Dow at 17,000. What's more likely to happen first: it drops to 15,000 or continues to 20,000?

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Is Under Armor going to start giving Nike a run for it's money as the leading sporting good company? I'm starting to see their logo more often than the Nike swish when watching sports. My son likes his Under Armor cleats more than his Nike one's too. Even noticed Stephen Curry was sporting some Under Armor basketball shoes. Anyone think Under Armor might be a good stock to get into?
 

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The window to do so was small but shorting TSLA after the Model 3 unveiling was a no brainer. Still a good near-term short at 209.
 

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since May of '15 its become a traders market.


here's the spy


5 year chart

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as we can see since May 2015, she doesnt have the fuel to break to a new high. It's back above its 200 SMA. That's good . IMO, there's much much much more risk to the downside than it forming a new high. She either channels for awhile (again a trader's market) OR she breaks to the downside. A break thorough 204ish and red flags come out. Then 194ish . A break below 180 and well, look out below...............:)



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mom looks fantastic!!...........now hun don't you be takin' too much vacation time that chart isn't exactly comforting!!........................dagone..............



here's the 5 yr chart on ACWI (the USA market plus rest of the world)

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of course IF the SPY does break thru 211 convincingly then party back on. Given current world growth issues, I have no idea how that would happen....BUT these words mean very little...:)
 

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Market has looked like impending doom on the horizon for awhile now..i see no catalyst to go higher other then nothing else is paying shit. Election years seem to wreck havoc....probably collapse come fall
 

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...re-americans-break-record-for-working-past-65

[h=1]‘I’ll Never Retire’: Americans Break Record for Working Past 65[/h]


Almost 20 percent of Americans 65 and older are now working, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the most older people with a job since the early 1960s, before the U.S. enacted Medicare.


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Because of the huge baby boom generation that is just now hitting retirement age, the U.S. has the largest number of older workers ever.
When asked to describe their plans for retirement, 27 percent of Americans said they will “keep working as long as possible,” a 2015 Federal Reserve study found. Another 12 percent said they don’t plan to retire at all.

Why are more people putting off retirement?
[h=2]They need the money[/h]Three in five retirees surveyed by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies said making money or earning benefits was at least one reason they had retired later than they planned to. Almost half said financial problems were their main reason for working past 65.
The financial crisis, and the tech bust before it, devastated many baby boomers' retirement savings if they had any to begin with. Today, 60 percent of U.S. households have no money in a 401(k) or similar retire account, and the benefits of 401(k)s are skewed toward the wealthiest Americans, a recent report by the Government Accountability Office found.

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The waning of traditional, defined-benefit pensions could also be delaying retirement, even for wealthier Americans. Instead of getting a monthly check, many retirees end up with a pot of 401(k) assets they’re not sure how they should be spending. The ups and downs of the market can heighten their anxiety and keep them going into the office.
 

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in any comment section involving the fed, Janet has a new nickname,
Janet "Bubbles" Yellen...
the fed continues to NOT raise interest rates at every opportunity, next meeting scheduled for June...
She is even running into resistance at her own camp, the lady fed from Kansas City has voted to raise rates
multiple times and now just abstains.....creating a bubble after 9 years of no interest rates and QE2...

Here in Florida we have another housing bubble, as prices have not only caught up
to previous highs before crash, they are higher, scary...
No such thing as a starter home, here they take a tool shed,put it on a lot west
of the turnpike and sell it for 1,000,000.... lot more foreclosures to be had again when next
crash comes....only thing done differently this time around,is the no doc loans are
not even submitted as would be turned down....That slowed down the flippers,
who bought an appraised 300k down, paid 400k for it, figuring on flipping at 500k in
6 months...
But we still have fannie and freddie giving loans with 5% down, and new home builders
providing even better options, so their are plenty of 1st time buyers upside down before
they move in...
Add that to the Haitian concept of home ownership, thats when 32 people live in
same house and share 1 bathroom and split the mortgage payments, how many are legal.?
A lot are legal, the men drive taxis and the women work at Walmart and Publix,
but not all are legal...

Thats just the housing market....stock market is another story....
the worse the earning reports are, the higher it goes...matter of time...
if the Fed raises rates, watch out....almost too late,
but better to take the hit now once and done vs building bigger bubble, will be disastrous later...
They should have let it crash back in 2008 and let a few of the banks default and go into
foreclosure vs bailout, ols school scholar by the name if Milton Friedman out of U of Chicago,
great read, look him up...

cannot wpeak for everywhere else in country, but we have a serious college loan bubble issue also...
no jobs, parents co-signed, parents sell overpriced homes to pay off kids debt,
kids move back into basements,scary

Does not matter if you vote Hillary or Donald, whoever gets in is fvcked, recession coming if not
already here, but do NOT blame it on the fed or the Muslim
 

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Who can tell me historically how the market bears against Repubs vs Libs?
 

