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marsvolta

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i have an associate who works at the bank and says that he is being inundated by retail investors wanting to get into the market. have they never heard of a bull trap? wonder how they're going to feel once they find out they've bought into a company that was already insolvent?
 

appleomac

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i have an associate who works at the bank and says that he is being inundated by retail investors wanting to get into the market. have they never heard of a bull trap? wonder how they're going to feel once they find out they've bought into a company that was already insolvent?
If you're 100 percent sure that a recent uptick in a particular stock is merely a start of a bull trap, short it and you'll make money! Playing the market isn't just about buying (i.e. taking the long position), you can take the short position and profit from a declining share price as well. Or you can do both, thereby using one of those positions as a hedge.
 

licks2nite

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Markets recovered 50 percent of recent drawdown this morning. Formidable resistance at 61.8 level, the 200 day moving average. Pundits warn that a near term retest of low is necessary. Without that retest market would grind even lower over coming quarters.
 

OneLuckyGuy

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After the Spanish flu receded the markets bounced back incredibly high. Remember the Roaring 20's? Remember what happened a few years later? The Great Depression. 100 years later does history repeat itself?Just sayin.
 

OneLuckyGuy

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^^^^^^^^

Perfect. You've discovered my latest investment strategy after I failed to buy Amazon when it hit $16 during the dot.com crash ��
 

appleomac

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^^^^^^^^

Perfect. You've discovered my latest investment strategy after I failed to buy Amazon when it hit $16 during the dot.com crash ��
Not buying Amazon at $16 per isn't a failure. Not buying Amazon at $30 per is not a failure. Failure is waiting for the price to go down, finally it comes down to a price that you see as "a good price", you finally buy only to realize shortly thereafter that you were the last person to buy a beta-max machine;)
 
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