I’m still getting back into the swing of things after having the flu most of last week. In the midst of my stock market reading, I was struck by an article over the weekend from Abnormal Returns, a blog you should be reading, if you aren’t already. The editor had a selection of the blog posts that were most heavily trafficked from the prior week. Without further ado:
- Chilling signs of a market top. (The Reformed Broker)
- Ray Dalio thinks you shouldn’t bother trying to generate alpha. (The Tell)
- Ten laws of stock market bubbles. (Doug Kass)
- How to teach yourself to focus. (The Kirk Report)
- Are we in a bubble? (Crossing Wall Street)
- Josh Brown, “If the entities in control of trillions of dollars all want asset prices to be higher at the same time, what the hell else should you be positioning for?” (The Reformed Broker)
- Guess what stock has added the most points to the S&P 500 this year? (Businessweek)
- Everything you need to know about stock market crashes. (The Reformed Broker)
- Jim O’Neil is swapping BRICs for MINTs. (Bloomberg)
- How to survive a market crash. (Your Wealth Effect)
I count five of the top ten on the topic of market tops/bubbles/crashes!
Markets tend to top out when investors are feeling euphoric, not when they are tremendously concerned about the downside. In my opinion, investors are still quite nervous—and fairly far from euphoric right now.
