John Bollinger Quotes (14 Quotes)

The pain level is as severe as anything the market has ever inflicted on investors before,

They've got a huge amount of media coverage and their big message is that the current administration has messed up the economy, ... I think we'll chew sideways until we get through this feeling of negativity and then go back to the upside.

With today's dips and testing of the July lows we might find a sustainable low here, but only if the information picture for investors changes, ... I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Technical analysis works precisely because people look at it. And if people care, I care.

We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.

I think the rally has a while to go yet, maybe another few weeks, ... Then it's going to be choked off primarily by a valuation problem that people will not be able to dodge. Buying IBM at 30 times earnings -- that's very hard to do for most investors.

The seasonal patterns are very clear and they can be a good guide. 'Sell in May and go away' is generally correct, but not absolutely so.

Current market action is unconvincing. Volume is simply far too low for confidence.

Peaks indicated times of intense speculation and troughs indicated times of low interest in the market, when speculation was not high on people's agenda.

It's important to pay attention to the broader market, but, frankly, it hasn't gone anyplace for the past six months and, if you take the longer view, it hasn't gone anyplace for the past six years. But within those years, there were tremendous opportunities within stocks, bonds, electronically traded funds, mutual funds of all sorts, currencies, precious metals and commodities, all of which investors could have taken advantage of.

I put on some shorts going into the close, ... It seemed like a good idea -- the market had simply gone too far, too fast.

I would have thought that with the negative tenor of the news -- economic and geopolitical -- more damage would be done, ... That suggests to me the market is in a constructive mode.

The stock market has been going sideways for a very long time now, and it looks to me like it will continue to do so.

Today's swings reflected uncertainty at the end of a week in which investors were pelted by wildly conflicting news on both earnings and the economy, ... Every good report this week has met with a bad report. Yes, the market is trying to establish a bottom but it's not a done deal yet.