If you believe in the stock market buble, where do you park your money?

[UCGal]

[quote=CricketOnTheHearth]jimmyle, my 401(K) also sucks re precious metals– no such option whatsoever. I looked back in 2007 or so and blast blast blast– no way to move my $ into something more solid. All I get to choose from are various types of “funds”.

So I did the best I could and moved like half of it into bonds-type funds, the closest I could get to T-bills given the options they gave me, and lost “only” 25% in the fall of 2008. As the $#!+ was hitting the fan I boosted my proportions so that nearly half of it is in the “stable value fund” (like a money market account), another third in conservative bond funds, and the remainder in my basket of stock funds. Since then I’ve gained most of what I lost back.

However, I think this stock market rise is a mirage and I don’t trust it. Also my company suspended the 401(K) match. So I cut in half the % of my income that I put into it each month, and have that money wired into my credit union account instead. I figure when the market crashes I will wait til stocks appear to have bottomed, then up my paycheck deduction again enough to “put back in” what I put in the credit union.

I know this attempted market timing is kind of cheesy, but I just can’t see putting my 16 raisins into this thing only to see it decline by 25 raisins during the year. It feels like flushing my money down a black hole when that happens.[/quote]

Cricket – you don’t work for a company with 2 CEO’s do you? Your crappy choices and cut 401k sound very familiar. It sucks.

[Aecetia]

Skynet- “On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in the media for why the stock market went up or down on a given day are nonsense.
‘Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time,’ Ratigan said.”

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0630/ratigan-stock-market-obviously-corrupt/

[Aecetia]

Skynet- “On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in the media for why the stock market went up or down on a given day are nonsense.
‘Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time,’ Ratigan said.”

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0630/ratigan-stock-market-obviously-corrupt/

[Aecetia]

Skynet- “On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in the media for why the stock market went up or down on a given day are nonsense.
‘Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time,’ Ratigan said.”

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0630/ratigan-stock-market-obviously-corrupt/

[Aecetia]

Skynet- “On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in the media for why the stock market went up or down on a given day are nonsense.
‘Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time,’ Ratigan said.”

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0630/ratigan-stock-market-obviously-corrupt/

[Aecetia]

Skynet- “On his afternoon show Tuesday, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan explained why he believes the usual explanations given in the media for why the stock market went up or down on a given day are nonsense.
‘Seventy percent of the volume [of trades on the stock market] is computers that are run by the banks playing ping pong with stocks for 10 seconds at at time,’ Ratigan said.”

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0630/ratigan-stock-market-obviously-corrupt/

[scaredyclassic]

yes, obviously, the headline “stock market up today” or “stocks down” would underscore the ridiculousness of day to day reporting. Ther eis no reason for most of it. ther eis no reason to read or write about the daily gyrations unless it is an independent reason like ‘war declared” or “southern ca buried in massive earthquake”.

[scaredyclassic]

yes, obviously, the headline “stock market up today” or “stocks down” would underscore the ridiculousness of day to day reporting. Ther eis no reason for most of it. ther eis no reason to read or write about the daily gyrations unless it is an independent reason like ‘war declared” or “southern ca buried in massive earthquake”.

[scaredyclassic]

yes, obviously, the headline “stock market up today” or “stocks down” would underscore the ridiculousness of day to day reporting. Ther eis no reason for most of it. ther eis no reason to read or write about the daily gyrations unless it is an independent reason like ‘war declared” or “southern ca buried in massive earthquake”.

[scaredyclassic]

yes, obviously, the headline “stock market up today” or “stocks down” would underscore the ridiculousness of day to day reporting. Ther eis no reason for most of it. ther eis no reason to read or write about the daily gyrations unless it is an independent reason like ‘war declared” or “southern ca buried in massive earthquake”.

[scaredyclassic]

yes, obviously, the headline “stock market up today” or “stocks down” would underscore the ridiculousness of day to day reporting. Ther eis no reason for most of it. ther eis no reason to read or write about the daily gyrations unless it is an independent reason like ‘war declared” or “southern ca buried in massive earthquake”.

[Aecetia]

“Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. But over the past few weeks, Nanex, a data services firm has dragged some of the odder algorithm specimens into the light.”

“‘When I pulled up that first chart, we saw ‘the knife,’ we said, that’s certainly algorithmic and that is weird. We continued to refine our software, honing the algorithms we use to find this stuff,’ Donovan told me. Now that he knows where and how to look, he could spend all day for weeks just picking out these patterns in the market data. The examples that he posts online are just the ones that look the most interesting, but at any given moment, some kind of bot is making moves like this in the stock exchange.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/market-data-firm-spots-the-tracks-of-bizarre-robot-traders/60829/

[Aecetia]

“Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. But over the past few weeks, Nanex, a data services firm has dragged some of the odder algorithm specimens into the light.”

“‘When I pulled up that first chart, we saw ‘the knife,’ we said, that’s certainly algorithmic and that is weird. We continued to refine our software, honing the algorithms we use to find this stuff,’ Donovan told me. Now that he knows where and how to look, he could spend all day for weeks just picking out these patterns in the market data. The examples that he posts online are just the ones that look the most interesting, but at any given moment, some kind of bot is making moves like this in the stock exchange.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/market-data-firm-spots-the-tracks-of-bizarre-robot-traders/60829/

[Aecetia]

“Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. But over the past few weeks, Nanex, a data services firm has dragged some of the odder algorithm specimens into the light.”

“‘When I pulled up that first chart, we saw ‘the knife,’ we said, that’s certainly algorithmic and that is weird. We continued to refine our software, honing the algorithms we use to find this stuff,’ Donovan told me. Now that he knows where and how to look, he could spend all day for weeks just picking out these patterns in the market data. The examples that he posts online are just the ones that look the most interesting, but at any given moment, some kind of bot is making moves like this in the stock exchange.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/market-data-firm-spots-the-tracks-of-bizarre-robot-traders/60829/

[Aecetia]

“Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. But over the past few weeks, Nanex, a data services firm has dragged some of the odder algorithm specimens into the light.”

“‘When I pulled up that first chart, we saw ‘the knife,’ we said, that’s certainly algorithmic and that is weird. We continued to refine our software, honing the algorithms we use to find this stuff,’ Donovan told me. Now that he knows where and how to look, he could spend all day for weeks just picking out these patterns in the market data. The examples that he posts online are just the ones that look the most interesting, but at any given moment, some kind of bot is making moves like this in the stock exchange.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/market-data-firm-spots-the-tracks-of-bizarre-robot-traders/60829/

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