cramer. welcome to "mad money". my job to teach and keep it in context. call me or tweet me@jim cramer. talk about a roller coaster. so, this market spent the day see sawing between those who want a rate hike and those who fear one. but the dow only gaining 18 points and nasdaq sinking 0.01%. some people want to believe that with fed cheap janet yellen and i always come back to the problems of rate hikes and genders. the stocks of companies in debt and oil companies who so despera desperately need high yield loans to stay afloat. and let's keep in mind, those black hole i keep talking about. the brazilian oil company and the now disgraced volkswagen and none benefits from the rate hike but when one other pesky worry, we keep getting words of biotech pricing by democratic front runner, hillary clinton. it dipped into bear market territory today. these big picture worries continue overnight. and nike, closed up nearly 9%. a truly outstanding move that had almost no pin action away from its own good fortune and a big bump in the dow jones index that engendered. the impending rate hike coul

cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cray-america. ajob is to educate, teach and coach you. call me at 1800743 cnbc or tweet me @jim cramer. you know what clueless is? it's when you only take into the account the twifactivities and actions of public companies. if you look at the companies with stocks that currently trade, you might not see the oncoming train of a private company coming right at you. that's why we travelled out west to sit down with all sorts of privately-held companies to hear what they were up to and how they're going to disrupt industries. it's why we check in with cu's of fledgling companies. when don't want you to be surprised. i have been dragged kicking and screaming into the new era but not necessarily how you think. half dozen years ago a group of us from summit, new jersey, decided to buy an in down the block from my house. i have been known to whip up pretty mean scrambled eggs there. i am working on poached ones. we didn't know anything about the lodging business. the building seemed nice. i thought we'd have needs like around the clock coverage to check people in, get them out, get them to pay.

cramer-america. other people want to make friends, i want to make you some money. to teach, coach and putner perspective. call me on tweet me at jim cramer. so long september. good-bye to a horrendous third quarter. where the markets declines almost 10% and every rally was a trap. a soccer's -- sucker's game. dow gaining and s&p growing and nasdaq growing 2.3%. we didn't see a lot of buying today. we saw an absence of selling. a pause in selling can take us higher but not so high it is worth plupging in with both feet. that's because we are in a bear market. it is like a fever. it does run its course. this is my ninth bear market in 35 years of investoring. and [ inaudible ] was right when he said that all happy bull markets are the same but all are each unhappy in their own way. still love it. so applicable. most of the bear markets had to do with overvaluation coupled with shocks to the system that created a tore of stocks for sale. this is similar to those to a degree. the market did get expensive but because interest rates were low, valuation was not weightless. not in this country, but overseas, it is running high a

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cramer. welcome to "mad money". my job to teach and keep it in context. call me or tweet me@jim cramer. talk about a roller coaster. so, this market spent the day

cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cray-america. ajob is to educate, teach and coach you. call me at 1800743 cnbc or tweet me @jim cramer.ou know what clueless is? it's when you only take into the account the twift

or tweet me @jim cramer. on days like today, will you let yourself be controlled by your emotions or will you stay calm and be guided by reason? are you going to sell stocks hand over fist every time you see weaker china data? are you going to panic whenever the s&p futures are down huge overnight, as people did most of the day today, just as they did last tuesday afternoon at this time before one of the biggest rallies i've ever seen. or will you decide to care more about the united states than china given we live in the united states, not china. and the two are very different despite the prevailing wisdom if things are horrendous in the people's republic, don't they have to be every bit as horrendous here? that was certainly the assumption behind much of today's decline. dow plunging 474 points, s&p plummeting 2.96%, nasdaq nose diving. let's take everything was weak. regular viewers know, you know that i keep a copy of wednesday october 4, 2011 of the "wall street journal" on my desk. it's an important day

or tweet me @jim cramer. tonight i want to take a step back and talk about the big picture.ultimate goal on this show is to teach you how to become

as jim cramer tweets just a short time ago, in a bear market, a call like this works. >> of course. >ll market, it does not, period, end of story, that's it. >> this is the market where people are shooting first and asking questions later. it doesn't pay to do it the other way around. it will at some point. in the short term f you have something negative to say, it doesn't take a lot of effort. everyone's looking for a reason to sell even more. >> one name that paul mentioned that i've been looking at and look looked at is tableau. it's an incredible company. lowers the costs so dramatically. that's one you have to look at. >> tomorrow we're going to be joined exclusively by dan niles of alpha 1 capital parters in. we're going to be getting his take tomorrow. with look forward to having dan on then. >>> coming up, we take the calls of the day. there are many. one says forget the chinese exposure t year of the monkey. star wars to the rescue. the analyst who's betting disney could rally 12% defends his call. that stock has been so much in the headlines the last few weeks, we'll talk to

