Financial history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. You can't be stupid enough to trade off anything I say.... I'm lucky they let me out of the straight-jacket long enough to trade.

J. P. Morgan

"Sell down to your sleeping point"

Friday, August 22, 2008

Tradewell gets Streak of the Week.

For some nice calls, both last week, And.... For hitting the closing price within 4 pts
(I don't think she found this funny)

3 comments:

tradewell said...

Ouch, that's not pretty. By the way, when you said "streak" that's what came into my mind (wanted to say: who's going to streak?). Then decided to keep it proffeshunal.

:))

I think you might be right about the disbelief. *Everyone* is saying the volume is too light for a meaningful rally.

It would be weird if it was an exact repeat. Too close, too obvious.

If the market gets boring, we could start betting on the closing price. My betting stock buddy is leaving for 2 weeks, and I'm a total degenerate that way.

I'm short 2 retails, 1 casino. Others are too embarassing to mention because they would show my impatience.

Eric said...

remember when Uncle ben spoke to congress on that tuesday and we sold off.

today he spoke at jackson hole, and the xlf went "boom".

We are Just Rats Caught in a cage of our own design.

We are set up to get a "complacency top" next week.

The Scarry thing is that... Just because I don't get the trade short "Fanny freddy"... I.E. I don't get why Paulson would care about the equity price. All Paulson cares about is that they keep writing Mortgages, and to that end that confidence is returned to it's creditors. It didn't help that uncle ben said

"when Ibanks fail, it's important that the creditors suffer too"(which is more reason for credit contraction)... even though, it's the sins of excess liquidity that has us here.... and to digress, if I could get less credit card offers in the mail, it would make me happy... I don't know if you realize, but I get about 1/10 the credit offers I used to.

Point being, sometimes when "I don't get it"(the fanny freddy/paulson thing), It just means I'm missing the trade. I just figured the 'Bear run' was kicked off by the perceived ability to short them again. But as cautious as people are about it, and with the 'all banks will fail' meme not as convincing... there is no chance to get as many bears on them again.

Which is why... they have Bottomed, and we are... 2/3rds done with this nightmare.

Eric said...

Adamsoptions.blogspot.com in the bicentenial vix parade post on thursday, repeats the MEME exacly.

All based on an overbought reversal in the dollar.

Some of the, traders like gartman, and guy adamie say the pull back in commodities could go on for 6 months, in 1974, once commodities broke, they did exatly that. Broke for about 6 months, then we had wage spiral inflation for 8 years.

someone was pointing out that "The reason History rhymes and doesn't repeat, is because... There are other people, like uncle ben, that read through financial history too, and Learn important lessons from it.

I'll say that MAYBE and this is a huge Troll like statement from a sweaty midwest trader(it's hot right now)with a miserable understanding of economics, Uncle ben Will Raise rates, slowly to keep commodities under control. But He probably won't have to, I read an article about how miserable the credit crunch was in europe, and the ECB is threatening to pull the banks off the Central bank "Tit", That will kill them... They have yet to take the real pain in europe. And Asia is in denial of their problems, trying to sweep them under the rug, which is no way to come to the

"Confessional of Excess Liquidity, and take your lumps"

Which is what this is all about, As Buffett said... We need to see who is swimming naked. And we will see it ripple through the economy, But all it means is that people making minimum wage, won't get to buy 8 ATV's and Potato chips, for a while.

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