Financial topics

[Higgenbotham]

Still bootstrapping. I was slowed down quite a bit when I dropped off to sleep in the middle of a trade. You might have an edge in the market but it's irrelevant if you can't stay awake. When I have big positions on, I repeat the mantra "Stay Awake, Stay Alive."

The obvious comment somebody might make is if I added over 10% to the account why not put a lot of money in. It doesn't seem to work that way.

Also, the most probable outcome is that after considerable struggle I don't get this off the ground.

I'm going to end the day and the week here and wait for some more turbulence to develop before making another move.

Back to the immediate task of trying to figure out if the 9 year bull market has topped out or if there is more to come. Barring anything further, it will be my guess that the news since Friday's close will result in a massive stock market rally starting Sunday night. Since there was no further turbulence, I only made one attempt to short last week. If we get the rally I expect, I will be back at it in a few weeks with a fully funded account.

[aeden]

edit: We have been the energy Saudi lap dog since the 1970’s it was said. We were just coming off the disastrous war in Vietnam and our streets were filled with violent protests. A hundred U.S. cities were set ablaze in 1968. The oil crisis put the Saudis in a position to dictate terms to the United States. The Wahhabis built their mosques in the U.S. Islam worked its way into the highest levels of American government. We just shut that down on the surface only as the U.S. embarked on a plan of regime change to all those Middle Eastern nations that opposed Saudi interests and the gold Dinar. The threat to European communications cash flow was real also. Italy did not pay the natural gas bill either it was written.
http://theduran.com/germany-italy-refus ... -on-syria/
The quality of Saudi oil is now declining and their influence is declining right along with it. The IPO will be a survival mechanism just a just another Business meeting.
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyd ... 14th-1945/

It was asked are you all right? The point remains few even consider the actual velocity money flow is tied up in paper tiger assets of
design anyways. We just touched on a few basic flow issues. If you consider what influences have just been eliminated no thinking mind can consider democrats for some time. The firewall seen is more than the majority can appreciate since they have no choice.

The democrats have sand fleas and the current fire wall is not a solution and will not dry out the swamp.
Taxpayers know this.

thread: vix amos 2018 anderson

[Higgenbotham]

The Dow futures opened a few minutes ago and are up 180. The stock indices haven't cleared last week's high yet, though they are close. It will probably take confirmation from Asia and Europe with no additional news overnight of much consequence to get over that hump.

It seemed like most of the forums were bearish on the weekend news. It's important to remember that the vast majority of what you read on the Internet comes from the 99+% who can't beat the market averages (and I can't beat the market averages either).

[John]

> The Dow futures opened a few minutes ago and are up 180. The
> stock indices haven't cleared last week's high yet, though they
> are close. It will probably take confirmation from Asia and
> Europe with no additional news overnight of much consequence to
> get over that hump.

> It seemed like most of the forums were bearish on the weekend
> news. It's important to remember that the vast majority of what
> you read on the Internet comes from the 99+% who can't beat the
> market averages (and I can't beat the market averages
> either).

> Continuing with the theme that I've been discussing for the last
> few weeks, the market has been in wild swings the last few weeks,
> down 572 today. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, since the
> market peaked on January 26, the market has been following a
> similar pattern to the period prior to the 1929 panic.

> The S&P 500 price/earnings ratio [on Friday morning was 24.92].

> http://www.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_30 ... dc_h_usshl

> The earnings period is going to start in earnest this week. The
> expectations are an astronomical earnings increase. If those
> astronomical expectations are not met, that could be the trigger.

> One theory is that the October 28, 1929, panic occurred because
> earnings were below expectations. If we want to guess at when
> there might be a panic this year, it would be on April 28,
> 2018.

From a WSJ Monday morning newsletter:

> The Bar Has Gotten High for Earnings Beats

> One problem with the ever-rising optimism surrounding
> U.S. corporate earnings: it’s becoming harder for companies to
> deliver results that boost their stock prices.

> Earnings season kicked off in earnest Friday when banks including
> JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and PNC Financial Services
> Group Inc. reported their results for the first quarter.

