MARCH RALLY IN FOCUS AND IN TROUBLE?

Several indexes have broken down from double tops and BEARISH WEDGES, we don't know if top is in yet, but I certainly feel easy money been made.

DANGER IS TO THE DOWNSIDE (that still gonna be my focus on trades)

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SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

Nasty reversal day Friday, as it turns out was ANOTHER 90% plus DOWN volume day. As such it may unleash a short term market rebound of which we will monitor the strength....usually lasting a few days to about a week.

The decline so far, feels intense, but it has not taken out on the SPX its OCT lows and is where I established my support BLUE LINE.

That said 1060-1065 is now established as RESISTANCE with its rejection Friday, and that is what I used to take my contrary position Friday for which I was rewarded and now closed out as I posted.

I don't know yet if I will join the other team for a day to catch the pity rebound, I don't think this reaction selling is over yet and it may have been saying, we don't believe your GDP # we REPUDIATE it.

Is the rally from MArch STILL ALIVE? I can be bearish and leave that door open. The strength of the March reaction has convinced some of my trusted resources to conclude this is a primary reaction rally which may have 3 phases. First may be nearing its end, then 2nd phase would require weeding out the dullards and focusing on what is working and this in uptrend.

I don't agree however, I may not agree to sell all, but raising cash levels I think would be a good idea. there are quite afew things that don't jive with historical and reliable indictors, so one that tells me there is no top indicator as yet, may also be unreliable.

SAFETY COME FIRST IMHO, NOT PROFITS.

From historical perspectives the market is overvalued and dividend yields under 2% are pathetic.

The market may decide to rally to new highs for apparently NO REASON at all. I DO NOT have BEAR MKT TA SELL SIGNALS AS YET, these could come, the market appears to have rolled over, but we don't know yet if the BEAR is going to growl in style just yet.

Lots of money sloshing around and almost no place to go safe that provides much YIELD at all.

A VIX hat can rise to 31 in short order is reminder to longs this is NO ONE WAY STREET and buying LOW in MARCH is one thing, buying HIGH and chasing MOMO comes with different set of risk.

MONDAY SET UP....I see couple of possibilities #1 FREAKED OUT MKT capitulates and prices cascade below 1020-1025 area of support I drew. #2 Price fall at open and HOLD THE LINE or rise from get go.....a FALL at open to that line that holds.....would give me my lower risk set up to go long and use are below as STOP LOSS #3 Prices rally in AM to SUCK IN longs then BAMM comes the fade and test of support......that's my game plan.....I think LOWER prices are in order, but some reaction to the 90% FRIDAY may also be in order first.

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BE PREPARED FOR WORST

FORBES ARTICLE LINK HERE

THE STREET COST OF JOBS OBAMA "SAVED" YEAH RIGHT ANYWAY>>>LINK HERE

NICE TRADE

I HAD to take that one, sold my SDS for NICE gain on day, again my attempt is not to be greedy, I am in process of testing my TA in real time, evidence left here.

Not a statement on what is going on. In VERY ST market is getting oversold IMHO VIX had BIG JUMP, but 2 things, that might level off and the other it has broken string of lower highs, folks I DO think something is afoot here. I don't want any posts I make on what I am doing to take away from my overall message and attempt to bring out the truth. But I am trying to appeal to all types of readers so some technical and trade talk will be part of my site.

The market may tank like hell, I may renter but for now I am on sidelines with another nice addition to my account..it feels good.

I may post an updated chart so you see what I am looking at later tonight on SAT....take care.

Duratek

CAN YOU FOOL MOST OF THE PEOPLE MOST OF THE TIME?

For ALL th emoney being thrown away instead of being used productively towards bringing about a more balanced economy and not an environment for the just the privledged class and how the thievery of assets and value from the American people has been tolerated even condoned by administration after adm.....MAYBE WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!?

WHO'S FING BRIGHT IDEA was it to give away TRILLIONS to those who f'd us in the first place? andnow THEY ARE EVEN TOO BIGGER TO FAIL and hold our balls in th epalm of their hand...a tight grip I may add.

Whenever has there been a time where reality and fantasy have such departed?

AT our current rate by next year we will owe as a country almost an entire years of GDP near $14 TRILLION.....OBAMMA said next 10 years another $10 TRILLION to that!

WHO IS going to buy our debt at such LOW yields? HOW is this good for us? How about what we can't even pay for and promised another $100 TRILLION some say? (SS and MEDIC) How's that get paid for?

If all this money thrown down the throats of the insiders on WALL STREET has brought us a REAL GDP OF ZERO when you take out the NON RECURRING THINGS....in that alone thinking of an economy with the HYPE OVER THIS ANNOMOLY of growth.....caused mostly by one off events and stim... what is left going into end of year and beyond?

The Anerican people are the in between the rock and hard place, and not only should it not have been this way.......it shouldn't continue being this way.

How do you get this HUGE MOVE in GDP some of which got there by huge increases (from LOW LOW PLACES) in Exports and Inports when rail and cargo traffic has been in STEEP DECLINE?

My gut tells me the American people have reached a place of distrust and maybe no longer believe in what is handed them.....and realize we've been had.

Some of the bank profits near 80% derived from TRADING? CAN WE PLEASE HAVE OUR PLAIN OLD BANKS BACK?

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CREEK WITH NO PADDLE

WITHOUT GOV STIMULUS, without a HUGE drop in personal savings rate the GDP report would show an economy on LIFE SUPPORT.

MAIN gaming was Thursday for ponzimaniacs, SPX break of bearish wedge IMHO not a good sign for market in the ST at least. VOLUME SWOONED on the rise Thrsday compared to the swoon in price and rise in volume on WEd decline.

Is all what it seems? A RALLY based on a mythical creature that doesn't exist ( A US ECONOMY and vibrant GDP) is as a castle made in sand.

I have designated another forray into this time SDS @ $39.66 for those keeping count at home. I am using $39.00 as stop loss, this is 1.5% of capital risked so I figure a reasonable risk/reward play.

I MAY be jumping the gun, but the LIBERTY TAKEN and REASON GIVEN FOR RALLY THURSDAY (GDP) when I read what it consisted of...PURE BS......ONE TIME OFFS....

My friends WHEN WILL THE REAL ISSUES BE TACKLED? AGAIN I am not reccomending any trades to anyone, I think for the time being I just want to be open with what I'm doing andmy record will be here to you and for me to see if my MOJO has come back to me....after along absence.

These trades are managable, and not a bet the house mentality, I am greasing my wheels and trying to get back in the game with more than just my words.

I have not decided as yet my goal on this one, market action may dictate.....action around my trendlines will determine a lot......I may jettison or change this trade at anytime, I will post if I do.....take care in the REAL WORLD you and I Live in......spending less, saving less as expenses increase....7 million lost jobs....all we get is JOBBEd from current in crowd team.

D

SKYS THE LIMIT

"TO THE MOON ALICE TO THE MOON" LINK THE ADJ MONEY BASE

I am sorry to burst anyone's bubble who still thinks we are on the right path to economic recovery, a sustainable course. And to anyone who pays much attention to most gov stats I have some swamp land I need to unload.

AT the core of our issues stands Banks who won't lend but play the roulette wheel and will pay themselves Billions, companies that won't hire and a GOV that is making it more costly to have employees (as those who can pay in have dwindled).

Because of 0% int rates and weak $ energy prices have risen, also effecting food prices. State gov's cannot balance budgets w/o raising taxes or cutting services.

