The Day Ahead: Chants From an Unhinged Market
"Did you know that I'm utterly insane?" --Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
What we call the "stock market" is a downright impressive organism. Every second that ticks by, the market is acting kind of insane at a Patrick Bateman level, whether it's via a hotshot human or a buzzing machine. "Buy or sell?" "Good news or bad?" "Who wins and who loses?" These are a few of the issues that the market weighs daily. To that end, the market returned from a rare, non-self-induced slumber with vigor -- and absent the Friday the 13th disaster scenarios. But, deep in my very soul, I truly feel that investors ignored many important insane, silent chants from the market regarding its next move. Amid the window-dressing nonsense and the like, the market was crying, for it has been unable to shake the nasty fever it has carried around for weeks....654 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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