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Gold big pop today actually looked scary...
Ya have to wonder who bot big
and why did they buy big...
Big rally just seems odd now...
Everyone has to go with their
own instincts...
Oilies running now after 4th passed is
abnormal and triggered my own spidy
senses more than other movers...
So we watch...LJ
Big Dow move up usually follows economy dropping...
counter to main street...
hard to figure how to play...
so we watch...LJ
temu pop up ads are worse than tik-toc
threat to folk's sanity...
some rich U.S. slob wants to hustle
more China products for profit...
same cheap products are on all other
media selling sites...
established sites which may be trusted
more to handle customer problems...
temu stuffing ads down people's throats
in an election year is Deplorable...
peon opinion, as always...
So we watch...LJ
TECH Sux now because it is too smart
for ad blockers from any company...
Should have 3 layers of ad blockers
in my pc set up...
That tells me that 3 tech companies
aren't worth a flip now...
So we watch...LJ
Oil price down overnight isn't likely due
to any rah-rah politico sentiment...
More probable in anticipation of some
building inventories last week...
Limited export activity could cause pressure
from the liquids not moving after Beryl...
Wouldn't make as good of headline reading
if inventories do build some weekly...
peon thesis on short term only...
Tech is eating up my data time at a furious
pace with all these damn pop up ads
on Sites Everywhere now...
Don't want any stinking tech play now...
OK, it is said and thru with the whining...
So we watch...LJ
Foxes are cool, most likely raccoons are the
blame for anything getting messed
with in an area...
Raccoons will tear up things and kill
small prey just for hell of it too...
BOIL was added because Freeport is due to
start moving natural gas again...
https://boereport.com/2024/07/15/freeport-lng-in-texas-on-track-to-take-in-natgas-again-after-hurricane-beryl/
Figured that had you wondering...
So so watch...LJ
Rally time has found me in a generous
selling mood for several days...
may have to have an exam for loss
of having a greedy outlook...
on the Index note...Indexes are revised at
the drop of a hat to keep the cream of
crop choices for current times only in
the Big Averages...
Wonder if there is any time machine
app that goes back only ten years to
the Index components then to compare
how things would have faired without
any changes versus with changes???...
So we watch...LJ
BOIL, have I got a surprise for you?...
Bot some starter shares in after
hours around $11ish...
Boy, wasn't that brave?!...
So we watch...LJ
:) someone has to poke big money maker
like you with a bad joke to keep
you on your game...
Lowered a gtc sell order on some
VTLE calls last night just in time to
miss some of the daily rally...
Did save the bigger lot to sell at a
better price on Monday thankfully...
So we watch...LJ
Your fox saw big Exit sign from MSTR
on Monday,
and has to be thinking....
umm-umm, going to be eating
good in the neighborhood now...
So we watch...LJ
Locked in short term profits on oil plays
today for this week with sold calls...
Added ERX 65 put this afternoon for
Friday also...they just wouldn't run it
up Friday when calls were held...
Locked in gains on FTCO for now...
Have a fox that navigates around that I
toss out scraps for, read that they will kill
snakes, so like to keep him around...
So we watch...LJ
Market was probably going to retreat Monday,
but the weekend activity should
bring in prop support...
PPI numbers that came out Friday
were on the warm side, actually worse
but temps outside only made them
look warm instead of hot...
INTC has had a big percentage run very
fast recently and it reminded me of the
low margin guidance put out by SMCI
at end of 1st quarter,,,
so INTC should be as vulnerable as other
hotter tech plays in a correction...
Very high tech prices need a lot of money
flow now to keep prices up, just like the
plants outside in heat need a lot more
water now to survive...
Gonna lean toward watch mode more...
So we watch...LJ
Israel kill rate of 90 on 07/13/24 was
higher than their daily average...
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-07-13-2024-83bc4de7ed25b317c7871fd5c0999ad1
Getting innocent folks packed in tighter
in Gaza has improved efficiency of the
killing rate there...
So we watch...LJ
SMCI should have low weekly put cost
to enter by Monday afternoon...
WBA has a whopping .07% weighting
in NDX to roll into SMCI...
https://www.slickcharts.com/nasdaq100
which could be lower on Friday...
Recent pump of past week or so
before official pr may have been the
highlight part till later in July...here kitty-
kitty is what MMs have been saying...
Exciting volatility it generally offers could
increase in the week ahead...