AFter all that has been done to goose housing mkt, sales fell last month and so did prices paid!

ZOMBIE BANKS act as if mortgages held on or off books are near face value.

Consumer sentiment is near the LOWEST LEVELS ever recorded even as stock prices near their rally highs. IN a COnsumer driven economy, with over 7 million jobs lost since 2007, with little or no home equity not to mention all those UNDER WATER, this divergence with past recoveries of sentiment near 90.00 doesn't make sense.....except to say some monkey business is about all that is being conducted.

WHAT GOOD IS A GDP REPORT when you factor in one off events and a teet suckling GOV STIMULUS AIDED ZING? WE are talking sustainable recovery, where is that?

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LITTLE BIG HORN

I think chart has as much validity as anything else I have seen. I hav eenough data points to have decent confidence the blue trendline which was broken WAS IMPORTANT and many times (not just end of quater marking up like today for the banksters) these breaks get BACK TESTED.....so we will see how this plays out.

Each corresponding VIX peak brought a ST SPX Bottom.

We have a 4 months descending MOMO tops from our MACD indicator....obviously not a sign of strength...a good sized divergence.

We have 4 data points that form the RED SUPPORT LINE from those 4 lows....where PRICE bounced.

SO IMHO we are between these 2 areas and ONE WILL WIN OUT.

The GDP # is a BS bogus hyped number, now all the officials can run around and tell you how great the plan is, how much better everything is getting....and YOU look around and say WHAT?

AFTER THE 911 attacks consumer confidence was around 87, people were afraid to fly, go to malls, go outside....fear all over the place.....NOW after 7 months of rally, after 60% historic rise....COnsumer sentiment is 47 YES 47 .

Good luck with this.....I stay unmoven and I have done pretty well timing my shorts and cover. I am trying to get those that see this for what it is to understand....the market is going to rip as many a new one it can......we have oversold condition, another 88% plus down volume day....we talked about the GDP wildcard and the reaction, end of qtr fraudster games to PUMP up their payouts and performance...

so I took my gains, met my goals, didnt get greedy....another winning trade.....only thing I could have done better was to get on the other team and play the bounces.....I'm working on that....my system needs a bit more tweaking and I need to block out the truth of reality and think as the other team does......I would have closed that trade today at close or on ANY pop FRI

IMHO the BREAK IS REAL.....the rally is not

D

THE UGLY TRUTH

No. 254: Updated Economic Outlook, GDP, Durable Goods, Home Sales October 29th, 2009 • Recession Is Not Over / Quarterly GDP Growth Is Not Sustainable, with 92% of Growth in Nonrecurring Factors • Annual GDP Down 2.3% (5.7% SGS) • 4th-Quarter GDP Should Resume Quarter-to-Quarter Decline • Durables Goods Orders at 1997 Level • Help-Wanted Adverting at New 58-Year Low

This is a great website here is link

YOU can run but can't hide......I am looking for R betwwen 1060-1075

GDP BELIEVE IT OR NOT?

http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/EconomicReleases/gdp.htm DETAILS show WHERE the growth came from....IMHO not sustainable....sad the hype surrounding it

KD'S TAKE ON GDP LINK HERE

HERE COMES THE SUN AND GDP

Concensus says 3.2% GDP. Anything less than 3% not good for mkt IMHO and we need a solid 3% or higher to stem losses IMHO....even if GDP a BS #.

That's it, my post last night covered my stance, and let's see what happens...ANY rally IMHO will NOT take us to new highs.

D

IT WOULD BE STRETCH TO SEE RECOVERY HERE

And PRICE has turned down again

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

What happens tomorrow after GDP report could be telling, so far NO response for the repeated barage of selling recently from the bull side...

CRAP I don't know what it will be, like GS reveals their guess 2.7% (WOOOF) when 3.0 is expected.... or will it be higher and this was ploy to lure in shorts? ONLY ST maybe...I think the ShEEBANG is broken.

You do notice I aksed some of the bullish BENT to come back here and tell me when they sell....they haven't and won't and will NEVER LEARN....will hold ALL THE WAY and then blame someone else. who knows if they were EVER long either?....and who cares...

I'm here for those who wont BS me, well I'm here to share my opinion, there is NO reason for you to just agree, I love a debate, I LOVE it when you takes from here and there and use it for yourself....these days you have to figure stuff out in a very complicated world and mostly all you get is PURE BS>

I repeatedly have said I'm not in the business to call THE TOP, you never know til much later, BUT we have had warning signs, we had indexes approaching significant FIB retraces, we have had fundamental reasons too to be wary, very wary.

When the fundamental reasoning given for bullishness don't macth the reality of it, the market will eventually show its hand.

IS the recent market weakness for real, well of course it is, AND TO ME MY WORK, when the SPX, DOW and TRANS break out of these potentially BEARISH WEDGES I have shown....and we approach significant resistance and after a 60% rally....well my friends it didnt seem to me the best place to chase MOMO

And I said when MOMO slows or dies....the door will be VERY NARROW to escape...IMHO

IF all we have witnessed was one big circle jerk BS PONZI SCHEME used with OUR BAILOUT CASH...the chance exists the ENTIRE rally can be revoked....gone.....and we may have began that ugly journey.

Notice recent $ strength.....we already had a mad frenzy bullish % number.....most NOTED BEARS TURNED TAIL AND SWITCHED TEAMS>>>>>> so why did I stay the course right or wrong? The way I view from my knowledge base, and my OWN TA....I just didnt agree...that's it....I dont give a shit who they are/were....I know I have to do what I think is best, come to my own conclusion.

Now me personally, again you do what you think you should do, I TOOK PROFITS INTO THE CLOSE, again I will be upfront in what I do.......I had again reached my objective with that trade, so do I let it ride and risk a GDPpity party? NO....I am on road of PATIENCE, GOAL SETTING, WINNING TRADES, SMALL LOSSES ON BAD TRADES, TRADING AS BEST I CAN WITHOUT EMOTION.....not second guessing, not changing priorities when goal is reached.....continue winning and moving forward, leave greed at door....trust TA

My VIX overlay chart shows price decline halted near peaks in VIX....I think some pity rebound is coming....so if correct that will set me up again....and it may be short.....I dont have crystal ball to know tomorrow GDP report and what mkt says..I do know ST oversold.

I talk to lots of smart people, and my game plan is to build a core position I leave alone......so its there if right on BIG MOVE it doesn't react to short blips of counter trend. Then with other piece I go in and out of mkt doing best to time moves.

I have a system that seems to be working pretty well, I have been DISCIPLINED and with stop loss in right place, stay in trades, and come out without BIG HIT....that's my game plan.

No I cannot in repsct for my SUBS I use for commentary and some offer proprietary data.....so I wont mention a name or terms, but what I can say is I have been watching divergences build within the data telling me something was wrong......even if SUB did not say so.

I also notice how some data that was price wise near the HIGHS for move....was near the LOWS in MArch!

We have witnessed lithe volume on the rise, we see MACD lower peaks multiple ones..finally maybe they meant something....but my friends as BEST as I can tell....from what I SEE and from what I READ....from whomever....this rally from March does not fit any prior BULL MKT....argue well but it is a bull mkt, you go ahead....I just don't agreee...and IF IM right....bear rally do end, and not very well.

