Investment & Finance Thread (Apr. 13 edition)

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

 

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket.

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OK, so if April began with "a heck of a week", then it's moving along with another one that's even more so; we're seeing gold'n'silver rebounding more and stocks hammering new lows (from here). 

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There're many opinions around as to what it means from say, CNNMoney, Investing.com, FTLondon, but imho Investing Daily (not to be confused w/ IBD) says their take is that this latest shift is money not fleeing the markets but rather 'rotating' from one set of sectors (including 3D printing & exotic meds) to stodgy big caps. 

 

Maybe kind of like what we had at the end of the 'dot.com' bust where the big caps just kept chugging along while the NASDAQ got creamed.

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I mean, last Fri. we just saw the NASDAQ crush thru it's longer term support while the big cap Dow/S&P's haven't even got to their support levels yet.  My thinking is that this was kind of foretold a week ago when we were watching the techs limping even while the big kids were pegging new highs.

 

So let's fast-forward to this week's office stock strategy pool.  I'm voting for watching for this correction's 'follow-thru-day' and moving back in and enjoying the next run-up.