SPX QQQ This past month

    Posted by fundamentalvalues on 30th of Jul 2022 at 08:37 am

    SPX QQQ This past month is looking like evidence that we never had a bear market. I guess the definition of bear market is back up for debate as well. To me bear markets require time and price, meaning it lasts more than months, it would last more than a year into two. We haven't had both time AND price. Every time it has gone down in the past (not including that 70s-80s period), the Fed has come to the rescue. 

    So it makes sense why the debate has been so active in regards as to whether we are in a bear market or not. We need that next leg down and we need to go into next year without markets going back up. If we rally and/or don't make new lows this year, this will be seen as a correction, not a bear market. And I think that would be correct. It is an important discussion because while most of us trade day to day with some of our money and can adjust, the majority of people invest. Tough environment to say the least for all the reasons I posted prior in the backdrop. Proof that the economy is still vulnerable. The question is if it matters or not to the market or has been priced in. Some believe a recession has been mostly priced in. And it in fact could be. 

    exactly - what moron came

    Posted by matt on 30th of Jul 2022 at 11:03 am

    exactly - what moron came up with that simple down 20% defines a bear market that you hear on CNBC - A bear market is not some set price decline that your 5th grade kid can calculate in math class. 

    Bear markets: combination of price decline with a sufficient amount of time that it causes a major change in the collective investor psychology, and also a change in stock leadership - once the bear is over new stocks lead, not the ones of the previous bull market

    Or these could be points

    Posted by srusso1 on 30th of Jul 2022 at 08:57 am

    Or these could be points of interest that fuel FOMO trades. Stay liquid my friend. Dose anyone have a list of those  companies that pay dividends monthly and quarterly ? I think it was Matt that put it out several months ago.


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