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TICK Plunges As Suddenly Everyone Sells
It took the algos a good hour of digesting the Fed's PR before slowly and surely, as we observed when noting the stealthy action in the VIX, the crowd shifted suddenly from the right side of the boat to the left. In the process, it pushed the TICK indicator well below 1000. But it is probably more notable that a modest 1% drop in the S&P is enough to bring up rumors of a "Markets in Crisis" special, and force all those who were buying on the low-volume levitation into a coordinated sell-off. New York Fed's Kevin Henry better show up soon or the last hour of trading will get messy without an invisible hand propping it up.
and volume explodes...
ES drops to the lower end of its up-trend...
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Thank you very much.
I think Kevin showed up on the "Hawk" fed-thread.
Hence the "down-ticks"
And in a blatant coverup act, Kitco and other sites are now smoothing out gold and silver charts, erasing the vertical drops.
Sheeple are sheeple.
Keep stacking!
The Bernank would never allow a selloff to happen.
This market selloff can only be attributed to one thing.
Chineeeeese Hackers!!!
Do you ever notice that when you walk by one of those big posters of Mao that his eyes seem to follow you around the room?
MUCH worse than Nancy Pelosi!
*YEESH!*
CW
It's still early in the game, but it IS beginning to look like the BEARS may have been right, after the bullish Barron's cover, then BAMM!
Bears See Things Pretty Much The Way They Are
Mini-rotation back to treasuries, yeilds must remain range bound, period.
One thing just recently occurred to me. I had been reading about Paulson and Soros exiting GLD, and it donned on me that it's possible they merely redeemed their shares for physical gold bars, which I believe would still have been recorded as a sale of shares. It would certainly help explain the unexpected large reduction in futures margin to cover over the loss of bars with paper.
Where's that bald headed fuck Hank "Asteroid DA14 Will Loop Back Around & Destroy The Earth If We Don't Get TARP/TALF/POMO INFINTY" Paulson when Kevin Henry needs him?
One of them fuckers will show up just in time, it's just not the time yet. :)
NOT ENOUGH RIOTS IN THE STREETS!!
is the market going to give up yesterdays gains? that is un-acceptable!
Well, there's going to be a nice bearish engulfing on the EURUSD at least. Already hit the .618 fib, suppose there's a chance for a pullback till NY open and then SLAM like a motherfucker, U.S. CPI data comes out and we resume.
SPY, on the other hand, can suck a cock, along with Apple - pure bubble action.
Mr. Wallace wants to know...
Do you think the action in the OIL market is any way related to what is going on right now?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-20/did-someone-intentionally-try-c...
I think Tylers nailed it,
"We have noted the incessant slamdown in the precious metals markets, and highlighted that the only thing that can slow the flood of liquidity into each and every market is a rise in energy prices. The former represents 'trust' in the system; the latter represents 'real economics' as it squeezes the global economy forcing the central banks to pull back or tighten (see China's lack of rev repo recently)."
Oil manipulation to the detriment of the peasants is as old as JPM & RKFLR.
The market's going to give up last YEAR's gains. And the year before that. AND, the year before THAT.
Hanky panky is livin large on the 200 million dollar tax free write off he got for taking the Treasury position. Fucker is probably sipping mai tais right now.
I think it was closer to 400 million tax-exempt fiatskis.
Just sayin'
This bald-headed fuck?
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/critics-damned-bernanke-getting-munson-141630347.html
And now Economy so good that they "stop QE" ??? What a Bullshit, Wait for Automatic cuts to take
place in 1st of March And we go from there. f***ing morons selling gold but S&P is also down this time,
now what? Run into treasuries?? Go ahead, be my guest!
10 yr UST up a whopping 4 ticks today. haha - fuck 'em all.
Gold is cheap bitchez!
and it can get a lot cheaper quickly. While I don't believe in Elliot wave monbo jumbo there are bits of it that do hold some truthyness such as C wave type corrections or capitulation wipe outs which mark the END of a correction and cleans out enough weak hands to begin to revert back to the long term trend. Looking at a chart of gold on a weekly basis has that feel to it.. we could knife down much lower and we should all welcome it as it indicates we are near the end of the corrective phase both in time and price within the next few weeks.
