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Strategies & Market Trends : MARKET INDEX TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - MITA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t2 who wrote (15500)	12/11/2002 11:20:33 AM
From: pvz	Respond to of 19219

Your original post made perfect sense to me. It's very difficult not to be at least partially long in some way (indirectly, that is) in a bear market, even if one is a bear with a short portfolio. Thus in a down market most bears create less wealth than the bulls lose.

To: t2 who wrote (15500)	12/11/2002 12:41:20 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 19219

t2, you are correct... There is far more damage done to the vast population during a bear market than could possibly be offset by those few that are playing the short side... the vast majority are programmed to hold, and so they ride it down. I know many people who continue to just ride it down, "hoping" it will come back... For someone to think that the money just rotates to someone else's pocket is ABSURD... It's also a myth that "for every seller there's a buyer", and visa-versa... Lots of stock just ends up in "stock heaven". I don't know where dvdw gets his "ideas"... possibly from da chaff, snort!

To: t2 who wrote (15500)	12/11/2002 1:43:28 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19219

the point is that many of the gains from 1999 were funny money to begin with and were never really destined to be spent on goods and services. I agree with you that more wealth is lost in bear mkts than gained by bears in bear markets, but that assumes that the starting point of the bear was composed of hardearned money and not the reality... which was excessive dramatic gains that probably never should have been there in the first place.