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Market In Freefall As USDJPY Takes Out Stops, S&P Now Negative For The Year
Just a few more pips in the USDJPY and we are in uncharted territory. Below 79.75 in the USDJPY there is little support, except for the BOJ. Flash crashes in assorted index tracking futures are being witnessed everywhere, with an emphasis on Europe. In the meantime, following the rush to safety (in the Yen), the market is plunging to day lows, and the S&P has just turned negative for the year.
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Hang on, bitchez!
How low can you go, i say how low can you go!
sing it with me, how low can you go!
a tsunami of margin calls could be in the making. the end of day could present a glorious freefall.
then we'll see how low we can go today...and then of course...we still have tomorrow. Unemployment numbers and Friday options expiration. It's the clusterfuck trifecta (otherwise known as a bears wet dream).
checked out the PPTs heavily at work?!
yep..watching that. /Es up almost 20 points in 30 minutes and the USD dives.
SSDD.
still..I can't imagine anyone wanting to be holding long overnight with the chaos and uncertainty in Japan right now. I still think we could see a big end of day drop to a new low.
I went short the /ES on the break below 1270. Still holding that. If we see another break down near the EOD I'll double up my position and cash out at the bell or shortly thereafter. Or...it this keeps running up I'll stop myself out at 1265. But so far 1260 is proving to be pretty good resistance.
Damn this is fun:-)
Hah, you betcha its fun to trade but more importantly to watch PPTs scramble :))) I agree with your assessment, wont let anything overnight either, just the QQQQ puts i put on the other week and could already pay out handsomely , I wonder in all o this where oil is going to be?!
if the /ES breaks below 1255 with volume after 3:30, watch the market get monkey-hammered into the close.
but then again...we're playing against machines that have no capital limits...they could just as easily try to roof this bitch...logic is not a factor here.
it's gonna be a nail biter.
BOJ is buying Yen, and selling Dollars. The trend is bound to reverse. (They have been intervening for the last 3 days....) Yen will depreciate.
Why are you lying to the people? Japan need their currency to be strong and then pay for this disaster...
here we go again next vola! am just guessing here but 1255 is too weak for a hold! always watching options vola too and what I see is people freaking out extreme vola(fear) showing! I think the Qs will hit 41.75 in no time making me some 15 bucks bubba, on 60!puts!:))!
make sure your ESs give a little @4pm! and beyond! as to the PPTs POMO MOMO guys I think they have order to keep powder dry, it just does not work in the way down:))!
blah...closed it out at 1253. I was hoping for more but it was still a nice profit. Had to take it while it was there for the taking because who the fuck knows what these Machiavellian savages will decide to do with the market tomorrow. I 200+ gain on the DOW would not at all surprise me...regardless of what happens in Japan.
This market is so twisted I'm sometimes ashamed I make a living at this.
I hear ya' feel the same some times but after 23 years you get used to it:)))
i still think it will roll over to the 1200 level, see i like this gradual thing, instead of a
wooosshhhh down bottle necks are something very nasty!
well was nice talking to ya will hit the gym now, my disc hernia screams for it :))
maybe we should find a way to exchange personal emails, seems to me you know whatcha doing cant say this about many on this site! :))
Where is the PPT ?
Where is the almighty Federal Reserve ?
i've been boring people silly, no doubt, asking the 'theorists' to respond to their 'markets are rigged' conspiracy... c'mon Gentlemen you called it, where are the Feds hiding these past few days?
3 days of BOJ pump = 3 months FED POMO yet S&P and Dow down for year, almost at levels of 3 months ago.
Jeezus.....they are now having to resort using riot water cannons to feed the fuel pools.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110316/ts_nm/us_japan_quake
Probably time to start liquidating some PM's and take 1 last trip to Disney with the whole family.
Who makes water cannons? Maybe I should be long there.
Apparently someone prefers King's Island over Disney. Can't say I blame em'. "The Beast" is one hell of a ride.
no, no, no. They'll lower the margins on the way down just like the hike the margins on the way up! Everything will be fiiiiine.
I love this place.
Now if we could just get gold down 10-20% and take the profits from the downward move in equities and buy some more physical gold, that would be some biwinning.
