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Jeremy Grantham Q4 Letter: Pavlov's Dogs

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In Jeremy Grantham’s 4Q Letter, he summarizes what went well and not so well in 2010, then looks ahead to 2011, sharing what he believes to be critical issues for investors to focus on. He also continues his series of Letters to the Investment Committee with a piece called “On the Importance of Asset Class Bubbles for Value Investors and Why They Occur.” Must read.

Pavlov’s Bulls (pdf)

 

 

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Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:28 | 903831 Mrmojorisin515
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Anyone notice the market going up like a rocket and then falling just as hard two mins later?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:29 | 903836 redpill
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PPT in the house!

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:36 | 903863 101 years and c...
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IBM.  161 to 164.35 in a second. 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:39 | 903880 Cognitive Dissonance
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Desperate lunge for the finish line. It failed in case anyone didn't notice.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:53 | 903934 HarryWanger
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Straight up for the past half hour. Looks to be a nice intraday reversal. Signals a good week ahead.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:56 | 904288 onlymyopinion
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I agree, especially given the nice sell off we had last week.  Time to head back up.  Outstanding Consumer Confidence numbers IMO will only get better as the markets continue higher.  2011 shaping up to be another winner. 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:16 | 904332 LowProfile
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I look forward to you eventually joining Johnny Bravo in his Frigidaire shipping container condo under the overpass.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:35 | 904370 knukles
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Why does anybody even bother to pay attention anymore? 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:39 | 903881 Yen Cross
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 I had a comment! An erroneous spike? So that explains Pavlov's Bulls.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:41 | 903885 Bigger Dickus
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The TOP in the s&p 500 for the next two years is in: HUGE head and shoulders pattern

 

shoulder 1 was the top of the .com bubble.

the head was late 2007

shoulder 2 could be anywhere between this level and the 2001 top. If the correction continues into the next few days, go short on margin.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:44 | 903896 onlymyopinion
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I really do need to go from 80% long to 100% now.  LOL.  Gawd I heart top-callers. 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:44 | 903897 Deep
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you mean DOW right.

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:46 | 903908 Bigger Dickus
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both. Technically, the double top for the s&p is in for the next 10 years.

Wed, 01/26/2011 - 11:52 | 906141 onlymyopinion
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Darn! I was hoping with your double topper you'd have taken my bet.  I guess you ain't that silly.  ROFLMAO!

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:59 | 903954 Prof Gulliver
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Adjust your TA charts for Infinite Bennie Bux.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:33 | 904235 onlymyopinion
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edit

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:35 | 904240 onlymyopinion
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Betcha an innernet brewski we print 1300+ this week.   Afterwards I'll be so kind to allow you a chance to double down on a bet we'll also see a 1400+ print by EOY. 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:41 | 903887 RobotTrader
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Virtually every hedge fund trader on the planet is trying to front-run the Davos comments or figure out if The Bernank is going to halt QE or not.

Tape is now trading as if all the quants were on crack.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:44 | 903898 Bigger Dickus
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Is that your daughter?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:48 | 903915 youngman
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need it over 12,000 for the big speech tonight also

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:49 | 903921 Gubbmint Cheese
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the only way QE2 will stop is so QE3 can start.

No way to stop this money train...

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:08 | 903983 Sudden Debt
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I'm pretty sure there will never be a QE3

Obama needs to cut spending.

Fire people.

I don't think that if he fired 500.000 government employees and will order a QE3 BANK BONUS, that the voters would like it, so congress wouldn't aprove.

 

NOP, QE2 is running out and better start making it 1 BULLET 1 KILL

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:50 | 904134 Cdad
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SD,

Correct.  I think this constant clamor for QE3 is from the wishful thinking crowd.  Strangely, that puts us within the six months of that end...which makes today's last minute stick save rally very strange, indeed.

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:05 | 904161 Sudden Debt
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If QE2 didn't do it, QE3 won't either and people would only start talking about a QE4 if they ever mentioned QE3.

 

Nop, Sugar Daddy Benny B. is calling it quits after this one.

 

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:16 | 904194 Quinvarius
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I don't see the connection between giving insolvent banks money through QE and Obama cutting spending.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 16:50 | 903923 entendance
Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:00 | 903958 Orly
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Wow.  Anyone besides me see the rather unusual, unnatural-looking trading at the close of the session?

Something fishy is going on here...

/:

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:07 | 903979 HarryWanger
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Just dip buyers. We should see some nice upward momentum continue tomorrow with the State of the Union tonight and FOMC tomorrow. The market leaders like AAPL have turned in the past two days to continue higher as well. I guess we saw our dip. I thought maybe we'd get to 1250 but they didn't let it get that low.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:21 | 904025 Orly
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BTFDers, you say.

Okay.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:38 | 904088 Sudden Debt
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BUY ANY STOCK YOU WANT!!!!

 

As long as you remember to buy the puts that go with it ;)

 

 

 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 19:40 | 904377 knukles
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There be birthers, truthers, gold bugs and whateverers, so lets now add "ralliers".  Another buncha Conspiracy Theorists! 

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:04 | 903968 firstdivision
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Any stop in QE will result in a tanking of all markets.  QE is the only thing keeping banks solvent long enough for a day.  There is no end in sight at this point, so just be prepared for Ben to start talking about QE3.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:08 | 903989 Flapjackmaka
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FOMC meeting tommorow right? Oh boy

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:06 | 903977 Flapjackmaka
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The Dow is down even with POMO. Are we nearing a top for stocks or can Bennie still ponzi around? thoughts?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:25 | 904041 the not so migh...
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My 1 cent is that the PD's will spend like crazy tommorow and give a hugh rally tommorow.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:18 | 904197 Sudden Debt
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If your long on stocks worth 1 cent. That's not a high risk.

Otherwise:

Today, I've seen a lot of stock take out stops and go down pretty fast.

Untill they all suddenly started to rise at the same time.

These kinds of tricks costs billions a day.

And the cookie jar of the FED is looking mighty empty now.

It may make sense to you that they inject like forever and that it's a sure thing every day, but nothing lasts forever.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:10 | 903996 CIABS
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that's great.  now can someone put up a pdf, not a scribd, of grantham's eisenhower piece?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:17 | 904013 6 String
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....and not a single word about America's Fiscal Trap. Debts just don't matter until they do I guess.

So.....it's off and running for the major indexes this year, while precious metals get pummeled to death.

I'm taking all my money and going home.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:31 | 904057 tarsubil
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So the market is rocketing up for no reason and gold and silver are dropping despite common sense, and you're taking your money home? Why not take advantage of a buying opportunity?

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 17:38 | 904087 6 String
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tar, just a sarc post. If silver gets down to below 20 I'm all-in.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:06 | 904164 redrob25
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I stopped reading after he insisted weather patterns were related to global warming.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:08 | 904168 Orly
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Same here.

Wed, 01/26/2011 - 14:53 | 906752 blindfaith
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weather patterns and climate patterns are two very different things.  The later affects the former, not the other way around.  Weather patterns are sort of like the daily markets, climate patterns are like Ellioit Wave, 200dma, long term patterns, etc.

You can ignore the opinion but not the data.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:20 | 904203 Yen Cross
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 A Povlov comment! Breath. Ahhhh Breath!!!! Pick some XAG @ 22 and some change.

Tue, 01/25/2011 - 18:43 | 904255 LooseLee
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Like we keep saying; there's a sucker born every minute. Buying at the top is the trademark of a fool. In America fools are behind most everything anymore; especially this communist stock market.

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