Short selling is an obvious way of benefiting from market corrections.

[oak333]

Jeff Bezos sells 1.1 billion $ of Amazon shares, when prices were high.
He sold another million shares (probably around 1 billion $) in may 2017.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...tock-at-record

[oak333]

High Yield Credit (junk bonds) are in trouble:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-...ank-2017-11-15

HYG and JNK , long in junk bonds, are going down.

It looks like SJB , shorting junk bonds, might soon become a winner

[Markpti]

Jim Cramer tells his experience with the Black Monday.
Well, it was not pretty.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/19/cram...h-of-1987.html

In early 2008, Cramer was touting Bear Stearns as a much better company than some of the nay-sayers were admonishing. His promotion was so strong that Christina and I almost bought. But for a moment of bad timing that did not allow us to make a long position in BS, we'd have put a fair amount into it.

Thanks goodness for that moment of bad timing.

Just prior, thanks to listening to Peter Schiff in late 2007 I had moved all to cash and missed the crash and thank goodness, Bear Sterns.

I like the Cramer. Don't get me wrong. I think he provides the most detailed and real-time educational service for his followers. But, as we all know, no one knows it all.

[oak333]

!80 years of market draw downs
-----------------------------------

Look at the charts, how draw downs occurred during each decade.
This tired bull market is about nine years old.

http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016...ket-drawdowns/

[oak333]

Jim Cramer continues to be bullish on equities. His main
argument is "earnings increasing."

While this seems to be a valid point, it does not say the
essential: central bank asset holdings. In other words,
how much money was created. Much of this newly created
money has been used to fuel a stock market bubble.

The two charts in the report below show clearly the picture.
The thesis cannot be any clearer.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/t...81938838222328

[WhackNStack]

Here is a scary article! There are just way too many amateurs short VIX instruments because it has been a huge gravy train in recent years. Now it is just a short fused stick of dynamite.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-1...ce-next-crisis

[oak333]

Junk bonds sell off continues...but reaction is still muted.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...er-b-bathwater

Single B bonds sell off bear the brunt.

[oak333]

Wall Street forecasts
-----------------------

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/t...81865823782384

A few points:

Data compiled by Bloomberg show that since 1999 Wall Street prognosticators
have never once predicted a down year.

Take 2008, the start of a bad crisis.
Wall Street has a buoyant tone: "Strategists now project
an increase of 11 % for 2008, the most bullish in 5 years."

My note: The lesson is clear.

[oak333]

A short list of inverse ETF's

http://etfdb.com/type/equity/all/inverse/

Investors buy more and more the inverse ETF's.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ris...hoo&yptr=yahoo

[Eye4nI]

Who'd be crazy enough to short this market?? Very "bigly", indeed.