Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

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'help put trump in office and egg him on to do stupid own-goal isolationist BS' is what i was getting at

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link

three weeks pass...

hi

๐” ๐”ž๐”ข๐”จ (caek), Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH476CxJxfg

21st savagery fox (m bison), Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link

also lol at the last 2 hours https://www.coinbase.com/charts

๐” ๐”ž๐”ข๐”จ (caek), Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link

Probably for the best all things considered

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:44 (five years ago) link

Until things turn down by roughly 10% from the recent high water mark, this doesn't even qualify as a "correction". This could be due to traders tea-leaf reading, based on Trump's trade wars and uneasiness about the midterms, but without more data solidly showing retrenchment, this is just a round of profit-taking.

A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link

Tbh I care more about interest rates continuing to go up than the stock market doing anything in particular, cheap debt has a lot of societal fuckery to answer for

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:17 (five years ago) link

the NYT article says the markets will be back up on friday when several banks report Q3 results, which is going to show that sweet tax cut that will trickle down to the rest of us in Q4.

silby otm. the markets are not the economy but interest rates (and therefore housing and debt) are a big deal practically and electorally (which presumably is why trump is openly criticizing fed policy).

๐” ๐”ž๐”ข๐”จ (caek), Thursday, 11 October 2018 03:55 (five years ago) link

At this point in the cycle, those interest rates need to be creeping up.

A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 11 October 2018 04:01 (five years ago) link

totally. trump is wrong.

๐” ๐”ž๐”ข๐”จ (caek), Thursday, 11 October 2018 04:06 (five years ago) link

Trump was bloviating about how the Fed was keeping rates too low, what, a year ago?

Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 11 October 2018 05:02 (five years ago) link

I put it on another thread, but the general market needs to pull back at least by 30%. I hope it tanks the rest of the quarter. I've been waiting for it. It's like watching only the beginning of The Big Short over and over. The housing market is already mushy. And all this new money in the market from from people who haven't had to weather a downturn before..

Yerac, Thursday, 11 October 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link

it's difficult, i mean, i _could_ pull back but at this point it's, you know, either the markets will recover or capitalism will collapse, and either way i don't have an incentive to not invest.

dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 October 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link

Yeah, the only reason not to invest is if you need money *right now* or very soon, like retirement. Otherwise, my understanding is that invested wealth doubles every 7-10 years or something, unless yeah, the economy collapses and never recovers.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link

I want to cash out my 401k before the market crashes and the world is submerged by the melting ice caps

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link

good to have cash 2 set on literal fire for warmth

YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link

I mean if you have sizable gains already you could cash out partial at least, you can always rebuy it back on dips. Don't lose all profits because you are married to a position. I am thrilled I got out of some equities on recent run ups. I missed out on additional gains but all are now under where I sold them anyway. Also I had a lot of 3xs lev etfs that are bearish so those were my hedge.

Yerac, Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link

Also, I think it's funny if we start the next recession almost on the 10 year anniversary of Lehman. It was jokingly expected.

Yerac, Thursday, 11 October 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link

market apparently shrugging off yesterday like it was nothin'

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 October 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link

feels like a trap

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 October 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link

lol you called it

frogbs, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link

my 'shrug it off' comment is no longer valid.. 1% drop just turned into a 2% drop in 30 minutes

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link

So I am hoping that no one will want to hold over the weekend and that will further the decline tomorrow and then asia will be all messed up when they start trading on our sunday that we can really get this recession started.

Yerac, Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link

the classic trap-two-bears-n-let-em-go trend

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 October 2018 18:59 (five years ago) link

wheeeeeee

Yerac, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue think about quitting my job.

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattonรฉ! (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link

All potential candidates should be led into the interview by a disinterested third party after they've donned an oversized burlap suit (and, naturally, a matching hood which covers the entire head). All responses to interview questions should be tapped out in morse code lest the interviewer lapse into unconscious bias triggered by hearing a human voice.

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link

Wow, was that ever the wrong thread!

a butt, at which the shaft of ridicule is daily glanced (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link

Eh, I've been through more degrading job interviews.

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattonรฉ! (j.lu), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link

so many little shitbins surrounding the big shitbin.

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link

๐ŸŽต iโ€™m a little shitbin, short and stout ๐ŸŽต

iโ€™ll hufflepuff iโ€™ll blow you away (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link

gonna invest in shitbin inc.

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link

speaking of bear traps, that was a helluva trap the first 45 mins of trading. 200 day moving average was breached which is a very negative signal (for longer time frames). But if you bought instead of panic sold you made almost 2% return in a day as the market rallied hard all day.

the dutiful and the banned (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link

can't we just put the entire economy into Vanguard indexes and get this all over with once and for all

I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link

funny to read this thread

flopson, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link

Who's pushing the pedals on the shitbin cycle?

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link

Retail investors who were lulled into thinking the market goes up forever without a pullback. The last two years were a huge stupid ponzi.

Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link

you can always be sure the banks will lend some push to the shitbin cycle. assisting speculators in the misallocation of capital is practically their business model.

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link

The market still has a ton of room to pullback.

Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link

i blame seeking alpha's mini cramers

for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link

I am hoping all the funds that have this last quarter to bring their numbers up for bonus season are doing their job to create downside volatility. They don't make money when stuff goes straight up.

Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link

The market still has a ton of room to pullback.

^ otmfm.

These days the equities markets and bond markets are only tethered to the real economy to the extent that monetary policy (the Fed) is tied to the real economy. The Fed's policies are tethered to accommodating banks' balance sheets as a proxy for the real economy. The banks no longer care about due diligence and throw money around carelessly on the understanding that if their risks blow up in their faces they will be rescued. The whole machinery is as shaky as a washing machine during the spin cycle with an unbalanced load.

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link

Luckily we have a president who's an expert on unbalanced loads

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link

I've been waiting all year for biotech to collapse. Today was a good day.

Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link

Can I invest in the Yerac fund?

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link

My fund dividend plan is that I always buy the booze and food.

Yerac, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link

I'm in

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link

yeah I think the news about rate increases is telling everyone the crack party is over

officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link

This might be worth a look: https://www.cfr.org/blog/trumps-stimulus-trumps-his-trade-policy

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link


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