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

To: Robert Graham who wrote (18960)	5/22/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Darth Trader	Respond to of 94695

From fiendbear.com Mutual Fund Trim Tabs (which tracks mutual fund inflows) reported this week that May's equity mutual fund inflows are on a pace to receive only about $4 billion net.ÿThis compares with the better than $18 billion collected in April and the $21 billion received last May.ÿ In addition, AMG reported that equity mutual funds only received less than half aÿbillion this week. This is an ugly situation for the mutual fund industry because the Dowÿhas done reasonably well over the past several months.ÿ Despite their full-court press type advertising, investors are not able (or willing) to step up their purchases of mutual fund shares.ÿÿIt makes me wonder what the environment will be like when the market really takes a tumble for an extended period.ÿ Investors are pretty much used to 20% and 30% gains and a flat performance in their funds orÿ(gasp) a decline would be a real slap in the face.ÿ Couple this with the fact that mutual fund cash positions are at 20 year lows creates aÿpotentially explosive situation.......