from the Mogambu loudmouth -- <g>
>>The most surprising statistic is the revelation that NYSE Members bought such a humongous load of shares that my initial impression was that the figure printed in Barron's was a misprint. The historical weekly "net buy/sell" of Members can be most anything, from negligible up to around maybe 150 million shares or so a week at the outside. But it averages, I guess, around, oh, thirty million shares a week, give or take. Suddenly, like a bolt out of the blue last week, they snap up 588,248,000 shares! In one week! It may be a misprint, but if it is not, then I wonder what caused it?
It may be nothing, but I snap to "full perimeter scan" status whenever my keen, finely-honed senses, sharp as a jungle cat, detect some slight change, something somehow different, in the environment. Sniff sniff, my sensitive nose tests the air. It could be a fierce predator. It could be a mating opportunity. It may be delicious foods, maybe even - dare I hope? - something in the chocolate family. It could be a, "What is it, Holmes?" asks the dependable Watson, snapping me out of my reverie. I shrug my mighty shoulders, adjust the rakish tilt of my deerstalker cap, and reply that, casting a nervous eye towards the horizon, "It may be something. It may be nothing, my dear Watson. But it is," and stumbling for words to express the chilling fear of monsters in the dark, say only the enigmatic, and somewhat breathless, "SOMETHING!"
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