The Great Overreaction: Stock Photos, Panic Traders, and the Myth of the Market Meltdown

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Cue the dramatic newsroom stock photos—traders grimacing at screens, hands on heads, the whole meltdown montage. But in this breakdown, we cut through the theatrics and explain why markets sell off, why it’s normal, and why overleveraged “too clever by half” traders always learn the hard way. From Fed hawkishness to global debt jitters, the noise comes and goes, but the long-term fundamentals don’t. After 30 years in the business, the truth is simple: markets rise, markets fall, and disciplined investors win while wannabe day traders flame out.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Market sell off mania.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yeah, all the well.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Various different news organizations and websites out there. They have
to go to their stock photography. Yeah, they got their
little files of stock photography. So we've got our little
fit any the file on their desktop right there and
on the desktopsite, you know, market sell off photos, and
they'll just grab a bunch of photos with like traders

(00:43):
or Wall Street types grabbing their head looking glom looking
up at a screen like, oh my god, does humanity
market sell off? I get this from a lot of
kiddos out there that think that they are stock market
gurus because of the past, the past couple of years.

(01:07):
Here's a just just a bit of information. Markets they
don't always just go straight up. Yeah they don't. Sometimes
they come down. Hey that that that's that's why they

(01:28):
call it a market, you understand, Okay, it doesn't keep
doesn't go up in a straight line. My friends, and
a lot of people. A lot of people again you
know that are always you know, the too clever by half,

(01:49):
too clever by half, and they lever themselves up. Uh
they go all in on various different options or uh,
you know, single stock, highly levered crap out there, crash
bang boom pow and it's gone. Listen. I know, I

(02:12):
know you got your you're trading software and you think
you're smart. You read a little bit and you think
you know you you got it all figured out and
you are going to be a rich trader. Let me
tell you something. I've been doing this for thirty years.
I don't know one. Okay, I don't know one. I've

(02:36):
never ever come across a wealthy day trader, not one. Now,
what are you're going to be the first?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Okay? Have that.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
There's a bunch of reasons why the market for crying aloud.
You know, they've run up like gangbusters over a period
of time. People want to take profits off the table,
reallocating assets to FED has gotten a little bit more hawkish.
You've got issues at various different sovereign debt. What's going
on in Japan, what's going out with the gilts in

(03:13):
the UK. There's a myriad of things. But that's all
just a snapshot in time. That's all just a small
snapshot and time again. I've been doing this well, I've
been doing this podcast for several years now. I've been
doing radio for twenty five years now, and I've had

(03:37):
countless snapshots and times when markets have sold off, markets
have raced through the roof. Whatever it may be, hasn't
changed a damn thing or our philosophy of what we
do at Markowski Investments. No, no, but again, to all
you people that are too clever by half, keep doing

(03:58):
what you're doing. See how it works out for you.
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