WOW! A bunch of earthquakes occuring around the globe including canada up near where that nuclear power plant has shut down. Coincidence?
http://fiatsfire.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-interesting-links-for-those.html
I DON'T KNOW!!! SCARY!
That nuke reactor in Ontario dumped 73k liters of water, but say everying is cool.
This time, the reactor event happened before a random earthquake not too far away. Coincidence? No.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=29967
Put your rally caps back on....
"The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant says it has almost completed a new power line that could restore electricity to the complex and solve the crisis that has threatened a meltdown.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Naoki Tsunoda said early Thursday the power line to Fukushima Dai-ichi is almost complete. Officials plan to try it "as soon as possible" but he could not say when."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/15/business/AP-AS-Japan-Earthqua...
This may explain much of the rally. But it may be too late for electricity to be much help--for instance, if it's too dangerous for workers to approach the scene, or if the internals have been damaged to badly to operate normally.
what happen? why sudden pick up?
The bear market rally could be at a close.
Weeeeeee!
Everyone grab somethign to short!!!
I've got my NFLX. Come on down.
BBC saying the Swiss want to pull their nationals out...
"The Swiss foreign ministry said it would lay on charter flights if necessary to bring Swiss nationals home."
i just grabbed little timmy!
The president retreating to Rio is what did it.
Mark this down.
Obama's trip to Rio as Fukishima starts its meltdown will go down as his "Flight over Flooded New Orleans".
Book it.
God, I hope you're right.
yeah right, come next election, his little sheep will gladly vote him in, ONE MORE TIME!!
Obumma hasn't a snowball in Hells chance of re-election ...by 2014 i'd be surprised if anyone in Washington WC, sorry DC, has a chance of re-election ...the whole clown show should be for the toilet by then
Yes, because what Obama does or does not do in relation to a tsumani and potential nuclear catastrophe in Japan is equivalent to what Bush and Brownie did and did not do during Katrina along the Gulf Coast (that is to say, Bush and Brownie shat the bed and then hang their unwashed sheets out the window for the world to see).
Oh wait... no, those two situations are not analagous at all.
What you meant to say is "I hope Obama's trip to Rio...".
WOW! THE US MILATARY IS SHUTTING DOWN ACCESS TO WEBSITES IN JAPAN! PER CNN!
According to news it's due to bandwidth issues! LMAO!
Tsunami of a different kind.
I'm in cash. God help the rest.
Spring is coming cougar. Do you have that infernal 2/3 wheeled machine fixed yet?
Given the cost of fuel I think I'll finish it this weekend ... and put a $8K price tag on it.
The scent of money.
I demand photos of the finished bike.....with cougar proudly "mounted" on it of course. :>)
@cog diss
I'll let ya'll know if we start selling rickshaw's at the dealership. :)
10-4 good buddy. See ya on the highway. :>)
I prefer Baby Ben blue if you can manage it.........with Bernanke pulling if you don't mind.
With a nice whip in the base package I hope. "Mush, bitch!"
is that the hybrid model?
NOW we shall see if the Fed and it's minions have any more credibility left. I say they have squandered most of it, but you never know what desperate men and women will do.
cut rates of course
They'll have to invent a new math to do that.
I wouldn't put it past them, however.
Where are these desperate women you speak of? I'm asking for a friend, of course.
Yes where? BTW, FunkyMonkeyBoy is not my friend but I like him like one.
Where are these desperate women you speak of? I'm asking for a friend, of course.
Where are these desperate women you speak of? I'm asking for a friend, of course.
You were so excited at the prospect that your hand was shaking on the mouse, thus the triple post.
I fully understand. :>)
Maybe he has three friends (or a lot more confidence that most!).
settle down, Beavis.
My crystal ball tells me they will repent, raise rates to 40%, and Benocide and Taxxy will step down, be prosecuted, and end up in prison where they will be raped daily.
They only need to announce QE3 as "very likely"
carry trade unwinding bitchezz
Bingoo FreddOO
And to think we all thought that the deficit, unemployment, bank fraud, ect. blah, blah, blah would tank the market.
That toxic shit was all contained. Japan's, not so much.