So maybe a "CHANCE" for a pity POP rebound....maybe if nothing else after recent selling it doesn't seem like there will be one....GDP I THINK would need to be CLOSE to what is expected....to continue this game of smoke and mirrors being perpetrated on the masses...the continuing lie and selling out of Americans by their leaders and the FED fiasco....being foisted on every living creature for the betterment of what we now call the Dirt Rotten Scoundrals of the Banking world....the I GOT BIGGER THAN BEFORE HA HA ON YOUR DOUGH IN YOUR FACE BAIL OUT KINGS NOW TOO TOO BIGGER TO FAIL

Duratek

WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT STIM. LIFE SUPPORT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new U.S. homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a temporary tax credit for first-time owners started to wane.

AP - In this photo made Oct. 26, 2009, a new development of townhouses is seen in Wakefield, Mass. Sales ...
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that sales fell 3.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 402,000 from a downwardly revised 417,000 in August. Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected a pace of 440,000.

LEAK OF GDP TOMORROW? LINK HERE

VIX ripping.

DOW WEDGIE UNDER ATTACK

SPX is pacing way today.

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BAD GOODS OR GOODS GONE BAD?

One thing that STRUCK me between the eyes here is whether this and the LEI have any functional application for helping to predict the economy or the stock mkt.

Notice how in 2000 (market top) cap goods bottomed. And now in 2009 a marginal increase from its current bottom. In 2000 as the cap goods rose the STOCK MKT did not bottom until 2002-2003 !

This may be the LONGEST RUNNING RECESSION (they said it was over) that wasn't a DEPRESSION......it's not?

The US $ seems to have found some kind of bottom, same time mkt began to weaken.

In the report the EX cap goods was AGAIN revised DOWNWARD (no one will be watching) by a large .4% !

I bought a LEAF BLOWER from LOWES, found them to be the most helpful, good price....Husgavarna $199 gas powered.....couldn't start the bitch aghhhhhh...went over to my handdy retired neighbor LOU, he did everything I did, man I was headed back to the store....to return I KNEW these 2 cycle engines would be a major PAIN!!

STill nothing, he opens gas tank cap....then screws it back on, then BINGO we got ignition,,,,what the heck? IT NEEDED AIR in the mixture....who knew? How many people could be saved...?

I switch back to tomorrows GDP...next week I think FEd meeting wooooooooo, I think YOU KNOW the score...and we await the decision of the markets. REMEMBER it usually don't happen all at once.....I am thinking if we get sharp downer, I will take profits if I get close to my goal for this trade short......boy and to go long I need to seperate myself from reality and just decide from charts.....watch the VIX to see if it holds this area....GL



D

OFF TOPIC...ARE YOU KIDDING ME??????

V SHAPED RECOVERY ON TRACK....

* in their dreams...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- "A key measure of consumer confidence continued to slip in October, with consumers' gauge of the current economic situation falling to a 26-year low, a research group said Tuesday.
The Conference Board, the New York-based research group said its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 47.7 in October from an upwardly revised 53.4 in September.
Economists were expecting the index to increase to 53.5, according to a Briefing.com consensus survey. The figure, which is based on a survey of 5,000 U.S. households, is closely watched because consumer spending makes up two-thirds of the nation's economic activity.

YEAH!! I'm coaching my son and rec BBAL again this year, 13+....boy they wont listen will they?

Last point of evening, is that today was a WEAK response to that 200 pt reversal we had Monday (Mondays had been bullish..even if weak ass volume)

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STICK A FORK IN IT?

Well do you like your meat RARE or WELL DONE? Here is Bill Gross's
most recent essay link here

ANother large gain out of the gate basically neutralized by the close. But for thr TRANSPORTS it was another story breaking down another 1.8%. Yesterdays NYSE decline had 88% down volume and go along with prior 2 90% down days and no 90% up days during that stint, it feels like nature of market is changing.

My technical work using a blend of indicators and a moving avgerage just signalled a sell for the Transports or more importantly it has broken down from a line held since MARCH LOWS....nothing is 100%.

Consumer confidence sank again, now understand this, it should be DOUBLE where it is now in a NORMAL RECOVERY BY NOW!!! I would argue that given the 60% stock market V shaped rally cry, boy that doesn't fit.

One of my subs measures of market strength has fallen back to near its lows of March, yet near this rally top.....this isn't something you would expect to see in a "new bull mkt"

Don't fight the FED they say, to some extent the march lows were extreme and enough fear and stim to make some stupendous profits....I just don't think I see anything that warrants LTBH strategy.

Now who doesn't expect a HOT BIG JUICY GDP # Thursday? The problem is the banks are still SICK and credit is contracting.....the market will find fair value in due time. The # to ME doesn't mean JACK....it's mostly make believe anyway...reaction is key...has volatility returned?

D

"GEITHNER AND FED A DISGRACE"

JEsse's Cafe' rails both LINK HERE

SUCKER'S RALLY? LINK HERE JERERMY GRANTHAM

BILL GROSS OF PIMPCO CALLS THE TOP

IS he just SELF SERVING? or does he read my blog?

LInK to Market Watch story HERE.....man I don'tknow if I can keep THIS pace going....

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STEEL PAIR?

OFFICER RESIGNS OVER AFGHAN WAR POLICY

"WHY ARE WE THERE? LINK HERE

DOUBLE TOP? WHEELS KEEP A SPINNING ROUND AND ROUND...

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE BEATS EXPECTATIONS!!

....TO THE DOWNSIDE!

"The Consumer Confidence Index, released by The Conference Board, sank unexpectedly to 47.7 in October -- its second-lowest reading since May.
Forecasters predicted a higher reading of 53.1"

A LOT has been made of this recovery V SHAPED no less, where's it going without these guys?

D

BOY NOW THAT'S PROGRESS?

http://briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/EconomicCalendar.htm Case Shiller and other data found here

HEADLINES: Case-Shiller Home Price Index Improves

"The Case-Shiller home price index continued to show improvement in the housing sector as prices seem to have stabilized. The 20-city composite index was expected to show a 11.9% year-over-year decline in August. Instead, prices fell 11.32%, the lowest year-over-year decline since the beginning of 2008."

If this is progress, I don't want to see the other scenario....

D

"HOW CAN THAT BE POSSIBLE?"

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer – 38 mins ago

"WASHINGTON – It's about to become official: The recession is over — but not the pain.
The government will release figures this week expected to show that the economy has awakened from its deepest slump since the 1930s and is in the early stages of a recovery. But the following week, the government will issue another set of figures expected to show unemployment continuing to rise toward and possibly above a clearly recessionary 10 percent.
How can both be possible?
The government releases third-quarter Gross Domestic Product figures on Thursday. Many forecasters say they will show GDP growing at an annual rate of about 3 percent, validating a widely held belief among economists that the recession ended in June or July."

IMHO the market already knows GDP will show near 3% growth in the 3rd quarter, much of this will come directly from STIMULUS provided in the form of KLUNKERS FOR CASH and $8,000 HOME CREDIT, and STOCK MARKET RALLY, I believe this is a one off event and does NOT reflect REAL economic sustainable activity or growth.......

Even the BULLISH ECRI report (shhhhhh) as mentioned recently in INvestor's Business Daily showed the last 2 weeks a CONTRACTION in their LEI.

106 banks have failed SO FAR
More than past decade and a half, and it is pretty plain these REGIONAL BANKS won't get propped up these Consumer and Small Business friendly loaners!

NAH, If you aren't deemed "TOO BIG AN ASSHOLE TO FAIL" you can go screw yourself, what a BEAUTIFUL PLAN dear readers, what an EVIL BEAUTIFUL PLAN! Now these HUGE BANKS have been turned into BLACK HOLES and have all the BENNIES our money can buy, backing by the FED and GOV, and nothing stands in their way, ALL LOSSES COVERED by the American taxpayer.....however many of them are left!

