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Dow soars 600 points, hitting new high of the day after crazy swings
CNBC ^ | 02/06/2018 | Fred Imbert | Alexandra Gibbs

Posted on 02/06/2018 12:55:56 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Deo volente
The Dow closed up 567 points, after being down exactly 567 points earlier in the day.

What are the odds of that?

21 posted on 02/06/2018 1:15:42 PM PST by PJ-Comix ("Everybody knows Manny Davis - except Mrs. Manny Davis.")
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To: robroys woman

It’s funny the things they attribute market swings to. Everything, they figure, is caused by something, so to keep our phony baloney jobs, we blame fears of interest rate hikes (Does anyone really believe we should stay at zero interest? Give savers a little reward and provide a cushion for the next time the economy needs a boost.), the Nunes investigation which has gone on much too long to be any sort of financial tipping point, or the numbnutz who blamed the tax reform for it.

Sometimes the timing of a market move can be attributed to a particular event. Most of the time, that is not the case, and these idiots are just that: Idiots reading chicken entrails who, if held accountable for their blithering prognostications, would have been jailed for fraud long ago. It’s astrology with money.

Think of the market today as, “Wall Street is having a sale,” and buy into it. Trump’s policies and the underlying economic boom that is forming will reward you well for it.


22 posted on 02/06/2018 1:20:33 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Parley Baer

Media won’t call it a Trump bounce, but they sure as heck blamed Trump yesterday when the dow fell..so its like this with the Commie media, when the Dow does great its because of Obama, when the dow does lousy its because of President Trump


23 posted on 02/06/2018 1:20:46 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Mopp4

They were too quick to label it the “Trump Bump” when it looked like the stock market was headed for a crash. Now that it looks like that may have been an anomoly, they’ll go back to giving Obama credit for the rise in the stock market.


24 posted on 02/06/2018 1:21:52 PM PST by JWNM
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To: phoneman08
Shame that it took a dip in the market for CNN and company to give Trump full credit for the stock market performance.

Same for finance.yahoo.com this morning. A screen full of anti-trump hit pieces. I finally got tired of seeing this crap every time I want just the S&P 500 number; so I used uBlock Origin's element picker to do cosmetic blocking on everything on the page except the stock ticker numbers.

25 posted on 02/06/2018 1:28:17 PM PST by snarkpup (The swamp is draining; and the alligators are allegating.)
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To: Enlightened1

Institutional and hedge fund traders do change their mind almost instantly. If you are day-trading billions, you might buy $200 million of the S&P in the morning, and sell it in the afternoon. If you made 1%, that’s $2 million.

Now picture thousands of guys sitting at terminals, doing this all day long....


26 posted on 02/06/2018 1:28:20 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Deo volente

I’m concerned with these companies with computer algorithms making trades, when they see unusual activity I’m not convinced that we have a handle on the collective dynamics they might cause...


27 posted on 02/06/2018 1:28:43 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Enlightened1

“...It’s no way most investors change their minds that quick. Total B.S. by the Central Banks....”

IF true; whoever or whatever is/was “manipulating” it got their azzes handed to them today. Yeah, it was up & down like a yo-yo all day long. I bought and sold derivatives on one particular stock 3 separate times today...made money on every turnaround. We shall see what tomorrow and the rest of the week brings. Hopefully, some stability.


28 posted on 02/06/2018 1:29:56 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Red Badger

Paul Joseph Watson
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Dow closes up 567 points.

I guess we’re back to thanking Obama?


29 posted on 02/06/2018 1:30:43 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: snarkpup

Nice! I need to check out U Block.


30 posted on 02/06/2018 1:33:42 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: Red Badger

CNN: “The markets were down earlier, in light of Trump policy, but they closed up in light of Obama policy. Now on to celebrity news . . . .”


31 posted on 02/06/2018 1:33:45 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: Red Badger

Trump’s fault.

The dip was probably Soros wanting to get in on some low prices.


32 posted on 02/06/2018 1:36:49 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Deo volente
The Dow closed up 567 points, after being down exactly 567 points earlier in the day.

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And it was down 666 on Friday? That's it - Im investing in tinfoil !!!

P.S., I never noticed the duct tape chin strap before -

33 posted on 02/06/2018 1:39:05 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: fuzzylogic
I’m concerned with these companies with computer algorithms making trades, when they see unusual activity I’m not convinced that we have a handle on the collective dynamics they might cause.

After watching what computer-controlled "portfolio insurance" did during the Crash of 1987, I was concerned that as computers got faster and faster, and the coaxial cables to the trading floor got fatter and fatter, that we'd someday have gigantic bull and bear markets happening at the rate of several dozen per second. Fortunately, there still seem to be enough inertia in the system that this isn't happening.

34 posted on 02/06/2018 1:39:31 PM PST by snarkpup (The swamp is draining; and the alligators are allegating.)
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To: Red Badger

Going to keep an eye on this. Last time the market tanked there was a lot of volatility, several days of big swings, down 300 then up 350 then down 350 then up 300. Like market was fighting itself but momentum was down. The bears ultimately won but not before I moved lots of my money from stocks to bonds and preserved just about all of it when the market tanked. Then after it tanked I move it back to stocks, bought the it back cheap. This is starting to resembe that; correction coming?


35 posted on 02/06/2018 1:46:38 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Understand that this is pure profit taking on stability.

The 2008 crash was a bunch of rebundled crap house loans sold to Europe as prime. We don’t have that junk anymore.


36 posted on 02/06/2018 1:50:35 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: phoneman08
Nice! I need to check out U Block.

uBlock is unrelated. What you want is uBlock Origin.

To do permanent cosmetic blocking of part of a page, click on the uBlock Origin icon, click the eyedropper thing, move the mouse around until the largest possible region of unwanted material is highlighted, click, move the mouse to the lower right corner, and then click "Create". Repeat until as much of the page as you want to erase is gone. If you screw up or want to undo it, go the the "My Filters" tab on the uBlock Origin dashboard and manually erase the rules you don't want to keep.

37 posted on 02/06/2018 1:53:57 PM PST by snarkpup (The swamp is draining; and the alligators are allegating.)
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To: spetznaz

Dead cat bounce”

Cuz, ya know, after eight years of 2% economic growth GDP growth of 3.5% with expectations of 5-7% on the year is no reason for the stock market to go up.

/s

Classic correction. Leftist positions hardest hit.

Retail investors didn’t buy $2 bil. of DJIA core stocks in seconds.

Luuuzrrs


38 posted on 02/06/2018 2:02:51 PM PST by Justa
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To: Red Badger

HFT, and the “yo-yo” effect. Wild swings until the feedback loop stabiizes. HFT algorithms react much faster than any human can.


39 posted on 02/06/2018 2:11:10 PM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: Red Badger

They are busy nailing the windows of the DNC shut to keep the evil donkeys from jumping out of them.


40 posted on 02/06/2018 2:28:45 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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