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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Oblomov who wrote (84965)1/13/2009 10:38:02 AM
From: Real Man  Respond to of 94695
 
Short the bond AND short the dollar. That's the one. Also
watching crude on the long side. Not playing stocks. Depressed
sellers can sell that market, whereas there will always be
buyers for crude, even though it does not seem that way
at the moment.

The mood out there is just gruesome. Stocks crashed, everyone
is broke and in debt, which can bring more forced selling into
these markets. The selling now has not been so much about
earnings, it's liquidation to pay debt. 401Ks, whatever.



To: Oblomov who wrote (84965)1/13/2009 10:54:11 AM
From: Real Man  Respond to of 94695
 
FWIW, short bonds is not quite the same as long stocks. In fact,
the two markets move together half of the time -g-

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