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It's 3:30PM - Do You Know Which HFT Has Hijacked Your Computer's Spare "Market Ramp" CPU Cycles?
A day full of disappointing news concludes with the mandatory rampage that is sure to get all investors' confidence back in what is the most broken market ever seen by pretty much anyone. Anything less than a triple digit gain in the Dow and today's ICI outflow may be in the tens of billions. Or else the banks won't lend and the system will collapse. In other news, the US is rumored to be issuing High Yield bonds (at sub 5% rates) with which to fund a couple hundred trillion or so in direct "dividends" to US citizens (only those making under $250,000 and/or belonging to labor unions).
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ES Ramp Roast.
yeah, they are wringing every last dime out of this. tomorrow, the drop in the SPX begins to take out all the put holders for Friday.
I mean, you gotta absolutely fuck both sides, right? What's the point of the HFT, the insider info, the flash trading....all of it, if you don't maximize the bennies on both sides?
"the US is rumored to be issuing High Yield bonds (at sub 5% rates) with which to fund a couple hundred trillion or so in direct "dividends" to US citizens" -- That check will be returned to sender or incinerated if they will not accept it. This is a no welfare house.
That check will be returned to sender or incinerated if they will not accept it. This is a no welfare house.
I have to question the wisdom of this line of thinking. Seems like you're cutting off your nose to spite your face. It would be a stimulus check, not a welfare check. While I respect your integrity, it seems useless at this stage of the game. Everyone is looting the treasury and if I receive a stimulus check, you can bet your ass I'm gonna cash it. I'll then turn around and invest it in a liquid commodity. Feel free to send your check to me.
Welfare? Don't you recognize your stolen goods?
Not to mention, with mid-term elections coming, it was obvious this was going to happen.
No cops here man...Anarchy Rules.
this market is a total fraud. And where does greenspan get off advising that they should 'gets stocks higher' ... he was the fuking problem, why should anyone listen to his bullshit!!?
the important issue is to distract the 99% of the class on Earth and make them believe that "nothing is happening, go (get drunk)(masturbate)([b]eat your spouse)(all of the previous)." As no insurrection has taken place, I'd say "[E]Mission Accomplished." Wave that Corporate Flag!
They did that a decade ago...
I look back fondly on dot.com at the sheer sanity of it all
Similar to the wonders of compounding interest, the incremental compounding of insanity allows for the illusion that everything seems pretty normal, other than a few disturbances in the force now and then.
This is exactly how an entire world tip toes towards totalitarianism with barely a peep from the sheep. Feel the force Luke or feel the shears.
Hey, mass delusion works just fine. Well, until it doesn't, that is.
@ Cog Dis
"the incremental compounding of insanity"
The quotation of the day!
And we trust the Fed Chair, who not only oversees the world's largest gold reserve but does not know what gold is (it is monie), but mans the outpost of The President's Working Group on Financial Markets which acts as a private entity (as if the Fed could become more private) and in the best interest of the entity, to know what he is doing? BS is a used car salesman, at best!
"And we trust the Fed Chair, who not only oversees the world's largest gold reserve" That last part made me laugh. Thanks. Their "gold reserves" are stored in the last file folder behind the three ring binder full of Treasuries.
"oversees", or..."gold" then.
Its like the brief case in "Dumb and Dumber"... full of IOUs and paper receipts.
...which is in front of the social security promissary notes.
Dang, I love this!
You could not write a story like this. Our times will be rembered for 1000's of years. If we are all dust, then what more could you hope for? This is freakin AWESOME!
Send me a check, Gubmint, I'll use it to buy a lot more ammo.
or Silver Coins.
Both.
Phony Market on Display:
I'm not sure how to post pics here, hope this works... The first picture is of an eight day rally (15 min chart) in SPY in 2004. The second picture shows our eight point move over the last ten days. Notice the buying in 2004 came during the day. Not from the 'mystery buyer' in after hours that the present day reflects.
http://gallery.me.com/markhall/100095
great charts there. thx
Excellent post that says it all. Thanks.
How can I collect my "dividend"?
Is that like "where can I get my Obama money"?
You do when you use your doelarrs to buy gold at an ungodly cheap level.
Hi, Jimi. Nice to see our gold market proceeding as planned, eh?
Next stop 1290, then 1350.
Are they still interveneing? They ain't gettin' much bang fer their (star)bux!
Not going as planned at all.
On the one hand you have 1290 pog evening price fix. On the other hand you have Japan dumping gold into market to devalue currency. We got the wrong hand.
People need to tell japan to stop fucking jumping on their god damn swords.
From Obamas STASH, yo!
These CPU's only know one pattern. Who is the engineer that will put a program together to lead them all down the tube? I will contribute start up capital. I'm sick of getting pissed on at 3:00.
It is a computer program that acts the opposite to human logic and reasoning
I'm starting to get a feeling that the market might not be legit.
