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Wow, look at the charts. You could not ask for anything better. Now it seems everyone is thinking to buy.
Let's see if we can get a little higher, but then I say short the hell out of this thing. :)
What is the worse thing you could do at a time like this. Yep...raise taxes and cut government spending, etc. Can't wait to see how this all plays out. Makes you scratch your head to see the market rise while all of this is happening.
The market is not always right, btw...so don't use that as your pillar to lend on.
Ok, I sold "everything" last week. I certainly made up for my mistakes this year with that triple long SEMI ETF. SOXL.
Apple I sold for a small loss.
I feel that this market has not had a proper correction yet. So I am waiting for that to happen before going back in.
I have sure made some mistakes this year. So now I want to see if the mistakes continue. I am now all in. Bought some AAPL and went triple on SEMI's and the Russell 2000.
If the ship is going down, I am going down with it. :)
Wow, two really nice days back to back. Nice to see. Hopefully this signals the bottom.
Well, ok. Back to buying today. QE3 will give us yet another fake rally. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Went back to all cash again today. Made a little bit of money so am happy for now.
As a homework assignment I went thru a lot of the semis' charts today and looked at the long term. What I see is bad news. Not only have the majority flat-lined, but some are in a long-term downtrend.
There will be no growth for years to come. There is no silver bullet on the horizon too. There is nothing to make people want to invest again. Kinda Sad!!!
And all I see is government keeping the floor under the market. What an extreme joke. Almost make it impossible to trade and make serious money.
Well, we have had two big down days here recently. Mostly because of Intel warning again this quarter.
I say this continues to fall. I went short on Friday because of Intel. Now I have my fingers crossed we have a repeat of last quarter.
But either way I believe we are now in a stagnation environment. Not good for the markets going forward...not good at all!!!
Also, I went to all cash.
With the VIX down this low there is no volatility to this market. So I am going to wait until everyone is back from vacation to see what happens.
I say the market sells off when they get back. This is one fake rally imo.
Well, KCG did jump 60 percent the next day. Then it fell back 25 percent from there and has been dead every since. I bought and sold quickly.
One thing I have learned about individual stocks. When something goes wrong it usually affects the stock for A LONG TIME TO COME. So never hold onto these. And this is also the reason to not buy low PE stocks. If they are low, then they are low for a reason. And my reason is wall-street does not like it. So always go fine something else to buy or do what I do. Never buy until a disastor strikes. I love disastors. :) It is called when good companies go on sale. :)
KCG gets slammed today and after-hours. This may be a temporary buy tomorrow.
FYI, I hate sharp rallies. It screams bear market and I do not like it.
But there are those times when the market is saying this is as bad as it gets so buy. I do not believe this is one of those times. But hey, I have been wrong before. :)
Wow, nice bounce here. Is the bottom put in? We shall see, but I do not think so. This may just be another hope rally. Yeah, another rally that has no foundation.
I really wish I was wrong, but like I have said no one is doing anything to fix the problems.
Well, here is the engine finally giving up somewhat. The markets are falling in a descent manner finally.
But there is no real fear yet so the bottom is not being put in right here. At this rate we have a ways to go.
I am ok with it. Give me a slow ride down those usually last the longest and make me the most money so bring it on!!!
And expect it to continue. No one is doing anything to fix the problems. Don't lose site of this.
See. A lot of volatility and the nothing major happening. It is like the engine is stuck in neutral.
I say the market gets much worse before rising again though. The news has been exactly what I have thought so far. Bad. How could it be anything else? No one is fixing the problems. And I am talking world-wide. No one is doing anything which really solves the problem. All I see is a lot of bandaids. Pretty sad actually.
So if nothing else we can expect to have recessions every five or so years. I say we are in one now. So expect it and enjoy them when they come around. :) Things get cheaper during recessions which I apsolutely love. :) And I am not just talking the markets. I am talking everything for the most part. Wood, Concrete, ETC, ETC.
Wow, what weird volitility we have had recently.
It almost looks like we will be doing a lot of grinding up and down for awhile but really not going anywhere.
But that all depends on the news going forward. As always though!!! Right?
So anyway I do not see things getting better. I sure hope I am wrong, but no one is really doing anything to fix the core cause of the problems. So why should I ever think different? And why should the market act any different than it already has been.
The market is suck a scam!!!
Well, I made a mistake with this years market action. I never expected a correction in USD of this magnitude but in hindsight it makes sense.
Now I believe we see some more downside from here or at least a lot of playing around at these levels. Why? Because of the coming election, economy, etc. But underneath it all you can see how the market wants to go higher, but it can't right now.
The market always seems to hate uncertainty, but that may not exactly be true because everything is uncertain in my opinion.
So if you haven't bought then hold off a while longer before going long.
I do have to say though. I love that gold is correcting!!! At least my shorts in this have been doing fantastic!!! And yes I expect more downside for this!!! So in the end this may be a lot more than a correction for this over inflated identity.
I love this:
http://news.yahoo.com/fed-set-push-back-timing-eventual-rate-hike-062228341.html
Not only are most of the CEO's and most of the company earnings helping to push the now rolling ball, but the FED wants to keep it rolling right into the elections.
Don't you just love it when they make it easy for us to predict the future. LOL!!!
Nice! TXN CEO calls Chip 'Bottom'. That is why I said this year I hold on. No trading. I love the bottoms. :)
OH NO!!! Someone posted on this board. I guess I should sell everything now. :)
How about the pop today? If you were a day trader, there is a chance you missed this which is why I am not one.