"NO CRISIS WILL GO WASTED" and is the perfect scenario for getting a lock grip on power and control.....and with so many GS executives picked to run things, thank goodness for the foresight and savvy to do that.

It seems to me the ONLY thing standing betwen the BIG BANKS and failure is a GOV GUARANTEE with OUR MONEY and and CHANGE in an ACCOUNTING RULE.

JAPAN tried HIDING the damage done to their banks, did not realize their bad debts.....boy look how great it turned out there? 20 years of deflation and a stock market only 25% of what it was 20 years ago! NOW THAT'S PROGRESS AND TOO BIG TO FAIL IN ACTION....PROPITIS PONZINOMIS

Transports hurled from a possible DOUBLE TOP FORMATION, housing and financials have been weakest in this hurlathon.

SO we know about the decline in volume in this rally especially on those big rally days for the most part. But IBD goes on to inform us their have been 8 DISTRIBUTION DAYS on the SPX 500, and this can I inform you is not BULLISH.

In June ALLEN ELLIOT EXPLAINS "The clearest signal that a market uptrend is in distress is a buildup of distribution days.
When a major index drops more than 0.2% in higher volume than the previous session, that's a distribution day. It suggests institutional investors are selling their holdings."

We talked about yesterday how the VIX has turned up since last week, there is still some uneasiness out there.

Now I don't KNOW how the market will react to the GDP THURSDAY REPORT, and we have heard a LOT about Fidelity's end of year this FRI and how it may induce a rally to pump up their figures......will it?

Is A TOP or THE TOP IN? I personally think that is possible, but we could also run to 1,200 if 1120 is broken and held, so I wouldn't rule anythng out. TOO EARLY to be playing Nostradamus.

Yesterday we had around 100 point VAULT early on then $ rallied and BAMM almost 200 points REVERSAL....another REVERSAL DAY.....what in the world could be worrying this market? Haven't the people in the know put us on the road to recovery?

Duratek

"DID GOLDMAN GOOSE OIL?"

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0413/096-sachs-semgroup-goldman-goose-oil.html

BIDU falls on face in AH takes a TUMBLE!

In 3-4 months the QE of FED is to end....without manipulation the whole sheebang falls aprt.

D

A SEMI HOLE KIND OF DAY?

Potentially we have another lead group showing stress as the Semi's have broken out of their uptrend channel from March lows.

The bearish wedge broke as the Transports are under that spell for now below the lower support.

Interest rates rose with the selloff. The US $ rallied with the selloff. The DOW is laying on its lower trendline of its own bearish wedge..at the close.

Vix has showed some life now above 24.

Thursday is GDP data, with huge rally, and klunkers , stim....I dont know anyone that isn't expecting a POP, and to me it's meaningless......to what the reality is.....but the market will speak its opinion.

ISSUES AT CITIBANK?

When buying VALUE you hold to see the value realized, when buying a zutz, a speculative MOMO you hope to hear the music slowing down before it stops and sucks everyone in the black hole behind the closing door.....

D

AUDIT THE FED MOVEMENT

HUMPTEY DUMPTEY?

Is it as Market Watch suggests ALL about the US $ direction? LINK HERE

VIX has been staggered, on the ropes, ready to declae the BEAR IS DEAD, has firred back up to around 24....rates popped up.....back later

D

SECULAR TRENDS

Written in 2005 ZEAL Intelligence correctly focused on the metals and what it takes to reach a SECULAR BEAR BOTTOM LINK HERE

TIM WOOD explains his interpretation of a Secular Trend in terms of Dow Theory
http://financialsense.com/Market/wrapup.htm

We know at MArch bottom PE's were said to be @ 24 and Dividend yields near 3.5% at the historical references of IMPORTANT BOTTOMS would be close to SINGLE DIGIT PE ratios (SPX) and near 6% yields (currently BELOW 2% !)

Though the rallies that seperate the different phases of the secular bear can be impressive, and maybe even have longer to run, the evidence IMHO is clear we haven't reached the bottom.

The fact we fell below the previous BEAR LOWS in 2002 suggests it is not over. Maybe AMZN is a clear winner here, it took them nearly 10 years to best previous highs, but when you factor in the $ value then and now that wouldn't be the case.

LTBH rarely works when in a long term (SECULAR) Bearish trend. Sometime in 2010 it is reported that potentially 40% of homeowners will owe than their houses are worth!

With unemployment REPORTED at near 10%, wages stagnant, and a few essentials to living costing more, with loans at banks receding, lending standards tightening, Government intervention growing, access to credit to small businesses dwindling, an economy like a crack addict to STIMULUS, in a Consumer driven economy, I find the chances to be slim that current valuations are substantiated.

NABE report shows some improvement link here albeit from historical lows of 6% to 12%.

NOT LIVING WITHIN ITS MEANS, we couldn't run our homes like this. We are at mercy of others, if we aren't buying our OWN debt LINK HERE debt ceiling approaching

Duratek

UPTREND IN YIELDS INTACT

We'll keep our eyes peeled here, any breakout in yields would not be good for the US economy


He who will not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius

LAST JAM....THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING!!

WEEKEND GROOVE

IS A CRASH UNDERWAY?

Gosh I found someone even more cheery than myself?

from safehaven.com LINK HERE

When we turn our attention to real economy and NOT lining the in crowds pockets, maybe we can do something, rightnow WHO's BRIGHT IDEA was to make the BANKERS whole, wealthy and screw the rest a REAL TRICKLE DOWN approach..rediculous!!! they caused the problems.....so now GS makes 80% of profits trading....do we have nay banks left that lenbd?

D

CLOSE UP OF SPX TREND

HAVE YIELDS BROKEN OUT?

A GAME has been playing out in bonds, a carry trade scheme.......if ture and rates been MANIPULATED LOW LOW.....could spring out damaging economy and recovery hopes.

ALT A loans coming around now to be RESET, a HEAP of commercial loans in need of refinancing, with initial syimulus and bank bailout and FED balance sheet gourged....we have squandered resources big time and only have gotten the appearence" of progress.

CRACK HEAD PONZINOMIC economy

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TALE OF TWO SUPPORT TRENDLINES

CRISIS OVER???

"American Peasants won't wake up? Accounting FRAUD? LINK HERE

2003-2007 Bank earnings couldn't have been REAL? and NOW? they aren't realizing the losses from CRAP PAPER still being held....not marked to ANY market value but in their heads...dreams.

WATCH the VIDOE! "SUICIDE BANKERS?" who won this debate?

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WHAT A FEW OTHERS ARE SAYING

TIM WOOD LINK HERE

MARTIN GOLDBERG LINK HERE

RICHARD ECKERT LINK GREAT DISCONNECT PART 1 LINK PART 2 IPO NOS

I suggest, take your time, go to the story print it out, make a cup of coffee...carefully read and weigh the evidence......we can't afford to get this one wrong

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JIVE TURKEY

Scroll down to 2009 CHART near bottom and take a GANDER at how many UNADJUSTED JOBS were LOST VS the seasonally adjusted figures which ADDED JOBS to the data you get each month!

http://www.bls.gov/web/cesbd.htm Net Birth Data LInk

Just as the market share nothing in common with the real economy, so does the unemployment data.....both are MUCH WORSE than advertised.

