Prolonged low rates = time to short trucking stocks?

Why should I give a #### what Swift says? If my own numbers are better they are better.

 

I'd stay out of the share market at least till this volatility clears most markets run on a 7 year cycle so we are due for some downside movement after all markets have broken previous held record highs we could see up to 25 % correction .

 

Dow is lower than 16,000(almost). Should we worry? QE4????? can it be eased anymore??? LOL should I just max out all my credit cards????? Does the DOW have much to do with our freight rates??

 

Should you worry that depends on whether you are holding stocks that are getting sold off if you buy any stock and it moves against the trend for more than 3 days then sell it and take a small loss rather than hold and take a big loss. No you should never max out your cards cause credit card companies will make a fortune off you on the interest payments. And no the Dow don't effect freight rates. Wages and Fuel are the main factors in pricing. I see some financial experts saying how its mining stocks being sold off however if one company gets sold that should not make others get sold its like when a company goes ex dividend it will get sold down but it only effects that one particular company. At the present time all stocks are being sold down. With few exceptions. The clever folks out there that time it right will know when there is a bottom and start buying shares again, however its very very difficult to pick a bottom in the current trend.

 

Interesting, guess it's time for that graph to drop again.

 

What's interesting is the BLS (their data is usually pretty good) has the current number (2014) closer to 1.6m.

Wonder how your check stacks up to others?
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes533032.htm

That's for general freight.

TA

Ps and here is the chart back to 1990
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ils/images/truck_chart1.png

 

Yep, it's on its way down. If you blew that graph up it would show the same up and down trend for the last 30 years.