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it is all about iphone now -- this is first quarter where profits from Iphone will be revealed it isn't just hardware sales but more important the money they get from ATT which is all cream on top.
on top of that you have Europe about to release iphone which means more cream in the future
oh yeah it is also a computer company
and Leopard is releasing which unlike Vista is getting rave reviews
AAPL is running on all cylindars my friend
Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush
Stunning Reversal for Former Veep
Just days after former Vice President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on global warming, the United States Supreme Court handed Mr. Gore a stunning reversal, stripping him of his Nobel and awarding it to President George W. Bush instead.
For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of the Nobel committee and the world, the high court’s decision to give his prize to President Bush was a cruel twist of fate, to say the least.
But in a 5-4 decision, the justices made it clear that they had taken the unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore of his Nobel because President Bush deserved it more.
“It is true that Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming,” wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority. “But President Bush has actually helped create global warming.”
Even as Mr. Gore was being stripped of his Nobel, he received strong words of support from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who said that the former vice president’s Nobel win “shows that he is devoting his life to the right thing and should definitely stay the course.”
In an interview with reporters in Iowa, Sen. Clinton said that “Al Gore should remain dedicated to the cause of global climate change, at least through November of 2008.”
Sen. Clinton suggested that Mr. Gore could further research the source of global warming by immediately boarding a rocket ship to the sun.
http://borowitzreport.com/
TRIN is in no man's land -
Foot was just going to post this 3 line break signal
look how long the uptrend has been on this 3 line chart
BE Trin is still about 1.0 so no bouncing
Think we have more down tomorrow? why?
easy way to stop illegal immigration to enforce and heavily fine any employers that hire illegals -- but as Bush has shown by the guest worker proposal = cutting off cheap labor to employers is that last thing Bush wants to do.
where is your three line chart page ?
if Mr System has been in long mode since friday why arey ou buying puts??
blasher
I am trying to get to a similar holy grail like you
a short term QQQQ options system that can generate 5% -40% a trade.
for instance so far this have been what would be considered a flat day for QQQQ and yet qqqq 52 oct call range has been .78 to .95 which is 20%
qqqq 52 oct put range .44- .56 which is also 20%
so if you could just figure out a system to catch these moves even if you don't get entrance and exit exactly right you could still do very well
blasher --
maybe your system is set up for short term trades and by getting shorter term options it will force you to lock in profits -- which will be higher because options closer to expiration are more voliatle
blasher
thanks for the info-- I have followed your trades on here and it seems you have never held any options more than a few days-- a few times you have done multiple trades during the day -- so the delta would not matter at all for such a short term trades.
I am trying similar strategy -- I find if I have longer term options and they don't go my way at first instead of getting out of the trade with small loss -- I tend to hold and hope for recovery - This never works.
a question
why do you buy options that are so out of date and out of money?
if you signal is short term - for instance why not buy Oct call options
look forward to your blogging blash
hmmm so far up day !!!
blasher
how come your system doesnt' give you buy signals --
I think the market is strong because unemployment insurance applications were much weaker this weak than expected
this is perfect place to buy a call and put on QQQQ whichever way the market goes it is going to be a large move
Greenspan the enabler -- it is pretty hollow for him to criticize Bush's economic policies when he had the influence to stop it and was cheerleading instead.
the classic example was when greenspan said in congressional testimony that consumers would be better off with ARMs that fix rate mortgages even though at the time fix rates were at 30 year low.
the three sisters RIMM , GOOG and AAPL have lead this NAS bull run - - well yesterday AAPL new product line kind of bombed in addition their 2007 flagship product is flopping which required a 40% price cut.. I would think this is going to start the NAS drop.
200 bucks was a big cut-- I think that part of this is apple needs to clear inventory to make way for iphone rev b-- 16gig 3g model coming out in october .. it will be interesting what will be the price of this model.. is 399 now the top price for an iphone?
it is getting announced now
new nano -- plays video fatter than old version
impossibly thin
ipod clasic which is video ipod with 160 GIG 40k songs !
ipod touch - iphone without the phone -- ipod with wifi and multi touch
Robert Gates is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."
"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"
I still think the trend is down -- we are hitting lower highs on low volume -
wow fed to the rescue... 50 basis points --
obviously it is the democrats
ha ha damn THAT is what the problem is ...
for 3 years I have had the chart upside down!
did someone posted recently about if index closes the same 8 days before OE and the tuesday of OE is it a strong trend?
so wait
__1Best__ has been saying for the past week that the market swoon is a democratic conspiracy and now you guys are saying the happy talk of the markets is a democratic conspiracy--
can you guys please make up your minds
sorry but how in the world are "Democrats " creating this problem?
pretty weak day-- the volume was very low-- I was thinking we would have strong rebound today -- the fact that we didn't makes me suspect that things are not all rosey in sub prime land
sorry that is the kind of comment that you make at a cocktail party with a bunch of economists that isn't the type of comment the Federal Reserve Chairman makes in congressional testimony- it is supremely irresponsible remember at the time interest rates were at historic lows-- If Greenspan wanted to give the average american advice --- he should have said lock in fix rate mortgage NOW you will never see them this low for a generation!
It was so transparent that he wanted americans to continue to refinance to keep economy going.
- it is obvious that Bush administration used the booming housing market to prop up the economy-- they encourage refinancing and taking equity out of homes to pump the economy-- like any house of cards it was bound to fall down
and btw actually Greenspan DID contribute to this subprime mess-
Greenspan says ARMs might be better deal
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/fed/2004-02-23-greenspan-debt_x.htm
Money Quote"....American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage," Greenspan said."
the problem is n't interest rates the problem is liquidity -- the fed addressed this on friday -- I would suspect that for short term the world governments will do everything in their power to keep liquidity in US mortgage markets -- the question is whether the problem is worse than firms are letting on.
the whole government intervension is just a straw man -
we just had the government intervene in the mortgage market !!!! they pumped in 35 billion dollars == why are n't you screaming about that -- that is government intervention and it most obvious and explicit
why the in world is government interferening in the mortgage market??? because if they didn't the whole stock market would have melted down causing a world wide panic.
I belive government's role is to be an UNBIAS referee between the players in the economy -- consumers, , investors,corporation , evironment , small business etc..
Yes sometimes Government needs to MANDATE that automakers put in seat belts into their cars.. because if they didn't-- the market would have some cars with seat belts and some without ..
(and there would be huge marketing campaigns on whether seat belts are good or not.)
this whole free market idea is really a myth
euterpe1 I second your plan--
it is exactly what we need !
I suspect that when Al Gore throws his hat into the ring
this is pretty much going to be his platform.
thinking of buying both put and call into close cause something is going to break on monday one way or the other
corporate welfare is perfect fine "good for the country!" amazing !
afternoon scenarios
da boyz start to get jittery and we start diving going into the close
da boyz know that the fed is going to help out someway (surprise rate cut next week?) and we close strong.
I suspect aapl will pull back to SMA 100 of 115 when all is said and done
aapl ran up from 83 in March to 148 in July - it is giving back some of the run up