Autumn is the season of big market crashes!

[Mercury]

Here is another zerohedge article that got me to thinking about when big crashes happen, I seemed to remember it was always after the Summer and so I had a look at the S&P and I found the following to add to the article:

 

• The 1987 Black Monday crash occurred in October
• The Dotcom bubble crash started in Sept 2000, the second leg in Aug 2001
• The Credit crunch crash started in Nov 2007 but the big crash phase began in Sept 2008
• The 2011 correction was in Aug & Sept
• The 2015 correction, forestalled some say by the Fed and a mysterious buyer of US stocks, was in Aug & Sept

Is that really just coincidence or human nature at work?

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-02/september-really-so-bad-stocks

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-02/september-really-so-bad-stocks

 

[MacD]

Hey 

I can hear the voice of Private Frazer even as I type;

"I tell ye laddie - We're doomed!"

 

On the upside - it's Friday evening and I'm about to head to the pub where all life's miseries will be solved!

(Well, until Monday morning, at least)

 

Have a good weekend,

Mac

[Mercury]

The only difference is that Frazer was miserable about it where as I don't feel one way of the other about it so long as I can profit (and protect myself).  Forewarned is forearmed as they say, though it is amazing just how many people prefer the ostrich strategy...

[MacD]

Hehe, I know what yer saying :smileyvery-happy:

 

What I should have said was "We're Doomed... Unless you're short!"

 

Mac