The market seems to be selling-off on the back of limited bad news imo, apart from the dollar that is.

If you can hold your nerve and apart from any short term requirements to offload poor performing stocks, I have a couple!!, my advice would be sit tight. This does not have the feel of the tech(mining!) bubble at all. Difference being there are a lot of good fundamentals, unlike in 2000 when there were a lot of over rated nothing companies.

or a very good day for a buying opportunity

IMO, never try and catch falling knives - been there, done that and got burnt!

Steve

It was a hot knife :)

Not always...if you bought stocks during 9/11, you will be laughing like a hyena now.

it's just that judging one's timing is so very difficult in times like this, for there will certainly be a lot of positions forced shut

closed down just over 400 points and dow futures already another 40 points down, FTSE being called down 130 at the mo

It is just riding the storm...there is no major disaster precipitating it...it is just nerves or self-perpetuating fear.

Did you ever see a 100 point drop in one tick before?

Could you tell me where you u got this information? Which website?

I suppose we all need beta-blockers.

As I type this, my broker (IG Markets) is showing Dow down another 62 points at 12143-12149. FTSE is down 126 at 6158-6163.

Steve

Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist with Standard & Poor's Equity Research, added that the market was long overdue for a drop like the one seen Tuesday.

"Corrections hurt. But this is not something investors should get too worried about. The market has been in need of a digestion of gains for some time," he said, noting the S&P 500 has not fallen 2 percent in one day since May 19, 2003. "Usually you have big pullbacks at least once, if not several times, during a bull market."

still reckon the bulls will be out bargain hunting from the bell tomorrow... might open at a low point and climb til mid morning...

the frightener was the clamp down by the chinese authorities on what they describe as illegal speculation or similar by their nationals.

Steve .... those "funny" after hours indicators are often just that

Harris' Ablin said Tuesday's market slump was probably a good time for investors to add more stocks to their portfolios, since he did not think the sell-off would last long.

"Any pullback will be more of a buying opportunity than an indication of more to come on the downside. Investors are nervous since we haven't seen a meaningful pullback during this rally," he said. "Perhaps this was the catalyst investors needed to pull the trigger."

to pull the trigger to do what? ...... don't ask!

Reality finally sets in, eh?

I'm buying nothing until this sorts itself out!! ;-))

still probably presents a buying op for quality co's with good earnings.. after all the companies are still doing exactly the same as they were last week... co's that are high multiples, overbought or not producers may get hit hard...

Ted - you often find it is irrelevant once the steamroller gets going. They all get hammered. It's illogical, but who ever said the markets were efficient? ;-))

Just keep an eye on things is my thoughts and try to pick up bargains at the bottom - we may not be there yet. There's often further fallout.

AL ...... glad i sold a bundle even before yesterday's debacle, but portfolio still inevitably pretty bruised ...... i agree that it is too hard to predict quite how the market will react next ...... in the past, we have seen instances of both further falls and almost instant strong recovery