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ShookKnight

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Uh oh... Dow Jones in trouble - quick, give Wall Street the $1,200 that was suppose to go to Americans.

Seriously, how many trillions was pumped into the stock market in the last few weeks?
 

cytg111

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It depends on how fast folks die. The current system is to have the medical industrial complex vacuum up one's life savings in the last six months of life so don't count on any inheritances unless the medical system is so overwhelmed it can't extract even one more dollar.
Is that factual?
 

IronWing

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Is that factual?
Looks like 13% of all healthcare spending in the U.S. is spent on folks in their last year of life.

 

cytg111

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Looks like 13% of all healthcare spending in the U.S. is spent on folks in their last year of life.


I am thinking if you are uninsured .... being uninsured is a good incentive to NOT go to the hospital if you suspect you are covid19 positive? I would think something national would kick in with a pandemic ?
 

IronWing

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I am thinking if you are uninsured .... being uninsured is a good incentive to NOT go to the hospital if you suspect you are covid19 positive? I would think something national would kick in with a pandemic ?
If you are uninsured and have COVID-19 you would qualify for Medicaid after you burned through your assets. The U.S.'s private/public health isn't geared to do public health very well. If you are uninsured, you're likely in a low wage job and have to work no matter how you feel because you need the money. The lack of universal healthcare makes this pandemic worse than it need be.
 

K1052

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6.6M new jobless claims.

The inability of the government to rapidly inject cash into businesses to retain their employees at reduced wages and pay fixed costs is really going to hobble our recovery out of this mess.

Congress needs to be called back and take over hotels near the capitol so they can work indefinitely without commuting. A recess until late April (at least) is not tenable.
 
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Bitek

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6.6M new jobless claims.

The inability of the government to rapidly inject cash into businesses to retain their employees at reduced wages and pay fixed costs is really going to hobble our recovery out of this mess.

Congress needs to be called back and take over hotels near the capitol so they can work indefinitely without commuting. A recess until late April (at least) is not tenable.

It's mind blowing how badly governments are screwing this up, especially those ran by Republicans.

It didn't have to go this way if we acted quickly and decisively.

I'm wondering what the deficit figure it's going to look like. We were already running at 1.1T/yr before all hell broke lose.

$2T? More? $3T? Dwindling tax receipts and big spending is going to make a huge number
 

Staples

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But this thread is about the stock market and man oh man does the stock market love bad news.

S&P500 up 2.28% today.
 

Bitek

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Market closed up 7% yesterday, making it 20% up from bottom. Futures looking like opening another 3-4% up.

What are the guys sitting heavy in cash doing?

Anyone buying, or still sitting out out?
 

digiram

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Perhaps, this is a test of our future UBI/automation economy? No one's producing anything, but stocks keep going up based on, I assume, consumption from government handouts. Only thing being produced are dollars by the fed. I feel like we're living in an episode of black mirror.. lol
 

Staples

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Market closed up 7% yesterday, making it 20% up from bottom. Futures looking like opening another 3-4% up.

What are the guys sitting heavy in cash doing?

Anyone buying, or still sitting out out?
DCA on the way down. Or so I though but my first purchase was right before the low and it has been up since. I was expecting a new low to make another purchase.

but I always lose out in the upswing, always. If I never touch anything like the best advisors say, I’d have a lot more money.
 
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vi edit

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Market closed up 7% yesterday, making it 20% up from bottom. Futures looking like opening another 3-4% up.

What are the guys sitting heavy in cash doing?

Anyone buying, or still sitting out out?

I wish I had bought in at 19k. But still sitting on cash not wanting to catch this upswing. I think downstream effects are not going to fully shake out for another couple months. And they are going to be bad. I have no idea what the Dow is smoking right now.
 

fskimospy

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DCA on the way down. Or so I though but my first purchase was right before the low and it has been up since. I was expecting a new low to make another purchase.

but I always lose out in the upswing, always. If I never touch anything like the best advisors say, I’d have a lot more money.
Yes, I am of the very strong opinion that if people who get paid to beat the market as their full time job fail to do so consistently it is unlikely you will do better.
 