. >> what cramer tweeted yesterday, in a bull market the citron short ain't going to work.n a bear market it's going to look good. because those momentum names like netflix are the wunsz that are going to get hit to the outside. >> i think josh talked about it yesterday, scott. we saw a lot of these stocks that i've mentioned in the last few days, being places that people were hanging out for safety. facebook. exxon mobile, disney, apple. when they're leaving those, as they are today. it's probably because they're looking for other places that they think are battered, not so much that those are broken. >> so greenhouse, let's talk tesla. the model 3, this is a new car, it's going to be $35,000. preorders in march. they do have a crossover vehicle that's going to be like $140,000. >> either on your shopping list? >> i would buy the car. i don't take a view on the stock. we don't follow it and i tend to not want to talk single stocks. but you know in light of what we just talked about, i will say tesla is right in there with netflix and the f.a.n.g. stocks. >> are you sweatin

cramer-america. other people want to make friends, i want to make you some money. to teach, coach and putner perspective. call me on tweetat jim cramer. so long september. good-bye to a horrendous third quarter. where the markets declines almost

or tweet me @jim cramer.days like today, will you let yourself be controlled by your emotions or will you stay calm and be guided by reason? are you

the investing world on a couple of companies right now, vw and glencore and petrobras and jim cramer tweetingut about 20 minutes agatha they're your touch stones for the overall market at the moment. those market followed us down. the nikkei in japan was slammed. with those losses it's negative for the year. oil slightly higher but brent and wti stuck in the current price range for about a month. ten year bond yields are changed. this morning it will cost you about $1.12 to buy a euro. pretty much the same yesterday. gold lower. and platinum falling below today. among the reasons that vw admission scandal, platinum goes into the converters for diesel engines. it goes in for regular gas leol engines. the stillwater mine as good the largest miner of both platinum. >> let's get a look at the markets. we'll head overseas. martin it was a rough, rough session when you look at what's been happening in asia. >> you got that right. good morning. higher on wall street and we'll see more stability your side but out here in asia it was just an awful session. you took a look at some of the scores. tokyo

cramer. welcome to cramerica. my job is not just to entertain you but to educate you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or of course tweet me @jimcramer. i've gotten older. you probably can't tell that because we have excellent makeup people who daily make me into brad pitt, if they have the time. otherwise they go all bradley cooper on me. i'm fine with either. i don't want the girl. i want the stock. but along with my aging has come a change in the way i look at things, a change in the way we talk about stocks on "mad money." we still like to highlight stocks pretty much every night. but we do so now within the broader framer of how to analyze stocks, how they fit in, how they can make you money and how they can hurt you. despite the terrific run stocks have had from the bottom, we've developed tremendous respect for the downside on "mad money." oh, we've seen huge gains wiped out since the show began. we've seen stocks that were hot grow cold or even vanish. we've seen businesses that were smoking, like the food business, grow frozen, only to turn hot again when a wave of mergers and acquisitions swept through their w

cramer. welcome to cramerica. my job is not just to entertain you but to educate you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or of course tweet. i've gotten older. you probably can't tell that because we have excellent makeup people who daily

cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to teach you, call me or tweeter. this morning, my partner david faber, we were doing our mad dash segment as we do every day near the

tweets, the weather, to predict trends? that would be awesome. tote? now there's a cloud that understands business. now there's the ibm cloud. >>> just about five minutes before the bell, let's get cramer's mad dash. you're thinking of the season and you're looking at hasbro. >> this is amazing, here is the kind of research that i do love. 46% move, we know star wars toys are coming. but maybe it's anytime to go neutral. mattel has a big yield. i don't know if it is safe or not, but maybe it is time to go out of hasbro into mattel. they made you a fortune and they don't want to give it back. >> does that mean you're more skeptical on disney, for instance, going into something like that? i do believe when i listen to the cable vision, i think about broad band, i do say that disney is a stock you want to buy, not sell. if we get a fed rate hike, there will be people saying when is the next fed rate hike. i'm busy trying to help people make money in companies. >> we're going to get to that later on in the show. we'll see you at the opening bell. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call