The magazine cover buy signal?

I have been seeing signs of a tactical trading bottom lately (see my posts last week here and here). Now we may have the magazine cover contrarian buy signal, based on the idea that when the mainstream press starts writing about a story, it's too late for investors to benefit from the trend. Most likely, a major news magazine cover trumpeting some trend is a sign that the trend is about to reverse (e.g. the famous Death of Equities cover story in 1979 or Time's Home Sweet Home cover in 2005).

Now Germany's Der Spiegel, one of Germany's most respected papers, has done it:

You don't even need to understand German to understand the gist of the cover. The Germans are resigned to the idea of a Greek exit from the euro. The English version of the story title is Grexit Would Be 'Regrettable, But Not Fatal'.


Enough said.
 
 
 
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