Monday 13 July 2009

Illiquidity

Stocks seem still to be in a correction. We think this can go on a little longer, before the tide turns. We agree with what Dennis Gartman is writing:

…we should also remember, however, that in the course of the past several decades, the most violent market movements have tended to come in late July and early August just precisely because the dealing rooms are emptier. Illiquidity during times of political duress can create its own problems, and we remember the Russian problems of August of a decade ago, and the problems attendant to LTCM that evolved out of that earlier crisis. These were “summer” crises, and there have been others, so just because the doldrums have set in does not mean that they are permanent, and that they cannot develop into something far more unstable. They can; they have and they will… we simply know not when.

But where a lot of people thing that we are looking into the abyss, I wouldn’t bet against a kind of sharp rally.
Be careful out there…
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