So we watch...LJ
riding along, with no particular place to go...
Sadly, one casualty and two critically injured
that were attending the rally...
He was covered for about a minute
near ground and probably got update
that shooter was down before any attempt
was made to move him...
He may not think like me or you...
When I got in the vehicle, I would have
had Nikki on speed dial and called...
'Hey Nikki, do you still want this job?...
Mr. Trump is well off and has nothing to
prove by winning again...His tax cuts on
corporations have made Insiders much
richer since they passed...So he won't
have a need for anything if needed...
So we watch...LJ
Looked like a clear lapse in security
this afternoon...
No one should be able to get within
100 yards or a little further with a
high powered rifle near any high
ranking Public Official in U.S....
Sniper couldn't have bot an easier
shot at Trump at the rally...
Trump looks very lucky considering that...
Sniper wasn't a hunter either and likely
has been watching video games of head
shots on targets...
Otherwise it could have been worse...
Pretty nutty that folks are even having
to discuss things like this happening...
Why don't they have bullet proof glass
on front and two sides of speakers at
events in this day and age?...
Trump has had those protectors in
the past when speaking...
So we watch...LJ
Dixie doesn't cool off between May and October...
You can only hope for a breeze
on any hot day...
And window shopping Inside cool stores
is a big past time...
So we watch...LJ
WBA will be on watch thru Friday...
Friday could be odd with Nasdaq
position exit...
Further weakness of WBA during the
week will lower amount to roll over
to buying SMCI position...
If you are following that thesis...
The Friday changeover in Russell
was ugly for ARM almost a month
ago now...
It is just the big money voting and making
the tape painting to view...
NASDAQ 100 is more like Nasdaq 20
with current voting tally setting prices...
So we watch...LJ
SMCI, be careful, already hyped up over
a week on replacing WBA in NDX...
SMCI already has over 53 billion
market cap...
WBA only has about 10 billion market cap...
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WBA/
WBA only has about .06% weighting in
NDX right now...
.06% weighting!...
https://www.slickcharts.com/nasdaq100
After the inclusion projected for Monday,
07/22/24,
there could be better prospects...
But not as probable in week ahead in an
already heated tech sector...
So we watch...LJ
India has been a larger Russian enabler
than China in the area of increasing
oil purchases at discount prices...
https://apnews.com/article/china-nato-ukraine-war-689834988a7e0543504010649a63e319
India was given seal of approval to buy
cheaper Russian oil by the top two
leaders in D.C. Executive Branch...
Watchers from neutral view might consider
it an attempt to promote growth in India
versus the China competitor...
So we watch...LJ
VTLE posted over $23/share of operating cash
flow over trailing twelve months using
the higher current share count...
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VTLE/key-statistics/
TSLA posted over $3/share of operating
cash flow over trailing twelve months...
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/key-statistics/
Still gonna stick with the loser selling
at a p.e ratio 20 times lower than a
current hot market play...
VTLE book value of around $80 per share
is 4 times higher than TSLA book value
of around $20/share...
Stock market is a voting machine for big
money where valuations often don't
get used by voters...
So we watch...LJ
Innovation can be ahead of our own ideas...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174747435
no new entries allowed...
a trade out locks in the gain on a pick...
so we watch...LJ
SP 10 contest...VTLE is the last pick that
I would have expected to be in last
place out of nine picks right now...
Cash is holding it's own...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174747407
Diversity is still a needed thingy...
So we watch...LJ
SPXS?...pretty remarkable positive percentage...
folks are either getting smarter or
riding a market wave up...
So we watch...LJ
ERX, NOG, VTLE, etc...oil companies haven't
caught up with higher oil prices
as of late for some reason...
https://www.barchart.com/futures/energies
Always another day ahead...
So we watch...LJ
Beryl has spawned large number of tornadoes
thru U.S. after making landfall...
It may be a record amount of
tornadoes spawned...
Difference between a tropical system growing
in intensity before landfall and dropping in
intensity prior to landfall is huge...
So we watch...LJ
SMCI needs to go green on Friday
to help contest picks...
Folks confused it with over priced
Nasty index companies on Thursday...
MSTR looks like it may help yours
on Friday...
steady goes the climbing goats...
So we watch...LJ
SQQQ calls were a surprise one bagger
on Friday after entry on Thursday...
Pure de luck on timing beats no
luck at all...
some underwater tsla puts also bounced to
one bagger status, only on gtc order hits,
they quickly dropped their prices, which
they do most days on tsla puts, odd to
watch that activity...
