Investors who took a chance and
caught the falling knife in 2009 have subsequently been rewarded as the stock trades above $ 20 today, nearly 5000 percent growth.
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.
Do you really want to catch a falling knife?!
It will make you more skeptical of assets that seems to be doing unnaturally well; it will also make you more skeptical
about catching falling knives in the market.
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!?
We are probably in position to take advantage of market downturns since we have cash to invest on the downside — but is that just going to be
catching a falling knife in retrospect?
Trying to time any market is never smart and
catching a falling knife is almost always going to turn out to be a painful experience.
Covered in stickers bearing idioms such as «
Catch a falling knife,» the construction gear sent a not - so - subtle message: In this job, use extreme caution.
«Rather than try to
catch a falling knife, we would rather wait for signs of stabilization.»
«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.
Like the P / E ratio, the dividend yield tempts investors to
catch a falling knife.
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»).
But there will plenty of greatest fools who will try to
catch falling knives...
Yet an important notion is that one can not expect market - makers to deliberately expose themselves to losses when market valuations change (often referred to as «
catching the falling knife»).
First is where the nickname falling knife comes from... as in, have you ever tried to
catch a falling knife?
You can't buy them when they drop because it's
catching a falling knife.
Owning a home these days, many panelists concurred, is akin to «
catching a falling knife,» -LSB-...]
David Riedel, president and founder at Riedel Research Group says trying to find a bottom in Russian assets is akin to
catching a falling knife.
Buying a trend reversal does NOT mean «bottom fishing,» which is akin to
catching a falling knife.
As the street attempts to «buy the dip» (or
catch a falling knife), the current environment has given us some pause for thought.
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?
Most investors react to crashes as it is very hard to
catch a falling knife.
Buying a falling stock can therefore have the same effect as trying to
catch a falling knife: You're most likely going to get hurt.
... is like trying to
catch a falling knife.
-- Bottom fishing /
Catching falling knives.
Don't try to
catch the falling knife.
But it's never good trading advice to try to
catch a falling knife.
«Some walking wounded bottom pickers continue to try and
catch a falling knife,» said John Macaluso, an analyst at Tyche Capital Advisors.
Otherwise I could be
catching a falling knife and this is not trend following...
If your idea of timing the market is similar to
catching a falling knife and shopping for the appropriate / best sale and you are willing to forego other opportunities until you obtain the right price might be the best alternative trading style for you.
Shorting bull markets and
catching falling knives is a fragile trading methodology.