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Markets Are Going Nuts
From stocks (Dow up 460 points from pre-Christmas lows), to FX (total craziness in EUR and GBP); and from Bonds (2Y underperforming this morning!) to Commodities (Copper soaring almost 3%, Crude spiking), it appears markets have gone nuts this morning...
Stocks - buy 'em, you'll love 'em...
VIX futures getting crushed...
FX markets - dump Cable, dump EUR
Treasuries - Short-dated bonds getting monkey-hammered...
And commodities are spiking... (despite USD strength)
Charts: Bloomberg
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I smell another potential heart attack. I assume Yellen and company will perform CPR....again and again and again until the patient dies?
<Ultimately it is always about the fiat and FX. Always! Some days it is better hidden than others.>
Yes this.
It's difficult to remember at all times that the stock market is in a sense real and the money is fake so that causes odd things like rising markets in the teeth of slowdowns and such.
On top of this the market is trying to look forward about 6 to 9 months and guess what reality will be then and maybe it's thinking things will take off but that's I think a much smaller part than the part that knows our currency is trashed.
It's also thinly traded much easier to manipulate for window dressing etc.
Well the "traders" went on holiday and left the robots in charge. Whadya expect??
The Fed raised rates when everyone said doing so would cause a crash. Their plan is to move the market upward with brute force and manipulation so they can say "See, everything is just peachy-keen" and maybe they will be believed. That's why they waited until Christmas so the thin markets could be manipulated more easily. We will hit the old highs again and maybe see new ones before it finally crashes. Bears, out of the waters for at least the rest of the week, else you will feel a great squueze.
I remember seeing something about Hegdies being record bearish a week or so ago. Hmmm, target rich environment for the computers to inflict massive pain. AKA Short squeeze. And don't dis Jolly Ol Saint Nick. When Rudolf heads north after his tiring journey so does the market.
Clearly someone's algorithm is pissed off it didn't get the GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip for Christmas and it is gonna BTFD until Daddy brings one home!
Cog, I'm of the humble opinion that the patient died long ago and yellin & co. are blowing toxic air into..... The Corpse
Zombie markets. How fitting.
<The walking dead shall rise again.>
Weekend at Bernie's
One of the biggest fallacies in all of markets is the week after xmas and before new year shouldn't be traded.
It's too thin and quiet many parrot, repeating just more bullshit about the markets.
However, the truth, assuming you're not a mega player, is this time period is a major money making one as proved yet again by the current action.
Maybe they just don't want you playing in their sandbox
hard working Americans http://nypost.com/2015/12/29/greedy-guys-deserved-to-be-drugged-robbed-s...
eoy window dressing imo
The past seven years the markets have been like a video game folks are playing below deck on the Titanic. "I reached level 9"!
Iv never looked forward to new years eve so much in all my life...I can just feel it in my bones that 2016.is gonna be an epic year...
And I for one can't fckn wait...iv had about as much of this shite as I can stomach...
Well settle in I think we've got a lot longer to deal with all this.
These things move very slowly for a very long time. It's taken from 1972 "1913 to be completely accurate or over a 100 years in this cycle of destroying a currency" to get where we are now so it seems like it's going to be any day now.
It could be it also could be 20 years from now.
True...it may not even happen in my lifetime...however...my bones have spoken...and they are rarely wrong:)
Now they're telling me to sneak off to the local for a few afternoon pints....
Far be it from me to argue:)
I hope your bones are right I'm tired of this crap too and I like your rememdies. Afternoon pints never hurt anything :)
Define nuts?
Nuts would be unusual behaviour
This looks pretty normal anymore
It's all bullshit. Who knows anymore.
Still stackin'
hairball
An exaggeration.
yeah currently gold is up $2.50 and silver 12 cents! Not exactly going nuts.
The PPT felt sorry for everyone, even Gartman. So they set out a end of the year punch bowl...gotta have a green finish of those year end bonuses.
top secret stuff; bear call spy at tippy top. never mind..
buy stock before they fall, never mind.
grandma; media; invest pop have a handle on this, never mind..
damn it!
US Debt crosses the $18.8 Trillion mark.... must be the reason for the rally...
The more the better! Lets pump up that public debt to 20 trillion! 30 trillion! Yeeeehawww!
