Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Prechter Market Warning

Click here: bullish a year ago robert prechter now sees "the biggest bubble in history": Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
As usual with market gurus, he is more interested in being right than with protecting investors.
This kind of announcement causes a lot of selling by those who follow him and his theories. This kind of selling gives the market makers more inventory and more incentive to rally the market. Therefore, he may indeed be right in the long run but his ego causes him to make this kind of prediction too early. You might notice that he is promoting his book and emphasizing the actions of investors rather than those of the market and its insiders. Remember that rising prices create buying demand by so called investors and falling prices create selling and supply. I still believe that the market is going higher before the next major wave down.

Monday, February 8, 2010

A Confederacy of Fools

There is no source attributed to this quotation. But it makes a certain amount of sense…unless you are an Obama devotee, then of course you are one of those fools.

A Confederacy of Fools. Author unknown.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."