Understand ALL they have done is blow money at the vearious BUBBLES hoping to re-inflate them......bubbles POP for a reason, that SHOULD begin the healing process, but THEY don't want that....remember they use EVERY CRISIS as a chance to GAIN MORE POWER..... like now these insidious banks who bent us over and created this crisis......did we WEED them out and leave the stronger ones? NO....the bigger ones got MUCH BIGGER and guess what, the f'ers are ADDING to their derivitive portfolio and are making their living TRADING 60% of overall volume which comes from HFT.

SO what we did accomplish is DIVERT CAPITAL FROM REAL ECONOMY AND INVESTMENT TO NON PRODUCTIVE PAPER ASSETS like the stock market......do you undestand what I'm saying here, it means until they take us on the right path where are going to flounder and not create jobs, and if we are not creating jobs how are we going to lift our boats out of this cesspool?

The REAL economy toped in 1997 during that expansion, but the stock market fueled by rampant speculation and the interent craze and Y2 K FED goosing ,exploded upward in a final amazing launch.

It is difficult to call THE TOP, I am not going to do that right now. I read the comments, I don't like to project too much to a move except interpret my TA and if I'm lucky take what the market will give me and move on.

More diverting from real economy goes way of the stimulus.....we have a CRACK HEAD economy.....fueled by PONZINOMICS. shoot up.....

WE have had a TECHNICALLY strong rally in that few neaningful declines have accompanied this march from March.

BUT since the HIGHS made in MARCH/APRIL stocks ABOVE their 30 DMA has been falling and new issues making 52 week highs has not confirmed this new MARKET HIGH.

This alone does not spell out THE TOP....you call it if you want to, I am waiting for more data, in the meatime I hope to TAKE WHAT THE MARKET WILL GIVE ME.

New Credit Bubble Report online link here
Duratek

CLOSEUP OF TRANSPORTS ACTION

BASS SOLO "Have nice weekend everybody"

TRANSPORTS HEAVE

Will have more detailed follow up tomorrow. SPX 1095 held on Thursdays comeback, it would seem they've hyped ALL the big names and mostly a dull THUD was seen...tired bull.....

As soon as you think a turn is coming you also see peculiar market activity like how last 10-15 minutes after all day weakness and failed rally attemps, the market pops a bit.....sure a miracle.

Now for you conspriacy theorists, I am SURE GS was nowhere to be found....

Duratek

WELLSFARCO

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/ive-been-warning-about-wells-fargo-spring-07-doo-doo

IT takes more than hiding behind a curtain and sticking pins in a bear doll to reinvigerate economy, what a farce

AND THIS

NOT A HAPPY FELLOW LINK HERE TO FURRY BEAR

LET'S GET BULLISH?

New Cornerstone report LINK HERE......GUMMY BEAR HIGH PONZINOMIC SCHEMERS

SUGAR HIGH

CHINA WANTS US to believe they have 8.9% growth.....anyone a little bit curious?

LINK HERE A MUST READ

THERE IS A SUREFIRE TREND HERE?

BEATS EXPECTATIONS, STOCK PRICE JUMPS!!!!!!

on this news
"Fiscal first-quarter profit fell 18 percent "

Friends this seems to be the game here, dwindling up volume.... rally on weak $, hide the real profit story under the walnut shell! bleep me!

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TREND CHANGE HERE?????

FALLING AWAY

Canary in PONZI MINE?

OMG did you see MSFT earnings....bet they BEAT EST...now near $30 a BARGAIN!!

TOTAL DISDAIN FOR SOUND MONEY POLICY http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/usfd/page3.pdf

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CRUDE IMAGE

When OIL hit $140 a barrel, the BDI topped out, bottoming with oil prices and stock markets early in 2009.

It is on the rise again, and my expectations is this is from the current rise in OIL, not pickup in traffic (alone).

OIL at $80 and above is another CONSEQUENCE of the REFLATION SCHEME.....they can print it....can't always control what it inflates....think STAGFLATION?

They are screwing us so bad you wont even be able to find your ahole!

and this just in

"The British GDP declined unexpectedly, shrinking 0.4% in the third quarter - the sixth straight quarter of contraction." party on dude

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HOT AIR BALOON

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/usfd/page3.pdf ADJ MONEY BASE IS ON FIRE.....they are fing nuts!!

"Current FHA loan limits are as high as $729,750 in high cost areas, and are set to expire at the end of the year and revert to lower amounts, greatly hindering the housing recovery process." Is this whatthe FHA was founded for? To get rich people into oversized homes?

We have U6 unemployment at near 1 in every 6 Americans, savings rate IS LOW but on rise, credit standards have tightened, Credit is contracting, real wages not growing, officially we have WIPED OUT all the employment from prior advance some OFFICIALLY 7.2 MILLION. I scratch my head trying to figure out how all these companies say they're doing well, beat "estimates" raise guidance and these poor slobs are out of the fervent economy.?? how so?

The rally is showing you one thing for sure, that RAMPANT SPECULATION IS BACK and this was the goal all along, while all this stimulus and liquidity are going into the NON-PRODUCTIVE part of economy....which breeds horrible imbalances and festering bubbles.

In the meanwhile if you take out the effect of overseas business from US companies reporting, even AMZN gets almost 50% of sales outside of the US, if you were to figure in a DEVALUED $.....I suspect you would get a VERY DIFFERENT PICTURE of current "earnings"....and in any case in MOST CASES what you see as a BEAT EXPECTATIONS is coming as REVENUES shown are FALLING....a HUGE portion of gains are coming from HEAD LOPPING.

INVESTMENT in the REAL ECONOMY has been falling for decades and we are paying the price, we THE CONSUMER GENERATION haven't much to offer, and we fueled our appetite of consumption with BORROWING....now that EVERY RAW DATA I READ SAYS THIS CREDIT IS DECLINING...you tell me how the market in just 7 months has priced in a return to an even higher over-valuation than in 2007 top?


This FICTION, PONZINOMIC SCHEME is great.....until the smoke clears, that will be one very narrow door many will be fleeing to get out IMHO

Duratek

JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBBED

Not until 2003 (BEAR BOTTOM!!!!) did claims fall to 300,000 level!!!! I KNOW you can see where they are now...that's 531,000 4 wk avg 531,000...the market didnt bottom then a good 2 YEARS after these claims began to fall from peak...friends we aren't even to where they TOPPED in 2001 yet.....and they ran this market up to 2007 PE valuations with a SCANT 1.99% SPX dividend yield,,,,time to buy????????????

But they did manage to wipe out a DECADE of job growth....thx andnow go pay yourselves BILLIONS....

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BLACK BOX

Stocks are below their values in 2000, yet because of HFT (high frequency trading) the $ volume of those shares traded is near TRIPLE what it was in 2000!! TRIPLE....that is the market you "invest" IN

And sure as night follows day, THEY will take your money from you again, and again.

WASHINGTON (TheStreet) -- Home prices dipped in August after three straight months of gains.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced today that prices slipped 0.3% during the month and are 3.6% below last year's levels. This, however, is still well above the 10.7% decline seen in April 2007.

So prics are stabilized? But the value of all those TRILLIONS of paper held by the banks are values near FACE VALUE...this March rally began when the GAO allowed BANKS to STOP marking their mortgage paper to face value, it is now marked to ? fantasy

PONZINOMICS gone wild, when investing in MOMO understand that, eventually a few will at least demand that profits stop FALLING from previous year and the manipulation of the "analysts estimates" (GROANNNNNNNNNNNNN) and the game is lower them so they can beat them..I just had a horribly crude thought.....I'll keep that to myself.....

