General Options Blog

When Will Stocks Fall?

It's been a terribly awesome rally from the mid-October panic sell-off.   Stocks seem impervious to downside.... every dip gets bought and shorts have very little time to close any positions that happen to head south.   Here we are some 6+ years from the start of the financial crisis and Central Banks seem more focused than ever on manipulating financial assets.   The Japanese are busy buying everything under the rising sun, including stocks.   The assumption is a massively inflated stock market will somehow lead to job growth,  a strong economy,  great innovation.

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Thursday Morning Reads – 11/20/14

Another day another dip another buying opportunity.  Stocks started the day moderately lower until the dip buyers surfaced, which doesn't take very long these days, and stocks  pushed into positive territory before a late day pull back.  The FED minutes offered little surprise, I've been saying this for quite a long time, I don't think interest rates are going to rise until we get the next collapse, and by then they'll be pushing rates negative.... but what do I know.

Stock futures are lower, let's see if this dip will even last until the opening bell.  Here is what I am reading this morning:

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