"corrective phase" wtf are you doing here Blythe?
I'm saying for the 1st time since Sept of 2011 the gold market is acting like it's nearing the end of a consolidation where the bull market can begin another longer term leg higher.... but it could be a few more weeks and maybe 200 dollars lower. If your over levered you'll get kicked off the bus first though.
Burn, baby, burn...
Die motherfucker, die motherfucker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-7BlRc_a0
Be careful what you wish for, it just may come true.
The crowd? Does a computer cluster now constitute a "crowd"? I am confused.
Brings new meaning to the phrase 'cluster fuck'
"Bohlz doo dah wohlz."
hey Glass! You're cracked!
hahaha
I keep a ratio of (DOWN Vol) / (TOT Vol) up at all times.
This ratio is pushing 90%.
The reverse -- (UP Vol) / (TOT Vol) was only around 60% for each of last 30 "BULLISH" sessions.
I leave the analysis as an exercise for the reader.
So long and thanks for all the pips....
Love the boat analogy. There won't be enough life boats for all the hedgies, portfolio and pension managers and "financial planners" once this "Market" starts taking on water.
We all love the boat analogy,...
In spite of the fact that we all survived 'nautical accidents' that left our PMs resting on the sea floor, we maintain a certain fondness for the little buggers.
But now there's also the new "Cruise Ship Adrift" nautical disaster meme (Costa Allegra, Carnival Triumph)
Market Loses Power As HFT Super-Computer Catches Fire
DOW-JONES Drowns In Sea Of Its Own Excrement
Stunned Fed Official (wiping brown slime from her eyes) comments: "Whoever thought those algos were flammable? The little fu**ers went up like Thermite bombs!"
Look at the monthly SP-500 chart. Triple top going back to 2000.
Yup. Next stop: Bargain Basement.
(Elevator's right over here......)
Gold is a great asset in deflation/inflation. I don`t understand all this talk about deflation, gold is the best performing asset in deflation, as IT HAS NO COUNTER PARTY RISK!
Anyway deflation is a surreal scenario in our context.
Genius last line, Tyler. That 'invisible hand'is not quite what Adam smith meant.
I've gotten my ass kick on the last 5 dips. maybe this one will last more than 3 days?
As everyone knows, the "Bernank" is in a box. When the the GPU (Great POMO Unwind) begins, it may well be the SHTF moment of the last 100 years. The 30 year at 8%+. Markets down 40%.
Fate the Magnificent
"Push the Button, Max"
Almost 3:30 and time for Ben to scare the shorts out. I don't know this one feels different
fucking scared me into Faz soon as the mins came out. Been saying gold is acting funky, oil acting funky. Remember 2008?
Of course tomorrow it will be different
Take profits, sit this one out. NY 3:30 PM is a very dangerous time period post-2008. :)
correct as we can see. the fight is on.
And at 3:53 I defer to your wisom sir so that we may live to fight another day.
we all get worked up over dow -90 pt days now?
People still get worked up over any of this? People seriously need hobbies.
This is it!!!!!!!!!!
You wish.
I mean, I do too, but get real.
I'd like to believe that, but more than likely a bunch of shorts are thinking The same way, and will jump on this tic down just to be squeezed out by the Bernank later.
What a sad commentary of the state of things when "investing" is measure in tics and minutes....the sooner prechters dow 400 call is realized the better
Finally!
wait for it 5 Million buy on the SPY will come shortly. Plunge Protection Team has been activated
OMG!!! What am I doing with all these deflating useless pms...I could have bought netflix instead!!!
Methinks there are readers here who don't know sarcasm when it bites them on their algos...
Boom goes London, Boom Paris. Algo eats what Algo sees. Howabouta new game show "computers gone wild" "crazy machines buying food they don't eat", "out of control bots doing nasty things to living beings", "fast computers launching slow missiles to ensure compliance"
running like roaches when the lights come on. Could be worse than a fire in a Brazilian disco
holy shit, thanks ZH for the earlier article on HYG/VIX relativity indicating to maybe short this sucker. I just bought some SDS after that, just in time!!!!