OK let's say you are a midget...a dwarf....( I like dwarfs) and you meet this girl over the net and you are talking to her and you say......I'm diminuative...but probably 4 ft tall.....when she meets you..she finds you are actually 4'6"...imagine the surprise and glee......

Dont do this in reverse,,,like say how incredable your hair is and then show up with a CHROME DOME!!!!! bad call....

Many "experts" are saying the market is MORE EXPENSIVE than it was at 2007 top....are we in better shape now?

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FAT DUMB AND HAPPY ARE THE BOURGEOIS

The big burnout Stimulus packages have fed speculation, not investment, creating dangerous new asset bubbles

Andy Xie Oct 21, 2009

"Central banks around the world have released massive amounts of money in response to the current financial crisis. How to exit from the current super-loose monetary environment has become a popular discussion. The central bankers are talking down the prospect of raising interest rates, arguing that the weak economy keeps inflation in check. But the proposition that a weak economy means low inflation is false. The stagflation of the 1970s proves it."

This round of monetary growth has mainly fed speculation, not credit demand for consumption or investment. Speculation has reached a dangerous point with the oil price threatening to reach triple digits again. Its implications for inflation may spook the central banks to raise interest rates quickly and trigger another crash."

SO what we are left is an even greater mal adjusted economy, rampant speculation apart from fundamentals, false earnings for banks if you consider problem assets being kept away from mark to market value....a huge part of SPX 500.

Even if it IS better, or it seems better, it is because we are being PROPPED UP...in the MSM and stock market.....some co's may do well, on the whole head lopping can only take so far.

WE END UP WITH ZOMBIE BANKS.....excuse me, how do you grow economy with credit contracting, ZOMBIE BANKS who don't lend, assets at false values.......doubling aggregate money base......stimuls is only demand....gee what we freakin need is MORE STIMULUS

LIKE CAFFEINE....when you come down you crash.

Duratek

IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

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SMOKE AND MIRRORS OR JUST PLAIN SMOKED?

Is everything as it seems? LINK HERE

Volume and breadth were weak, TRans flat, naz lithe....only 30 stocks in DOW to manipulate...and remember they also threw out some trash and replaced with stronger companies months back.

And you wonder why you shouldn't throw the house at the market? I know this, the market is very expensive and it must have awfully good eyesight to see $80 in SPX earnings around the corner. I showed in todays AM data that continuing claims on a 4 week (more stable avg) moving average were still above 531,000.

Companies have LOPPED heads to make their marks here, how many of these reporting are showing growing revenues WITHOUT weak dollar assistance?

Irrationality can last longer than you think and longer than your solvency should you continue to fight the trend.

That's why I go in small, managable position, and I can add, so far I have not.....yesterdays action may be a blio but it had the reversal and it had higher volume behind it.....but the Casino operators are very worried and they wont give up easily....

RULE #1....set stop losses so your losing trades don't put you so far behind you can't catch up.......you can be right but at wrong time....SPX 1095 turned back this charade....will it hold for tomorrow....tune in....NOW if today was a BIG DEAL....it should have dwarfed yesterdays volume

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TAKEN LEAVE OF THEIR SENSES

REAL VALUES TO BE HAD? OR 24/7 CASINO LINK HERE TO READ #1

LINK HERE to READ #2

mkt update

45% up volume (can find on yhoo finance)
$ stable

DOW up 75
SPX up less than 3

I smell a rat….

Casino dealers don't want any retrace...none at all....

NUTS??

SNOWBALL?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4jHU2MsoGtk

SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE

UNEMPLOYMENT REPORT AGAIN TODAY KEEPING CLAIMS ELEVATED AND REVISED UPWARD PREVIOUS REPORT.

4 week moving average 531,000, this far into Recession, NO I MEAN RECESSION IS OVER....

We are a ship heading towards the Niagra Falls, no rudder, no captain...no chance.

1 in at least every 10 Americans OUT OF A JOB, many out of assistance.....but all these companies see "recovery, stabilization, upping estimates, beating estimates....." all this how?

From head and capex chopping? all this chopping of this and that and all is now well? ANY EARNINGS HELPED BY WEAK US $?

How strong is recovery if still losing jobs above worst it ever was after 911, and FED has to keep rates at ZERO...."for an extended period......


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CLOSEUP OF TODAYS TRANSPORT AVG

THE WORM IS TURNING?

Dow Sheds 1% After Wells Fargo Downgrade at CNBC(Wed 4:07pm)

EBAY after the close:
"For the third quarter, eBay /quotes/comstock/15*!ebay/quotes/nls/ebay (EBAY 23.19, -1.84, -7.35%) reported earnings of $349.7 million, or 27 cents a share, compared to earnings of $492.2 million, or 38 cents a share, for the same period last year"

I Still contend easy money has been made, now stock pickers game, has gotten very selective. Doesn't mean uptrend is OVER, I do think the time is RIPE for some reasonable retrace, then we can asess the POWER of any selling. NO NEED TO GUESS or be so sure....I'm looking at singles friends...dont need home runs, keeps one out of trouble.

By using STOPS on ALL my trades, I should be able to keep the losers (we all have those) from ruining my winners.

Todays ABRUPT reversal shows what can happen at any moment, in the thick of earnings, which we keep being told are BEATING THE EST....

I say we got ZOMBIE BANKS, I SAY WE GOT RIGGED SYSTEM, I SAY WE GOT HORRENDOUS LEADERSHIP that keeps putting the FOXES in the fing henhouses!!!

I mean, give the banks trillions, give them access to the FED at 0%, and then let the big banks EAT their competition thus getting even BIGGER....let them BUY BACK with FREE MONEY THE BONDS which manipulate the rates low, there is NO incentive to lend..and then TAKE THE FREE MONEY and USE IT TO TRADE????????????? and the CHINESE are taking our dollar and buying up EVERYTHING they can....if this keeps up...they will dominate world not us...incl military

And there are reports of SECRET GS and FED meetings? phone calls? "hey dude what's up...how's the family?" I DOUBT IT!

UPDATE EBAY selling off some in AH.

CAN this joystick go in reverse? you bet your ass it can.......I don't or need to call THE TOP...just follow the bouncing ball, let my TA clue me in...and lately I been SPOT ON!

I tried to explain where I've been, what's been happening to me personally....how I let it effect my trading or lack thereof.....I may be coming out of it...maybe I got my MOJO back...maybe

Point is....too one sided here, so if not short, and was long smart guys took some off table, and let things settle down...some maybe short...I NEVER BET the farm.

I was going to DOUBLE my position when I enterred it, but then I hesitated and thought....limit exposure, dont swing for fences....too BIG a position may have kept me OUT or would be too stressful to hold.....so Poppa was just right...STOP LOSS SET MY RISK

Stop loss doesnt work good in case of opening GAPPER..........otherwise usually good move.

I read some intelligent sub stuff says...."early in a primary uptrend move".....may be time for correction and good time to throw out weak links...NO sign yet of reversal or end of this uptrend"

OK OK, I say...gee how can that be? I don't know.... got to keep an open mind....don't have to agree.

I have set another goal..I'll look to see if mkt can be held at important support areas....go from there.

Sure , I may be one of a few making my calls....I will try and share some of when and what I may do...in THIS forum I am mainly trying to help peopel understand the bigger picture, and I may be speaking to all levels of people....traders...LTBH etc etc

I will never tell you exactly what to do, I can;t do that.....that is for paid sub types to do....I can at best infer....and then tell you NEVER do anything w/o consulting a qualified financial advisor.
AND JUST CAUSE i MAY SAY i DID SOMETHIG, i AM NOT SAYING HEY EVERYBODY DO THIS OR THAT..you GOTTA MAKE THAT CALL.

