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The Crash of 05

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What economic event do you think will trigger this event? Or do you think it could be a range of events that will trigger this event?

If interest rates were to go up a lot and suddenly and then remain this would of course cause share prices to decrease until they actually produced a yield that was above the short term and long term interest rate on just straight cash in the bank or term deposites and bonds. As investors would jump into these investments to stop the devaluing impact of inflation on their capital, so they would quickly sell shares to beat a decrease in capital. On top of this higher interest rates would stifle or hider micro business economic growth and of course company earnings.

This would be a bear market at present as international borders for investors decrease and dereualation for companies to operate in other countries that they would not normally have been able to in past times helps off set this type of effect.

What we must look at is what would cause high inflation and therefore a higher interest rate that would have a decreasing effect on equity markets e.g. energy costs, other recourse costs

We can say we will have a bear market but why has it been deferred for a while or is it just that the U.S. markets have been marking time and have not been in depression. Also the world and especially Western countries like Australia have learnt and placed mechanisms in place that allow its central banks to respond and warn about economic dangers a lot faster than in previouse times as I believe this has also helped deffer bear markets and also investor eduacation has also helped where as the average investor today is more aware of how the markets operate and what signds to be weary of before buying and seling equities as has not been the case of times past.
 
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TheAnalyst said:
What economic event do you think will trigger this event? Or do you think it could be a range of events that will trigger this event?
Four things come immediately to mind.

1. The real estate bubble which is now deflating slowly in some parts of the world (Sydney, Hobart, UK, anecdotal reports from the US) and crashing in parts of New Zealand (appartment prices in Auckland are reported to be down in the order of 35% and still falling).

2. The very high level of consumer debt. In the absence of rapid wage growth and with the ending of the real estate boom I doubt very much that consumers will be willing to continue taking on more debt. They may even start paying it back. The IR reforms may add to a feeling of unease over high debt levels. Will some sell stocks in order to repay debt?

3. Worldwide oil production is maxed out.

4. The US seems rather determined to defend their currency after the plunge of the past few years. Given the near-crisis nature of the falls a year ago I think that they have either decided themselves to defend the Dollar at all costs or, more likely, been told by the IMF and other central banks etc. If that's correct then we could see US interest rates going far higher than is commonly expected.

All just my opinion and not advice etc.
 
What economic event caused the '29 crash? ...the '87 crash?


I don't know about you all, but I see a pattern
 
wayneL said:
What economic event caused the '29 crash? ...the '87 crash?



I don't know about you all, but I see a pattern

Which stocks in the ASX do you see as overvalued and above fundamental stock pricing?

And if so, where is the heavy debt issue? Shares or property
 
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Analyst,

Personally I don't think any event will trigger a change in trend. If it's going to happen, it's gonna happen anyway!! When it does happen the trend change will be both mechanical and psychological. After all the uptrend is psychological why not the downtrend. It's quite strange, in the evening news we see financial journalists trying to justify what the market did that day. In many cases the market would have probably moved the way it did anyway.
Now just imagine I had a crystal ball and could foretell the direction of oil, interest rates, our deficit, geopolotical events, you name it; for say the next 2 years. If I gave you that information, then you or anyone else, probably would still not be able to come up with a logical conclusion as to what the market will do or where to put your money . There have been instances in history when the news has caused the market to be both up a lot or down a lot. If you overlayed a long term historical chart of oil, interest rates,the defecit etc over a stock chart, you will quickly see these have absolutely no correlation with the stock market( maybe over the shorterm ok)
One has to understand that the what causes the market to move is both internal and dynamic.
At the end of the day what it reaaly boils down to is to decide which way the market is trending, to stay with that trend (either up or down) for as long as possible, and lastly to determine ways of telling us when that trend is at risk of changing. That is reality and what the market is doing. Personally I think the market is a leading indicator of the economy, not the other way around.

In so far as central banks and the like being able to repond more efficiently to economic changes, well that may be true. But they cannot alter the direction of the market or predict the stock market. All you have to do is look at 500 years of stock charts and it is plainly obvious they all look similiar. They have always ended in bust at some point. This tells us one thing, that human nature has not changed, and that people are people so that emotional hope, fear,and greed is what drives the markets, and these traits have and never will change in the human physiological makeup.. People will make the same mistakes today as there forefathers did.
 
wayneL said:
What economic event caused the '29 crash? ...the '87 crash?



I don't know about you all, but I see a pattern

Reinforce your SCARY pattern WayneL and feel us in with whats going on!!
 
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Hi Johhno

The "29" and "87" crashes were all triggered by certian events and because certian investors did not have in place risk management processes for sharemarket investing and borrowing risk scenarios the market falls became compounded.

A person who invests in the stockmarket therefore must say in a worst scenario what can I accept in terms of volitility and can i cope with what may happen?

Is the ASX overpriced is what I ask and if so which individual stocks are over priced?

Refer to the dot com crash and look at why it crashed? P/E and P/E
 
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To ask the question, "is the ASX overvalued?", is like asking are there too many stars in the sky? I have heavy investments in the ASX therefore I think not as yet !!!!! Even if it was very undervalued and the DJIA fell, are you saying we would be safe?
 
