BrokerG wrote:Thank you Q for proving my point. It was all nonsense as you mentioned. Then why did we get clobbered yesterday, with no rebound today? That is all I am asking
Warren Buffett likely provided the best (and shortest) way to explain how the stockmarket works which I have ever seen. His quote is something like "the stock market is driven by Fear and Greed".
Yesterday we likely did not have a whole ton of support on the shareprice when the FUD piece came out. The FUD (unchecked by traders) likely resulted in some selling and then others shorting, both contribute to lower prices in the absense of strong support on the SP. It is simply human nature to want something as cheap as possible so today's buyers are bidding as low as they think they can while shorts who are looking to cover (buy back shares) are doing the same.
Fear is a dominate emotion vs Greed and Greed only fully kicks in when all the FUD is gone.