A Picture Paints A Thousand Words (Well Just Two - Short Squeeze)
We have highlighted this before but given the incessant rumblings that everything is fixed and that nationalizations, recaps, and EFSF votes are 'positive', we thought a reflection on what is really going on would be useful. The mother of all short squeezes as we mentioned recently continues - catalyzed by the since refuted FT Rumor of a pan-European bank recap 'plan'. The fact that Short Interest is at its highest since the "generational lows" only helps.
The red line is the Goldman Sachs most-shorted index from the Russell components and the green line is the Russell 3000. Note the impressive outperformance (+9.9% vs 6.8%) since the FT rumor of the 'short' index - while not foolproof, certainly a good sentiment indication that shorts have been highly uncomfortable.
Chart: Bloomberg
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Dow 50 000
DOW 50,000, gas $20, avg trip to the grocery store $1,500.
And the look on your 4 yearolds face that you will never be able to afford another happy meal, priceless.
But there's the mastersfuckingyouintheass card, for everything else.
Every meal will be a happy meal no matter what sort of food it is.
Bread diluted with some sawdust will be a great treat.
Tumbleweeds with salt......back to the dustbowl days.
Dental floss chowder can be quite tasty if prepared properly.
Gotta keep those squirrels in the backyard fed well for now. Reminds me to load up on spices.
The raptors are eating all the squirrels. I suppose I can eat the raptors.
Good call! Can't wait for Melamine milk!
The New American dream: Wanting a better life for your children, hoping they won't grow up eating bugs
Physical Gold and Silver will be barter only, no one will trade it for paper or digital dollars.
Au Ag yea yea yea...
A friend of mine has an even better/cheaper idea: coffee beans.
Imagine waking up after the big fall--either you're going to be reaching for your whiskey, your gun, your pot...
And your morning coffee.
Toilet paper...maybe cigarettes. ;-)
Beer!
Hey, I will give you a 3 pack for those eggs and that piece of ham.
Deal
you talk about new $ or the old $?
Making money on my Long positions on the S&P @1105; BAC @$5.70; F @ $9.85; appreciate your shorts; as you take your losses it will help me make more money; thanks for believing everything your guru told you. We appreciate it.
You 'made money' I see so youre declaring you sold? Until the sell order clears, you havent made jack shit and all your gains can easily be a big negative by tomorrows open, IQ45.
I am not selling any of my stuff. Lead & Brass is looking GREAT! Acquired my "junk" silver @ face value...BITCHEZ! Farm land is dropping in price nicely (lower property taxes)...What is not to like?
"Bring out your dead"...
the phrase "making money" is understood by most literate humans. You are correct; nothing is booked.
Sad to say I doubt it, sheeps. They've still got til the 1180-1190s SPX before they come to their senses, based on the last tape-painting exercise. Never underestimate herd stupidity, especially when they get to hear what they want to hear.
It is clear IQ-145 is another spin-off of RoboTrader.
My cousin started day trading 6 months ago and now he's a millionaire.
Too bad he was a billionaire when he started.
You bought BAC @5.70 before it dropped almost another 10% - Idiot!
Is their website back up? I lost track.
You forgot to mention you bought BAC at $16.60 and Ford at 18.30. Wow, does your guru Cramer really know his stuff. Now that you made your 10% back (still down 70%) you'd be smart to sell...
This is a good trade, I love it. I expect that we finish the rally tomorrow morning. The bad news always comes out during the weekend. I will short a little this afternoon.
The bad news could come out tomorrow with NFP
The market has some rosiness priced in (not sure why with 150,000 planned layoffs for Sept)
Quick postin' bobby! You got me pal the technology failed me. Friday is always dirty laundry day last hour & after close. Be warned.
Lots of people calling for a rally until the end of the year, and a plunge after the holidays... Tough call... I say we dive sooner, but I'm always amazed by the power of extend and pretend....
Through ZH about a month ago I found this roughly ahhhh <90% accurate blogger...
You guys may know him -----> pebblewriter look him him up at http://pebblewriter.blogspot.com/
His techs calls for 1040 by next week 1200 by year end and 350 by 12/12 here ----> http://bit.ly/qtxIhl
Happy trading!
trolololololoooooo...
I say everything, including gold and silver, bounces around in a range until the wheels come off. There is no limit to the manipulation we are seeing, so why would I think it will stop before everything blows up? What's going to stop it, the manipulators, will they run out of money or motivation? No. Range bound wackiness is the norm from now until the financial apocalypse, because that's exactly what you'll get when they finally lose control.
or good news...
