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When The Math PhDs Are In Charge

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US stocks are open - Panic Buy. PMI missed! - Buy moar on bad data. New Home Sales miss - even better - buy moar as bad news is good news. Yesterday's highs hit... Stop-run complete... unleash the selling...

 

 

It appears Stocks and Oil are once again joined at the hip... until they're not...

 

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Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:24 | 6021889 NoDebt
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I think we have reached a permanently high plateau in stock prices.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:29 | 6021915 AmericasCicero
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We all know what happened next...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 14:05 | 6022959 BuddyEffed
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I get the impression that from an over the top position, the markets get manipulate where bad news that would normally trigger selling is used to trigger a short covering to punish those not of the faithful.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:31 | 6021925 post turtle saver
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I think everyone here, Tylers included, are drawing a lot of crazy conclusions from the noise of daily action...

I get it, doom porn feeds this fish rag, but even the crowd here knows better than to pay attention to daily action... it simply doesn't matter...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:14 | 6022068 aka_ces
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yep, this is just the market.  you can find a purely technical expectation for this in Al Brooks daily market comments today --

 

https://brookstradingcourse.com/intraday-market-update/emini-futures-upd...

(likely accessible to non-members by this evening)

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:16 | 6022079 S Spade
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roger that, news and economic conditions haven't mattered for 6.5 years, this is about democrats and wealth transfer (verse creation) we're in a gov't/media propaganda, fed subsidized, super cycle

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 13:01 | 6022664 KnuckleDragger-X
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The things the markets are doing are well beyond the signal to noise ratio......

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:44 | 6022230 Groundhog Day
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I see a phoenix capital article on top of the page which could only mean one thing...new highs...the market will drop only when he writes a bullish aticle....c'mon phoenix  get on it

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:25 | 6021893 101 years and c...
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the wedges highlighted yesterday should be the focus.  as they continue to tighten.  lower highs, higher lows.....until this pig breaks in a big way.  DOWN.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:25 | 6021897 LawsofPhysics
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"Market", LMFAO!!!  That joke just never gets old...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 13:56 | 6022681 KnuckleDragger-X
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How dare you demean the sanctity of that holy shrine Wall St. Now go to your room and say 20 'hail Bernenke's".....

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:26 | 6021898 Keltner Channel Surf
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Great observation by Tyler, now the big Q in traders' minds is:  will SPY and QQQs, which have the best technicals, regroup and head higher, dragging others along like yesterday, or is this a day when all indices falter and end at the next lower DMA?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:34 | 6021945 Turin Turambar
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FYI, spy will be exactly what the Fed wants it to be.  Technicals?  LOL

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:55 | 6022037 Keltner Channel Surf
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Yep, when SPY bounced to the penny from converged DMAs yesterday, it was Yellen in the Eccles Bldg, and not java programmers in Chicago. 

(To be clear, traders here don't care whether it's the Fed or some Jolt-Cola swigging guy in CHI, but it's all machines, and I can promise you the battle at this moment is between algos wanting to push SPY and QQQs to their Keltner tops, and those wanting to tag the DMAs below again, and the shape of the end-of-day candle will tell you how the battle ended, infinite possibilities at this stage)

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:26 | 6021900 Dr. Engali
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Let's be clear. It's not what's inside the market's mind, it's what's inside the fed's mind that matters. And the BernankenYellenstein monster says BTFD.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:49 | 6022249 Groundhog Day
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yesterday i bought FB because i knew no matter what happens the earnings will be spun as positive....on my ride home some ANALyst w as on for 40 minutes going over the spin i mean great numbers on FB despite the bullshit.

