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Spot The "Unrigged" Difference
One of these markets has been confirmed as "not rigged" by the SEC... the others - have all been proved to be manipulated by various bankers over time... who's right?
VIX is back under 13 and oil prices are rolling over too...
Bonds and JPY at LoD, S&P at HoD - sure why not!
Charts: Bloomberg
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FUCK THE FED.
Are you implying that you want to have sex with grandma Yellen? Good luck to you my friend.
Baaah means no!
Sadly, for bond bears/curve bulls, this is not the market you're looking for...
I wouldn't fuck Janet Yellen with Adolf Hitler's dick! Neither would Adolf Hitler!
The VIX is a worthless gauge anymore. Just like the rest of the abused and phony numbers.
It used to measure how fearful the muppets where as they were being slayed. Now that most muppets are dead and aren't in the market it doesn't measure much.
The character of the VIX index changed back when the CBOE began offering futures and options based on it.
The muppets are not dead, but rather are on a FED crack high. They feel invincible.
It's another paper market that can be driven around by anyone with the clout to push the market, just like the COMEX Gold contracts (cash settled, not physical settled).
Utterly worthless.
DavidC
The VIX isn't broken, people just confuse low volatility with lack of risk.
Really? What "people" are you referring to? You think there is still a short side to this market?
They have been dead and buried for years now.
I think they have moved on to directly manipulating the
indices now.
Which probably means they have lost control of the underlying components. If they have, they are going to get caught out, and soon.
Anybody here still staying in this "market' deserves a medal of honor,posthumous of course.
Just don't ask me how much its cost in 'tuition' to learn that lesson.
If the ICBMs were flying, that damned thing would make new lows.
Would SOMEONE tell us what's happening? Nothing makes sense anymore. Fundamentals have meant NOTHING for years now. Correlations are still at all-time irrational highs. Junk is still soaring. "The recovery" is universally believed (by those still with jobs...) and every market, price, index, wage, and "value" is rigged and manipulated by governments or their proxies...
All I can surmise is that mom'n'pop retail is surging into the BTFATH markets...
If you understand the first law of bullshit, you'll understand:
X (anything) + bullshit -> x ** bullshit
Morals + bullshit = religion
Government + bullshit = politics
Fundamentals + bullshit = stocks
Paint drops + bullshit = Spatter art
The human brains is designed to create, believe, and repeat bullshit. That's all you need to know to "understand".
NOTaREALmerican
Dollar + bullshit = Belief
Silver + bullshit = SLV
Time + bullshit = Stupidity
Bullshit + bullshit = BigMac
This is fun !
Ahhhh, I love the smell of bullshit in the morning.
Well, the only bullshit worth a damn is associated with beef on the hoof.
Thankfully, I'm at a location where I can go out and look at the good stuff as a small, temporary escape from the constant stream of the bad variety.
VIX is option SP Based....
meanwhile nobody press and rotate equities to bonds, metals and other assets...Equities are in the freaking limbo...
Ouch that's going to fucking hurt (sigh)...
'Not rigged'....but totally manipulated.
Just word games.
i cant figure out which one is not rigged
is this a philisophical question?
like, "to find which is rigged, thout must look within"
" i cant figure out which one is not rigged "
Maybe a kid's lemonade stand ?
Only war will unrigg this equity market. Just remember who the riggers were.
"People who annoy you." Riggers!!
it's a blue chip kind of market, need to hide out in the Dow/S&P 100 until the "all clear" then they will pile back into the momos... because "there's always a bull market somewhere and I'm here to help you find it" - asshat Cramer, with no mea culpa for his bullishness in Whole Foods, PCLN, AMZN, Facefuck, etc, etc.
Really Draghi might be the best central banker of all time (not necessarily a compliment). He seems to be the only one that figured out that you never actually have to do anything - just talk about it. Has anyone ever gotten so much out of jawboning?
Thanks for the laugh. Good observation.
Thoroughly busted markets can't wait to load you up on HY junk bonds at < 2% ....bestest garbage a tsunami of fiat can buy !
War is on deck, check.
Economy swirling the bowl, check.
S&P up up and away, check.
This is like a bad B movie where the hero seems to dodge bullet after bullet and pinky chop his way to greatness.
I am at about 30% sure that we are all just batteries in some machine's powerplant.
pods
Funny thing...I have a recurring dream we are all in pods and you are next to mine.
I'm getting tired of this dream...next time, I'm going to kick the glass and get out.
lol. My avatar (and nickname) actually came from Tin Cup and not a matrix pod people type flick. Sucks cause it is just as fitting that way!
I guess that dream is better than watching a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor? Give it time though, you can get to that point.
pods
I've wondered about your nickname for years. Thanks.
I wonder who is buying all the bonds....this market seems to be splitting into two parts...those that believe and those that do not
Don't worry tonight at 4 and then 5 the Fast Money crew and Jim Cramer will explain it. I'll get back to you to let you know
The time to short treasury is getting closer by the day. Every time Ben touted rates unlikely to rise they shot upwards.
Treasury Yields at Almost 2 1/2-Year High as Bernanke Sees Gains - Bloomberg
The key safe word here being UNLIKELY
You can't keep claiming economic recovery without something giving one way or the other...
If the government was going to confiscate cash from the wealthy, what would the wealthy do in anticipation of this?
1) Convert cash into assets - bonds, equities, real estate. Outcome - the dollar weakens. Check.
2) With respect to buying bonds, buy only long dated. Sell the short end, or when they mature they may be caught up in the confiscation. Outcome - yield curve flattens. Check.
3) With respect to buying equities, buy only big cap, low PE stocks. Once the wealth confiscation comes into affect there would be far less money around and high growth stocks would get hammered. Outcome - Dow rises - Nasdaq and R2K falls. Check
4) Pile cash into real estate. Outcome - Number of cash buys increases. Check.
Conclusion - the wealthy are anticipating a confiscation of cash and are acting accordingly.
The government confiscates land, businesses, and invalidates debt. Collectivists are all the same. They don't want the toilet paper they print back. It isn't real money.
<<< It's ALL manipulated
<<< Fair and free markets
According to this analyst on Seeking Alpha, stocks will never go down again! He makes it sound like investing in "dividend aristocrats" is a sure-fire way to make money.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2202443-why-this-market-is-not-going-down-any-more
He should have copy and pasted articles from 2000 and 2007 - it would have saved him a lot of time
But to be serious for a moment, one of his big assumptions is entirely wrong. Central banks are pulling back on stimulation. US is tapering, they supposedly told Japan to not increase their QE anymore, and Europe is all talk. If you grant me the liberty of saying the market is a discounting mechanism then 6 months from now there should be much less stimulus in the world based on what we know now
The US is tapering. Just ask Belgium!
I see a smelly top coming... Enter the market b4 it drops, then leave at lows b4 markets are reaching a new ATH, then re-enter...
Owning stocks for dividend works, as long as you?e patient and willing to keep it year over year - and if you don't buy at ATH...
Stocks are allowed to respond to hyperinflation. Everything else is in a pressure cooker that is about to blow. They can't control it. No one can. It is just a matter of time until it blows. Each day they take out more margin or lose/use more cash building up a defensive position just makes the endgame that much more violent.
U.S. S&P is in absolute lala-land this morning...completely out-to-lunch vis-a-vis all other markets...
Mr Yellin has the floor.
Pay no attention to anything else, please.