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Birinyi: "Short-Sellers Have Learned Their Lesson" S&P 500 At 1,900 By June
While infamous ruler-user Laszlo Birinyi does note that "this market is not going to be like last year," he remains full bulltard as to where stocks are headed. As Bloomberg notes, Birinyi says stocks have too much momentum to make betting against them a winning strategy and the S&P will hit 1,900 by the end of the second quarter. "Short sellers have probably learned their lesson," he squeaks adding thatthe current pullback signals "healthy skepticism that sets the stage for more gains." One question - how was momentum in 1929? 1987? 1999? or 2007?
Via Bloomberg,
U.S. stocks have too much momentum to make betting against the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index a winning strategy and the gauge will probably reach 1,900 next quarter, according to money manager Laszlo Birinyi.
...It fell 5.8 percent in the three weeks staring Jan. 15, losses he said signal healthy skepticism that set the stage for more gains.
“I don’t like when the market just shrugs these things off,” Birinyi said from Westport, Connecticut. “It’s OK to just stop and take a deep breath. The market should have some sort of a negative reaction when you have problems in Turkey and Argentina. That didn’t make me uncomfortable.”
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“Short sellers have probably learned their lesson” after a year when 460 of 500 companies in the benchmark index climbed, the most since at least 1990, Birinyi said. At the same time, “there’s nothing that you can say is a bargain or a real value” if you’re a bull, he said.
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“We’ve had a little bit of a detour and the road isn’t as smooth as it has been, but we still think the rally is intact,” Birinyi said.
The S&P 500 had fallen 5 percent or more 18 times previously since the start of the rally in March 2009, recovering the losses within about two months on average, data compiled by Bloomberg and Bespoke Investment Group show. To Birinyi, the latest retreat will be no different, though he said investors will have to shift their strategies to succeed in 2014.
“This market is not going to be like last year, which was a very steady consistent market without a whole lot of volatility,” he said.
Bulls can only hope that Birinyi is correct (and it's the stock that matters)...
But it is the slowing flow that has hurt sentiment recently - and we suspect the Fed is to worried about its credibility to jump back on the un-taper bandwagon anytime soon...
Seems to us like all that matters is USDJPY holding above 102.00
h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer
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Lazlo, you are a complete ....
Didn't Lazlo said somewhat the same on 12/31/1999?
@1:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5R0j75BZ0U
Well ~ Historically ~ It's always been down to:
~~~
PURPLE CRAYON
vs.
The MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN
Usually when some conniving deceitful Wall Street greedy bastard is right, his calls will be listened to by the sheeple. This fucker Lazlo is definitely using his previous call to draw in the sheeps to buy more all the while he offloads to them. Just listen to the guy talk, you cant understand a word he says.
Everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face.
-American poet Mike Tyson
Punch?... [dude ~ is that like some kinda 'kool aid' or sumthin'?]... :-)
why is this guy not homeless after this call let alone still giving stock investment at this time?
The thing is that the FED has not stopped QE. Just a taper. Don't get me wrong. It will end bad. But the ending may not be here yet.
Last week Blackrock with their powerhouse of ETFs and FED money showed that POMO can work very well.
We must remember to listen for the music to stop. Meanwhile, I will only listen and observe.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Just because QE "worked" in 2013, doesn't mean it will automatically "work" in 2014 (from a much higher level, higher multiple, and record peak margins).
I assume your definition of "work" is similar to Bernanke's (QE is working = higher S&P 500).
$800B of asset purchases in 2014...and that's assuming the Fed does not adjust the taper. Anyone that says the stock market is going higher is likely to be right...not because stocks are a decent place to put money or for any fundamental reason...but just because the Fed is such a big player.
First, it is about $500B of QE in 2014 vs. $1,020B of QE in 2013.
Second, higher stock market prices (higher level and high multiples) require higher dollar amount of QE to inflate asset prices. (just $35B a month of QE won't be enough -- the amount of printing by this Summer).
Third, just to keep the stock market at these artificially inflated levels the Fed must keep printing and buying (without the constant flow, the stock market will plunge, as it plunged after QE-1 and QE-2).
