Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Market Cycles And Expected Outcomes
The “Visual Capitalist” website had a terrific market diagram explain the “best time to buy stocks.”
“Is it possible to time the market cycle to capture big gains?
Like many controversial topics in investing, there is no real professional consensus on market timing. Academics claim that it’s not possible, while traders and chartists swear by the idea.
Google, pardon Alphabet, may have just killed the strong earnings narrative. Moments ago advertising behemoth (with various ancillary services) GOOGL reported Q1 earnings and sales, and both were a miss.
Virtually every other data point was also a miss:
Stocks suffer their biggest down day in 2 weeks...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUzpCslLh0
It all looked so hopeful early this morning as those pajama-players bid us back to cycle highs...and then it all fell apart...
As metals were smacked lower by a China margin hike...
Dow lost 18,000, S&P lost 2,100 but Trannies were the worst on the day...Nasdaq managed tro get green at the death...
Kerrisdale Capital's Sahm Adrangi is no stranger to stirring up notoriety and self-promoting publicity if it helps generate inbound capital. Back in 2013 New York magazine's spellbound Kevin Roose wrote an extended profile of the then-32 year old hedge fund manager and prominent short seller, describing him as "the hedge-fund world’s first full-on social-media-savvy investor can move markets with the flick of a tweet."
From Mike O'Rourke at Jones Trading
The Most Crowded Trade in History