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By being over weight in undervalued stocks would offer some form of insurance and then you have to look at the economic climate and say which areas are doing extremly well at the moment such as rescource stocks and then ask the question what would cause these to fall?

At the moment i only have $1500 in the market and that is in equity call warrants and maybe by Wednesday I will add another $1500 into some other equity call warrants. Which ones do you think I may be looking at?
 
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johnno261 said:
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The price of iron ore is historically very high at the moment and is getting sensitive to affordability and the cost of fuel. It actually is so highly priced that the actual steel producers and processors are complaining to the suppliers because it is effecting their margins and there is a build up of steel stockpiles putting more pressure on demand.

Actually this is one of the reasons for the drop in bluescope steels share price of late and warranted a profit down grade from the company its self they actualy have the great oppurtunity to improve their profits from a decrease of the iron ore price and are putting pressure on suppliers to reduce it. There share price dropped below what it should be worth even with the profit downgrade. Bluescope steel equity call warrants and installment warrants are readily available but not MGX.
 
As I recall prior to the 87 crash fantastic gains were made. Many stocks had doubled in less than a year. There was ample time and opportunity to start taking some money off the table. Realistic people did just that. Lots of us got caught but I mean we really couldn't complain too much because we'd pocketed some fantastic realitively quick profits. After the crash I could'nt believe the cheap luxury cars and properties. Then to top that off building societies and banks were offering 17% per annum to borrow your cash. After that it was a great time to jump back into the market. I saw first hand how with a crash or crises came the opportunity to redeem yourself. To remain caught up in the emotion with your focus on the hurt and loss you would not have seen your redemption. In the crash of 87 no one I knew could reach their broker. In this day of online trading I reckon it will be really interesting to see how it is all played out.

Cheers
Happytrader
 
The way I see it, when the general public becomes heavily involved in any market then that is a warning sign. And amber light.

When banks start lending heavily to the public in order that the public may increase their already high investment in a particular asset class then to me that screams "bubble". A red light.

And the final confirmation comes when discussion about this particular asset class / market becomes a mainstream topic of social conversation. When it becomes socially acceptable to boast that you bought in at the right time and have made a fortune simply because most of those around you are likewise in the same market. (So there's not many left to buy - game over for the market.) When learning about or pondering the market becomes regarded as a form of leisure or entertainment rather than a serious business. This is the red light complete with sirens, flags and flashing neon sign.

I'll leave it to you to guess which market I have in mind right now but it shouldn't be hard to work out.

(All the above is my opinion only and not advice. I could be wrong.)
 
happytrader said:
In the crash of 87 no one I knew could reach their broker. In this day of online trading I reckon it will be really interesting to see how it is all played out.
I think that if we get a 1929 / 1987 style crash then you won't even be able to get to the first page of your broker's website except perhaps at 3am the following morning. As for placing an order when the market is open - forget it IMO.

The reason for saying this is that I would expect the broker's websites have reasonably limited capacity that is adequate for the normally busy days with only a modest margin above that. A crash would simply swamp their capacity.

It's much the same with other systems. For example, electricity, phones, internet service providers, gas, water, traffic all work on the principle that not all potential users will actually make maximum use of the service at the same time. We won't all have the oven and clothes dryer running and be doing some welding at the same time and we won't all pick up the phone at once. If it did happen then these systems simply can not cope and the best case is that some customers still have supply. Worst case is the whole thing collapses. I very much expect that brokers would be in exactly the same situation and, if anything, are less robust than most of these systems.

Just look what happens when the airlines announce cheap fares. With a bit of luck you might be able to book at 3am but realistically both phones and internet are swamped by demand. Pure luck if you get straight through.

In my opinion the defining feature of any crash is that it is just not possible for most people to get out of the market. They can't get through to brokers etc. and even if they could market liquidity has dried up anyway so at best they'll be selling very cheaply.
 

You are on the right track there Smurt, and im sure for the first 30 mins or so, that would be the case. But as someone with indepth knowledge of how isp's and web servers work, i know that the problem would be resolved within a matter of hours at most. I have no doubt the entire system would crash to begin with, to get technical, a Denial of Service(DoS) attack is what it would be called.

But major brokerage firms such as comsec, nab, westpac would have virtually unlimited capacity through fiber cables that they could light up at any time they wish, as would the ASX. Plus they also have redundancy in their systems, otherwise their IT crews would be shot.
 
Smurf1976 said:
I'll leave it to you to guess which market I have in mind right now but it shouldn't be hard to work out.

Some headlines from my friend at: http://www.moneyfiles.org/temp.html

 
TheAnalyst said:
Anyone got an opinion if there will be a crash tommorrow?

Would like to see a bit of input here

papers are predicting a drop of 50 points, but still a relatively positive outlook from what I've read.

tomorrow could be a buying opportunity IMO
 
TheAnalyst said:
Anyone got an opinion if there will be a crash tommorrow?

Would like to see a bit of input here

The ASX won't crash without the US crashing first...and we're a long way off that.

There is some expectation that the PPT will step in next week to prop up the market if the silly dip buyers don't do so.

Some pass off the PPT as a myth, but its fair dinkum as this article proves:

http://www.jasmts.com/library.php?page=protection
 
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