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The Bank Short Ban IS BAAACCKKK!!!
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/09/2011 11:51 -0500Do thse guys ever learn their damn lessons? You just can't f@ck with mother market!
The 830% One Week Armageddon Trade Commentary: Tuesday, 8-9-2011, Continuing The Easily Seen Market Crash?
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/09/2011 07:58 -0500What makes this so interesting is that this bank is sitting under everybody's nose yet no one suspects it. KaBoom!!! Nuclear chain reaction thoughout Europe based on panic, greed, avarice and fear? Oh well, back to the trade at hand...
Armageddon Put Trade Up Over 500% For The Week, More Room To Go And More Trades To Set Up!
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/08/2011 14:29 -0500500+% in less than a week! Not bad. Expect to give some back as the kick the can down the road parade begins: QE3.56, concerted central bank buying, bannig shorts, outlawing puts, whatever. I fully expect a short term rally then realisty will rear its ugly head once again.
Using Options On Leveraged ETFs To Trade the US Debt Rating Downgrade
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/08/2011 07:05 -0500Actionable US Debt Downgrade Research & Opinion for Monday Morning - Monetizing the Situation
ECB As European Lender Of Last Resort = Institutional Purveryor Of A Pan-European Ponzi Scheme
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/06/2011 15:33 -0500If today's broad market action is confusing you, it shouldn't be.
As The World Turns, The Contagion Spreads: I Can Hear The Pitter-Patter Of Feet Running From European Banks - Are YOU Ready For
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/05/2011 11:30 -0500More evidence of European bank runs as both banks AND sovereign domicile states start to pull liquidity at the same time that said banks are trying to pull liqiodity from their customers. How do you think this will end?
Timely Trading Tips For 8/5/2011
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/05/2011 02:41 -0500260% profits in 48 hours? Global markets in full meltdown mode? Bank runs imminent? Is this an all out collapse or will the global central financial planning cartel reign it in via the bear market rally from hell. Well, here's a few steps to take either way...
Stocks Collapse, 2yr @Record Low, Rating Agencies Opinion Irrelavent as Global Capital Jumps from Ponzi Scheme to Ponzi Scheme
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/04/2011 15:58 -0500The Fearful Flight To Quality Trade stuffs global capital into US treasuries once again, negative yields forthcoming! As Bernanke, et. al. gambled, Europe collapses first - suppressing our gambling costs to record levels. Hey, it was either Europe or China, and our bet was Europe too! Kudos Mr. Bernanke for kicking the can down the road once again.
Game Over For The European Ponzi Scheme? Monetizing Pan-European Sophisticated Ignorance Via US Options, Part 1
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/04/2011 10:42 -0500Game over, everything sold off, gold soaring... system is imploding... USSR 1989, EURO 2012, and i think we might well add US & Japan to the list as well. Volatility more valuable then nearly everything, maybe even gold, if you bought vol in time, that is...
France, As Most Susceptble To Contagion, Will See Its Banks Suffer
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/03/2011 09:19 -0500So it begins, the unraveling of the great Pan-European Ponzi Scheme!
Trading the BoomBustBlog Forensics: Observations From The Field
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/02/2011 10:22 -0500Unsurprisingly CAC had a plunge yesterday, one of the worst performers in all of the European markets - exactly as we have warned... Leading the way down were the institutions that we explicitly warned about... When one reads about DB drastically cutting its BTP exposure and French banks having done [relatively] NOTHING its quite scary... Ready! Set! Bank Run!
On Your Mark, Get Set, (Bank) Run! The Dominos of Serial Lehman 2.0 (x 4) In The EU Are Falling Into Place At A Quickening Pace
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 08/01/2011 07:36 -0500NPAs and devalued sovereign debt infect bank balance sheets, which are bailed out by sovereigns who assume too much debt for the bailouts, thus dropping the value of their bonds, further stressing bank balance sheets, thereby increasing the need for bailouts. Wash-Rinse-Repeat. Hey, he who panics first, panics best!
Observations Of French Markets From A Trader's Perspective: Contagion
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 07/29/2011 10:59 -0500What Happens When That Juggler Gets Clumsy?
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 07/28/2011 07:02 -0500The global financial planners of the world look skilled to the common man as they juggle the manipulation of several markets with dexterity. This begs the question - "What Happens When That Juggler Gets Clumsy?" Herer's to you Fed and ECB, as TBTF banks are transformed into Too Big To Save. Reference Deutsche Bank's profit warning spoken in Sanskrit, and our apt translation.
Let's Walk The Path Of A Potential Pan-European Bank Run, Then Construct Trades To Profit From Such
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 07/27/2011 10:20 -0500As we get closer to that point where economic reality and financial fact override/overpower politics & concerted central financial planning that attempts to outlaw insitutional failure, we need to employ fact based strategies backed by research based in realism to not only capitalize, but even last through the coming storm.
