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Group On -> Group Off: The Infamous 'Matterhorn' Formation

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/30/2012 15:24 -0400

Group-On, Group-Off is not the title of the new Karate Kid movie but we couldn't resist but highlight the sheer lunacy of this market...

Spot The Difference; between this...

and this...

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Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:26 | 2663156 LawsofPhysics

Now that's some funny shit right there.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:42 | 2663226 101 years and c...

Just running the stops before the drop to $1. Perfectly normal when you know exactly where all stops are and where it will be within a month.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 17:06 | 2663484 veyron

Would the google $6B deal have been better or worse than the IPO?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 17:35 | 2663564 Overflow-admin

I'd say "Eat that powder, bitch!"

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 17:42 | 2663587 Stoploss

The top one has the illusion of support. ;)

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:28 | 2663160 bania

Benanke-son! Show me "paint the tape"!

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:35 | 2663199 FurZo

GRPN is HTB and since mid-Feb has been in a decline that has wiped out 75% of its stock price. The price surge was more likely a short squeeze, not central planning.

Keep the Bernanke comments coming and you'll fit in with the cool kids soon enough!

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:38 | 2663211 Michael

What about the pro-forma earnings, the pro-forma earnings?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:59 | 2663260 HungrySeagull

It's

Bernanke-san! "Paint Tape Hai!

I think this picture with the buy sell cartoon is the best of the year here.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:31 | 2663164 Mercury

There was a Groupon coupon on GRPN but it expired.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:58 | 2663259 Haddock

That 'joke' is as old as this 'news'

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:28 | 2663166 youngman

I think they are down to just two computers now...

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:29 | 2663169 RhoneGSM

The second one has a bottom?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:46 | 2663238 ihedgemyhedges

So does my wife, but that doesn't mean I get to climb it either...........

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:18 | 2663325 Grinder74

I did!

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:35 | 2663381 sessinpo

KY instead of k2, huh?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:28 | 2663170 Occams Aftershave

At least it's better than the Half Dome formation.

http://www.kaweahcommonwealth.com/images/2008_0922MyCamera0084.JPG

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:29 | 2663175 MillionDollarBogus_

that's called volatility.......day trader's wet dream.........

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:08 | 2663291 HungrySeagull

And tomorrows groggy margin call.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:29 | 2663176 Zen Bernanke

Party on Wayne! Party on Garth!

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:31 | 2663183 azzhatter

I'm not a smart man as Forrest Gump says, but I knew this one was a turd from day one

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:32 | 2663188 Dr. Engali

The second one is tangible......like precious metals.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:32 | 2663189 Row Well Number 41

One of these things is going to collapse horribly, and nobody will see it coming

#41

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:33 | 2663194 EscapeKey

Fractals

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:33 | 2663196 Squid Vicious

looks like the last two TZOO squeezes... (robo is in for the long haul though)

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:39 | 2663212 Ineverslice

Flashmob-trading.

The ponzi is sputtering out...needs a cough drop. Riii-Colaaa....

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:43 | 2663221 Cognitive Dissonance

One took 2 days to create, the other 60 million years.

What did I win Tyler? :>)

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:42 | 2663223 scatterbrains

This is exactly the kind of thing that occurs at major tops.. ramps, blowoffs, individual stock crashes.. everything is coming unglued.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:43 | 2663228 PontifexMaximus

I prefer a nice dinner or lunch in Zermatt, looking at the Matterhorn, more fun. Unfortunately too many Brits up there...

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 17:26 | 2663534 ElvisDog

For those who haven't been there in person, the Matterhorn is one bad-ass spike of rock.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:44 | 2663231 Frank N. Beans

no difference.

avalanches occur on both

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:46 | 2663235 Downtoolong

I wonder if you can get a coupon on Groupon for the next Group-on.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:49 | 2663245 NoTTD

I'd say it's more of a tinfoil hat formation.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:55 | 2663251 BlueStreet

theGlobe.com

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 15:58 | 2663262 Grinder74

Groupon, Groupon, where I have heard that term before? Oh yeah, it's what the "bathers" kept yelling at the new guys when I visited King Barry's "bath house" in Chi-town. Fun times!

