You can bet that wasn't me...I didn't like tech/internet valuations at all back then (and yes, I told clients that BEFORE the collapse), but they're pretty attractive now...

My philosophy is pretty much in the center, but I don't rule out the long-term potential of emerging markets...I think there's still a lot of money to be made there...

Just following your posts, it's fairly obvious that your clients are positioned conservatively, and you have nothing to apologize for doing so, but I like my chances over the long haul...

We have seen the DJIA drop 400 points 6 times. One week later, the S&P 500

has gone up an average of 4.00% two thirds of the time. One month later,

the S&P 500 has gone up an average of 5.00% one hundred percent of the

time.



GO BUY SOMETHING.

Many subprime mortgages have been bundled, securitized, and then divided into tranches. These tranches have been divided into the best of the subprime all the way to the worst of the subprime.

What worries me is that some of the worst of the subprime tranches have received a AAA-rating. How, you may ask? Simply by sheer numbers of the subprime mortgages in that particular tranche and the mathematical formulas used to determine the risk of loss. It seems the greater the number of subprimes, the more predictable the potential default rate; hence, the "less" risk in holding that particular tranche. I think a lot of institutional holders of these tranches are going to be sorry. 

Just sayin'.

What you say may be very true, however I don’t know much about the

structure of these tranches or how it relates to the 400 point decline in

the DJIA.



I believe the culprit for the market adjustment on Tuesday was the

increasing Japanese Yen or more specifiacally, the Yen carry trade. The

Yen trade is being used to finance investments all over the world;

Brazilian bonds, Turkish bonds, US stocks, Russian stocks and bonds, etc.



As the yen started to rise, hedge funds took action to limit their losses.

To do that they needed to buy yen which caused the yen to rise further

which caused other funds to buy yen, pushing the yen higher which

caused…you get the picture. To pay back the yen loans, the funds then

needed to liquidate the investments they had bought with the loans. That

would be the aforementioned bonds and stocks. And we got a 400 point

loss in the Dow. In other words, a “wholesale” adjustment.



The computer related pricing of the Dow Jones averages only exacerbated

the decline. I heard today that trading curbs are now set at 1,000+

decline.

Skee - I think you heard about circuit breaker levels - when trading actually comes to a halt.

Here are the 07 first qtr numbers

http://www.nyse.com/press/circuit_breakers.html

This revolves mostly around % movement.

[quote=doberman]

It seems the greater the number of subprimes, the more predictable the potential default rate; hence, the “less” risk in holding that particular tranche. I think a lot of institutional holders of these tranches are going to be sorry. 

Just sayin'.

[quote=doberman]I think a lot of institutional holders of these tranches are going to be sorry. 

Just sayin'.[/quote]

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