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Bear trap?
more like a riddle wraped in an inigma and ganished with a monty python plot.
Now can I say Very Bullish without getting thumbs downs?
Edit: Let the Thumbs Up/Down battle begin.
Little known fact Bernanke is also dope on ze mic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFA-rOls8YA
Thank you very much for posting this. I am watching all of these videos. I really dislike rap or hip hop, and generally don't like parody songs, but this shit is solid creative gold.
Here come the machines. Joey lunch pail will take a look at the markets about now, after Starbucks, WSJ and tuggin' one out in the company WC thinking about the receptionist, and feel good about their portfolio going into the weekend, then BOOM, blackson hole monday!
I hope.
Ooops, sorry, I made a mistake. Its the fundamentals that are good, "Tiffany beat and raised guidence"
I forgot about "the affluent consumer" saving the day.
Will rally into close as volume breaks down.
DXY just went vertical, and equities follow. What a joke.
Just stick a sign above the 'markets' : "Humans not allowed".
I'm serious, this is not a market and it's not for humans.
It's a human pressing the PPT "auto-correct" 'ON' button.
....I don't know man, the 1 minute EMini price action follows the technicals perfectly for scalping bigtime... It's amazing really.
FunkyMonkeyBoy,
"Always trust your Skynet investment advisor. Hasta la vista, baby !"
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not only europe and US stocks ...but Indian futures also moving together doing their reversals at the SAME TIME as if tied together......all I can say is that its the MACHINES
the bottom is in folks
Wanna bet?
+1
I'm definitely betting. This surge won't last the day and next week will make the hiker that fell off half dome look like he had a nice trip (no pun intended). I love when the robots give us cheap puts. The perfect storm may be setting up in the markets and offshore.
Anybody have a good idea of the where resistance points are to stop these lovely machines?
Perhaps you meant: 'the fix is in folks..'
One has to wonder exactly what the SEC is actually doing all day. There's only so much porn you can watch.
But FISTING is infinitely watchable, for the SEC, Teh Fed, et. al
stayin short
So do I!
AbsoFuckingLutely STAY SHORT.
This is merely the CAT CADAVRE skitter.
Bernank essentially bought himself 3 weeks of financial fuckery! FUCK BERNANK!
Dump the embargo block on Ben's speech, then rally it up on HFT. This was the exact same play as last year.
Goldman got its QE3: It is very clear across all of my contacts.
Butterfly looking good for a flattening on the long end
Blue horeshoe loves Sept SPY calls.
QE on the QT, bitchez!
LOL bonkers, chf took a hiding!! ...and breath.
Too bad Irene is weakening...
needs more aliens
I slipped on my stairs coming in from a wet terrace. Jerked my knee. I knwo what this feels like folks, even though I'm on th eoutside looking in.
So many hours to go and the uncertainity is immense eh? Carry on this charade for another 3 weeks and then sum? Please, can we get it over with? But no! No guidance, no direction, no wind beneath your wings from BenBTheBank.
On your own but hardly alone!
BeAwake
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/precursor-03-bottom-falling-out-still-still-and-a-gander/
sry to hear that, oreo
i must say it's pretty on-topic for a knee-jerk string, tho! fabulous! hard-wired hi-freak algos have tripped up the best of us, especially on a slippery slope
ice for the first day, then maybe a wrap in a heating pad or a hot water bottle, and self-medication to suit how funny ya want to get, here, bro
personally, hope you're able to resist the urge to just sit around and design more advertising for zH, but i'm gonna stop generating negative attention to help you out , for a while, even tho it sure has been fun, ok?
peace
This thing will sell off ferociously! It has a lot of time for that! A more obvious trap than this one...I don't know!
1 quick relief rally to put bulls at ease, then WHAM, off with their heads!
not 2day
i'm confused that it's gone from pretty bearish to all in the green!. i mean, they wanted qe3 right? goldman and bac probably lied about expecting it, but then, if no one expected it, and it didn't come, then i guess there's nothing to be bearish about but just neutral?
so are the shorts just getting sheared because the market is neutral now?
