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Subject Author Date chinese buying us equities <a 05-14-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities PeterL 05-15-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities Thomas 05-15-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities kastnna 05-15-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities Douglas Johnson 05-16-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities kastnna 05-16-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities joetaxpayer 05-15-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities Gil Faver 05-15-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities Jack 05-16-2007  Re: chinese buying us equities Will Trice 05-16-2007
Posted by on May 14, 2007, 5:12 pm just last wednesday, chinese traded 377 billion yans or larger value in equities trades than combined 12 other large asian markets. some 368k new accounts per day have been opened by chinese investors over the last few weeks when the chinese start investing their 2 trillion euros into the us markets, perhaps that's as good a sign as any to head for the hills Posted by PeterL on May 15, 2007, 2:38 pm > just last wednesday, chinese traded 377 billion yans or larger value in equities > trades than combined 12 other large asian markets. > some 368k new accounts per day have been opened by chinese investors over the last few > weeks > > when the chinese start investing their 2 trillion euros into the us markets, perhaps > that's as good a sign as any to head for the hills Huge amount of fresh cash coming into the market. Wouldn't that be the time to go fully invested? Posted by Thomas on May 15, 2007, 5:07 pm PeterL wrote: > Huge amount of fresh cash coming into the market. Wouldn't that be > the time to go fully invested? when you read the chinese news papers, it is being reported that families are borrowing money against their furniture, getting loans, etc.. and this money is being poured into the market that is scary! when the cab driver is giving you tips on investing, it's the time to sell Posted by kastnna on May 15, 2007, 5:24 pm I wonder how many investors would be better off if they just buried their heads in the sand? On any given day one can find hundreds of articles with "factual" evidence indicating the biggest boom/bust ever is just over the horizon. Posted by Douglas Johnson on May 16, 2007, 5:05 am >I wonder how many investors would be better off if they just buried >their heads in the sand? Almost all of them. >On any given day one can find hundreds of articles with "factual" >evidence indicating the biggest boom/bust ever is just over the >horizon. This is a major point of Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his wonderful book "Fooled by Randomness". Most of the daily (or weekly, or monthly) information that goes by us is just noise, without significance in a long term portfolio. This includes daily stock prices (in spite of the fact I have a ticker running across the top of my screen). The human brain is very good at finding patterns in things. It is so good, it finds patterns that aren't there. Since markets have such a large amount of noise, we humans find a large amount of false patterns. Can you spell "head and shoulders top"? In my mind "Fooled by Randomness" is a must read for every serious investor. Among other things, it attempts to address the question, oft asked here, of "How do you know if a money manager is lucky or good?". -- Doug Similar Threads Posted Slight OT: Chinese income tax. January 29, 2007, 12:54 pm General talks on equities June 2, 2008, 8:22 am OT Buying A Townhouse May 30, 2007, 4:59 am renting vs. buying May 27, 2008, 6:54 pm buying dollars July 4, 2008, 7:18 pm buying a house without an agent February 14, 2008, 2:23 pm Help info on buying into a business April 14, 2008, 12:14 pm Buying new car at distress prices? January 5, 2009, 2:40 pm Buying Stocks (or ETFs) for Kids July 5, 2007, 11:07 pm Buying a bank owned home July 12, 2007, 5:04 am