I am in a bit of a predicament with my prayers. On the one hand I don't want time to go so quickly and on the other hand I wish I could fast forward the clock to see what kind of shit hits the fan when the funny business can no longer be supported by funny money.
I guess end of year bonuses have to be supported.
I doubt whatever higher power you're praying to cares much about your timelines.
stack peas, beans, rice... firewood
And the cracks turn into chasms. I wonder how long it will be now?
You know that sound Voldemort makes in the last Harry Potter movie. aaaaaiiiieeeee!!!!!?!? That's the sound of every rally lately. This is rediculous. It's like Smaug the dragon roaring and biting at the sky after Aragorn stuck his heart with an arrow.
Ummm... Bard the Bowman was the character who shot Smaug under Mount Erebor (The Lonely Mountain).
Dude! I think your keyboard, is like, broken, man.
The very, very sad thing is that the real Voldermorts are behind the people who are behind the people ... who run the show. We don't even have a clue who they are, they are so well hidden.
Snuggled away in their mansions on their secluded 10,000 acre estates scattered around te world, pulling the little strings that make the political puppets mouths and arms move.
When the guano hits the fan, the angry hordes won't even know where stampede. Maybe they will get a few of the hedge fund managers, the 'little theives' to skewer over the fire, but the biggest and most evil rats always have protected themselves with their own little armies, hidden far out of view.
My goodness, Redd, that sounds awfullly pessimistic!
The Oligarchs have a lot of pull; it is THEIR world; contrary to what ZH pretends.
The decay is much slower than ZH pretends since 2009. Supernova explosion is like imperial decay of a hypergiant star. But the core can survive and does not die overnight. Think of white dwarf and stellar decay...
Empires are like container ships they don't keel over easy. They have resilience. And they have POWER.
And the US Titanic has yet to hit the big white one...
The writing is on the wall that the Titanic heads for troubled waters because of its elite's Mindset : Hubris; like all Empires do. Pax Americana has become a hypergiant star in the Universe of Man's galaxy. But the moving finger has not writ : "it is NOW, the fall".
And the moving finger cannot anticipate; it can only write a post-mortem.
Thats the beauty of historical analysis, it can establish a trend but not an OUTCOME.
Nobody knows the future. Especially not a historian, he is a scribe who can analyse but he is not a speculator or an astrologer. As Steve Jobs said: I can correlate the performance points of the past to establish a trend but not of future projections!
As for being a Magellan you have to be Elon M and not Mellon yellow like Donald T.
Just looked at the Debt Clock at $18.8T and a rough estimate is that it goes up $1M every 75 seconds. Given that rate we will hit $20T in 2.85yrs. Or 1,039 days or 24,926 hrs or 1,495,588 min or 89,735,250 seconds.
The collapse is going to be spectacular! Dogs and cats living together, people burning their furniture in the fireplace to keep warm, mixing shredded cardboard and neighborhood rodents in with the canned soup, that is if we even HAVE canned soup.
Ahh, what a wonderful job the central bankers have done on our dear USA!
There is nothing wrong with squirrel stew or dumplings. In some countries rat meat is a staple. Either one sure beats grubbing for worms. And good luck finding a squirrel in your neighborhood a week after the SHTF.
Nah, it's just the new lasers are online now, front-running the laggards and algos tryin' to catch up.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-27/meanwhile-over-new-york-stock-e...
Did someone mention large breasted women?
so it looks like the doom and gloomer buy gold and bury it in your back yard types were wrong AGAIN!. weren't we all supposed to die in September or something?
just look at a simple chart, the trend is still UP. you need to beark the trendline FIRST. especially if computers and their algos are doing most of the trading. the algos are NOT designed to be contrarian, they are designed to FRONT RUN the current trend.
Can someone explain to me what the @ means behind the graphs mean. Also what does the VIX futures graph really show, I understand what futures are, but why would they be going down and up? Please help a noob out, thanks in advance
I'll consult my chickens to find out the truth about the markets. So far they are shitting out what is fed to them.
ZH nuts are Mr. Market's peanut butter
everything is smooth and creamy, peachy keen
buy stawks, bonds, commodities, R/E. buy anything and get w/ the program
or you must be ISIS as they're the only ones without a bloomberg terminal
and use stone age barter