"And to think we all thought that the deficit, unemployment, bank fraud, ect. blah, blah, blah would tank the market. "
It did. Had the administration let the bubble pop, let TBTF banks go bankrupt, not run up 1.4 trillion a year in deficits as far as the eye can see, and had the fed not inflated the money supply, we would have had a couple of really bad years and be starting a real recovery. Instead, their policies left us with no room to move. As it is, the administration and the fed have backed us into a corner. Anything goes wrong and there's nowhere to go, except Rio.
Just got a call from Harry Wanger. He is in the clink. He was arrested in the Dateline sting and needs somebody to sell out of his dollar carry trade for him.
I knew he was a pedo!
Catch up on what’s really going on:
http://tarpley.net/2011/03/15/behind-the-2011-orgy-of-destabilizations/
Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of … in almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.
I knew he was a pedo!
Catch up on what’s really going on:
http://tarpley.net/2011/03/15/behind-the-2011-orgy-of-destabilizations/
Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of … in almost every act of our lives whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.
I noticed yesterday his user account is gone. Did you guys finally hurt his feelings? :-)
No, he is grounded and his mom took his computer.
Reality meets markets in such circumstances.
President runs away.
I think the New madrid fault is ready. Bummer is gone a week right? Full family and his personal "trainer" in tow?
This is not good. I think you can seriously say Buh-bye Greenback, hullo redneck, or some such.
I hear the sound of indices thudding in the morning.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/american-cross-nuclear-rumbles/
hey ORI!
deflation.
got paper? lol. let's see if meyer boomburg can get some of his platforms and robot yo-yo vituosi to generate the bids to stop this fuking tsunami, eh bro?
Sloooo ieee, I got paper, and it's rolling, i got green (backs of course) and they are rolling too, in paper, down benny bux hill, like jacking jill on an i/o died pill and gone to heaven in a hand job.
If you get my drift, please shift, a gear, or three.
This downhill ride cannot be allowed to happen in neutral. That would be called a run-away reaction.
Ne?
ORI
re: neutral. That's called a Georgia Overdrive.
Eastbound and down, bitches!
I have been proposing for some time that Obama will be replaced by a 'Strong Man'. The constitutional process is already in place - it was used during Watergate.
First, Biden resigns and is quickly replaced with Petraeus. His confirmation sails through the Senate, which of course would be on the plan.
Next, we get an announcement that Barry has some kind heart condition that is seriously being aggravated by stress, etc. As it will appear to be life threatening, and since the country needs a "full time President" (cue Nixon), his resignation will be regretfully accepted.
Well, say hello to Pres Petraeus. Fist item on the dock: arrest Ben, Timmy & the other 1,000 or so Wall St criminals. Second item: temporary (which will become permanent) suspension of SS and other entitlements. Third: selective default (suspension of payments) of Ts. Fourth: a post Peal Harbor kind of speech outlining what the country faces and where we need to go.
These kinds of predictions are easy, because mankind hasn't changed one iota over thousands of years. We are still emotionally driven herd animals. Governments change all the time - the only anomaly is how long this one has lasted.
S. Mchrystal is another one to watch...polished General gives interview mocking POTUS to Rolling Stone...hmmmm
I'd go for Mchrystal.
I agree with the agenda of business conducted, but I'm not sure how it will happen... I suppose via a general is as reasonable of method as any. Also not sure about the time line... not sure barry will still even be in office when the time comes to roll up the sleeves so to speak.
Jeb Bush 2011.
I hear Chavez will be available soon.
Last time I checked, the Vuvuzelan currency was backed by gold by -hold on to your baseball caps- 150%.
Yes, the Vuvuzelans reported holdings of 150% gold to circulating currency (bolivars).
I bet Cha Cha Chavez is blowing his vuvuzelas loud and clear right about....NOW.
I don't think he is blowing anything but.... well you know...
Inflation is rampant above 20% in Venezuela. People sell food staples on the black market for USD. I woouldn't put too much faith in the bolivar.
holy shit, im all for not having obama as president and bernanke arrested. But im not willing to let a f'ing general take over the country. Martial law and a general who had(somewhat) control over a ridiculous war is not what we need.
Laurent Gbagbo 2012.
I'd prefer to slip Ron Paul in there in an I Claudius kind of way.