Also, this year may be a good year for US stocks. States are now giving raises after a break. A lot of political money is getting thrown around because of the coming election. ETC. So this year I will mostly likely not trade a lot. Because I do not expect there to be nice dips like we had the last few years. You know the politicians want it all rosy come election time. You have to love corruption. :)
But hey, I do not have a crystal ball and I never have all the answers so I could be totally wrong and I am not afraid to admit that. Stocks are nothing but a game so play the odds.
Anyway, thanks for posting.
There is maybe one person out there reading this, but I will say it anyway.
It was pretty hard holding on during this last round wasn't it? Goes to show you buying when the odds are greatly in your favor is very nerve racking. So learning to ignore all the BS is the trick. Can you do that while reading all the news feeds? NO! Can you do that by listening to your broker. NO! And for ETC the answer is NO. Many believe they have the answers to making money in the markets, but all of them have one thing in common. Stupidity!!! Or maybe they are very smart...and know what I am saying...so they sell this crap to the idiots out there. After all it is all about making money right? So they can not make money in the markets so they make the money off of subscribers. Funny isn't it!!!
So, ok, no one may be reading this, but that is because there are so few out there like me. And so few of my group that even post at all. Which I love. Because I do not want the crowd doing what I am doing. Then it would stop working.
This way of making money is boring though and almost all do not like boring. So I think I am safe with this way of making money going forward.
So no one reading or even posting in this forum as well as many other forums I see is a real good thing!!! :)
I am so amazed at how the swings of the markets seem to keep repeating themselves.
How could the market think one thing for a short while then up and forget about that certain thing a while later to come full circle to think about that thing again. How is that for a run on? And how is that for not making any sense. Perfect for the markets. :)
I bought in at $32.08 and now it is $36.82.
Looks like we are still wanting to go higher too. Santa is being kind this year. :)
All I can say is BAM!!! I timed this bounce almost exactly right. Wow, what a wonder up-day we just had. WOW!!!
Another pretty nice downturn has made me buy back in again. Let's see how much of a bounce we get here.
Making money is fun isn't it? NOT!!! :)
Well, look at this. We have some or most indexes breaking out of their bases. Now that is great. Let's see if it can hold.
I believe it just might because even financials are doing ok and tech is leading. A very good sign!!!
I spoke to soon.
The market has to show me some footing here. Let's give it a few weeks.
Well, I made a mistake selling.
Intel will be up tomorrow most likely. The market liked the report it seems.
Sold everything today. I did well this round so am going to step aside and see what happens with the market going forward. Might even take some time off.
Well, glad I held on to my longs. Now I am going to sell all my shorts. Hope I have some pants somewhere. :)
Well, I did something I have not done in many years. I have not sold during this current market snap down. The market is sure screaming that I should sell though. But this is the moment truth. Will this actually create a point where I can put my parent's money to work on the long side. Or should I continue the shorts. It seems ever bounce is treated with a nice sell-off. Will that continue?
We shall see...
Another wonderful day. Wow, Gold is continuing to fall. I LOVE IT!
I wish I shorted China as well. Have not taken the chance on that this year, but wish I would have, but Gold is making up for everything anyway so WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Want a wonderful day. Gold took another big dump today. The turn downward for Gold seems to be upon us. Hope you are enjoying the ride down. :)
Oh, and outside of some international ETFs...Gold and Silver took the biggest dumps today. Now that I love. :)
I am a little mad again today. I should have sold more of my long positions and gone short. I knew it. The FED meeting would start the ball rolling down hill again. Sometimes I want to scream!!!
I have a few problems though. The rise was extremely fast in my opinion which I mentioned in an earlier post. This is why I sold some. Now this fall is doing the same thing. It is to fast. So I am going to go fully long again tomorrow. I know...it may be way to soon, but we shall see. The VIX has shot up which I love to see and the bond market was to relaxed in my opinion today.
And read this: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FedEx-sees-global-slowdown-apf-758456513.html?x=0
FEDEx sees a global slowdown. Ok, I had been seeing this already too because it usually happens when the market goes thru a correction. People get scared and scale back their spending. But what is important in the article is they say they do not see a recession. YES, now that is more like it. Exactly!!!
Again, we just need the FED to stop spooking everyone. Let the markets do their magic. :)
I have to wonder. Did the market rise only in anticipation of what the FED would do or say? Did it think that the FED would say things will get better soon? Did it think this was only going to be a short-term downturn in the economy? What did it think and why? Because after the FED announcement it sunk like a rock.
So what do we do now? Put our profits we took only a few days ago back to work on the long-side? Or does the smart money wait for a bit before doing so?
I had to laugh when the FED said the economy will not recover until many years out. They do not know what will happen tomorrow or next week for that matter. They are out of their minds. The economy movement is up to all the consumers and the businesses out there run by people like you and me. It is up to us to decide to take on more risk and spend or start a business or grow the one you own, etc. The FED does not know whether I will decide to get bigger in two years and guess what I am not going to tell them anything before I make my move either. And let me guess...neither will most of you out there. So the FEDs are idiots. They need to shut the heck up and get out of the way and let the free markets go.
I just can't believe they are actually listened too.
It was again nice to see the NASDAQ bounce off of its lows. And to close positive is great. Again ignoring the news.
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113510/trump-gold-marketwatch?mod=bb-budgeting
Gold is definitely in a bubble, but when will it burst? It's anyone's guess, but look at how it is being accepted now. Remember the late 90's when tech was the accepted? We have been here before. The beast just has different cloths on now. :)
It is funny, but if you look at the NASDAQ chart for the last three days you find it repeating itself. That is weird.
Well, today was a good end-of-the day finish so I am semi-relaxed again. :)
Wow, even my financial bets are doing kinda good. Can this be happening in this environment? Well, maybe. It has to turn at some point.
And Gold is down today. This is great. Let's continue to see if this can last.
AND I do not like end-of-day declines. The NASDAQ is doing that right now.