I have warned being short is RISKY. BEing long in a bear is too....Let's keep an open mind, there isn't much CHOICE for getting returns these days....man its tough.

Later

Duratek

UUP LONG US $ ETF

WILL recent SPIKE in SELLING VOLUME be later seen as other circled instance as a selling exhaustion? (previous after rally decline resumed)

CURRENT DOW WEDGE

Volume appears to pick up on the declines, the LOW volume of this bear rally in general has been suspect. 60% of volume coming from HFT. So This again is just one thing I am monitoring. There may have been a US $ fake out today breifly falling BELOW 75.00 to come back and close 75.11, this also is worth watching closely. BArofsky also was talking today, he who is in charge of keeping track of TARP money....cannot do so as FED stonewalls ANY efforts at coming clean!

OUTRAGIOUS....DO NOT STAND FOR IT. DO SOMETHING, I like some of Dylan's ideas....together we can send a message. please watch that video.

FALLING AWAY INTO THE CLOSE

The first bust out of the wedge didn't hold, will this one? Isn't this a beautiful thing? The action around a trendline or support line proiperly drawn? I luv this shit! I have been talking this was ONE of my key offs...and helped me with my timing....so now where?

RATTIGAN'S RANT

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THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET

http://www.zerohedge.com/print/25427 must read.

"The American taxpayer in fact has given trillions of dollars, billions directly to Goldman Sachs so that Goldman can use the taxpayer subsidy to play a parlor game and pay themselves record bonuses. "

And I been saying..."Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually....yeah yeah"

More shortly after the close, about the action today...

Duratek

"DEATH OF SOUL OF CAPITALISM"

MARKET WATCH LINK HERE to story

Market not able to advance much (esp Tues) where the market has had LOTS of HIGH PROFILE earnings beats...incl GOOG .....$ index back to 75.00 so many concluding time to buy some gold in here.....I am wondering if the US $ is giving headfake here.....immediate action ahead may be helpful.

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CLOSEUP

Closeup of that Trans wedge.....and as I Post the Trans avg is weakening more....COULD lead mkt down, we'll see, but it is falling out of that wedge, you can see....just one thing I am monitoring.

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FED REPO TEST A FAILURE?

ZERO STORY LINK HERE Transports weakish today....all we got is LOWER REVNUES and "best the street"...same old dog and pony...

WHAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK? and WHO has THE CASH???

"The New York Fed has been working over the past year to ensure 'this tool will be ready when and if' the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee decides to use it.
In a reverse repo, the Fed sells assets such as Treasuries for cash with an agreement to buy them back at a higher price at a later date. Federal Reserve policy-makers have said that this could be one tool to drain excess reserves from the banking system when the time comes to tighten policy."

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OBAMA RULED BY GS CRONIES

And why have Volker as an advisor? LINK HERE NY TIMES article

Stay strong? YUP> but I have my stops in place, got in good, so risk is LOW. I have no problem coming out and resetting. I can be right but at wrong time, can't be stubborn when trading.

Surely this GAME they are playing will catch up to them, but a VIX now falling to near 20.00 may not be consistant with a severe decline lurking..only when it shoots back if it does..if it doesn't, we'd be banging our heads waiting for the inevitable.

Market continues to work higher with WEAK volume and hardly anyone scared anymore...how bout that?

Let it rip thru my FIBS and I might have to change sides.....SO I have a plan.....let's see what happens.

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HOUSING HOUSING HOUSING

"Mortgage applications plummet
Industry group says activity sank by 13.7% last week as interest rates inched higher and tax credit expiration drew nearer. "

US $ may be firming, bottoming......no data today

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TOP ANALYST ESTIMATE GAME CONTINUES

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said that its net income more than tripled in the third quarter but revenue fell 12 percent, a sign that many advertisers remain nervous about the pace of economic recovery.

And so the saga continues , and we'll just keep make believing that we are at the beginning of a new dawn, a greater day of blue skies and a revived economy based on a fairy tale.

Meanwhile Moses and his Wall Street disciple's have all loaded into the BONUS ARK and are sailing away with billions of ill begotten profits, we only wish from lending the American people back the money given to them OH NO, they are using most of it to buy back TREASURY BONDS to keep rates artificially low, gee that sounds like a fing grande idea.

I hope you watched some of the Bernanke videos, he is a bumbling stumbling stooge. He makes Shemp looks intelligent.

We are near the FIBS I listed, we are way overextended even if we were back to normal, and we are not.....what's wrong with a little correction?

One of my services has registered a short term sell signal, my work also does, but many I read still don't think a top is in.....hard to say just yet.....ifone was to sell any weak perfomrers....were there any?

IMHO easy money phase may have concluded...more stock picking expertise now will be needed.

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VEIL ATTEMPTS

WHAT TRANSPARENCY???

If we look back the watershed event that turned this market around was in APRIL of 2009 when the FASB rule for 'Mark To Market" was put to bed.

Here is link from FEB zero hedge

I don't want to hear another admistrative speach on how "TRANSPARENT" the markets are going to get! Between this rule suspensiion which HIDES ANY TRUE CALCULATION of assets to the TRILLION $ bnak giveaway to the FED's refusal to answer any questions as to where the money went, what a JOKE!

THEY are losing, lost the TRUST of the American people...and the coming BILLION $$ WALL STREET BONUS giveaway will be watershed event IMHO in the screwing of American taxpayer...and possibly their revulsion from it.

PS...I enterred near the highs a FEELER position in DXD....I felt risk to reward was good for a pullback of some kind....and the stop loss that I EMPLOY with EVERY trade defined the risk and it was reasonable...GL everybody no matter where you stand.

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GOOD TIME TO BUY?

HUSSMAN POST LINK HERE

DEFLATION AND RECOVERY?

Details here http://briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calendars/EconomicCalendar.htm

AND YOU CALL THIS A V SHAPED RECOVERY with inflation and a record setting rally? OR IS IT EVIDENCE of a massive manipulation effort headed by devaluing the $ to pay down debt?

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THANK GOODNESS FOR CNBC

Becky QUick CNBC HAIR " I have NEVER seen CAT BEAT numbers like this..." WHAT AM I MISSING? stock has doubled

Caterpillar 3Q profit drops 53 pct on weaker salesAP(Tue 7:43am)

Caterpillar ups 2009 view as profit slumps 53%at MarketWatch(Tue 7:43am)

And COCA COLA etc, the multi nationals (INCL CAT) are having an amazing LIFT to profits? and revenues because of weak dollar and int'l biz.......you see THE GAME FOLKS?

keep buying...chasing momo....?

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BETTER OFF TODAY BECAUSE OF FED ACTION

NO, not an illusion, this is real, our declining currency.......you know the old expression, standing in the desert someone will say "It's not that bad, it's DRY HEAT!"

Well by creating money out of nowhere, you can see what has happened to OUR savings, the BUYING POWER of OUR currency.....and excuse me, I'm hot this AM....are we freakin better off?

YEAH, it's a doggone ILLUSION! Thanks for nothing FED, your job is what? stable currency and economies? you FLUNKED!

SO now, the market says "WHY WORRY" and the long bond yield says.." WE IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE WILLIS"

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HAIL HAIL TO THE TRUTH

TAXPAYERS SAVED??????

