Australian Investment Blog

Well, another large fall on the US markets overnight to continue the ‘fear element’ currently in investors’ mind. We mentioned recently that the complacency around the recent stock market plunge made us at Market Matters feel there was more to come. Certainly the extreme blow-out in volatility over the past 10 days or so takes time to work its way through the market with the probability of sometimes wild price oscillations. The ability to stand back from these often emotionally driven gyrations and properly assess the ‘position of the markets’ is what really matters right now!

The ASX200 is down 15% from its highs of 2015 prior to today’s likely 1% gap lower.