History would suggest you stand a decent chance of being right about this. I think we have to first feel quite a bit of stinging though. The strong man needs an audience that will blindly follow. A little more damage to the bread and circuses will do nicely.
we all know he's a radiant guy, he just doesn't want to be radiated! hence, his rushed vacation!
This is the best time to watch cnbc watch em squirm
+1 These are the only days I watch both Jim "Just buy a little" Cramer and Fast Money.
Stellar advise, Jimmy.
BTFD was getting Old...
We're still getting those afternoon rallies though. Once the market closes down and near the lows the BTFD trick will finally be toast. But yes it was getting really annoying.
Time for the market to start reflecting the actual value of the underlying securities. Then we'll be able to break this malaise, its just going to hurt first.
Nope....wait until the total correction is 10-15% & then BTFD
too many hopium numbers tied to the market & too much spin to let it fall
S&P caught a break at 1250. We'll see if it holds as a bottom.
Where is Obama on all of this ?
He didn't show up in Wisconsin either ?
He should pull his head out of Blankfeins ass and do something about it !
Where are you, Mr. President ?!
Comrade Stalin sent him to Rio.
To the Camps. On vacation.
Something really bad is going to come down and Jeebus is going to be down in Brasil with all the wimmens and he will look like Bush in Washington when Katrina hit. Mark this down.
He is in transit to Australia.... Northern Hemi is toast.
Thanks for telling me who was in Blankfein's ass. Obama's head is so far up there, all I can see are shoes dangling.
Is this a Jim buybuybuy Cramer day?
How long until we see another massive Yen infusion into money markets.
Where is Nero?
Don't make me do my rant again, Nero, for you are naked, without clothing, and we all know it.
Now fiddle on, to the tune of 'Blue Skies.'
PPT working overtime this week trying to prop up various countries, currencies, and dictators.
The dow literally just jumped 60 pts on nothing more than air. Gotta love that shit
"Well off the lows" is CNBC's take on all this.
That is Maria B's favorite line, "Well off the lows"
Hmmm, so it's not "I have three holes..."?
PREPARE FOR IMPACT
I think the chances of the Tokyo Stock Exchange not opening tomorrow have increased substantially.
Shirakawa with the stick save.
JPY is a very large funding currency in financial markets...i.e. there is a crap load of people short the yen. Hold onto your britches if a few more stops get taken out, could get violent.
and the S&P has just turned negative for the year.
The market takes the path of maximum frustration right? I'm sure there are more then a few fund mangers who are "frustrated" right now.... the types that love buying AAPL into multi-year highs.
JPY is a very large funding currency in financial markets...i.e. there is a crap load of people short the yen. Hold onto your britches if a few more stops get taken out, could get violent.
No, no, NO! CalPERS says it's supposed to be +7.75% real. In perpetuity.
So turn that liquid frown upside down!
1.00 CHF=1.10069 USD
Holy Cow!
Radioactive US Dollars!
i think it's a 3-way!
"The Dollar ($), The Yen (Y), And The Swiss Franc (CHF)"
fxxx porn by slewie the pi-rat
who could object to casting Y as a hot young lady? the $ must be studly and pretend to doright. i guess this means CHF is a tranny, right?
altho the dollar is in great demand, and is waxing other currencies, in this 3-way, Y has our studly male member locked in her hot, tight pussy, about to deliver the greatest creampie in digital history! now that Y has sucked CHF to an archetypal boner, s/he is pulling outa that hot, red oral orfice and getting behind the $ who is certainly willing, given the CHF's great rack and pinion, but has never been bent over quite this far, ever before...
"i guess this means CHF is a tranny, right?"
good stuff slewie !
But UBS told me to buy the dip today.
They meant chip dip.
Intervention! ...Monkeys
This from Financial Post:
Yen strength is likely to prove short-lived
The country now faces grave challenges as it deals with the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami. In the financial markets, the authorities also need to maintain the trust of investors in Japanese government bonds, restore confidence to the equity markets and prevent the yen from becoming highly volatile.
How's that going, then?
Intervention! ...Monkeys
The nuclear agency needs to get its hands on some of the coolant the BoJ uses for its printer arrays.
with the sole purpose of bringing down the yield on the long bond?
I put my hand up on your hip, when I dip , you dip, we dip...
