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Strategies & Market Trends : Jim's Nasdaq100 Special as a basket. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Magnatizer who wrote (1699)	5/2/2000 11:39:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2103

It amounted to about the same thing..remember after the War it was the older people who re-built Japan ..so many of the young had been killed off..it was when those older people started to retire and needed money out of the pension funds ( who had put it all in a booming market ) that Japan found itself with a problem. Well we talk of baby boomers..the 45 to 55 bunch.. they built the foundation of these good times..and by demographics I put 2007 to 2012 for the retirement pressure to hit the market..however I may have been too optimistic. quote.yahoo.com^VLIC&d=5ym that's an index people should keep an eye on as those are the stocks that most retirement money was put in it just has to rally or pension funds are going to soon have more outflow than they can meet.. Under the surface this market is not as healthy as the other indexes show it. Don't forget how often they jiggle the stocks in the indexes and the stuff that falls off the table is swept under the rug. Not long ago I gave a presentation to a Local investment club, the focus was Index funds..and demographics.. and I warned them of the problem we face come 2007.. ----------- I added that it looks like a push is on to put Social Security money in the market..wall street is lobbying very hard to get it. And they are known to get what they lobby for..well if they do get it..then the market will shoot UP..that will be the last big bull run before we do exactly what Japan did. A nice legacy to leave Generation X&Y who will wind up paying for all the excesses of the present bunch of Billionaires. Jim PS I shorted the QQQ at 10am..I'm not looking for any big drop at this time, just a couple of points, it could be more but I don't normaly hold shorts long and will cover at a loss if the NDX makes 3850.