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The infected and death numbers coming out of NYC are staggering. Looks like we;re on our way to 3rd green day in a row. I think it's safe to say that the market doesn't care about people's lives anymore. It did when we lost 30+%, but I guess that's old news at this point? Still on the sidelines but regretting it each day. 
"The market" is simply the present value of the future earnings of the companies that compose it.  To the extent that people's lives affect those numbers, it cares.  

Emotional reactions to headlines are just opportunities to be exploited.

 
Been there done that. If you move 403b money around you gotta be able to beat the S&P and it's not easy but it's doable. It's almost a job however. 
I never do it. I Wanted to do it once.  It was obvious to me the market would tank.  It did.  It still SHOULD but who the F knows.  

 
"The market" is simply the present value of the future earnings of the companies that compose it.  To the extent that people's lives affect those numbers, it cares.  

Emotional reactions to headlines are just opportunities to be exploited.
The death numbers sadly equal shutdowns, which decimate future earnings. The market is ignoring them now, but it can't for long, and when it doesn't, it turns quick. 

 
Walk me through the MGM thinking, just a complete overreaction? What's their exposure besides obviously Vegas? I'm intrigued.
My brother told me to get in it. All I know is it was 30+ before the virus, once the virus is over it will be back to 30+. They are not going out of business and they were virtually priced to go out of business.

 
The death numbers sadly equal shutdowns, which decimate future earnings. The market is ignoring them now, but it can't for long, and when it doesn't, it turns quick. 
If you think/know that, the market already knows that, and it's priced in.  None of this is going to come as a surprise to anybody.  Why do you think we're up 3.8% today despite the horrible unemployment numbers?

Unless you think everybody is underestimating how long this whole thing is gonna last, which is another issue completely.

 
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Go nuts I don’t care what you do, I get bigger issues in my life than some dork re-quoting posts on the message board from months ago. I’ll save you the trouble — I’ve been wrong a bunch of times. This one was obvious. 
Okay, so you're sticking with you "knew it". So how many tens of millions of dollars did you pull in from this "knowledge"?

I've personally never been wrong, ever, about anything!
:lmao:

I guess you missed where I wrote "everyone", but you've got quite the track record.

I've been doing this long enough and am humble enough to admit I don't "know" definitively what's going to happen in the market. Newsflash, neither do you.

 
Okay, so you're sticking with you "knew it". So how many tens of millions of dollars did you pull in from this "knowledge"?

:lmao:

I guess you missed where I wrote "everyone", but you've got quite the track record.

I've been doing this long enough and am humble enough to admit I don't "know" definitively what's going to happen in the market. Newsflash, neither do you.
Honestly why can't you just drop it?  

 
Okay, so you're sticking with you "knew it". So how many tens of millions of dollars did you pull in from this "knowledge"?

:lmao:

I guess you missed where I wrote "everyone", but you've got quite the track record.

I've been doing this long enough and am humble enough to admit I don't "know" definitively what's going to happen in the market. Newsflash, neither do you.
Ok, we get it.  But this is a place where people are talking about their thoughts, strategies, recommendations, and hunches.  I think you’re taking the “I knew it” just a bit too literally.

 
Unless you think everybody is underestimating how long this whole thing is gonna last, which is another issue completely.
I am thinking that yes, this is the case.  

Serious question, since I know nothing about the market.  How long does this market think people will basically be shut ins and how long does the market think gatherings of any kind will be shut down (sports, concerts, restaurants, meetings, travel, parks............)?

I think all of that is at minimum 7-8 months away.  No NBA, no MLB, no NFL this year.  Probably no theme parks for the rest of the year.   Is the market REALLY pricing this in?

 
If you think/know that, the market already knows that, and it's priced in.  None of this is going to come as a surprise to anybody.  Why do you think we're up 3.8% today despite the horrible unemployment numbers?

Unless you think everybody is underestimating how long this whole thing is gonna last, which is another issue completely.
Short squeeze, relief rally & end of month buying.

 
If you think/know that, the market already knows that, and it's priced in.  None of this is going to come as a surprise to anybody.  Why do you think we're up 3.8% today despite the horrible unemployment numbers?

Unless you think everybody is underestimating how long this whole thing is gonna last, which is another issue completely.
The market doesn't go in a linear path down nor a linear path up (although it has for 12 years, which is how I explain the buying today). This is an extraordinary event, this has never happened. To think the market crashes and recovers in weeks or even months is pricing in a much rosier outlook than the spread of this virus is currently showing.  Maybe the market anticipates the data will improve, IDK, nobody does. 

If the incoming virus data continues on the current trajectory, and the market keeps going up, say another 3k points, I'll have to put my conspiracy hat on and say the Fed is covertly outright buying equities either in individual companies or possibly ETFs. 

 
Okay, so you're sticking with you "knew it". So how many tens of millions of dollars did you pull in from this "knowledge"?

:lmao:

I guess you missed where I wrote "everyone", but you've got quite the track record.

I've been doing this long enough and am humble enough to admit I don't "know" definitively what's going to happen in the market. Newsflash, neither do you.
You don’t have to keep projecting your incompetence on this to everybody else.