Bad NFP = market tanks right away
Good NFP = market surges for 30 minutes - 1 hour to sucker in the retail crowd, before tanking.
Either way doesn't really make much of a difference
I agree, but over the last 3 years I've been trying to do the opposite of what my gut/DD tells me.
Obviously tomorrow the NFP numbers will be bullish--even if they're imaginary. I bet you that they exceed estimates and this party upwards continues.
NFP of 0 isn't bullish. That's what I'm expecting. I'm sure GS will adjust their numbers right before the number is released.
negative print im geussing
expect a beat on NFP. hence why we have been rallying. 100,000+
Zero is positive in these markets.
It just lacks the shock and awe of a +10 000 (or some arbitrary number that will be revised downwards later)--and that's what the crackheads out there want, shock and awe.
Negative is the new positive. Positive is also positive.
Thank heaven Obama saved all those jobs with his programs or unemployment would be much higher right now.
If the DNC had any sense, they wouldn't even nominate him for the next election.
Do the Dems even have anybody after Obama (except for Kucinich who, like Paul, will NEVER receive his party's nomination)? Clinton? Puke, no. I would say Howard, but I recall reading that he wouldn't run in exchange for being made party chairman. When I asked if the Reps even have anybody (other than Paul) to go against Obama, people like Bachmann and Perry come out of the woodwork. I'll actually be surprised if Obama doesn't win.
I'd vote for Paul/Kucinich if they'd both break ranks. My estimate that'll happen: <1% probability. Does anyone have a link to one of those probability exchanges--where people gauge the likelihood of an outcome by making moneyless bets in a market-style exchange? There's such a thing from one of the universities in Taipei that looks at local events at seems to predict outcomes better than the many slanted polls.
The 150,000 planned layoffs is probably good news as they were expecting 200,000.
The last two ISM reports were manipulated bullshit numbers. What makes you think the NFP will be any different? =\
You know who was famous for invading countries over the weekend?
the US Navy on shore leave?
Hahahhaa.
Hitler.
Pearl Harbor was a Sunday
If the NFP is off, we will see a selloff in the morning then meltup nearly into the close on Friday...wait til then if you are considering shorting.
Everyone well trained, certain even after a possible drop there will definitely be another rise back over the top and then a lot more. Conditioning going perfectly, everyone calm as Hindu cows.
I'll take TZA for 38, Alex!
What is FAZ for $50? PLEEEEEASE! $55 and I will BACKUP THE TRUCK.
TZA at 42 is a good play. Was good back to 60 last time.
This is exactly how I lost my ass last year.
same money running back and forth side to side on the boat.
I think you meant to say:
"same money running back and forth side to side on the market boat trying to find asset preservation lifeboats as it fills up with water and will do the same as the Titanic!"
Oh I rode the URTY express, don't you worry your pretty little head one little bit.
URTY/SRTY >>> all
Incredible. The rumor and rumor derivative market is a leading indicator now.
Rumors3.
The beauty of the fiat & rumor regime is that, just like human stupidity, they are infinite.
"rumor derivative market" I like it. I think they call it the vix. THey have gold and silver vix and many more to chose from.
Would a rumor vix, be the new VixVix.
Im all cash today trying to figure out how to play this bounch from lows... not as much continuation today and lots of stocks and charts push right up to the 10 dma, just above, or at resistance at 20 dma...
I really can't believe 3 days ago was a bottom... But I'm trying to figure out which way we break next...
Any decent ideas?
I'm in Canada and I've been buying the Horizon ETF's, mostly inverse--it seems to be an easy way for me to place a bet and/or change a bet without too much exposure. Keep in mind that I'm a small business guy (construction) and that I only get to check my positions 2-3 times a day. I usually place a bet Friday afternoon and ride it until the following Thurs.
I like to keep it simple. If it feels good, buy the bull.
I bought HDU about 3 weeks ago (USD bull ETF), based purely on my contrarian nature and it's been one of the best bets I've made all year!
chart what you trade on a weekly basis, it all lines up, if it doesn't on the daily. I trade the double inverse funds, so there is a bit of error involced. using that and a way I have of predicting where themarket wants to fo, I get about 1180 on the next short target on the s and p. if you cahrt it out weekly, and draw the channel it should be rather clear , then my other (way) confirms that spot.
Im seeing the top on the S&P channel right here at 1160... and at 20 dma resistance.
Problem I see - is the 20 year bonds and dollar look like they want to sell of a little more - which means market higher in my opinion... perhaps a 50 dma test tomorrow...
