Which market should we keep an eye on?

Okay this has been making me ask a few questions, which market is the one we should keep an eye on in regards to the stock market for if one market falls below a certain number we enter panic mode?

All of them, but especially Europe and the US. In Europe, especially France, Italy, Germany especially.

And not only the stock market but the bond market and the credit default swap market.

Tomorrow will be crucial. Tomorrow can start the most epic stock market collapse in history.... depending on what Bernanke will say/do.

hmm, Asian markets moreso? as the Nikkei dropped about 4 % and the Seoul Composite has dropped above 5.35%

I am unsure how that will affect tomorrows trading, but I guess the Hang Seng is the major one to look out for.

After the riots in London and the bombshell of the American credit rating still lingering I suspect that the FTSE will nosedive when the market opens.

Originally posted by hypr2011
I am unsure how that will affect tomorrows trading, but I guess the Hang Seng is the major one to look out for.

The Hang Seng just got creamed... -6.3% on open... that's a recovery sign or something...

yea, they took a beating yesterday and they open back up in less than 20 minutes. Some of these other markets on

finance.yahoo.com... are also taking a pounding as well, and its not even the first hour of trading in some of these places.

I would have to agree that the Asian markets will be the key since they start things off. If they stabilize then the rest will follow suit. Today was the day for the part time investors (Ameritraders) to dump their stocks in a panic and for the savvy investors to sweep in and buy low.

I said this in another thread, the problem with the markets is all the part timers who watch the news, panic and sell. It's the old timers who buy it up, ride out the storm and ultimately make a killing in this type of market.

I might actually start putting a few in investments, I know someone who does at an anime convention he puts in 200 a month and lives off the dividends but I searched up the Hang Seng on www.hsi.com.hk... and they dropped down 7.48% or 1531.96 points.

Remember this...


This might happen tomorrow... but on a much larger scale.

Yea, I wonder what is happening in Hong Kongs market right now, I would say a cause of concern is if it dropped past 10%