These markets are broken beyond repair. Look at EURCHF... Or the equity boner out of thin air...
Yep, I dont even care if its up, down, whatever...markets now a completely broken joke!
Until they haul Duncan Niederauer out of the NYSE in irons, and close down the computer room next to the room where Duncan takes his afternoon constitutional, the markets will remain broken. And the public will not return to them.
Combined with the fact that the same criminal bankers are still heading up TBTF banks, there cannot and will not be real capital formation in this country...and the Greater American Depression will roll on.
Either the market sees LESS Fed as better Fed, or is now anticipating a promise of some monster intervention of some sort following the FOMC meeting in Sept.
The fact that Bubbles Bernanke referred to his interventions as "unprecedented measures" is proof that he can't possibly understand or predict the consequences of his relentless interventions. If they have never had a precedent, then it owuld be impossible to know the ripple effects. One thing is for certain -- those consequences WILL be unpredictable, and just as likely harmful than helpful.
Bernanke is a teenager with a chemistry set that won't stop until he blows up the neighborhood. Prepare for it!
Didn't you guys know? WE HAVE to close above the 200 ma on the monthly and weekly 10 year chart...
Gold has gone down twenty, up twenty five, and down thirty in half an hour.
Unreal.
Sticky Throttle....
Trying to downshift to the increase margin gear...
Could we see one today ?
Something's going to happen the volume is insane !
--- Very Bullish/Bearish
--- Who gives a flying fuck
Smack My Bitch Up
Looks like all the worlds problems were solved with a brief speech by a short bald man in Podunk USA.
Who would of guessed?
Somebody please pass the Tequila...hold the training wheels.
Yeah, the assholes who caused all this are having their annual shrimp fest. That ought it fix it.
Pain will really start to settle in for the shorts in the 1172-1180 range. After 1190, it will be absolute demoralization. I told readers yesterday that the bots know all about your virtually unanimous bearish sentiment. That's why we ... I mean they programmed the HFTs to assault you today.
What a coincidence I was planning on assaulting your Mom's shorts today.
What horse shit. Everyone is gone from NY. Low volume is always bullish. The algos magnify that. If you ever once traded in your life, you'd know that.
Look at LULU, Hansen, Fossil, Pricline, Linked In. The action is insane. The entire momo block got bought all at once at the exact same time.
LINKED IN IS UP 5%!!!! Chipotle took at $10 swing.
It's men vs machines. The men want to sell but th emachines won't let them. The machines are stuck on buy at the moment. GO PPT GO!!!!
Oil sold down all the way to about $83 and went vertical to $85.
This is the day that proves beyond any reasonable doubt in any market believer that the markets are beyond broken. If it doesn't then you should just jump off a cliff becuase you can't be helped.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
A range of tools aka the Fed/PPT/ChairSatan interfered with the 'market'
Trade this at your peril, they will not allow banksters to lose
Turns out that the Motley Shitheads released a whole bunch of news stories about how cheap some stocks are right around the time the knee jerk in the market.
headline:
Priceline.com Is Better Than You Thinkis that all the Algobots needed?
Now all we have to do is find the one swami among all the financial pundits and advisors in the world who called this market move in advance. Then we can make a billion dollars selling his deep insights and wisdom to gullible investors.
draw tops on 1hr dow chart starting aug 3rd to make your short entries, imho. coming soon, maybe noon, maybe end of day.
and here we are pinned to it
Arcanoid ?
You should all realize what one of the targets of all this manipulation is. It is those of us that want some reality/rationality in the markets. For the last 2-3 years we have been commenting here and elsewhere, that the day must come when the market will have to swallow the bitter pill of reality. After which the real mending can begin. Each time, however, the market is further manipulated to extend the day of reckoning somewhere out further in the future. Each time this happens a few more of us throw our hands up in dismay and give up the hope that truth and reality will somehow finally win out. We should not give up though as this and other blogs are about the only form of reality still available for critical thinkers. Keep posting, keep thinking. Don't capitulate.
