One would think that investors would be emulating their #1 hero. One would be wrong.
Warren Buffett recently acknowledged that he’s playing in overtime in this thing we call life. At 93, the acclaimed investor is still very much in the game and making his moves.
Our August Elliott Wave Theorist elaborates:
We Are in Good Company
We have been steadfastly recommending complete safety in the form of Treasury bills, 2-year Floating Rate Notes, a safe bank and gold stored offshore. We have felt quite alone in this opinion. So, we were pleasantly surprised to see this headline, from CNBC on August 7:
Warren Buffett now owns more T-bills than the Federal Reserve
It’s true: Buffett’s investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway, owns $235 billion worth of T-bills; the Fed owns $195 billion worth. Of course, most of the Fed’s money is in other government-guaranteed debt. Buffett’s is mostly in stocks. Still, his current cash holdings are about twice the average for the previous five years. How did he accumulate so much cash? By selling stocks in this heady environment. As CNBC reported,
“Buffett, 93, pulled off a surprising and yet prescient move by selling big chunks in stock holdings including Apple last quarter, ahead of a drastic global sell-off this week. Berkshire has been a seller of stocks for seven quarters straight, but that selling accelerated in the last period with Buffett shedding more than $75 billion in equities in the second quarter.”
One would think that investors would be emulating their #1 hero. One would be wrong.
The August Elliott Wave Theorist goes on to explain how many investors are behaving in the opposite manner as the Oracle of Omaha.
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