 
I am thinking that yes, this is the case.  

Serious question, since I know nothing about the market.  How long does this market think people will basically be shut ins and how long does the market think gatherings of any kind will be shut down (sports, concerts, restaurants, meetings, travel, parks............)?

I think all of that is at minimum 7-8 months away.  No NBA, no MLB, no NFL this year.  Probably no theme parks for the rest of the year.   Is the market REALLY pricing this in?
I don't know what "the market" thinks, but I can tell you that I disagree with you wholeheartedly on the bolded.  Don't really have any facts to support my opinion, but I just don't see that happening.  

 
Obviously nobody does, but we can make educated guesses by modeling different scenarios through data. 
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Absolutely.

Ok, we get it.  But this is a place where people are talking about their thoughts, strategies, recommendations, and hunches.  I think you’re taking the “I knew it” just a bit too literally.
I started off by asking if we could stop saying that, it's a pet peeve of mine and really a dangerous mindset to have. I was hoping to see more replies like above, but some are digging in their heels so no other way to take them but literally.

 
Some pretty compelling arguments if you are a chartist that this bear market is starting just like the last two did. If you believe in that stuff we are likely in Bear Market rally territory after the initial sell-off before we start the slow, grinding moves down that last months before a real bottom and capitulation occur. It could be said there are a lot of similarities to what's going on the last few days to when TARP was announced.

That prediction/opinion and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee though, just like all those V-shaped recovery predictions/opinions.

 
I don't know what "the market" thinks, but I can tell you that I disagree with you wholeheartedly on the bolded.  Don't really have any facts to support my opinion, but I just don't see that happening.  
I really hope I am wrong about major gatherings being shut down for like 9 more months.  I really do.  However, i have no reason to believe it wont.  

Unless everyone just all of a sudden stops caring about people and just takes the idea of "survival of the fittest" and all that.  I suppose that is possible

 
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Before I open a Fidelity account (non IRA), does anyone have a referral code or special offer? 

I'll only be putting between $12-15k in now. 

 
My brother told me to get in it. All I know is it was 30+ before the virus, once the virus is over it will be back to 30+. They are not going out of business and they were virtually priced to go out of business.
I don't trade individual stocks anymore but this was one of two I was really interested in just last week.  I had a buddy who still trades and picked up a bunch of MGM.  Gotta admit I wished I'd had the old account fired up for that.  I am working on getting a new account loaded up for longer term holdings of a few stocks if we happen to drift back downward.  Like many have said, we likely retest or go lower, but who knows when that next leg down or retest never happens.

 
I really hope I am wrong about major gatherings being shut down for like 9 more months.  I really do.  However, i have no reason to believe it wont.  

Unless everyone just all of a sudden stops caring about people and just takes the idea of "survival of the fittest" and all that.  I suppose that is possible
At some point, you have to find a balance between the human cost of the virus and the human cost of letting the economy go too far south.  And I don't envy the people whose job it is to find that balance.

 
Zero chance any of this is true imo. I think Disney opens their parks by June. 
I'm betting on the fall. Even have a trip scheduled to DW and universal in November, beach trip in October. 

I think all of that is at minimum 7-8 months away.  No NBA, no MLB, no NFL this year.  Probably no theme parks for the rest of the year.   Is the market REALLY pricing this in?
I can see no fans for the preseason games, maybe into the season even. But the TV contract is huge. It would really surprise me if the NFL cancels the season.

 
Some pretty compelling arguments if you are a chartist that this bear market is starting just like the last two did. If you believe in that stuff we are likely in Bear Market rally territory after the initial sell-off before we start the slow, grinding moves down that last months before a real bottom and capitulation occur. It could be said there are a lot of similarities to what's going on the last few days to when TARP was announced.

That prediction/opinion and $5 will buy you a cup of coffee though, just like all those V-shaped recovery predictions/opinions.
Could you elaborate on the TARP similarities for those of us less familiar, plz? 

 
I’m the tough guy here? 🤨 I don’t care about you at all, piss off already. This is boring. 
Um, which one of us called the other a dork and said we kept projecting our incompetence, and now continues with the insults?

I'm happily done with this, hopefully a couple of the novices took something productive from it.

 
I've said this a few times but if you want to make some money on a short term trade, buy puts a month out on TTD.  It's rising in the face of a really bad time for media.  There are no sports for forseeable future and brands do not want to advertise against COVID 19 so news sites aren't doing all that great either.

I can't believe its been up for multiple days now.

 
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Some tension going on here.  Let's not let this thread turn into a disaster like the PSF one.  
Ya.  Seriously.  I wonder if the site tracks people added to ignore.  Could track them like stocks and see trends.  Lump several of them in a “fund” etc.  

Guess all this stay-home-stay-safe stuff makes folks horny to fight.   :hot:   :boxing: :shrug:

 
Been there done that. If you move 403b money around you gotta be able to beat the S&P and it's not easy but it's doable. It's almost a job however. 
A blind money could do it. Almost every study shows that the average investor loses money doing this.

 

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