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"Alpha"
Here is what we said in our latest comment on hedge fund positioning from this weekend.
"As Goldman adds: "Short holdings created problems by rising 130 bp more than S&P 500 YTD." Gee, where have we seen this before, not to mention predicted this would happen? Why here: "Presenting The Best Trading Strategy Over The Past Year: Why Buying The Most Hated Names Continues To Generate "Alpha."
Thank you Chairman Bernanke and Chairmanwoman Yellen, not to mention HFT vacuum tubes, for making the market so broken, a tinfoil blog can outperform the smartest money in the street."
What else can we add but.... "alpha".
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A lot of words come to mind but Alpha isn't one of them.
It would be nice if Bloomberg would create an index to track the buy and sell orders of congress, I would like to correlate that to the various "news announcements" we see on a daily basis.
Inflows from IRA/401K contributions before tax time. The dust will settle again in a week.
cawk suckers are hell bent to steepen the yield curve
a ponzi with not fdic backing....but the entire us government backing
books will be written about these times
It's called PUNISHMENT.
Don't you even think about shorting this market. Big brother will PUNISH YOU!
Now buy the fucking dip or die.
Better yet, just don't play.
"Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat."
If it's 'made up', it is a credit instrument-
Which can only ever achieve the status of 'money-substitute.'
Money is real, and is used to settle existing credit.
Cattle, Rice, Wheat, Coffee, Salt, Oil, Gold, Copper, Tin, Clean Water-
These are Money!
Avoid being Confused by Their Words!
Exactly. Also, we will see a slight spending boost when the returns are mailed back, then it will be back to reality.
I always liked alpha nu alpha lambda
Alpha
"After including one-time items, net loss for the reported quarter was $122 million or 84 cents per share compared with net loss of $50 million or 35 cents per share recorded in the year-ago quarter.
For full-year 2013, net loss was $2,064 million or $14.27 per share compared with net loss of $124 million or 86 cents per share. The net loss in 2013 include a favorable tax-related item as well as goodwill impairment and restructuring charges.
Revenues for the fourth quarter fell roughly 4.9% year over year to $4,269 million, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4,331 million. For the full year, revenues declined 9.9% to $17,424 mill"
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=X+Basic+Chart&t=1y
This wil end super well...
Adm. James Syring: Possible to speed up deployment of missile defense planned for Poland in 2018, but move would require help from Congress
Russia has threatened to use "destructive force" if NATO missile defense systems are put in place.
I am several kilometres outside #Donetsk and have just seen heavy artillery by the side of the road! bout 10 vehicles
Self-defence have set up road outside #Donetsk - stopping and searching cars while police look on. #Ukraine
@5channel First Deputy Prime Minister of #Ukraine #Yarema : #Donetsk pro-#Russian invaders must give captured weapons by tomorrow 12 PM
Or what ya gonna do willis? Start a war?
No such thing as missile defense, just another scam. More theatre to scare the sheep. Just to show decicive action is being taken, with tax dollars (New lamboughini anyone.)
I'm getting the Idea that Zero Hedge is Paid to Be Wrong on every Given Day...
now i know why they call it Doom Porn.
wrong about what? one of the major themes posted on is the fact that the markets are rigged. you take issue with that?
You read the article and this is what you have to say? Wow.
wrong about what (2) ?
... so the fact that ALL of the major banksters have to pay fines almost every day it seems now, is irrelevant is it?
Crawl back into your shell, shill.
If you are clueless about what is going on in the world of finance and politics today, then you would not understand the postings and comments here. So.........go get a clue. If you are looking for trading advice, on the other hand, I would recommend reading everyting written or spoken by Jim Cramer. That guy is a frickin genius!!! And if FX trading is your thing, Tom Stolper is, er was, your man!! Good luck!! LOL!!!!!!!
I'm getting the idea that:
1. you are on the Langley payroll
2. or the MSM payroll
3. or the JPM payroll
4. or the [insert your favorite TBTJail bank] payroll
5. or you are just a dick
6. or he is just a fucking moron.
#5
Or #6, he has a different opinion than the group wizardry here. The shock and horror! Don't agree? You must be a shill for insert latest hedge boogy man.
Wisp = LOSER
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2008
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2009
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2010
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2011
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2012
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2013
The number of Fed officials betting on rates rising in 2014
Such bull shit...
Indeed, "taper" you say? Show me the fucking balance sheet...
It is funny that the market is always surprised by the Fed, which keeps saying the same thing over and over. Money is free and will be forever.
With China devaluing and Japan devaluing and Europe talking about doing more, what idiot thinks the Fed could EVER tighten?
The question people should be asking is are assets overvalued after 6 years of free money with more to come?
they'd make the rates deeply negative, but that would cause a run on the banks
maybe, congress can criminalize having cash...to help the fed
lol US Steel. That's the company Porter Stansberry used in his valuation video to show a textbook example of a terrible stock to buy. Notice how the net income has become more negative each year.
shit...so he got one right? Good job by him I guess....
When you get home from work...look behind your woodshed. I think you will find some Silver.
stealing pms might become in vogue
derek, you missed the idiom
take someone to the WOODSHEDreprove or punish someone, especially discreetly. US , informal
Fuck, someone took my pms behind the woodshed. I use this one very often.
When it goes up, its called alpha. When it's going down it's called volatility.
Down? Sorry, I am not familiar with that term. Can you stop using jargon, please?
market? what's that?
Apologies, guys. Terms like "market" and "down" come from the old days, before most people here could remember. Back then stocks could go "down" in price, sometimes for extended periods of time. And there were other complicated, poorly understood forces that affected those stock prices. We called those "market" forces.
Nowadays, those terms are obsolete and investing is a much simpler process. You just buy whatever the Fed tells you to buy. So the next time somebody starts talking about "the good old days", remind them that back then the process was more complicated and invoved actual risk. The good old days weren't all that good.
or ,sadly , my P&L
ah say, it's a buy, alpha baby up and die [/singing]
To the surprise of only those who haven't been paying attention, the latest ObamaTax "enrollment" numbers are in, and they're not pretty
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/business/study-looks-at-earliest-health-law-enrollees.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=3
don't bother .... above link requires an account
Otherwise known , as the Bendover Act
Remember the banks got two more years of "risky securities" warning by the fed!
So game on.
market? what market? there ain't no fuckin' market !
"Alpo"
Oil @ almost $104.00 bbl should generate lots of alpha. /s
Income inequality forward!
S&P is now a Ponzi strength indicator.
Did Lewis call this a rigged market? Was Lewis ridiculed? Is this a comedy?
where do you get stats for most shorted?!
is there an updating list somewhere we can see for free?
Like I said yesterday. I wonder how many shorts are being lured in just to get old Yeller's hot poker up their ass.
Alphucked.
The FED Balance Sheet ?? Bawhahahhhwahaha
They own stocks, bonds, commodities - paid for with pixie dust.
They own us all.
Taper??? Taper??? (in a Jim Mora tone)
I guess we just take their word for it since we cannot see the balance sheet or audit the FED.
Taper - never happen