About what everybody else is worrying about the flipside of this is also true there is no point in getting excited about something that everybody else is eagerly anticipating why . Because when the vast majority of investors agree that somethings going to happen, that thing tends to already be priced into the stock market while the real economy moves at its own sedate pace you have to build out goods to transport them to retail outlets and wait for the customer to come along and buy them the stock market has no such limitations. Stocks dont quite travel at the speed of light well, how about the speed of thought . They come pretty close the moment of preponderance of hedge fund and Mutual Fund Managers decide that the economy is slowing or speeding up or flat lining, stocks start trading like thats the case instantaneously. It usually takes some time to build that kind of consensus which is why you rarely see these most happening all at once but once the big institutional Portfolio Mana