Investors will end the week with ‘Shemitah’ on their already fevered brains. Sunday, September 13 completes a seven-year cycle in the Hebrew calendar that has coincided with huge selloffs twice in recent stock-market history. I’ve received so many emails about this, and the date is so well advertised on the Web, that I’d be shocked if anything particularly interesting happens Sunday night. Of course, one can never be entirely certain about such things. All it would take would be a black swan to roil Asian markets and set the scene for a memorable rout on Wall Street.
Biblical Intimations of Doom
- September 11, 2015, 2:51 pm
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September 11, 2015, 8:42 am
There will be a partial solar eclipse on September 13th (29 Elul 5775 on the Hebrew calendar) followed by a full moon total lunar eclipse on September 28. It is also the 4th Blood Moon in the Lunar Tetrad, another biblical intimation of doom.
Previous crashes have begun within a window, referred to as a “Puetz Window”, defined as 6 days before to 3 days after a lunar eclipse of the first full moon following a solar eclipse. Eight previous crashes, from the Holland Tulip Mania in 1637 through the Tokyo crash in 1990, occurred in this time period. This year’s window is 9/22 – 10/1. The moon is blamed second only to PMS as a cause of mood changes.
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September 11, 2015, 8:39 am
Attention: Investors lacking risk awareness on equities! E-mail Print Written by Sebastian Wanke | 08 September 2015
Posted in Special researchThe latest sentix data set reveals an alarming discrepancy: investors’ fundamental belief in equity prices is still rising despite falling economic expectations. Potential risks are especially lurking in the US market. Investors are turning a blind eye on possible adverse effects for equities as economic optimism fades.
The sentix Economic Index for September drops significantly for all major markets and regions. Notably expectations of economic acceleration are on the decline. Such drops in investors’ expectations are usually early warning signs for declining equity markets. By itself, economic expectations convey an alarming message. However, in combination with results shown by the sentix Strategic Bias for equities, which aims at capturing investors’ fundamental belief in equities, the signal is even more puzzling. Strategic Bias rises, especially for US markets (see figure).
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September 10, 2015, 11:50 pm
Oh no! The last thing bears need right now is more dumb money shorting blindly on nonsense just to be squeezed to record heights! :/
To me all the recent buying power was nothing more but buy stops being triggered.
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September 10, 2015, 10:02 pm
Seeing as how the path of the eclipse is the southern third of Africa and the BIG Frozen Island , I suspect you will be proven correct. The tip of Africa could fall into the ocean and my guess would be that the whiz-bangs on cnbc would ramble on rapturously about the cost savings due to the shorter sea lanes. One never knows for sure , though.
Also ‘Sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kippur’
Sept 13 to 23 this year