Monday, August 8, 2011

Global Margin Calls

That last hour was margin calls and forced selling.  It is continuing in the after hours.  I am seeing Europe outperform the US in the past few trading sessions.  They get to the strongest markets last, and the US equity market has been the strongest.  I expect much higher prices after Bernanke hints at QE3 tomorrow.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

God, I hope you are right!

Anonymous said...

Who doesn't expect QE3.... or is this just the market making sure Big Ben knows what it expects of him. I hope all the S&P f'ers have loads of company stock

eh said...

Oversold does not begin to describe it. Actually earnings have been quite good. Lots of stupid, senseless panic selling.

That said, there is, at the moment, no sign of real conviction buying.

And I'm not sure QE-3 or whatever will inspire any. Greedy shorts may cover.

Market Owl said...

Ben never disappoints the bulls. And the market is set up to squeeze higher on hints of QE3. The panic today was the most I've seen since March 2009.

Anonymous said...

there is still alot of complacency on cnbc and boards like this. amazing how many technicians talking today about "tradeable lows"