{"id":151,"date":"2005-12-30T06:09:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/?p=151"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:14:11","slug":"expectations-of-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/state-of-the-stock-market\/expectations-of-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Expectations of the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the market doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deliver on expectations of the masses&nbsp; .. not much of a surprise there.&nbsp; Many market commentators had been wondering if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get the Christmas rally.&nbsp; What was that we had in November?&nbsp; The Christmas rally came it a bit early this year and another run up like that was possible but not probable.&nbsp; The market was due for consolidation and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exactly what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing now.&nbsp; No reason for concern as the market works off recent gains and consolidates quietly with holiday volume.&nbsp; There seems to be some trepidation about January as the sell off of last January lingers in the minds of traders.&nbsp; Perhaps the market will surpise the masses again and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get a forceful rally and break to multi year highs once again.&nbsp; We won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a true sense of direction until traders return from time off, but currently there is no reason to think that the run can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t continue after a bit more consolidation.&nbsp; Support levels remain intact.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s to a great 2006 &#8211; Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again the market doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deliver on expectations of the masses&nbsp; .. not much of a surprise there.&nbsp; Many market commentators had been wondering if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get the Christmas rally.&nbsp; What was that we had in November?&nbsp; The Christmas rally came it a bit early this year and another run up like that was possible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/state-of-the-stock-market\/expectations-of-the-masses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expectations of the Masses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-the-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}