The Bear Market Has Nearly Been Erased, Fewer Than 20 Months After It Began

Re:The Bear Market Has Nearly Been Erased, Fewer Than 20 Mon... by yterdy on Sunday July 23, 2023 @09:52AM (#36835289)

>Limited supply of shares and financial products to buy

Dunno about that one. Liquidity in even low-volume tickers seems to be "just fine". Market makers see to it that everyone who wants a share can get one, by any means necessary.

>Unless we actively force this money into the economy and wreck pensions, university endowments and charities funds

Or the REITS and SLABS so many are invested in turn out to be worth a lot less than we thought they were. Where's my Jenga set?

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Re:The Bear Market Has Nearly Been Erased, Fewer Than 20 Mon... by di4na on Sunday July 23, 2023 @10:21AM (#36835545)

Iirc the last solid stats i have seen are from 2019 when 82% of the public market was owned by institutional long term investors. And i doubt it went down.

Liquidity is high because the market makers role has exploded and they invest a lot to make sure it stay high.

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Re:The Bear Market Has Nearly Been Erased, Fewer Than 20 Mon... by yterdy on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:29PM (#37005448)

You misunderstand. I'm saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Again, I would like to know where my Jenga set is.

>Liquidity is high because the market makers role has exploded and they invest a lot to make sure it stay high.

This is another way of saying that organic liquidity is low and we needed a middleman to preclude actual price discovery, for reasons.

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