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"Patience" Drink.
Yep. Looks pretty much normal to me. Something I'm missing?
stocks are number 1! stocks are number 1!
perfectly normal, perfectly healthy.
as long as one doesn't go to the doctor one doesn't have to find out the body has been ravaged by a cancer.
those morphine injections seem to be doing a great job.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffin glue.
What goes up must come down!
To infinity and beyond.
ehehehe, dow is making moon cakes patern... b-u-b-u-bu-le
Fun-durr-mentals.
...Normal? ABEnormal! ;-)
Looney
Is that the Japanese version of Abby Normal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH97lImrr0Q
I just showed Young Frankenstein to the little mad cows.
"He'll be very popular..."
What has no real practical "value" has a meaningless price.....unless you are a speculator. In that case there is no limit to price, high or low. There should be a law against the stupidity of something for nothing.
You know you are over the hill, when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill.
Jim Rickards thinks there will be a QE4 which will drive the stock market up even more. BTFD!
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/fed-will-implement-qe4-in-early-2016-rick...
Unrigged...
S&P opens at 2029. WTF
Sorry, displaying my ignorance again: How long has it been like this now? I mean, some of the younger 'uns WILL think it's normal. It's all they've ever seen! Is someone documenting all this so they can show the young 'uns what it used to / is supposed to look like?
Otherwise, in a few years it really will be a religion:
"See! We have proof! On the Holiest of days, at the Holiest of hours, we all bow down and pray to the Most Revered, Almighty Holiness, The FedReservident. He hears our cries, and the Magic BrusselBuyer sprouts out of the CloudServant and levitates the DJIASaPRussell, in order to save all the precious children who maintain the faith. But he who dares to sell, he who's faith is weak, will be smote by the deadly Margincall ShortShaker, the All-Powerful Almighty All-Knowing High Daemon who knows all of your secret Stops, and shows no mercy to those whose heart is impure and faith is weak. It has always been this way and we have the charts to prove it ..."
All those Swiss banks buying stocks...............intead of paying the SNB
Nothing to see ..............move along
Manipulated and the party will never end for these crooks while us honest hardworking people churn out more loses.
plenty more rabbits in hats...
plenty more rabbits in ass...
What did you expect?
Haven't you learned anything in the last six years?
Exactly
It's a computerized trading world, baby. Shits gonna move fast when it moves.
And it's going to vaporize even faster when they pull the plug.
You, sir, are correct IMO. No -20 percent pullback bullshit....just Kabooom! What happened?
French CAC 300 in 48H
new normal
as we say there in english " open bar "
I don't know if they can lure enough real money end to crash this bitch. I'm not fool enough to go long or short.
sitting on the sidelines creating snow angels out of my pile of phyz just seems like a lot more fun than trying to guess when the next CB intervention is going to happen.
besides, i'm usually asleep when CBs give their dying patients their next dose.
The lewd normal
MO ISLAM generation
That's gonna bring Obama down off the mountain.
This is funnier than Saturday Night Live.
Everything is funnier than SNL. Samurai algo tech
So, everything's fixed, right?
http://olduvai.ca
It' all right. As long as you have a printing press, you're safe. Bargains to be had.
Things no longer in existence in 2020:
Jean Claude Juncker
Non-wearable tech
Dmitri Medvedev
In Greece, the New Democracy Party
Wealth
Retail Forex Brokerage
In India, the Congress Party
Antonis Samaras
Kiev
Pakistan
add :
-earth
coz i do not think we can end the decade properly without closing some lands forever due to some radioactive particules on air & grnd
Bill Clinton is up 24/7
how awesome would it be if he started doing cialis or viagra ads?
"The bimbo in the red dress inspires you... but.... you're old... however, with this little blue pill.... you can tap all the staffers and aides on capital hill."
Gold up too doe. #datcorrelation
Sell.
when Kev H bonus is at stake ....
its gone...puff..you lost everything
What are you getting at? 500 points on the dow is about 3%. 3% in two days is not a big deal. Maybe for the last few years, but that level of volatility should be exoeced. If you can't handle those price swings then buy something stable like German bonds or somethins.
I get your point, but don't underestimate %. 3% of 1€ doesn't compare with 3% of a 1000€. I buy physical, no bonds.
100 points is volatility.
200 points is a lot of volatility.
500 points is fuckery.
It's because he speak in point not in percent change.
In percent change it's normal but in point it's huge.
You can get whipped off if you take too large position, and I don't even speak about those "spike" when a news or an event is released...
Right, just you normal "free market" stabliteeeee...
LOL!
