{"id":12774,"date":"2011-03-25T14:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12774"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:27:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:27:26","slug":"what-is-the-only-thing-that-can-possibly-take-down-these-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/what-is-the-only-thing-that-can-possibly-take-down-these-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Only Thing That Can Possibly Take Down These Markets?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you been wondering aloud lately about the obvious insanity driving these equity markets? Not Earthquakes, Not Radiation, Not Portugal and Not Inflation can make a dent. Oddly, all of these actually seem to provide some strength. Not even a poor consumer confidence number or a wretched durable goods report can shake it.\"\"<\/p>\n

In fact, not even hawkish commentary from TWO Fed officials today could provide any noticeable sell trigger. So what then will it be?<\/p>\n

We figure that it has to be something big….really big. Or something unbelievable. For BIG, it would have to be an alien invasion. That should do the trick.<\/p>\n

But what unbelievable or even unheard of situation could provide the impetus for sellers to work the markets this afternoon and forward?<\/p>\n

Yes, it was something unbelievable. Something that most under the age of 10 have never seen. Something… Well….. Brace yourself!!!!!<\/p>\n

Natural Gas prices actually spiked higher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Of course you probably won’t believe me, so below is a chart that shows the daily view of natural gas prices today and under that the S&P 500. Notice the inverse move at 2:00pm or so. I know, hard to believe… Maybe we should call Ripley.<\/p>\n

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(Tongue and cheek of course for those of you without a sense of humor)<\/p>\n

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Have you been wondering aloud lately about the obvious insanity driving these equity markets? Not Earthquakes, Not Radiation, Not Portugal and Not Inflation can make a dent. Oddly, all of these actually seem to provide some strength. Not even a poor consumer confidence number or a wretched durable goods report can shake it. In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[483],"class_list":["post-12774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}