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OT A-Rod - or is it A-Fraud - just keeps looking worse & worse.
The tip-off scheme (to opposing team's batters about his team's pitches) looks really bad:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/04/30/roberts.qa/index.html?eref=T1
I'll bet someone's going through old tapes of games to see if they can verify this.
A drop like this would still allow for an EOM play:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_person.asp?membernum=40848&nummsgs=1
If the SPX keeps consolidating sideways within the triangle that could set up for a nice EOMonth move up in keeping with EOMonth seasonality.
Hey ajtj, are you still on board for the comparison to 1938?
http://mrci.com/special/dspi38.php
If that year is followed it looks like a heck of a rally off a May low.
would everybody please stop looking for a top!
sure, let's everyone watch this video...
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=69893
ajtj, the swags that you (I think) and others have made for the ultimate SPX low are in the 500s. Yet looking at that chart I don't see much resistance between approx 480 and 640. Isn't it more likely that the low will be in one of these two areas?
OT: or a special edition of The Biggest Loser featuring state governors & their budgets.
I'm waiting for one of the networks to came out with a version of "Survivor' for bankers. :))
Well, the month is only half over
That was a weekly (not monthly) chart and the week in question is complete. So I think the bullish message is still there.
The RUT weekly shows a key outside reversal (not noted on other indices):
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$RUT&p=W&yr=1&mn=0&dy=0&id=p09212300523
why would someone living like that need an iron???
Hey, irons are great for heating up pop-tarts & other delicacies. :))
junk (JNK & HYG) is falling out of bed, not a good sign for markets
A sign of the times - Avis offers cheap one-way rentals out of Florida:
http://www.avis.com/car-rental/content/display.ac?contentId=one-way-florida-US_en-012036
Cars must be dropped off at participating Avis corporate locations in the Piedmont region - GA, TN, NC, SC, LA, MS and AR.
You buying?
chichi2, re: cpc ratio, see mrnatural's graphical analysis in this post (esp. Aroon oscillator):
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35208595
Were the selloffs in your study minor or enough to get us to a lower low than last Fall?
After a head-fake south TIP has broken up:
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=TIP&p=D&yr=0&mn=8&dy=0&id=p95572685981&a=153240520
IMHO ETN's are a riskier vehicle since (in addition to market risk) the financial institution issuing these notes can fail. I avoid them.
There's comparisons here:
http://www.etfguide.com/etfvsetn.htm
http://www.fool.com/investing/etf/2007/05/23/etfs-newest-rival.aspx
LOL!
The rate is going up to 1,000-Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars next month, so it pays to sign up now
Hey, with Zimbabawe's inflation in a month a 1,000-Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars will be worth less than a $1-Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars is worth today. So it pays to wait. <G>
Hey, I use it for trades and so far I'm beating the banking index over the last year. :))
It's one of these:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ssanty/cgi-bin/eightball.cgi
Awww, you're no fun. :))
By the way, TIP has traded most of the day at 99.20, plus or minus .02. It looks stuck.
Mark's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He demonstrated one of my items on camera once and couldn't stop playing with it for about an hour after that.
OK so now I'm wondering, what kind of gadget would Mark play with for an hour?
Some ideas:
- a wind-up doll
- a reducing mirror
- a remote control
- an 8-ball that tells you to sell or buy when you turn it upside down
Inquiring minds wanna know, just what was it?
This suggests inflation:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2cFf0LHc_GM&refer=home
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- For the first time since 2007, Treasury investors are betting that inflation will accelerate.
The yield on 10-year notes exceeds the consumer price index by 2.72 percentage points, the most since December 2006. The gap between two- and 10-year rates widened at the fastest pace in a year last month as traders demanded more compensation for longer-term debt. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities that signaled falling prices as recently as Nov. 20 show they will increase in the U.S. this year.
[more at link]
TIP is at the tipping point:
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=TIP&p=D&yr=0&mn=8&dy=0&id=p95572685981&a=153240520
Meanwhile, JO's tic-tac-toe charts are spelling potential doom:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35289005
OT: It’s the Economy, Girlfriend
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/nyregion/28daba.html?em
excerpt:
They shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help women cope with the inevitable relationship fallout from, say, the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the Dow’s shedding 777 points in a single day, as it did on Sept. 29.
In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as “free from the scrutiny of feminists,” that invites women to join “if your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life.”
My records show I extended in late July, so I probably got the email earlier that month.
I recd an email from them last year saying extend now because prices are going up. Maybe you missed it.
Thanks!
ajtj, which one of those do you put more faith in, equity or total?
RE: Chairman of BAC just bought 200,000 shares at market prices.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/celebrating-incompetent-insider-stock-buys/
OT I didn't catch Les' post or I wouldn't have repeated it. Sorry. A truly bizarre story nonetheless.
OT Inflation bugger detained:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/21/sex.shop.arrest/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
That video is as timeless as Lefevre's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.
Sorry you only have 3hrs:30 minutes left
Well, so much for your Eagles making it to the SB. :))
OT
“God bless Greenspan,” the post read, “patron saint of pool skatin’.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/us/29pools.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
OT: Bailouts gone wild. :)))
Hustler Publisher and Girls Gone Wild CEO Want Porn Bailout
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/07/hustler-publisher-girls-gone-wild-ceo-ask-bailout