I've been nuts on the past 5-7 sessions... today was my first red day in 5 days. See how it trades of the open tomorrow I guess...
Thx.
I'm seeing dead people; just can't quite figure how to play it.
Service Corporation of America
I'm truly a simpleton. I trade my Bernanks for bullion as often as I can.
Good idea--I'd love to play the double inverse, but there's not much selection for Canadians and I'm not that interested in trading with USD--it just seems to open up more complications and a bigger bill from my accountant at the end of the year.
Same here... Sitting on cash, ammo, and toilet paper. Enough physical PM to get me to the family compound, 200 miles away, but I'm a long way from filling up the truck's gas tank. I think we have some time before we are all throwing rocks again.
In the mean time, I betting this is just another squeeze and rumor stampeed.... At least that's what I'm hoping. Looking back at the last 6 weeks or so, it is a far too normal looking head-fake. But I must admit, every time it happens I must tell myself lower days are coming, and not to let the cash burn a hole in my pocket.
The decent idea is to buy bottoms and sell tops; you do this by looking at price charts; not by reading internet blogs. The risk is to high for the possible rewards now; you're late; so don't try too hard.
Squeeze bitchez!!!
Shorts are and have always been the weakest player in the game. It's why the high short interest is anything but comforting to someone expecting a crash (as I do). My opininion is thre willl be no crash until all the longs/shorts/ and everyone else in between are fried, dead, and exhausted.
And I say this 'record high short' level is the FED themselves.
This is nosense, of course; but very high short postions always indicate market bottoms; the sheeple are never right.
OH right....its 'the sheeple' all-in short with endless deep pockets to keep getting squeezed. You sir are an idiot.
Hey SD, don't mind iq45, he does not post much during the day. He just got promoted to dayshift at micky d's.
I think you are right, SheepDog-One. Coincidentally, like you I am part of the Herd Redirection Committee :)
Operation Twist means "SELLING F*C&ING EVERYTHING, oh, except 10 year gov't debt, and US dollars"
Copper, short. Silver, short. Gold, short. Platinum, short. Gold mining equities, triple leveraged short.
And so on. I saw the Twist coming, but did not realize it would mean not selling short term debt on their books, in exchange for 10 year debt, they sold everything short IMO, and bought 10 year debt.
I always had this deja vu feeling about IQ45, and I think I've figured it out. You played The Architect in the Matrix movies, right?
Hmm that's a funny way to define sheeple, here let me tell you how us "literate humans" define it through a few examples:
One who is a sheep would
1) buy the s&p outright in a bear market and in a downsloping trend channel with that bear, instead of using calls to make money on the volatility and possible short squeezes at near lows.
2) not sell your positions that you foolishly took at major resistance and trend channel resistance that has halted rallies 4 times already.
3) believe a rally off of falsified rumors that is trading off of the lowest volume in the past two weeks.
4) not sell at clear resistance because you are an inexperienced trader buying outright positions in BAC and the green P&L on your screen is crippling your judgement.
5) complaining and undermining a financial blog and it's readers while simultaneously commenting and reading that blog multiple times in the same day.
If you look around and you can't find the sheep, well it must be you.
Please continue to hold your longs, I am salivating at the thought of hitting your stops as your dumb ass exits late and looses all unrealized p&l
Damm, "sleep with sheep" dog. You maybe on to something. start artificially creating your own short squeezes. They short their own controlled market, taking out any bold bears, and being naked short, don't pay anything to nobody. FUcking brilliant. A star for your forehead.
Still holding my shorts, literally, but I've been cringing waiting for this freak show to relent.
Same here my friend.. you are not alone... With all the shorts out, I expect to see a fairly massive leg down given there are no breaks.. Just not seeing how this rally will end with never ending rumours.
Agreed, it has taken everything for me to hold back adding more. I'll watch this through mid-next week, before I consider relenting, doubt they can hold it up over the weekend and into next week.
I appreciate the contribution you're going to make to my profits when you finally realize you're screwed and buy back your positions. Thank you for not understanding how markets work.
I on the other hand don't appreciate your contributions. For when you you are often wrong you go hide and slither back in a couple weeks.
Same old, song and no iq bullshit.
Hahhahahha this IQ145 guy is awesome.
You are a heartless, egomanical beast!
YOU GO GIRL!!!!
Hey IQ, why you so quiet today buddy? Thought we'd be hearing a lot out of you, what has chanegd today that led you to go MIA?
Some hedgeis making "good money" now.
Real money now where to be seen (yet)
What a gift to short sellers.