There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.
Markets that don't work we're going to step away from.
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.
I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.
If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.
The markets are efficient over time.
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.
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