Jaskalas

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Perhaps, this is a test of our future UBI/automation economy? No one's producing anything, but stocks keep going up based on, I assume, consumption from government handouts. Only thing being produced are dollars by the fed. I feel like we're living in an episode of black mirror.. lol

UBI would be funded by taxing production. Depending on the specific details of the implementation, it can certainly be deficit neutral. For example, with the economy from 2014-2019 a 25% tax on personal income would have fully covered it. Absolutely affordable, and a net benefit for most Americans. Now, as automation increases and personal income decreases over the years, we'll need to transition what our tax targets - but the principle remains the same.

This isn't really a test of UBI, as people's spending patterns change depending on confidence and continuity. These are one time payments. What is next month, or next year going to look like?

Moreover, we need to address housing. My plan for UBI includes a "nest egg", payments to everyone under 18 as well. By the time they come of age - they'd be able to partner with someone and straight up pay cash for most homes in this nation. That is a powerful and transformative change to our society, but takes a generation to implement in a deficit neutral way. The more immediate housing solution would be a federal home loan with payments guaranteed through UBI. Wall Street gets giant loans and bailouts while our people get foreclosed on? The status quo is terribly wrong. Together, these two programs can put an end to that.

We can provide home and food security to all Americans, we just have to push for the policy that would get it done.
 
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Bitek

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I wish I had bought in at 19k. But still sitting on cash not wanting to catch this upswing. I think downstream effects are not going to fully shake out for another couple months. And they are going to be bad. I have no idea what the Dow is smoking right now.

As far as what the market is smoking, it's my interpretation that it's forward looking and anticipating an end to the pandemic (or at least some clarity of the economy post-pandemic) and people are positioning and buying "cheap" shares.

Eg. NYC seems to be near apex, and no burning houses anywhere else, worst may be close in front of us, then pass.

Not saying this is right or wrong on what's going to happen, but it's my experience that the market will move up way ahead of actual conditions in an effort to bet on the future.
Many times, the scariest time to buy is also the best. @ponyo posted about this few pages back.
 

snoopy7548

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Yep. The "real" time to buy was a couple of weeks ago; I wish I loaded up on stocks. Yesterday I spread $500 over a few different companies, and I'll probably keep doing that every week.

But I don't know much of anything, so take this with a grain of salt.
 

Bitek

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Yep. The "real" time to buy was a couple of weeks ago; I wish I loaded up on stocks. Yesterday I spread $500 over a few different companies, and I'll probably keep doing that every week.

But I don't know much of anything, so take this with a grain of salt.

Yeah, I try to avoid working hard to outsmart myself. I just left most things on autopilot and didn't touch it. There is a portion of my account I do have that I trade with, but it's a small %.
Don't want to bet my retirement on my capacity to not f things up.

Eg the AAPL, TSLA and some other things I'll trade here and there.

Vast bulk goes into index & mutual funds.

Overall my acct is back to sep/oct 2019 levels.
Sucks from Feb 20 highs, but not really a game changer.

Been building a position in tsla back up, so hopefully it goes nuts again and makes all this work worth it.
 

Bitek

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Lol, after all that we closed flat.

Who knows, maybe we'll bag another Trump tomorrow.
 

Vic

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Dead cat bounce. I don't expect the real market rally to occur until we know that America is re-opening and getting back to work.
 
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Bitek

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Dead cat bounce. I don't expect the real market rally to occur until we know that America is re-opening and getting back to work.

Who knows when that will be. I don't think normal will return anytime soon.
 

Staples

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I am going to force my hand and make it double bottom.
How can I do just that? I bought in today.
 

hal2kilo

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CNBC headline market goes up 600 points because Bernie drops out. Are market players that seriously stupid.