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:05 | 2663274 TruthInSunshine

I am not claiming the following as true or not (though I have my strong opinion), but many very credible analysts have all but declared Group On a literal fraud represented going concern based on alleged mistatements of material facts pertaining to their revenue, earnings, etc. If anyone doubts me, just do a simple search for a plethora of articles and analyses stating this case.

We're going to witness Jim Cramer's Winners of the New World v2.0 pretty soon, so get hedged and comfy. There's a long list of equities that have valuations that are not only batshit lunacy by today's standards, but would have been deemed so by the standards of 1999.

This is what happens when Bernanke and his fellow fractional reserve banksters completely break all markets, and everything consequently gets priced to beyond asinine and entitely unsustainable levels.

Bernanke is going to go down as the worst central banker of all time when the final chapter of history is written.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:22 | 2663345 HD

Oh that Cramer - he so crazy. He's long bullshit and short reality but that's enough to get you a spot on CNBCs SOTS and a syndicated show...

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:53 | 2663398 Arnold Ziffel

Stay away from these 'fad' stocks, TIS. Get into something solid like Zynga or FB. Any extra change place with the 'experts' of MFG or PFG.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:45 | 2663414 Strider52

"Pardon me, but would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?"

"But of course".

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 06:14 | 2664351 Disenchanted

Would you settle for some of Cramer's Gay Poop-on?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:03 | 2663275 walküre

If you had 100 million Dollars.

Would you allow your fund managers to buy stocks?

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:46 | 2663413 sessinpo

If I had 100 million dollars, I wouldn't have had fund managers to begin with, but probably a few good tax/asset protection attorneys and accountants.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:05 | 2663279 Bam_Man

A hedge fund and HFT-algo plaything.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:06 | 2663286 Manthong

Group On -> Group Off: The Infamous 'Matterhorn' Formation..

Thought that was a new adult video, for a second there.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:11 | 2663299 Squid Vicious

Robo should be placed on top with his choice of Uggs, Underarmor, and/or Lulu-Lemon apparel... see if he can make it down alive

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:12 | 2663305 roadsnbridges

One more day, and the S&P will resemble that.

(I didn't post this.)

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:45 | 2663415 HungrySeagull

And retarded children will be able to doodle on a wall built to replaced the failed electronic tape.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:21 | 2663337 adr

I like how it went to exactly $8 and then plummeted. Somebody had a fat finger.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:42 | 2663407 sessinpo

Inttroducing Groupon's latest deal:

Groupon toilet paper otherwise know as GRPN. Contact your local stockbroker for your supply.

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 16:59 | 2663462 Meesohaawnee

Chi Tribune. should be held accountable how much they pumped that dog here. .. it was disgusting

Mon, 07/30/2012 - 17:03 | 2663470 WTF_247

The issue with a lot of these types of plays is investors are refusing to see the company for what it is - a fad. There is nothing wrong with a fad - they can generate enormous profits but are not sustainable.

ZNGA is another one - basing your whole companies billion dollar + valuation on a single game on Facebook is just stupid. Did they make a lot of money? Sure - but the valuation should have been discounted to begin with.

Wall St is pretty smart though - keep it private as the fad builds momentum, when right at the peak bring the company public.

They should bring these out in the middle innings of the fad phase so that the valuation rockets AFTER it comes public rather than start out high and crash down to reality. That is what you are supposed to do coming public - the best is supposed to be in the future, not the past. They are cherry picking these things to maximize revenue for selling shareholders vs doing it the right way.

Short term this is a windfall for them - long term they shoot themselves in the ass doing that because they lose any trust they might have left and ruin the market for future ventures.

Tue, 07/31/2012 - 07:22 | 2664414 icanhasbailout