Haha...I keep using $800b since I was sure they wouldn't taper until 2015. $500b...that right. I feel less optimistic about my previous statement...but only about $300b less optimistic. I still maintain that markets will go up.
To your second point, how do you figure it "won't be enough"? Another year of QE in *any amount* will affect asset prices.
With regards to that last point you made..."artificially inflated levels"...it's hard to argue with the two most important words there: artificial and inflated. Yes...the Fed changed everything with QE...and the US economy has been revealed to be smoke and mirrors along with a few real businesses here and there. But the US gov't has jammed so much money into the economy over the past few years with its deficit spending ways...money that has fueled a housing bubble in VA/MD/DC...money that has enriched the defense companies and their workers...it's just so much darned money when you add it up, that I can't see stocks "plunging". But who knows...I know alot of people itching to buy stocks if markets do plunge since their money is just sitting in a bank. So many people can't possibly be wrong...so maybe a plunge is coming.
I actually I think we drift sideways here, bump 1900 in the summer briefly, then come sept to october it falls apart.
Chuckie Shumer et al. wont be happy about that with elections staring them in the face. A collapsing market right before congressional elections? I doubt it.
Get to work, Mr. Yellen!!
"Short sellers have learned their lesson". Well, maybe not all of them; 625,000 futures contracts traded already today on the S&P; result; DOWN.
I'm waiting for stock buyers to learn their lesson..... it seems that everyone wants to play "Fukashima Hot Potato" at the moment.
I see he brought down his S&P expecations a bit from his 2800 forecast in 2011.... heres a link
http://www.creditbubblestocks.com/2011/01/laszlo-birinyi-guy-who-says-s-...
Talking his book? "The rally is intact". Not until it makes new highs; otherwise it's not a bull market; definition.
Code for "Print, Janet, Print" (which btw can be sung to the tune Disco Inferno...)
Fiscal Inferno!
"dogs and cats living together complete hysteria"
Excellent Ghostbusters reference.
I predict the market is going to go up and then down, followed by down and then up. I'll even throw in a little sidways action to cover all my bases.
...and this is the only prediction that I believe. As much as I love my fellow doom-and-gloomers out there, too many are of the perennial opinion that the market goes up or sideways in the near term, but falls off a cliff "(insert next fall or spring here,,or 1-2 years in the future)."
Nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. When they finally pull the rug on this thing, only a select few will know. I have my suspicions on how things will play out, but I have no idea when. Everybody is just guessing.
what about backwards?
Old yeller will continue the charade...
Laszlo Birinyi,
Are you counting on Mr. Janet Yellen to wall paper your financial portfolio? At the end of the day, you'll look like a limp dick.
IMHO
The notion of "momentum" is what usually leaves craps table enthusiasts curled up in the fetal position in some back alley.
Yep- when you see these guys betting on momentum, it's time to hit the door running.....
I guess I was under a misunderstanding that momentum required mass and velocity.
Nah, skittles, unicorns and a whole bunch of hopium smoked through the QE pipe.
pods
S&Pee looks like its Tapering off now...flat and dribbling lower. Loss of erection structure.
Why not, when you have a fast food stock like ChitPotle trading at 53 times earnings ($544 a fucking share) the sky is the limit. Lets not even bring up priceline.
Can someone even provide a coherent arguement as to why a place that sells food that you could find on a street vendor's cart for 10% of the price has a share price of $544.
It's apart of a money laundering shell game operation. But, you didn't hear this from me. Start with the Board of Directors and branch out to interconnecting companies. That's all for now.
Rise
____
Ru(i)n
"God himself could not sink this economy."
I'm just going to keep saying this until it all comes crashing down.
"Ship" sic Capt. Smith.
Hmmmm.....(mental note to self), Go long rulers and momentum.
I always thought Birinyi was a resort on the Itailian Adriatic.
Indian recipe I thought.
S&P isnt finished going down imo
Nor in mine.
QEen Yellen will keep moving with money printing and buying US debt.
The Fed won't stop until forced to.