WELL Actually as our US $ declines directly because of GOV and FED action.....the attack on the US $ has destroyed most American's savings

FED keeping interest rates TOO LOW AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! imagine what CRISIS WILL follow this last one? Can we PAPER over them? HOusING VALUES still falling.....commodity prices keep rising not because of demand.....this house of cards is going to CRUMBLE

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BANKS ARE NOT LENDINGTO AMERICANS

As the Federal Reserve cts unconstitutionally, and as WAll Street readies itself to get a RECORD amount of PAY....as more Americans ready themselves to be JOBLESS and HOMELESS, as FORECLOSURES continue to rise, not even counting those kept off market, not counting that BANKS are carrying CDO'S with RANCID mortgages at FACE VALUE which blows up their earnings.....don't even think about auditing the FED how dare you!

SMOKE SCREEN, MANIPULATED MKT RALLY, BANKS ACTUALLY (GS IN PARTICULAR) GROWING their derivitive books......all kinds of shit being kept from the Americam people......

Demand an accounting, demand open and free markets, demand fairness.

D

WHERE IS THE MONEY??? WE GOT BENT OVER!!

BERNANKE< DO YOU KNOW YOUR CONSTITUTION???

BEATING THE ESTIMATES

Don't worry about the 4% decline in profit from 2008 and
"Total revenue for the third quarter was 15 percent lower than revenue levels recorded in the third quarter of 2008. Texas Instruments said that yearly drop in revenue is attributed to declines in all business segments, including wireless."

If this game of "beating the street" doesn't turn your stomach what will? There comes apoint when a shitload is baked into prics as was on the downside, IMHO we are near a correction....and it may begin today...on any gap up which is sold.

AAPL hit $202 iN AH trading, almost like no one is buying a blackberry anymore

IF HOME PREICES HAVE NOT HIT BOTTOM>>>>>

"Home values are predicted to plunge in 342 out of 381 markets during the next year, according to a new forecast of real estate prices. "

LINK TO CNN STORY HERE

ALL THAT CRAP PAPER..SITTING SOMEWHERE....IS NOT WORTH WHAT SOMEONE SAYS IT IS.....THE SPX 500 EARNINGS are a fraud

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NAZ FUTURES STOKED

Like I said I await the markets test of the area I spoke about, I am amazed atthe lack of any meaningful pullbacks, but at the same time......the market has been deteriorating over the last month as the market is showing greater and greater selectivity.....the stage is set

Here is how XERO HEDGE describes how the FED BAILED OUT THE WORLD

ALSO stocks above their 30 day moving average continued to deteriorate.....and I am guessing the smart money in in full scale distribution mode.

EXCITEMENT BUILDING?

APPL tears cover off the iphone, stock up huge AH, should bring about a STRONG OPEN. We do have AM data, at this time it may not matter.

And you wonder why I try to warn against shorting...just because the fundamentals don't match the stock prices? Because maybe it has the one most important thing going...MOMO

Yes I think from most perspectives the stock mkt is VERY expensive, and only offering less than 2% DIvidend yield on the SPX 500, that is rich.

But you don't get in front of a raging train, you either ride it, or wait at the station...you don't stand in front of it.

AAPL is not the economy, and they are beating their competition, so investing in the leading companies can pay off.

NOW, DEAD AHEAD are SPX 1122 ish and DOW 10,300 this is an area I am watching....then I'll decide what to do.

Beating expectations is just a game, you have speculative flow favoring assets, OIL, GOLD...you have a US $ that is getting killed......I think we're setting up for a BOND ACCIDENT.

The situation in the US is dire, the need to finance the debt and deficits, and yet 10 yr barely 3.4% !!

Are you telling me, that the stock market is saying we're IN a V SHAPED RECOVERY, in fact, the move is equal to what a bull might be 3 years IN! just 7 months.....did I misjudge the loss of 7.5 Million jobs? The fact that CREDIT IS CONTRACTING?

Or is a DOA DOLLAR forcing money to flee into almost anything else?

So we get a technical rebound, as thrilling as that may be....and a recovery that bypasses most of main street?

WHat changed from march until now? The more than DOUBLING of all known $'s in existance, but if you are conservative and have any savings? you just took a haircut.

You do realize there is basically NO secondary market fo credit. That almost ALL mortgages now come directly from the GSE's or are guaranteed by the gov.

WHEN will all this "good" news get priced in? stay tuned

Duratek

price of us inflationist policy

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Do you think this purposeful devaluation of our currency will end well? WHAT if we do lose our reserve currency status? How then do we fund our excesses? Unfunded liabilities?

SO fueling ANOTHER BUBBLE, as we witness sucky economy but rampant stock rally.....and the resultant excuse me INFLATION in OIL and other commodities.....has the FED done their job in keeping a stable currency and economic environment?

Ever more INTERVENTION has been needed but this time it's not working to the effect the man on the street is doing better.

It is more TRANSFER of wealth to WALL STREET, to OIL PRODUCERS.....to anywhere but here.

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REFLATION EFFORTS

We should watch China to see if it now plays catchup to other world markets.

We are witnessing some facts maybe never seen before in our lifetimes. Expanding economy here in the US was always synonymous with expanding credit market debt and a re-energizing in consumer credit...........................

For the first time in maybe 50 years we are going thru a CONTRACTION in total credit market debt, the US CONSUMER IS RETRENCHING.

BUT, GOV AND FED POLICY are fighting this new trend of balance sheet reconciliation, and are throwing the kitchen sink at it, doubling the money supply know in existence in merely months.

BUT most of this is sitting as EXCESS BANK RESERVES, not lent so gold is sniffing a day when it will be perhaps.

BUT Banks (Hedge Funds) have access to almost FREE MONEY and this "excess liquidity" has to find a home somewhere, BUT instead of into productive means, it is flowing into commodities and STOCK MARKETS......and IMHO a NEW BUBBLE IS FORMING.

This does not tell me when the game is over, it does tell me if not productive means, then considering the historic nature of this FED intrusion, it will and may have historic repercussions.

Just as the US CONSUMER is trying to repair the damage done from decades of too much debt, instead of lend a hand to the saver (higher int rates paid on deposits) the saver is being penalized (near 0% on savings)....and IMHO should the US Consumer continue to make attempts at repiar, and GOV and FED policies only help the BIG WALL STREET INSTITUTIONS .....it seems to me these too bigger to fail players are playing with themselves...WHY THEN the DECLINING PUTRID STOCK MARKET VOLUME? which in uncharacteristic of any previous bull mkts?

We do not see any PROOF that the current FED and GOV policies are having a positive impact on the REAL ECONOMY, then I can only conclude it is building an ever more dangerous imbalance that can only be more destructive than anything coming before it.

In MArch, who knows, maybe generational values were seen in cheap stock valuations, but NOW? in only 6-7 months we are back in bubble territory....all the while losing over 2.5 Million jobs and seeing a yr/yr contraction in credit.....how will this turn out?

A BELOW 2% yield on the SPX 500 and expensive PE ratio is telling me the "easy money" has been made, and now MOMO will carry prices to some other level....until it doesn't.

It seems obvious the "little guy" was too scared to buy these bargains, nor maybe had cash. With horrid job picture and dwindling paychecks.....homes no longer able to provide a source of funds to spend......this doesn't spell lasting sustainable economy to me.

The US $ has been the pony to ride this reflation effort, as it steadily has lost value since March, most else has floated higher, but when your currency is not on stable footing, are we better off?

Proof some more profound change has been gained, well we await that data, and I await more reasonable stock valuations.

Duratek