Volatile markets and "liquidity", all those newly created bucks and Yen must find a way to get "invested".
It is not like we haven't seen this before! In addition to manipulation by the government-financial complex other forces are converging to further distort and disconnect Wall Street from the American economy. The market has been all a twitter as we continue in a "greed and stupidity loop" that can best be explained as follows, stocks are rising so why get out, not getting out is causing the stocks to rise.
We are experiencing a double down and let it ride mentality that has been ratcheted higher by media hype, but more is behind the stock market move. Just as important it must be noted that as the dollar gains strength cross border money flows have become a massive factor. While these cross border flows have been good for the market I caution it does not fundamentally change the economy. Most analysts agree that money from countries with weakening currencies is flowing out of the troubled areas and into America. The article below delves into why this should not be considered a good thing as much as a signal of global instability.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-american-equities-are-rising.html
Damn. I clicked on The Onion again.
If you had, you might also have seen something like:
After a 'patiently' awaited V-recovery in US equities, Elizabeth Warren revists plan to show graph linking S&P 500 growth w/ Wal-Mart store openings
It seems the only souls more patient than the Fed will be the shorts
Price stabillatee!!!
I wonder how quick the asshats ruining our society would act if the dow DROPPED 500 points in 48 hours? They would shut down the fucking markets and disallow any selling - but manipulating this shitshow higher is A-OK.
Fuck em all.
It happens every quarter at contract expiry and this time of year it's always the worst...
You'd think we would all have learnt our lessons by now and gone long !
It isn't 500+ points in 48 hours. By the chart it is 500+ points in about three hours over the 48 hour period.
Real buyers can't move the market like that, only central banks buying equities.
If a bank chooses to they can move oil from $60 to $90 in a couple days. In many stocks we have seen six months of losses undone in one trading day. It is impossible to do real business in this environment. Real businesses are going bankrupt every single day. In the next two months nearly $2 billion worth of Sporting Goods business is going to disappear as two medium sized players are going out. Right now they are up for sale, but there are no buyers.
Here's a funny story. You need a helmet to play football, but because of liability concerns and new testing that actually doesn't work to properly test a football helmet, nobody will be able to make a football helmet. Almost every company that makes a football helmet will either need to increase the price to the point nobody will buy one, or sell the product at a loss. Three companies that make football helmets have decided to drop them after the 2015 season.
This is real business, not Wall Street bullshit. I can tell you real business has never been worse because it has been getting worse year after year since 2006. Real net sales have been declining for almost ten years. There are success stories like rugby which saw a 320% increase in play time. Went from about 2000 people playing to just under 7000 making the total rugby business around $10 million which is a joke compared to a sport like baseball.
Check out the VIX lol
Merry x mas gift, free money BITCHES.
i guess the fucking 300 pt rally in the fucking dow was not enough yesterday, so these bastards who should all fucking die already need to pump it up another 300 pts.
someone needs to take care of bullard and yellen asap.
fucking scum of life
The same virus that infected the ruble few days ago.
Something, anything will make the market tank hard today or tomorrow but the Fed will backstop it. I think I'm getting an ulcer
Long Pepto Bismol
Did someone forget to turn off the algos?
Impressive, very impressive! Some banker with the power to create trillions of $ out of thin air, says a few soothing words and hundreds of billions of dollars move in minutes into the markets. Never before in history has this happened with such intensity. Algos go wild and shorts have their faces ripped off time and again. Almost ‘Matrix’ like; they know exactly what to say and what to do to create a “perfect world”. The fate of every person on the globe is now controlled by the bankers. Even mighty Putin has been beaten down by them. They are worshipped around the world and any bad news now just means the bankers to the rescue. If they were to hint at more QE the Dow would blast through 20k in less than a week. This could go on for years, as weak earnings, lower revs, etc, are easily offset by Fed-enabled stock buybacks. Loose credit means consumers can extend loans ands borrow even more. Ever times bears attempt to enter the markets, Fed to the rescue. Just WOW!
the day.... the day... the computer go mad ...or... someone crash it.....
i think.. this day, i will go to some high highs mountain balad initiation, you know, those with the 3 weeks food backpack.
"inconceivable"!
Listen, I said this before and I'll say if again. Why would the market NOT be exploding higher? It was drastically oversold for new normal standards and Yellen just told everyone the gravy train will continue for at least a couple (two) meetings.
After a statement like that not having funds panic buying all securities they can get their hands on especially this time of year from a sell off like we have had would be suspect.
Its not like you didn't have a chance to buy them yesterday and its not like you cant buy them for a discount right now as we make our way to new new highs by the end of the year.