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pasithea ([personal profile] pasithea) wrote2008-10-10 09:57 am

Dates

Still two weeks to go before the 79'th anniversary of 1929 market crash. I wonder how superstitious Wallstreet is about dates...

[identity profile] glych.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
*shakes voodoo stick and turns around three times while chanting "She'll be comin' around the mountain when she comes"*

[identity profile] yetanotherbob.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
You're talking about an institution whose entire basis is peer pressure and popularity contests; and decides a company's fate on speculation, rumors, and what might happen. Are they superstitious?

Maybe.

FOAFing

[identity profile] discreet-chaos.livejournal.com 2008-10-10 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ordinarily, I'd say that the market is very superstitious and one might want to lay low on that day, but this time around, I believe the "big boys" have been positioning themselves for weeks and they're snatching-up shares at rock bottom prices from Average Joes. And, if this continues to be the case, I don't know that the scared masses will be waiting for a specific date, so I actually wouldn't be surprised if the 29th is flat or if the indexes close slightly up for the day.

Of course, if everybody tries to sell into the rally, then we could end-up down, but I think that things have been so messed-up for a while, Black Monday might actually become a wash.