 

Today i buy amazon because no matter what it will go up tomorrow

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:26 | 6021901 BeaverCream
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Lol trading on "news" is hilarious.  Forget about balance sheets, revenues, capital investment, profits...just trade on some bullshit statistical data that someone writes on a piece of paper.  It's comical.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:48 | 6022010 asteroids
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I have a thesis, it's that "news is irrelevant". The FED and the boyz have set up a market to (A) burn any remaining bears to a crisp and (B) slowly drag in muppets and sell to them.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:27 | 6021906 Winston Churchill
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Coitus interuptus.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:27 | 6021907 Yen Cross
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 Traders can't figure out what to buy or sell, because the global macro was such a giant shit sandwich over the last 24 hours.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:33 | 6021935 Callz d Ballz
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Can only be non-directional in this schizophrenic casino.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:36 | 6021952 Turin Turambar
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Traders?  Silly boy, humans are rarely involved in this sham.  Sit back and watch the show.  This is bot wars with the winners getting inside info miliseconds ahead of the losers.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:42 | 6021980 ...out of space
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buy eur now

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:29 | 6021913 timeless21
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I somehow think it's about luring more and more people to buy before the crash, it's not only about running stops.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:30 | 6021920 NoWayJose
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Gold gets hammered yesterday on good existing home sales - but little in the way of recovery with the trio of bad economic data today. Gold suppression business as usual...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:32 | 6021934 Winston Churchill
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Stop whining and buy.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:31 | 6021923 DontFollowMyAdv...
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everything is on algorithm controlled autopilot... seems like the only news that will trigger SELL SELL SELL is Iran nuking TelAviv but then the BTFD algos willl buy everything back right before being vaporized by another nuke...

 

seems like the only logical investment anyone should make is in drugs guns and ammunition regardless of local regulations...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:33 | 6021941 wisefool
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I am old. So I can remember the days when math PhDs worked problems like containing hot particles. Not wasting time building "filters" for the non-radioactive ones and zeros that are dumped from momma bear's printing press every day. That job is for tax LLMs.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:38 | 6021961 Thisisbullishright
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It's just fun watching UVXY and volatility evaporate into nothing...

....up and vanished like a fart in the wind!!

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 10:59 | 6022057 nopat
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When the PhD's are in charge?  What kind of commie pinko Cultureal Revolution bullshit is that?

Just keep clicking, Tyler.  You'll get there one day...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:15 | 6022101 Darkdoc
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Traders have basically disappeared from the daily markets.     I trade almost every day, my wife every morning, and it is ghost town out there in futures markets. Occasional spurts of activity, much of it due only to HFT's, which we try to avoid trading around. Still making money most every day, but it is slow going, and fills on entry or exit not what it usually is...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:42 | 6022216 gcjohns1971
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You trade your wife every morning?

How do you get her to go along with it?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:21 | 6022130 wagthetails
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we suck again!

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 13:54 | 6022916 rejected
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speak for yourself, dude!

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 11:51 | 6022268 Finnman
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I think draghi will speak tomorrow?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 13:53 | 6022910 rejected
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PhD's and assorted other de-greed edumacated types in charge.

 

What could go wrong!

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 14:17 | 6022936 Kirk2NCC1701
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I think I got it figured out:

Agree, there is no Market.  Only central planning (steering & intervention).   Technicals don't matter. 

There's an ongoing transition to Feudalism.  Deep State in charge.

When Prime Dealers and their neo feudal owners get to create money out of thin air and write unfunded checks (Money for nothing, and Checks for Free), then...

Bonds are for schmucks, and you want to buy up Equities.  Remember, if you can conjure any amount of money you need, why do you care about the 'market price'?  That's for everyone else. 

All you care about, is the relentless transfer of Real wealth (real assets, i.e. Primary and Secondary wealth),  from the weak to the strong (from the poor to the rich), until you have a new feudal system -- where Technology and Energy replaces the brains and muscles of unskilled and semi-skilled workers.

And the religion-based worldviews of the masses is a Weapon of Mass  Deception that keeps them from revolting.  The Poison Pill that is the "Sermon on the Mount" has worked real nice, ever since Emperor Constantine has had it included/put in the NW in 325 AD, at the Council of Nicaea.  It has turned poverty, suffering and abuse into 'Virtues'.  

Whoever (Diderot, I think) said that "The world will not be free until the last king/nobleman is hung by the entrails of the last priest*", was right.  These multi-generational parasites have an innate sense of exceptional entitlement  ('divine right' they call it), that justifies their ambition to rule over others.  This audacity is so severe and ab-normal for the common man, that their Normalcy Bias recoils at this prospect, and denial (and ridicule or aggression) is a common reaction.

* Or comparable clergyman of any absolutist and extremist faith. 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 14:25 | 6023031 btdt
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excellent captian K

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