$Nasdaq Composite Index (.IXIC.US)$ this is food for thought...

40% of all goods that come into the United States are transported through the ports on the East Coast.

union workers are going on strike tonight they're demanding an enormous increase in salary and benefits over the next several years much greater than what the Union dock workers got out of California last year.

this event is known about and companies and businesses have been scampering over the past two weeks to try to reroute their orders through companies that will be going to ports in the Gulf States which now are backed up because of the hurricane but also out west on the California coastline.

there's not a single company that I've been able to read that says that they have been successfully able to have rerouted their goods that are coming from other countries mostly China into the United States.

Amazon Walmart all the way down the list all these major retailers that buy their shit from Chinese manufacturers and have manufacturing done overseas are going to be affected at some point in time.

the smaller companies have much greater risk than the larger companies do, this is because the cost for them to have goods rerouted using other shipping companies out west is going to be significantly greater so this is going to erode profit margins dramatically on those goods coming through West Coast ports additionally the cost to ship those goods and transport them on rail and on 18 wheelers flatbeds is going to be much greater than if it was on the east coast to the distribution centers strategically placed along the east coast.

where I'm going with all of this is depending upon the length the duration of the strike you will start to hear these bobbleheads on TV discussing how will this impact profit margins and who's going to get hurt the most and when will they revise their third quarter and 4th quarter down to alert investors.

those companies that are affected their stocks going to get hit hard if this strike lasts.

so put that in the back of your mind when you're getting ready to invest your hard-earned money is the company that you are buying going to be affected by the dock worker's strike on the East Coast.