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Market Shorts At 4 Year Lows, In Hibernation For Second Straight Month
Following the unleashing of $2.5 trillion in central bank liquidity, market shorts have predictably gone into hibernation, and as the just released NYSE short interest update confirms, the total number of outstanding shorts is at the lowest it has been in the past 4 years for the second month running, at 12.6 billion. Once the realization that central banks are limited from pumping incremental liquidity in the market is strictly limited by $9/gallon gas in Europe, and the inflection point in risk is reached, look for there to be almost no natural buying buffer to the downside. Then again with central planners out there with their CTRL+P willing to micromanage every downtick of the stock market, does anyone even care any more? Certainly not the retail investor.
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SP 1400 the day before bombs drop on Iran. Take the heat of the precious banks. LOL. I wouldn't doubt it for a minute. We have a week till the Enterprise shows up.
is the Enterprise the 'sacrificial lamb' false flag?
Trillion dollar lawsuit exposes secret Bilderberg Gold Treaty & funding of extraterrestrial projects
http://news.exopoliticsinstitute.org/index.php/trillion-dollar-lawsuit-exposes-secret-bilderberg-gold-treaty-funding-of-extraterrestrial-projects444/
http://www.dailypaul.com/220230/trillion-dollar-lawsuit-exposes-secret-bilderberg-gold-treaty-funding-of-extraterrestrial-projects
Oh I wouldn't doubt it. Start ww3, kill off the planet, hope to save your own sorry ass. They are completely capable of doing that.
Some days you just can't find ANY shorts other than the plethora of precious metals by HSBC/JP Morgan. Why is that?
Until one of the aliens comes up to me and licks me, I consider any articles trying to link the our Oligarchs and Aliens as an attempt to discredit any opposition to the Oligarchy and it's ruling families, and should be ignored.
Yay, UFO nutters.
Hard to believe Obie AND The GOP are playing straight into Ron Paul's nomination.....
Hence why I'm short...
Same, been short for the last week. This melt-up has gone on too long.
there is no melt up....only a prop up.....and you will get burned fighting the fed in an election year.................
Our aggragate demand is collapsing as is our economy. There is no power great enough to stop our economic disintigration.
longer term you are correct, but the fed will hold course this year.....
You seem to assume that the bankers want or need Obama in office. I see no reason why this has to be true. The winner of the election will serve their interests.
American support for our wars in the middle east begins to fall... what to do... what to do... run a big anti-war candidate... get him elected, give him a peace prize and continue on the same (or even heigtened) military trajectory. The anti-war crowd is not only silenced, they are actually "converted".
I disagree. I went short last week. The fed is destroying the dollar propping this market. As the gas prices rise the fed is going to have to either stop propping this market or the economy will slow enough that the sellers will ovewhelm the fed. My guess is that they look for an "excuse " for the market to sell off and not hurt Obummer. That excuse is probably war.
Market is overdue for some powerful down days. This is the time to be buying out of the money puts to make 10-50x your money. Sure it's scary, now that everybody is bullish.
That's what makes it the right time.
Hope you guys are hedged with gold...
Head and Shoulders?
Dandruff?
Socialism at its best.
Short ban at its most blatant.
Love to see a chart of the hibernating short interest in the PM complex..I mean with 2.5 trillion in extra pumpage what better reason for the weakness=/
So true Burnie- the only things getting shorted are PM's. Things that can't last forever won't.
Wow, been babbling for months here, shorting does not work. At some point you bet, but why decimate your equity waiting for the right pitch. Just keep getting ready for down the road.
Who is going to be buying to cover on the way down? Nobody, Q Tom Petty, "I'm freefallin".
I love that track... and Lawyers in Love :O)
Greek Lawyers and English Lawyers, Lawyers in love.
There is no market, shorting irrelevant, especially after one looks at all the FX moves. Fiat dying faster and faster so markets will remain unchanged or go to the moon before imploding. nothing really going up in value, just paper buring faster.
There is the market the Fed creates, nothing more, nothing less.
Prices? Leave those to the central planners. After all, they know better.
the market is almost dead, it like there is something bad about to hit! everything near 0%
only selloff is for primary dealers to unload their Treasury holdings on bagholders
Am short and bleeding ... but it will pay off soon
"Take off is optional, landing is a must"
good luck making money on those levels, QE/LTRO withdrawals will come soon
It has been so warm out west, that this week in Banff National Park (area between banff and canmore) a Grizzly Bear was spotted walking aroud. This bear awoke about 6 weeks early from his winter slumber.
Like bears, humans adapt. The powers that be, have made it incrediably hard to short stocks. The have taken the volatility, and the two way market, and manipulated it into a one way bet. Funny thing is all this manipulation has made people less confident in the market NOT more.
Well, yes, every time the short position has been significant, the Fed has printed money to squeeze the shorts.
Quad Witching this week... No doubt the perfect opportunity to invoke max option pain on any suckers who enjoy getting fleeced by algos while they're busy watching if their NCAA brackets are coming out ok (while drinking green beer with the other hand)...
Perfect time for alpha mo-mos to sell & then buy back just before the quarter ends to window dress the quarterly reports...
What a shit game... I'm glad I don't play anymore...
Well, for what it's worth, I'm 100% confident in Brian Sack & Co.
Then again with central planners out there with their CTRL+P willing to micromanage every downtick of the stock market
Everyone should have seen this coming when those Germans bought the market. Those crazy krauts try to over-engineer everything.
I'm sure there's a central planning/fascism/Wiemar/Depression/WWIII joke to be had somewhere too.
Now that's some effective hopium.
The hangover is going to suck.
On the upside...shorting your favorite banker has never cost less!
I remember fondly the days ZH readers seemed to think the Fed had bitten off more than it could chew and the markets were indeed going to crash.
Good to see that reality has set in around here and we can learn that lesson from so many decades ago: Never fight the Fed.
I can save Tyler a little writing effort. This is not ending anytime soon. BTFD.
The Fed is conducting a real time experiment.
The biggest problem, is many investors are not "fighting the fed" they are choosing NOT to play.
The blow back for all the Fed intervention is not an increase in confidence amongst market participants but the exact opposite.
The general sentiment is that the Fed is excellent has become excellent at blowing bubbles.
I agree this is not ending anytime soon. But when this bubble does burst it will make 2008 look like childs play. All Central Banks are all in. They are suffering from the delusion that they CAN control the outcome. Good on them
+ 1000
The black hole of the market is sucking up every bit of liquidity it can as it implodes...then...run!
Buck Fernankie, and the (w)hor(es)se he rode in on!
CNBC / Onion Headline: Stress Tests Expected to Show Progress at Most Banks
"Progress" is that code for something?
The question that needs to be answered is, what is the short interest on Sigma X?
'Don't fight the fed' is old Marty Zweig advice from the 1980s. The world was a different place then, so how is that relevant now? Fed didn't have $3++ Trillion balance sheet of toxic crap back then, either.
No need to fight the Fed anymore...they've already strapped themselves with dynamite and reality will soon light the fuse.
this short interest is not good.
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