I think this is just a test to see how stable the markets are if the artificial POMO buying is stopped.
Kind of like pulling your finger out from the dam to see just how bad the leak is before you plug it back in again.
Huh, so looks like once again the Fed proves to itself and everybody else that you can't fuck over the PMs by threatening to take away the punch bowl without also breaking the stock market. Tough luck Fed boys and girls, but apparently the market's either dumb enough to believe your bullshit or smart enough to call your bluff.
i am waiting for the cnbc segment on how the fed are acting like a bunch of desperate clueless animals. should be coming up soon.
Gold priced in Euros dropped a whole 0.41% today. What an epic crash!
Gold in GBP is bascally unchanged.
This was a dollar move.
Let's be honest. Who is crazy enough to be buying stocks right now this minute after a huge run. Even the dumbest coolaid drinker should have the sense to wait for a 3 % correction
Whoever's in charge of the Invisible Hand at the Fed must simply have dozed off briefly.
This a test, it is only a test.
ask not for whom the (top calling) bell tolls.
Bernanke just released the following update.
As you know, timmy is gone. That putrid shit was good at one thing, tossing fed governors salad. Our qe comments are related largely to crusty assed voting members not getting ye old rimm job.
Hopefully, this straightens up all confusion regarding qe.
I still think this ridiculous levitation is Obama's sequestration buffer. But it might collapse before the finish line. sniff sniff
bozo ben will come to the rescue shortly
"Hello, this is Jon Hilsenrath"
"Jon? This is Ben. Hey, I don't know if you've seen the market's over-reaction to our innocuous little minutes, but this might be a good time to get something out on the website. It's 3:44, and the end-of-day 3:52 algos are waiting for their instructions."
"Should I say some of you still see "strong headwinds", or some such nonsense?"
"That'd be perfect. Thanks, Jon"
"No problem. Bye."
Why aren't people BTFDing this afternoon???
An actual dip is requisite. I await that too.
well said
And the US Dollar is rocketing while the Euro, Yen, GPB and CDN are in the tank.
http://bullandbearmash.com/chart/dollar-daily-continues-climb-euro-conti...
If the downside momentum picks up, it's going to get messy. Fed will be buying everything they can over the next few days - weaken the USD and prop up markets.
Let me know when it has dropped at least 5% in one day... THEN I'll get damned excited!!
I think they changed Kevin henry's password!
Colossal margin calls.
Beautiful man. Can we make -20 on the S&P?
Benny et al are "Dithering"
Quick. BTFD.
This has bear trap all over it btw.
So...Who was the Mr. Big that placed the 11.4 Mil $ short on the mkt a couple days ago..?? Nice to be an insider...
Update: it got ugly. lol
If the Dow is 'forward looking', I'd say it got behind and has about 6- months-in-the-rear-view of catching up to do.
Just as the FOMC came out I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
You call this a sell-off? Nothing more than a few insiders, cheaters and computers locking in recent gains. The socialists will never allow the market to fall as long as they can print the bucks to keep it afloat.
You can print, but at some point, it will technically cost 1 dollar to print 1 dollar.
Then hell breaks loose.
After reading ZH for a while you tend to get jaded about the excited commentary over an impending drop. Here's the script - yes, the market will dash itself on the rocks below eventually, but for now, prepare for an inverse of what happened today.
Yeah, I hate it too - but I can't ignore the fact that any decline has been met with an equally idiotic rise. Someone wake me up when this sucker actually falls apart. That I'd like to see.
1% drop isn't that much in my opinion.
Be patient. Its coming.
.. we now resume our regularly scheduled programming.
wonder when that 1427 gap on the /es is going to get filled? sumbitch has been sitting there since january 2. made my first coin in the market on buy orders at the bottom of gaps, but this has been there nearly a quarter. goes against all the oldschool rules.
you have been served?
abused?
you seem to have more fortitude than I?
I let my usd, rmb, languish unable to make a move.
I know any move will punish me.
I pile into usd and rmb.
soon into francs.
wtf! what shall I do?
character zero.
All you "paper" holders are gonna get screwed to Zero!
Character Zero.
step into the freezer.
freezer w/ a tweezer?