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What Wall Of Worry? 2014 Was The Least 'Bearish' For Investors Ever

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Investors have never - ever - been less bearish about the stock market than they are in 2014...

 

 

Trade accordingly.

 

h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer

 

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Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:05 | 5609246 JustObserving
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Investors can see the Yellen put behind US stocks - it is free money courtesy of the Fed.  And the wealh effect that it generates is just God showeing his blessings on the land of the free.

Manipulated markets are an essential strategy in economic and currency wars.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:10 | 5609274 Headbanger
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Not anymoar you dope!

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:21 | 5609326 JustObserving
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I guess you must have made millions shorting the market since 2008.  Shorting manipulated markets is financial suicide.  But you obviously know better since banging your head is a surefire way to increase IQ.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:41 | 5609420 Bill of Rights
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You've made nothing unless you cashed out Dope.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 21:21 | 5611010 sun tzu
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I remember starting my first job out of college at Nortel Networks in summer 2000. The stock was at $90 and everyone was talking about how rich they were and how they were all going to retire in 5 years. A year later the stock was at $30 and half of the people had been retired by management.

Now I hear everyone talking about how much money they've made in the market and how much is in their 401k's and they'll be retiring in a few years when the DOW hits 30K. We'll see how that goes. If it's too good to be true, then it probably is. What are the chances that half of Americans will be able to retire at age 40 due to the stock market making everyone millionaires several times over? Does that make sense to anyone at all? That's what we're supposed to believe. 

Thu, 01/01/2015 - 02:01 | 5611556 tplink
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my best friend's half-sister makes $77 every hour on the computer . She has been laid off for 5 months but last month her pay check was $14292 just working on the computer for a few hours. read... www.works3.com

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:08 | 5609267 Osmium
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Got to keep pushing the markets up to get that last 16% long.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 14:22 | 5609588 Neverstopprintingme
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they got one more convert this week. i finally stopped buying put spreads after 3 years.  enough is enough.  just write it up another 20 to 30% next year.  and then sit in cash.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:10 | 5609271 NEOSERF
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Every time the futures start out even .5% to the red, the Fed starts trotting out talking heads to jawbone it back up.  They know that the Fed knows that this is still to tenuous a recovery and the LAST thing the Fed wants to see is the market tank, and spending starts to turtle because it will expose a whole lot of malinvestment.  Plus all the left-over shovels for those shovel ready, green shoot jobs were sent to China and the EU....

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:58 | 5609494 KnuckleDragger-X
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I'm waiting to see who can't make their covers if the market drops.....

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:13 | 5609283 AynRandFan
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If everyone is bullish, why haven't the indexes been ramping up, instead of staying on the long, straight stairway up?

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:14 | 5609296 Soul Glow
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IT'S THE KOOL AID!

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 15:02 | 5609733 Jstanley011
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Gotta take time out once in a while to kill a few bears.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:12 | 5609284 Soul Glow
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Bullish.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:14 | 5609295 Vesuvius
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I wonder how it was in September 1929?

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:18 | 5609313 Soul Glow
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The market peaked September 3rd, so there's that.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:18 | 5609299 spastic_colon
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just wait until the first trading day of 2015....even less bearisher

 

will we be january effected, affected or infected

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:59 | 5609501 KnuckleDragger-X
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Just wait till the Christmas quarterlies come out, they'll be spinning faster than a jet turbine at full power.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:18 | 5609318 AynRandFan
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It is hard to understand what possible rationale the Fed can have for continuing to feed a stock market bubble that's bigger than the last two.  I just hope Bernanke lives long enough to suffer the hatred from people who lose in the upcoming crash.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 16:50 | 5610200 Bemused Observer
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Someone forgot to put the food dish out...the market is down triple digits, with just 10 minutes to go...

Nice way to end the year...Let's see what happens in the next 10 minutes...

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:22 | 5609332 alexmark2013
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The Hidden world of Derivatives is what sparked the 2007 crisis. Now, the 280-TRILLION Dollar Derivative market is set to inflict in 2015. http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-hidden-world-of-derivatives-is-what-sparked-the-2007-crisis-now-the-280-trillion-dollar-derivative-market-is-set-to-inflict-in-2015/
Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:22 | 5609343 tarsubil
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Have you ever seen someone, who is completely drunk, worry? They remain calm even during head-on collisions.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:29 | 5609365 franzpick
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Stox tanking on some new news?

 

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 13:36 | 5609404 BullyBearish
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I love the chart...giving the BIG FINGER to the FED before it all burns down.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 14:43 | 5609657 toros
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The best stock market rally ever. I learned a lot these past years reading ZH. Hard to believe this "rally" went on for this long. It's a big world though.

Best of luck to all in the New Year.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 15:00 | 5609723 Ewtman
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Sentiment is best used as a contrarian indicator... The stock markets are on the edge of a major reversal.

 

http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/dow-jones-industrial-averageelliott-w...

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 16:36 | 5610098 Comte d'herblay
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OK That's it.

After  6 years of relentless downbeat stock market apocalypse prognostications, vilifications, criticisms, Red warnings and never ending bearishness, you have finally convinced me to sell off my children, my ex-wife, the new nubile bodacious Tat-taed GF, all my Pink Floyd LPs, autographed Pete Rose Beisobol cards, bats, and balls, my Pele soccer ball, the entire collection of silver certificates, bonds, house, boat, Porsche 959, and the Toyota TRS pickup, BMW motorcycle, furniture, and 1000 go-to-hell acres in the jungles of Costa Rica and use the proceeds to short the NASDAQ, triple.

Next year at this time I should be living large in St. Bart's with my profits and will extend my thanks to you then for making happen what didn't happen when I did the same thing in 2009 and didn't get caught by the FEDS for robbing the banks, and Armored cars to compensate for it.

"Quia Sibi non sed quia Patriae".

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 16:27 | 5610101 Bemused Observer
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Why do they keep saying the consumer has 'more money' in their pockets because of lower gas prices? Since so many live paycheck to paycheck, any money saved on gas just goes to something else that is needed...there's no gain to the economy, you're just rearranging the furniture.
The only way the consumer winds up with 'more money' to spend is if they get a pay raise, and they haven't been getting those for awhile now.
Wow are these people stupid.

Wed, 12/31/2014 - 16:42 | 5610166 Comte d'herblay
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The macroeco view is that an average of $345.00 PER YEAR has been saved by human beans that consume fuel at the pump so far due to falling prices for the stuff.

Don't you realize that pays for two months of Satellite TV programming?  A quarter of a month's mortgage payment? A road trip from Philadelphia to Tampa? A half month's health insurance bill?  10 losing bets at the blackjack table?

U sure R greedy.

 

 

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