-22 09:52:03 AM
incendi: Sometimes I wonder if stock prices are so controlled by the interactions of different computer-run high frequency trading algorithms that are carefully calibrated against each other that every time an individual investor like me makes an individual stock purchase, it throws a wrench into the whole works (i.e., the program goes "wtf, I don't understand why someone would by 78 shares of this, abort, sell everything") and that's why every time I buy something it immediately tanks for at least a month.

LOL, that's how I feel sometimes. Just last week, I was waiting to purchase a stock for 3 weeks and it kept teatering 1 penny above my limit order. I finally caved and moved up to purchase and the stock tanked.
 
fifthhorseman
2011-11-22 12:39:17 PM
I'm sure the market will show excellent growth now that America now has so many good-paying jobs for the majority of its populace. We can afford so many goods and services! The future looks rosy indeed, so buy, Mortimer, buy!

/Alpo, Wal-mart, NewsCorp. The blue-chips of the new America!
 
BolloxReader
2011-11-22 06:18:45 PM
For the next 5-7 years, it's gonna be a back-and-forth market that will generate trillions of page hits on alarmist articles and blogs.

And after that, hopefully ONE of these guys will be right.
 
BolloxReader
2011-11-22 06:25:06 PM
incendi: Sometimes I wonder if stock prices are so controlled by the interactions of different computer-run high frequency trading algorithms that are carefully calibrated against each other that every time an individual investor like me makes an individual stock purchase, it throws a wrench into the whole works (i.e., the program goes "wtf, I don't understand why someone would by 78 shares of this, abort, sell everything") and that's why every time I buy something it immediately tanks for at least a month.

so-called "Dark Pools" invisible to regulators account for about 80% of investment trading. Most of this is not in stocks, but you can bet that the players make decisions on stocks based on what happens behind closed doors. Until Congress declares that every investment sale regardless of what type is to be subject to regulatory scrutiny and reporting, small scale speculative investors like most people here are going to be at the whims of puppet masters with gambling addictions.
 
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