LOL
I had a client in my office yesterday who has laughed in my face for over 4 years as I've tried to explain some of the hidden manipulations that move the markets. It was simply beyond his ability to imagine that his world view of sugar plums and a benevolent government could be so wrong. Needless to say, he's rejected my advice to purchase Gold and Silver over the past 4 years.
So guess who wanted me to buy Gold and Silver yesterday? And guess who said that he was beginning to suspect that the government was corrupt and the markets manipulated? Of course, since he came to the conclusion all by himself, now it all made sense.
Hey, whatever it takes, right?
I wonder who bitch-slapped him? TG he's coming around!
You were not persuasive enough! It's all your fault.
At one point when he was explaining his "thinking" to me he remarked that as his broker, I should have recommended he invest in Gold and Silver a few years ago. And he did this with a straight face.
Selective memory is one of the (obvious) symptoms of denial. Thank God he didn't fire me for my incompetence.
Ya he's right. You should have recommended he invest in gold and silver.
You're BAD!!!!
It's also a symptom of a narcissistic personality disorder, or a psychopath (fine line between those, lol)
If this fellow wanted to buy gold now, maybe you should sell him yours.
So we know now where Johnny Bravo was yesterday.
LOL
I guess JB is middle aged, balding and with a pot belly. And drives a Prius.
Is this Johnny Bravo?!
http://web.archive.org/web/20060219215349/stockdr.com/employees/john.shtml
CD, you said it best...
"It's ethically wrong to wake the sleeping passengers on the train just before it plunges into the abyss." ..or something like that.
Your advice has helped me realize that not only can't they be helped, but that it is ethically wrong to attempt it at this point.
Ssshhhh!
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
The operative words here are "just before" and "sleeping passengers". The insanity has a long way to go so the train isn't now nor even tomorrow about to plunge into the abyss.
And while I agree you can't really wake sleeping passengers, not everyone is asleep. Many are simply dazed or seduced. Others are distracted. Be gentle, but don't waste your time on the ones that don't wish to wake. There are plenty that do if given the opportunity and encouragement.
I'm impressed with the record volume
hmm, the vix had a very similar day on 4/26/10. Interesting...
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$VIX&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=p86736173704
How does the VIX explain 22MM shares of TZA a day or any other 2x, 3x ETF?
Well, I don't know much about TZA, but certainly that volume has been increasing since the beginning of the year. Not necessarily day over day or week over week but since late spring it is trading much more daily volume, right?
DOW sub 10,000 is very UnAmerican !
$4B POMO gets ya 4 S+P points. That's a bill-a-point
Exactly, that's why they'll just do more and larger ones.
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle,
Lasers in the jungle somewhere,
Staccato signals of constant information,
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby!
On the bright side, they finally managed to break S&P 1123 on a closing basis. *golf clap*
Total in-your-face fraud support by the
gubbermint. Beutiful ramp job, Ben.
You get to keep your job when the
Tea Party comes to Congress.
as long as the HFT's keep pushing the market up the government will leave them alone.
Using the trusty ole Bill Clinton Lie-a-Meter, this late day market move scores an 8.8
Modern Portfolio 2.0
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Portfolio-Al...
Overheard on the floor..."i don't
care if you think there's nobody under
it and it's jacked. If you say it on the air,
you're done, understand?
I can built it, but I don't want to. What must continue to happen is the monetary civil war run through the political system. As more pain mounts, so will the tipping point of truth being stifled. Liberty is restored in this sequence: Truth, Freedom, Justice. These concepts are also the cornerstones of a Republic. Look at what banking is now openly talking about doing which is to eliminate currency altogether. Forces total supply chain participation, that is one heck of a big stick and it will back-fire in ways many here have already speculated on.
When I build an advanced trading system, it will actually be a supply-chain that all run towards. Attempting to bring down the micro-penny skim game just will make you fodder for the inevitable grand finale.
A win would be a supply chain that restarts growth and free market capitalism for the first time in history. For that, the Golden Calf must be decentralized and right now, banking will not listen until they are losing loved ones through the effects of war. It doesn't mean discussing or building specs isn't value in the interim, for what we all really want (and I do mean all of us) is for growth to resume. All the increasing pressure leads back up the base of the pryamid to the tip of it. And further, the world has begun its transition from the pyramid shaped management paradigm to the circular one of asymmetric information. Evolution will force the CB model to itself evolve. First they will use that big stick as I first mentioned...
I'll take the money. What else am I gonna do, call for a torch and pitchfork rebellion on an anonymous blog board?
You guys sound really irritated. Short?
All rise and play that song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf4eu5y0418
Interesting clock on that chart...
Is this Johnny Bravo in real life?!?
http://web.archive.org/web/20060219215349/stockdr.com/employees/john.shtml
By his own admission, JB's still in college. And I suspect he's still living at home.
That's his Dad.
Don't worry folks. They're giving it all back after hours....
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