Cramer pumping IBM 2 days ago.
Oh..newsflash...Tech sucks
Lol, nice timing........again.
the cramer cult is back in full force....yesterday he plugged btu and had ceo on from xlnx and clr all strong as hell today in a weak mrkt
this is gonna get way worse b4 it gets better, and it is not gonna get better while any of us are still pretending to enjoy planetary existence here.
i have set the over/under for this event at Chernobyl X5, with March 31, 2011 as "settlement day in green stamps" and vegas is getting more action than on March Madness, so far. in case of any disagreement regading the quantification vis-a-vis chernobyl, slewie will make the decision, which will be final AND binding on all playaZ.
after the shit i went thru here, yest, no one else is qualified..., but in the event i am too fuked up to e on the 31st, tyler can make the call @ 4 PM eastern, and we'll just let the green-stamp-based chips fall wherever tf they fall, 'k?
D.P. lol
DJIA continues as predicted on Feb 6th-my prediction for March 16th was around 11600-see the chart and explanation:
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/download/file.php?id=2608
http://saposjoint.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2626&start=0
Your prediction, of course, includes the mega-quake and meltdown, does it?
Talk about the PPT kickin in!
We've got 43 very vunerable reactors and he leaves the country?
Dude. I'm telling you. He and the team around him have lost it.
This is like Bush going out to that birthday part right after Katrina.
Now you know what the Bourbons were like before the Bastille was stormed and Robespierre started taking names.
He's got to lead something...
How do I invest/protect portfolio when the PPT always fucks me.
You shouldn't have said anything Tyler,
emergency auction in 3...2...1...
rilly! liquidation sales right now in a mall or brokerage near you!
and, for the big red 1, below, the injection certainly was worth the temprary two cents, again, doncha think? the japanese are gonna hafta try to protect their 2 biggest assetZ, here: USD-denominated Treasuries, and GE stock...
That was one hell of a Yen injection!
PPT buying the fucking dip with a vengeance.
Not even a mushroom cloud over Wall St. could take this market down.
Unfrigginbelievable
It's truly amazing what they are doing with your tax dollars
I don't think it's my tax dollars, or borrowed dollars anymore. It's digital phantom dollars created with a few keystrokes on a keyboard. As long as those selling hard commodities continue to accept this charade the game goes on, the second they don't the game stops. That simple.
We're not in Kansas anymore.
Yeah, the rate of climbing is to reach the close at 'unchanged'.
They don't even try to hide it.
Hello Jimbo,
this is your buddy down here at GS - you've got a little red going on here in your foundation's portfolio - if you don't liquidate your NKE and APPL by end of day, we're gonna need to make this account green for ya. Yeah, you should SELL, SELL, SELL before we LIQUIDATE, LIQUIDATE, LIQUIDATE. Oh, say hi to Erin for me
That was one hell of a Yen injection!
Man, printing money sure is fun. Hope nobody notices.
wow what a recovery. we are going green by the end of the day
Probably a 4th wave up -- probably one more impulse wave down for today. 1225/1230 looks like a nice place to bounce for tomorrow's oversold rally, IMHO - which means very little
I thought it was all the ZH'rs B-ing The F-ing D.
One thing ppl are ignoring is the incremental jump that the discount rate can take to break the zero bound and go into negative territory.
I would say a Yen meltup is in the cards, much like the 1987 crash. The U.S. discount rate is already below the Japanese 3-month treasury rate.
Longer term Japanese interest rates seem very slow to respond, but now I'm thinking Hugh Hendry is going to get a lot of interviews if he's correct to bet on higher interest rates in Japan.
The ZH GiddyMeter went off the charts. It's the new VIX. Now all we need is a Hindenburg Omen to confirm the buying opportunity.
Anyone know if Bill Gross has released his brackets yet?
I think ben is over there showing them how to print the shit out of things
Is there any doubt that Stocks = AUD/JPY?
What kind of crooked crap is this ponzi made of really? This is a joke across the board. Who in their right mind would buy a stock these days? Bernanke and Harry Wanger are the only two idiots dumb enough to do it to my knowledge. LOL
An almost perfect "V"
WOW-Time to give Prechter some serious PROPS when he gets it right!
PPT getting in gear as I write this, however.