And keep trading...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qid_WGBrQjA
Nothing much to do at the SEC today?
"Don't capitulate", yes, and lose half of your net worth.
Not if you've (wisely) been sitting in precious metals throughout this whole farce of a "recovery" and "market rally" for the last two years.
Anyone still fucking around in the madhouse of the Bernankster's smoke-and-mirrors equities market has not just been swimming with sharks --- they've been swimming with sharks on meth.
Exactly akak, I haven't really been in the equity market for a couple of years now. I believe holding any phys gold and silver you have is probably a smart move. What I meant by 'don't capitulate' is this; don't give in to the feelings of despair that this ponzi, manipulated farce of an economy will continue forever. It won't and it can't. Some folks label us doomers, etc. However, I do not hope for destruction. I hope for reality. I (and most of you) have done my homework and used some common sense and understand that when reality returns it will include a great deal of turbulence, pain and adjustment. I would have no problem if we could mend without this pain I mention. However, because I have looked into it, I realize that this is not really possible. So, I think that trying to play in this 'market' is fraught with pitfalls and should be avoided. I await the day when some truth and reality return.
The sublte manipulation of past years is gone. Now it is blatant manipulation. The bankers are saying, yes, you know we are cheating, but we hold the levers of power, and you can't remove us. This are the desperate throes of the end-game.
Only if you suck as a trader, and fail to "improvise, adapt, and overcome" as the saying has it. I'm making money here and there, not tons, but not losing it either. It does take hard work and paying as much attention as a human can -- the bots win on that one when it's boring - they don't care.
My question is; what are you making over 8 or 9% (actual inflation) a year? That is your real take. If somebody invested in phys silver and gold 2 and 3 years ago then they are doing fine.
Bernanke knows that the market is prone to crashing in Sept and Oct with the fall season, holidays finished, school back in and everyone just get depressed about summer over. Plus the typical low volume ramp period the Fed has enjoyed is now orine to higher volumes.
So I expect the PPT to hold back and then as things swan dive over the cliff the algo hammer will come in and save the Fall crash.
He will start leaking rumors( talk is what preceded QE2) soon and then if he needs to, he will implement Twist or Ease3.
This may take 5 years, but he lose. Mother Nature and Mr. Margin will kill any semblance of a recovery.
He and Greenspan should be tried for treason and seditious acts agaisnt the American People. He is a common thief and a flimflam artist- butI suppose thats what capitalism is in the end. A big scam
That's a rap!
Bankers 1 - Citizens 0
They're going to absolutely ass fuck everyone and steal every thin fucking dime. Welcome to the new age of the feudal system.
Headed to the local theme park today and tis was a much better ride than I will have the rest of the day!
The only reasonable thing left to do is to take whatever is left in trading accounts and convert into physical gold, silver, platinum, land, canned food, ammo, diesel storage.. whatever is actually TANGIBLE.
There won't be a "market" much longer as participants are figuring out the shell and con game. The internet has made it possible for the people to figure this out and made it impossible for the crooks to hide their TOOLS.
TOOLS? Bernanke has TOOLS? He's a crook! Of course he has tools. Whatever tool du jour he applies will help him and his cronies getting richer.
Apparently they can't manipulate all the markets all the time or why was DAX plummeting this morning?
Money is leaving the broken stock markets and moving into tangible assets. When German investors stock up on gold because they know their government won't bailout Europe and they know that the system is kaputt, then so should you. Unless you'd like to get fleeced again and again and again.
con game?! Surely, you jest.
you being sarcastic? of course it's a con game.
BAIT and SWITCH is another of Ben's TOOLS.
Yes, I was being sarcastic.
Yep.
I feel awful for anyone who has to try to make rent in this market. Anyone "playing" or "hobbying" in this market richly deserves the royal, sans-lube corn-holling he's certainly going to get.
WTF are the markets still going up for? This is nonsense.
Repeat after me,
Don't fight the Fed
Don't fight the Fed
Don't fight the Fed.............................
If you walk away from the fight, has the other side automatically won?
