John Bollinger
John Bollinger
John A. Bollingeris an American author, financial analyst, contributor to the field of technical analysis and the developer of Bollinger Bands. His book Bollinger on Bollinger Bands, John Bollinger, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN 978-0-07-137368-5, has been translated into eleven languages. He has published The ’’Capital Growth Letter’’ which provides technical analysis of the financial markets since 1987...
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I put on some shorts going into the close, ... It seemed like a good idea -- the market had simply gone too far, too fast.
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The stock market has been going sideways for a very long time now, and it looks to me like it will continue to do so.
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This is typically when important market bottoms are built. But I'm sitting back and waiting to be shown.
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Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.
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Investors are now realizing that their (worst fears) were overblown.
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Greenspan is often chided for those comments but looking back they seemed very timely,
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I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks. Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.
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I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks, ... Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.
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We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.
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Today's swings reflected uncertainty at the end of a week in which investors were pelted by wildly conflicting news on both earnings and the economy, ... Every good report this week has met with a bad report. Yes, the market is trying to establish a bottom but it's not a done deal yet.
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We're in a long-term sideways type of market, a consolidation market, typified by alternating cyclical bull and bear markets lasting a year or two each,
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We're still in a position where stocks are too widely owned, ... and the people that own them own too much.
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With today's dips and testing of the July lows we might find a sustainable low here, but only if the information picture for investors changes, ... I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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The pain level is as severe as anything the market has ever inflicted on investors before,