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Lot of pessimism in this thread. From start to end.

I say we see 20,000 before 15,000.
 

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Lot of pessimism in this thread. From start to end.

I say we see 20,000 before 15,000.

I think that is probably too ambitious in the near-term, but as long as the US firms continue to be the proprietors of the best IP and patents then it will continue on its usual upward long-term trajectory.
 

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I think Cuban is being quite conservative here. But I agree with his sentiment. Anyone who has money in the market would be wise to heed his words if a Drumpf Presidency becomes the likely outcome.

<header style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: CNN, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Mark Cuban: 'Huge, huge' losses for stocks if Trump wins

by Matt Egan @mattmegan5May 16, 2016: 9:36 PM ET
Mark Cuban believes a Donald Trump victory would be a big loss for everyone with money in the stock market.</header><section class="column" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 330px 0px 10px; float: left; position: relative; min-height: 1px; width: 1120px; list-style: none; margin-left: 0px !important;"><article class="module" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; width: 780px;">
"I can say with 100% certainty that there is a really good chance we could see a huge, huge correction," Cuban told CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday evening.
The billionaire owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks blamed Trump's "flip-flopping" on major issues and unpredictability in general.
"That uncertainty potentially as the president of the United States, that's the last thing Wall Street wants to hear," Cuban said of Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for president.

Given the market volatility created by high-speed trading, Cuban said the losses could exceed 20%. Such a selloff would end the bull market in stocks that has spanned the last seven years.
Cuban, the co-star of ABC's "Shark Tank," recently told CNNMoney he was recruited to run against Trump, but he believes it's too late to enter the race.
Related: Cuban: I'd be Clinton's VP if I can 'throw bombs' at Trump
Now that he's not running, Cuban said he'd "probably" vote for Hillary Clinton in a likely match-up against Trump.
"The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know," Cuban said. "I can go to Hillary's websites and there's spreadsheets, there's depth, there's analysis, there's details."
By comparison, Trump's website "lists top line things he would like to do," Cuban said, "but he doesn't say how he's going to get there."
Cuban also criticized Trump's isolationist tilt, saying "you can't act as a standalone entity" in today's "global financial environment."
Asked how smart he thinks Trump is, Cuban said: "Probably not as smart as he thinks he is."
Cuban also sounded skeptical about the actual net worth of Trump, who has so far refused to release his tax returns due to an ongoing audit from the IRS. "At least I'm a billionaire," Cuban said.
But Cuban later backtracked a bit, saying: "Whatever he's worth, he's worth."
To be fair, many investors don't sound thrilled about any of the remaining major candidates in the 2016 race. Bernie Sanders has aggressively campaigned against Wall Street and big business. At one point Sanders saidGeneral Electric (GE) is "destroying the moral fabric of America."
Few would call Clinton an ideal candidate for Corporate America either. The former First Lady has proposed imposing a fee on big banks as well as raising taxes oninvestment gains. Clinton has also called out businesses that move overseas to cut their tax bills.
Related: Should investors fear President Trump or Clinton?
But Cuban and others seem to like that at least Clinton is more of a known commodity.
Cuban even recently offered advice to Clinton: Tap him as her running mate. Speaking at the SALT hedge fund conference last week, Cuban said Clinton needs a vice presidential candidate "like me who would just throw bombs at Donald."
"The best way to describe Donald right now -- and again, I like the guy -- is he's like the guy who will walk into the bar and say anything" to go home with someone, Cuban said.
Correction: This story has been updated to clarify Mark Cuban's remarks regarding which candidate he may vote for. Cuban said he'd "probably" vote for Hillary Clinton in a likely match-up against Trump.


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"The best way to describe Donald right now -- and again, I like the guy -- is he's like the guy who will walk into the bar and say anything" to go home with someone, Cuban said.


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“I happen to be a low-interest-rate person unless inflation rears its ugly head, which can happen at some point,”

Donald J Trump


and if it all goes to shit,well, ...... just make a deal.........dagone.........



 

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17,551.79Price decrease459.28 (2.55%)
Any more Brexit like stupidity, and 15,000 will be passed in a blink. It still might be when the full ramifications of this absurdity is factored in. When the market tells you something is dumb, and a disaster, believe them.
If there is ever a sense that Drumpf has a real shot, by the people who count, the 1 day Brexit Drop will look like a great day.
 

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The market crashing isn't always a bad thing...save some dry powder fir a possible trump crash..if it dumps buy it up and wait it out 4 years or till he gets impeached then go green
 

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The Dow was up 75 points, or 0.4%, to 18,301 at 10:20 a.m. Eastern time. That is just 11 points below its previous high reached in May last year.
 

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