Ready for BIG discount tomorrow, page-4

Yes, it is all due to self selection bias and confirmation bias, Jskl76. Posters on HC are likely to want to confirm their own instincts such as shorting or conviction buying or trading up and down. Like the science of A2, u r unlikely to be neutral and sell at a high A2M SP if u believe in it.

The market never follows expectations all the time and sometimes does not do any of it. Market dynamics indicate that you buy when everyone is saying sell and sell when everyone including taxi drivers is saying buy, profittaking and bottom feeder phenomena: see the market predictions last year of "Sell everything" if u did, u might never get those stocks back for what you sold them for.

When people say the market will never retreat now that Trump is in the White House, I do not believe them. When posters say Bible Belt Auckland, North Shore Sydney and South East Melbourne property prices are going to fall, by all means we should listen to their arguments but markets never work like that.

Just look at Buffett, Bill Gross, Mohammed El-Erian, Trump himself, Dave Whelan: they are market dynamics experts: u could argue they do not stock pick or bond pick, they simply review the market look for oversold or overbought opportunities and pontificate on that.