Not exact matches
«He stepped
in to
catch a
falling knife, which is what BlackBerry was at the time losing $ 1 billion plus,» said Prem Watsa, whose Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd is a major shareholder and which helped bankroll a debt recapitalization that led to Chen's arrival.
In investor terms it's called «
catching a
falling knife» and psychologically investors hate it.
Again, with trend reversal setups, it is crucial to first wait for an extended base to develop at the lows,
in order to ensure the ETF has actually found a significant bottom, rather than trying to
catch a
falling knife:
The big money knows to hold on while a steeply profitable move is
in effect (as seen
in the trader saying, «let profits run») and to patiently stay
in cash
in the grip of a market panic («don't attempt to
catch a
falling knife»).
Catching a
falling knife usually results
in getting cut.
First is where the nickname
falling knife comes from... as
in, have you ever tried to
catch a
falling knife?
For reasons discussed
in our latest Multi Asset Snapshot (EM assets still at risk — don't
catch the
falling knife), we see no early end to EM asset de-rating.
And this point dovetails with the other point as far as since we don't pretend to know the precise timing of when bubbles kind of unwind or when the busts will finally reach a bottom, the idea is that we can actually be
in the right quartile of activity,
in other words I never try to
catch the very top of a bubble, I don't try to ride things to the very end, and similarly I don't mind
catching falling knifes.
What you end up with is either a company that is
in decline (sometimes referred to as
catching a
falling knife) or company with little or no future dividend growth capability.
But shouldn't investors wait for the price drop to stabilize before jumping
in so they won't be,
in Wall Street parlance,
catching a
falling knife?
The carriage was piled with luggage and tied bundles, and as she stood some silver
fell to the ground,
knives and forks and a silver candelabra,
catching in the clatter the few gleams of light from the torch that Roscoe held.
This bond market selloff roiling all income - focused securities may very well continue for a while, and I don't recommend trying to
catch the proverbial
falling knife by calling an exact bottom
in REIT shares.
The J curve illustrates why investing
in periods of high volatility has been compared to «
catching a
falling knife.»
But just buying on a recent drop
in prices is
in my opinion «fast thinking», the typical «
catch a
falling knife» reaction.
Because I know that you're a very hard core value investing deep value investing kind of guy but do you use moving averages
in those kind of things to help manage the risk of maybe
catching a
falling knife.
So as a value investor, you're: a) buying a stock you think is cheap, but which could collapse
in mere days, if bad news hits / sentiment turns and finally / suddenly everybody else notices the company's poor financials & bails out indiscriminately, or b) already trying to
catch a
falling knife!?
Tweet Imagine you throw a
knife in the air to impress people around you and you try to
catch it as it rapidly
falls.
Thank God, we have the tools and minds at this moment
in history to be able to
catch this
falling knife just it time.