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Else is worrying about the flip side of this is true, there is no point in getting excited about something and everybody else is eagerly anticipatin anticipating why . Because when the vast majority of investors agree something will happen, that thing tends to be already priced into the stock market while the real economy moves at its own pace, you got to borrow money to build that equipment and use that equipment to manufacture goods and wait for the customer to come along and buy them the stock market has no such limitations. Stocks dont travel at the speed of light, well, how about the speed of thought they come pretty close so the moment a preponderance of hedge fund mangers decide the economy is slowing or speeding up or flat lining stocks start trading like thats the case instantaneously, usually takes time to build that consensus, which is why you rarely see these moves happening at once but once the big institutional portfolio mangers are on the same page about something, you c
To go around to sate the buyers. So the positives get magnified and the negatives get ignored. That happened again today. The dow dipped 13 points, s p advanced, nasdaq gained. 29 , nice move. First, lets understand, this market is largely driven not by stock pickers but by index funds. That index fund money comes in automatically everyday billions of dollars placed in equities will move equities higher why does this send stocks up so much the for starters, directional. That money tends not to be traded it soaks up supply quite easily. Remember, the stock market is a function of supply and demand. Before the index phenomenon which didnt exist in the 80s and 90s, mutual funds and hedge funds would be selling as well as buying. They still do. But the amount of index money coming in, chiefly for retirement, far outweighs the amounts that are traded. It overwhelms them dont get me wrong, index funds are the right choice for you if youre putting money away for retirement, you shouldnt try t