So we watch...LJ
forward split...dump that diluting pig!...
so we watch...LJ
2023 Global Oil Consumption Hits Historic Milestone
Of 100 Million Barrels Per Day...
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Global-Oil-Consumption-Hits-Historic-100-Million-Barrels-Per-Day-Milestone.html
Record gasoline use world wide even
with many more EVs also being driven...
Told you that roads were busier than ever...
So we watch...LJ
TSLA - China - bicycles - rising EV sales
by China companies in 2024 are
still putting margin pressure on TSLA...
Bicycles are still owned by most China
folks in case the power goes out,
so the EVs adapting better in China are
understandable versus in the U.S...
TSLA isn't projected to report until around
the 23rd...
so the pre earnings pump really came early...
Waiting to buy Puts until 22nd will avoid decay
until then for folks buying those weekly contracts...
My own timing has been terrible because of
thinking they might report any day the way
they have been pumping up the price...
TSLA is expected to report almost 5% drop
in 2nd quarter Deliveries versus a year ago,
which should have margin pressure in
achieving the results versus a year ago
also, but how much extra cost is left for
reducing employee head count?...
ARM looks like it is selling at around three
times higher than it should be,,,but it was
added to Nasdaq 100 to be promoted and
increase promoting on Ai maybe more...
So ARM seems one to avoid for Puts
despite the reckless pricing of it...
Putting a band aid on my bloody finger
and will just watch the pumps from
afar for now...
SQQQ dabble is just in case those puters
have a glitch on any given day...
So we watch...LJ
SQQQ, rofl, there are future quotes and
index quotes daily on NDX which
SQQQ has to track against...
pickem for the HIGHs of the index...
NDX quote from investing.com that was
put in post earlier is same as Etrade uses...
SQQQ may be moving against a combination
of real time and future index values...
Either way SQQQ goes up when TECH
ever does go down...
Ukraine popped on another oil site of Russia
a few days ago but it had to be muted when
folks were fretting over Beryl potential impacts...
Israel tossed a match on the fire to torch the
ceasefire talks for last few days...
Same old, same old, in the watch of Total
Democratic control in U.S. keeping the
fires burning around the world...
So we watch...LJ
No site is spoon feeding that Gaza folks
are getting mowed down daily...
https://www.google.com/search?q=gaza+news&rlz=1C1RXMK_enUS1056US1056&oq=gaza&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggHEAAYsQMYgAQyBwgAEAAYjwIyCggBEC4YsQMYgAQyCggCEC4YsQMYgAQyCggDEC4YsQMYgAQyDQgEEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQyDQgFEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQyCggGEAAYsQMYgAQyCggHEAAYsQMYgAQyDQgIEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQyCggJEAAYsQMYgATSAQg1MDExajBqNKgCALACAQ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
got nothing else for you...
So we watch...LJ
VTLE, State Street reported selling off
shares in 2nd quarter...
which helped peons buy shares at
lower prices for investment longer term...
so we watch...LJ
SQQQ bot with NDX at 20,660 level...
NDX pricing above rational values
surged even more in only a week...
https://www.investing.com/indices/nq-100
So we watch...LJ
Jews accused of setting up 'death corridors' to
herd Gaza folks into for killing...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/10/israel-war-on-gaza-live-israel-strikes-fourth-school-in-gaza-killing-29
About the size of Maryland, so would
the world step in to stop it if it
was happening there?...
Serious question there...
So we watch...LJ
VTLE only add today, already lost too much
on arm puts to average down
on more tsla puts...
looks like energy demand is in toilet
with VTLE down 2 days in a row...
better be careful with these AI top
pumps going on now...
oh wait, higher chip prices driving up
tech prices will lower inflation...
peons always last to know...
So we watch...LJ
betcoin, Georgia is biggest energy waster in U.S.
by State Size in betcoin mining...
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/07/09/18/87123269-13616345-image-a-31_1720547466092.jpg
Have to give credit for poor choices
where the credit is due...
Texas is hard up for biz with as many
betcoin miners as they have, but they
natural gas to flare out there...
So we watch...LJ
Texas goal was restore power to 1 million
on Tuesday,
and they came close...
https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas
Centerpoint always seems to be listed
as a problem child in Texas for outages
during bad weather events...
Folks need some cooler air badly there...
So we watch...LJ