Time to raise the debt ceiling to $20 trillion, then on to $25 trillion.... $30 trillion.....
the entire theory of keneysian economics relies on creating money out of debt. to not raise the debt ceiling would mean massive deflation and would contradict the purpose of the contemporary monetary system.
this is all just a show to destract the zombies
He is right. as long as the central banks keep printing money, the s&p will rise.
as soon as they stop, the s&p will fall.
Shorts have learned her lesson..... Lol. What do you think is driving this market? The shorts keep jumping on it then fed squeezes them out.
Is that Birinyi or Balowney?
Desperation! He's bullrestarded
Ben Bernanke, 10th January 2008 - "The Federal Reserve is currently not forecasting a recession."
The point: no one knows shit...including when this market finally collapses under its own weight....
If cunt Yellen ramps up printing, we go higher. For now, the print barrage is slowing.
Let's see if the cunt sticks to $55B - fuck - these numbers are declining, but are still insane.
No change for the better in my world...continues to just be getting worse!
If and when, "DOW" 1900", find me "short"!!
How can ANYONE make a call on ANY market with the crap we have now?! I'll just STFO - stay the fuck out.
http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/05/fat+lady+sings-feature.jpeg
http://flic.kr/p/enJ7Cs
hopefully gold keeps dropping so we can keep stacking.
Laszlo is a piker. 1999 is in the bag imo.
Thank god for that. I was beginning to think it'd never go down.
Yellen can't keep it up, at that erected angle, that 'ruler' has a special 'look' to it...it is a bridge too far.
It will deflate. The empty Chair has nothing to stimulate the 'ruler' with. heh.
BTW who rules the empty Chair ? Birinryi or Mammon ? Babylon the Great ?
The lower 90% are already streched financially. The 10% can't carry the whole economy. It's why the government is spending and the Fed is printing.
Almost impossible to even guess when the economy and markets normalize. Everything is skewed.
QEen Yellen probably will join Japan and China and print insanely.
I'm betting on Yogi... go yogi go.
we're fortunate really, because Abe is way out there on the thin limb ahead of us. just watch nikkei and you'll note how to trade
win > "QEen Yellen probably will join Japan and China and print insanely."
The 9% will be stuck. The top 1% has already offshored everything.
The inverse relation between S+P and volume gives proof to His big lie.
Overlay the charts and ask yourself what is more likely, volume increasing to meet the overvalued s+p, or the s+p dropping to meet actual demand.
Clue; one involves hope and majic...
The other just plain reality. (though it does seem to be in very short supply these days)
Lazlo's obviously betting on an intimidated Yellen doing wall streets bidding by stopping or reducing taper due to lousy economic numbers. otherwise there is no good reason for his bet.
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Never bet against the US govt!
There's a lot of complacency out there, and not to mention a lack of follow-through in everything but NQ.
LOL.
Loading up on HVU, UVXY is a smart move now - but of course, the SS Titanic is UNSINKABLE!!
Fuck you Birinyi.
USDJPY above 102 + continued Fed purchases = BTFD (until further notice).
Altucher 20,000!
Bulltard.
While I liked the foreign Tyler I love this main Tyler's command of English even better. So many new words lol
He forgets the basic idea of: If you woke up today after sleeping for a few years, what would you do, go long or short? For a lot of traders who weren't short at all the past few years, now looks better than most other times.
1900 by june is a pretty conservative estimate don't you think? Last week we made a strong bottom and as we break through 1800 today or tomorrow you had better take a picture because we will never again see them trade down to 1800.
Look at the tape, look at the charts, look at nearly anything and its all extremely bullish, buying here is a no brainer. I mean c'mon, we took back a week od down days in a day and a half, te market isn't even trying to down tick just going sideways and higher.
You can wait and buy later this month as we break out to new all time highs but we are going higher, there is no question about that. The real question is will we close 2014 at only 2200 or will we make 2500.
2000 this year is a given.
Just a few hours from now and our holyness J. Cramer (the other one with that infamous track-record) will tell us all to go all in into the bullmarket of the millenium, because it can't go lower anyway... Around $spx 1820 I guess...