There's this German saying "Imagine there's a war and nobody shows up.. "
Let them fleece each other a bit more. I'm using the opportunity to cash in and cash out.
Exactly, Walkure.
You not only can fight the Fed, you MUST fight the Fed ---- because the Fed is fighting against reality and inevitability itself. It is NOT omnipotent, and WILL fail in its psychotic and sociopathic quest to indefinitely levitate this corpse of a market.
Just walk away. Very preferably with some gold and silver in each hand.
The quote is:
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again?
- Allen Ginsberg, Graffiti
Market bottoms and goes up vertical on what news; oh yeah, Wall Street manipulators need another day of huge profits before tropical storm Irene washes it clean.
the game is on ... to mid-September
October 1929 .... less than 4% of US population owned equites. 1930 economy looked like it was rebounding... nothing that dire ... unless one knew what was lurking in the future back then .... comparatively looked better compared to 1907 and early 1890s (very very serious economic implosions those two ). But major transformational issues of post-WW1 Europe (200- 150 years of accumulated economic, sociolgocial and political change occurs dramatically as long-standing 'empires' under War's streess collapse) was rocked (Europe itself was slowly rebounding in step-jerk adjustment fashion to its major changes) by specialative equity bubble crash in New York. This 'crash' did start a slow motion train wreck exacerbated by political adoption of tariffs to 'protect' pressured US economic interest groups (Donald Trump is all for tariffs to protect us from the dastardly Chinese .... must be another Rothschild dirty trick to activate 'neocons' to beat drums for war in Middle East because Mossad zionists are root cause of everything .....). In 60 days at the calendar year end 1931 the US bank collapse started, arguably initiated again by Euro bank/finance pressures in Fall of 1931 , ... despite the 'progressive' vision of the Federal Reserve System. Important note: prior to this 60 days ...... US bank faulure rate looked quite normal ..... clearly within normal range .. there was no warning sign ... .and bank officials saw nothing out of the ordinary for that period/economic era.
Last ..... Wall Street hyped the 1937 comparison in 2009 for equity advance ramp ......
.... but if you ask me ....... right now looks alot more like Summer 1931 .......
gold was a safehaven ... for awhile ....
gold was a safehaven ... for awhile ....
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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nSTO-vZpSgc/RbmMtplgCjI/AAAAAAAAAPk/NtN5JDlwHi...
Love the historical analysis. I wish more people would provide comparisons to the past. Sigh.
Anyway, I can't agree with the sentiment that gold was a safehaven, but only for a while.
Gold was most definitely a safehaven for the central bank that confiscated it. Once they got the gold, they raised its price.
The lesson for us today is not that gold proved to be an unreliable safe haven throughout the 30s during a shift to fiat. Even during this period there were winners. The lesson is that there are winners and losers in these situations, and anyone holding gold when we go onto a gold standard is likely to be on the winning side of the trade.
somehow a double post ...
Market is up because Minka is back on it.
That chart makes me want to pee and gives me sciatica down my the back of my leg. Max g-forces!
The bungee jumping market
while I hate this market, the truth is that if I chart it out a day or two in advance, then put in the buy and sell orders based on the computer I do very well. it's teh day trading that screws me. on a single chart this looks randone, on the right chart, it's very planned. if you realize the outcome of the market is rigged before you start it's easier
For most successful traders, they must blow out a few accounts before they realize EVERYTHING is rigged, and that's just the 2% that succeed at trading.
Efficient Market Theory was true after all. We have very efficienct markets, they leave no succor with money.
This is perfectly normal market action...
after all- it is perfectly natural and acceptable for EVERYONE in a market to vehemently believe something, and then INSTANTLY and completely change their minds and run in exactly the opposite direction....
right?
Bah.
the price movements from the HFT's are too fast to follow for the short term swings...by the time you buy/sell its reversing on u
get hit on a couple of these and you'll barely have ne profits left
seems like there are 1-2 big moves in the day, when was the last time we didn't have a freaking 200-300 point intraday swing...
be patient, find the daily bottom/top, buy/short, put in stops and let it ride
or...just but the f*&kin dip
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