> Each of those companies reported double-digit profit growth for
> the period, but ultimately failed to impress investors.
> JPMorgan shares declined 3.6% Friday, while Citigroup fell 3% and
> PNC shed 4.5%.

> Analysts warn that other companies will likely face
> similarly-scrutinizing investors as they report earnings in the
> weeks ahead. That’s in part because expectations for profit growth
> among U.S. firms have gotten so lofty after a corporate tax-rate
> cut and a strong run for global growth.

> "Investors may have expectations that are simply impossible to
> meet," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at
> Commonwealth Financial Network, in an emailed market
> commentary. "If this kind of reaction is common this earnings
> season, that could weigh on the market."

> S&P 500 firms are forecast to report profits grew 17% in the first
> quarter of 2018 from a year earlier, according to data from
> FactSet Inc. That would be the strongest quarter of earnings
> growth since 2011.

> High hopes for earnings growth make it harder for companies to
> surprise investors with strong results, which can be a catalyst
> for a stock rally. At the same time, uncertainties over
> geopolitics, trade and tech regulation continue to loom over the
> market.

> Morgan Stanley thinks the earnings recovery will top out this year
> as the recent pace of growth puts companies up against tougher
> year-over-year comparisons. That could turn to a drag on the
> nine-year-old stock bull market, Morgan Stanley warns.

> "It’s more likely that we simply see an exhaustion in the earnings
> cycle as tax cuts and economic stimulus create comparisons that
> essentially sow the seeds of its own demise," the analysts
> wrote.

[aeden]

They had over three years to neutralize the current threat.
As we know it takes years for the UN to pick its nose on a topic and a colossal cost sink that in my view should be halved to send a clear
point you can provide water and tents and that about it dealing with monsters.
Hundreds of thousands dead from Monsters practicing systems with metrics few can ever follow H.
As the poem conveyed the world moved on.
As they hosed down the square and utilized dump trucks they ring the bell on avarice.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 26461.html
The never let a crisis go to waste is just another rhetorical tool since buy low and sell high against paper tigers of all stripes based on beta values
as they convey what is wrong with you as they never engage the first amendment confirms all natural rights come from god to speak as free men
and the second admendment to protect your family.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80206395 As this mockumentory conveys wait, since sooner or later we fail on levels and move ahead on others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2IVCyFt2Os

Narratives to solution who cater to the middle class fall as you conveyed H.
As we warned countless timed they are not out to skin the middle class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... 7G0OfJUON8

There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.

Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received over 2 million more votes than Trump.

Now you can see what we know in our region in metd and the thousands dumped here for agenda.

[aeden]

How does Facebook track non-users?
Facebook can get data from non-users when a Facebook account holder uploads email addresses of friends, for example. Other information comes from “cookies,” small files stored via web browsers that track people on the internet, Reuters reported.

http://gdxforum.com/forum/search.php?ke ... sf=msgonly

Thieves and deception is facebook.

[John]

How does Facebook track non-users?
Facebook can get data from non-users when a Facebook account holder uploads email addresses of friends, for example. Other information comes from “cookies,” small files stored via web browsers that track people on the internet, Reuters reported.

Duh!

[aeden]

“It’s not clear what Facebook is doing with that information,” Chris Calabrese, vice president for policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington advocacy group, told Reuters news.

https://thescene.com/watch/thenewyorker ... l-hearings
double duh

https://twitter.com/yoalexrapz/status/9 ... re-racists

triple duh

opps http://www.wcvarones.com/2018/04/calper ... tocks.html

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default ... k=-Q74Aedx
vix

[aeden]

2004 nugget

This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us Democrats as embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out hippies and communards, people who talk to telephone poles, the party of the Deadheads. They will wave enormous flags and wow over and over the footage of firemen in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and bodies being carried out and they will lie about their economic policies with astonishing enthusiasm.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/979/

We could only wish the current NPR bureau of internal affairs had a clue.

[aeden]

https://dealbreaker.com/2010/05/bridgew ... ildebeest/

Comeys other employer was the gray lady and the chief hyena.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04- ... -interview

360s end up being everyone’s chance to totally dig on and destroy other individuals and say whatever you want.

Like it was warned it has consequences if you remember.