Sentences with phrase «try catching the falling knife»

Some people say «do not try catching the falling knife...» others say it is a great opportunity to buy Continue reading →

Not exact matches

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.

«Rather than try to catch a falling knife, we would rather wait for signs of stabilization.»

However, the stock remains a falling knife and Cramer said he's not yet willing to try and catch 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:

But there will plenty of greatest fools who will try to catch falling knives...

First is where the nickname falling knife comes from... as in, have you ever tried to catch a falling knife?

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.

Just as it is dangerous to try and catch a knife falling to the floor, it is risky to buy a stock selling - off.

The one bit of friendly advice I might offer is don't be quick to try to catch a falling knife here.

... is like trying to catch a 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.

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 2015 rebalance for commodity indices may be remembered as the one trying to catch a falling knife.

Buying a falling stock can therefore have the same effect as trying to catch a falling knife — it is likely that you will get hurt!

«Whenever the debt market collapses, for example, most people say, «We're not going to try to catch a falling knife; it's too dangerous.»

This is fancier way of repeating the old trader's maxim to never try and catch 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!?

Too many try to catch falling knives by buying fallen angels is all too common of an approach for stocks to trade.

[People tend to forget how long commodity cycles actually last, so they keep trying to catch a falling knife, and / or pick a bottom... but the best time to buy only comes when people finally & completely abandon the sector].

Don't try to catch a falling knife.

-- I looked at Supervalu Inc. (SVU: US) recently, a (perpetual) falling knife too many (value) investors felt compelled to try catch.

Tweet Imagine you throw a knife in the air to impress people around you and you try to catch it as it rapidly falls.

However, we believe that we shouldn't try to catch a falling knife.