After an official US Government Shutdown on Monday night, most Americans braced themselves for a stock market bloodbath on Tuesday. Instead, the market surged higher with the DOW +0.4%, S&P +0.8% and NASDAQ +1.23%.
Why?
As I have told you many times before, the market doesn’t follow the news. It is a leading indicator, not a reactionary one. It could care less because it is a future predicting machine and it is predicting the following things.
- The US Government showdown will not last very long and even if it does, it is a non event.
- The US will not default on its debt, which is a more significant issue here.
Can it be wrong? Sure and many times it is, but that is not the point here. The point that I am trying to make is that news and events do not have an impact on the overall market. The market is a much more complex discounting and future predicting mechanism that sees weeks, months and sometimes years into the future.
As such, many people have the tendency to label the stock market as random and volatile. It is not. It is simply doing exactly what it is supposed to do. It is predicting the future and in the majority of the cases it is many steps ahead of today’s news cycle.
Now, I know that for many of you it doesn’t make any sense. That is why I invite you to read TIMED VALUE in order to gain further understanding.
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