NIKKEI

-6% so far, was down to -8% at one point.

Tanking again. Is no one else out there on this trade? Or are you all of too high moral standing to put this trade on?

update--- nikki in meltdown.Falls over 600 points.

pdate-- nikki futures hits a low of 8000 during the maket closed lunch time. Market re opens and maket trades down 1380 points to 8100 ish.

Rebound now happening at 8380.Almost 400 points off the low , but still down 1230 points.

The most incredible trading day since the GFC.

Im out, but should  one go long? Short the bounce?

How could the maket possible recover? Is the fall just toooooo big?

Forget it, I'm staying out, its a coin toss as nuclear stories abound every 5 minutes. Radiation hits tokyo.

  Good luck to all

Those undervalued solars had a good day, the likes of LDK, Trina and Jinko up around 8 percent. Also LNGs did well, eg Golar up 9 percent.
I'll be looking for some discounted stocks later in the week in other sectors.
Hopefully the aftershocks won't be to bad and the nuclear situation improves so Japan can get on with recovery.

There were plenty of people yesterday claiming it was now a good time to buy japanese stocks. Are these people for real? It is like trying to catch a falling knife atm. Thankfully these clowns got absolutely slaughtered last night.

Comparing it to the kobe quake in jan '95, which had a 8% sell off that week, and a further 17% sell off till july - this quake is much worse, more destruction, and threat of a nuclear meltdown. Going from the price at the moment the earthquake struck, it touched at a 22% sell off last night (currently at 8,400). Really, if Kobe, which came at a time that the JP economy was stronger, caused a sell off of that amount, you can expect a much greater one for this quake, at a time when the economy is weak and the nation overloaded with debt. Furthermore, unlike last time, where nick leeson was propping up the NIKKEI all by himself , there isn't a single buyer this time. Some stocks are going untraded all day because not a single person want's to buy. There was only a bit of a rally last night because they pulled the plug, and then raised the margins, so people had to start covering.

Without meltdown - 7000
With meltdown - well, it is going into complete freefall. Might even touch 5000.

Love the bitter seethers on this thread.

why on earth would we be seething whippett. very comfortably off thank you.
Enjoy counting your money.

gb, LDK close to their 52wk high, 20 percent gain in the last 2 days mostly on the Japan reaction, not sure how much further so don't hold too long. Solar probably the best of the green options at the moment and factors like oil to consider, could be a long term stock but still a lot of uncertainty.

There were plenty of people yesterday claiming it was now a good time to buy japanese stocks. Are these people for real? It is like trying to catch a falling knife atm. Thankfully these clowns got absolutely slaughtered last night.

Remote chance of a crisis => Print Money => Stocks never go down

They were right.

I remember reading in several places during the last crash that many people had borrowed billions off Japan due to low interest rates and lent to higher interest rate countries such as Iceland.

Have all those debts been paid off or could Japan sill recall all those outstanding debts?

Ledus, http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/currencycarrytrade.asp

looking at the Dow/Nasdaq between 11th and 22nd, a nice even "V" shape, bottoming out on Wednesday PM at around -3 percent.
mostly sold out of Japan related short term US trades, bought AAPL in increments starting below 330, the shares have sell limits starting from 355 and up, the derivatives I'll probably hold until near expiry.