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From Twitter today! :p
 

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Another lesson in decision making. Hope one can find analogies here and apply it to trading/investing.

I am copy pasting an excerpt from the Wikipedia page on the Yungay earthquake of 1962. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungay,_Peru

In 1962 two American scientists, David Bernays and Charles Sawyer, had reported seeing a massive vertical slab of rock being undermined by a glacier, which threatened to fall and cause the obliteration of Yungay. According to Sawyer, when this was reported in the Expreso newspaper (27 September 1962), the government ordered them to retract or face prison, and they fled the country. Citizens were forcibly prevented from speaking of an impending disaster. Eight years later the prediction came true.[3][4]
 
The following are precisely the kinds of events I had been pointing to for which I got pilloried so much. Just imagine you are holding a big portfolio & it is down by some 15 to 30% plus.

What would your reaction be to that? Do you still continue to hold on? Or would you also join the mayhem and sell? You'd start seeing blood in the markets. Even then would you be holding unto your positions?

I would love to hear from you all what you feel about it.

Virus fears wipe $393 billion off China's stock market despite government support moves

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-c...espite-government-support-moves-idINKBN1ZW0TA

Investors erased $393 billion from China’s benchmark stock index on Monday, sold the yuan and dumped commodities as fears about the spreading coronavirus and its economic impact drove selling on the first day of trade in China since the Lunar New Year.

A nearly 8% plunge on the Shanghai composite index was its biggest daily fall in more than four years. The Chinese yuan blew past the 7-per-dollar mark and Shanghai-traded commodities from palm oil to copper hit their maximum down limits.
The wipeout came even as the central bank made its biggest cash injection to the financial system since 2004 and despite apparent regulatory moves to curb selling.
The total number of deaths in China from the coronavirus rose to 361 by Sunday, compared with 17 on Jan. 23, when Chinese markets last traded.
“You wanted to know what a real decoupling from China might look like, or what a ‘What if everyone just stayed at home and didn’t buy anything?’ economic thought-experiment looks like? Well here you are, folks,” Rabobank strategist Michael Every said in an afternoon note.
The yuan began onshore trade at its weakest this year and was down 1.2% by the afternoon, sliding past the symbolic 7-per-dollar level CNY=CFXS to close at 7.0257. [MKTS/GLOB]

Shanghai-traded oil, iron ore, copper and soft commodities contracts all posted sharp drops, catching up with sliding global prices.
The new virus has created alarm because it is spreading quickly, much about it is unknown, and authorities’ drastic response is likely to drag on economic growth.
“This will last for some time,” said Iris Pang, Greater China economst at ING.
“It’s uncertain whether factory workers, or how many of them, will return,” she said. “We haven’t yet seen corporate earnings since the (spread of the) coronavirus. Restaurants and retailers may have very little sales.”
More than 2,500 stocks fell by the daily limit of 10%. The Shanghai Composite closed down 7.7% at 2,746.6, its lowest since August and a modest recovery from early trade, when it was down nearly 9%.
Copper SCFcv1 sank to its lowest in more than three years, falling by its daily limit of 7%, while aluminum SAFcv1, zinc SZNcv1 and lead SPBcv1 shed more than 4% and soybeans DSAcv1 dropped 2%. [MET/L]

Bond prices surged, with March futures contracts for 10-year bonds jumping 1.4% CFTH0.
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said the stocks plunge had irrational or even panic elements, triggered by herd behavior, in a newspaper commentary published after markets closed.
The sell-off cast a pall over Asia, though losses were contained because a slide had been expected. Hong Kong's Hang Seng .HSI, which shed almost 10% in two weeks, closed 0.2% firmer.
 

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