TRADERS ANONYMOUS: Morning Audibles 7.28.10 - How to Run a Blog in the Middle of the Summer

Morning Audibles 7.28.10 - How to Run a Blog in the Middle of the Summer

So how DOES one actually run a blog in the middle of the summer?

LESSON 1:

Post a picture of either of these people...

Simply 'seeing' those images, should draw in enough nitwits who will wander in like sheep & provide you with a lush comment section so that your sponsors will stay put...

LESSON 2:

As the nitwits take the bait, you make sure you chime in with your own neutral take on the matter...

Is that the QUIZZICAL look? Or is it the CONTEMPLATING one?

Deep, deep thinking going on there...

OTOH

LESSON 3:

Then, when you have a BLOG FULL OF SOUNDLY REASONED ARGUMENTS... What do you do for an encore?... Why naturally, you take the next logical step and ask people what they'd do to BANG SCARLETT JOHANSSON...

http://www.thingsiwoulddotobangscarlettjohansson.com/

And THAT... My friends... Is how you operate a blog in the middle of the summer of a "typical recovery"... (for maximum effect)...

Tomorrows Topic?

"Stock tips from Justin Beiber"

Next Week?

- "How to do pirhouettes in a typical recovery (by Barton Biggs)".

- "Is Grey Poupon kosher?".

- "The next 10 things, that haven't occurred yet, that we cam blame George Bush on... a panel discussion".

- "thingsiwoulddotobangtheflightattendantinfirstclassthatlookslikescarlettjohansson", while I'm traveling.

- Friday OPEN THREAD - mellow jazz tunes to show everyone how cool I am.

EPILOGUE

Never... And I mean NEVER, talk about charts, stocks, elliott waves, moving averages, options expiries, cardinal crosses, candles, fibonacci levels, golden crosses, death crosses, momo mondays, finreg bills, QE, beige books, jobless claims, GDP, earnings, EBITDA, guidance... or ANYTHING resembling anything mentioned...

- - -

CV? Basically I suck at running a blog... So I'm just going to show you how Ben Bernocchio manages to levitate an equity market in the middle of an economic meltdown of biblical proportions...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhoos1oY404&feature=related

281 comments:

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CV said...: But if you toss me that "heater" MEAT... low and inside, like I like it...

I'm going to nail the bull on the warehouse and win me a free steak dinner...; July 29, 2010 at 2:01 PM
18 said...: CV
The "18" numbers are static, MA's are dynamic. Maybe sometimes at some point they can merge and that's where changes occur. To many possibilities :)

ahh crap, got caught blogging and not working...AGAIN! LOL; July 29, 2010 at 2:01 PM
McFearless said...: DL,

1:48, how can anyone take his comments seriously? They carry no weight coming from him. He had it so rough though, had to go hide out in a cabin for a few months so I guess he now knows about 'sacrifice'

whatever.....; July 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM
Mr. Slate said...: 18... You're fired!; July 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM
McFearless said...: obama did the view?

wtf?

that bothers me on a number of levels.; July 29, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Mannwich said...: @DL: Old "cash and carry" is a real piece of work. And not in a good way. Now that his ass has been bailed out by US, it's time for us all (except for he and his friends, of course) to engage in "shared sacrifice". What fucking clown.

Should be at the head of the line when the real social unrest begins. By then, he'll be hiding out again in his "cabin", no doubt.; July 29, 2010 at 2:06 PM
karen said...: a good one: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Still Too Big to Nail: Jonathan Weil; July 29, 2010 at 2:06 PM
McFearless said...: he's a bastard manny. but, his views are really just a reflection of most people in this country, as long as I got mine ...ya heard.; July 29, 2010 at 2:09 PM
arbitrage789 said...: McF @ 2:02

Of course we have to cut entitlements. But one of the points is that, of the pundits and journalists who were telling us how wonderful bailouts and “stimulus” would be, none was willing to tell us that as a consequence, the entitlement cuts would come sooner and go deeper than would otherwise have been the case. (To say nothing of the tax issue).; July 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Shortcrone said...: We run into more and more people that just need counsel, not products. And there are lots of people that just need to organize their financial lives, but changing brokerages etc. would just add cost and little benefit to them and frankly, to us. For example, my retired couple that just wants to make sure they will have enough to live on. Moving them out of their annuities would compromise death benefits, etc. We're thinking of implementing a retainer plan that pays for some face time with us and emailed info, etc. so that they are not embarrassed to ask for help when they need it, and so they aren't at the mercy of the next salesperson that calls. That's how we'd deal with the $500 Roth IRa client too.; July 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM
CV said...: @Laurel

SORRY - But I didn't see this comment until just now (from a few days ago on another thread)...

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Laurel said...
Pluto is still a planet. Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers. One reason the IAU definition makes no sense is it says dwarf planets are not planets at all! That is like saying a grizzly bear is not a bear, and it is inconsistent with the use of the term “dwarf” in astronomy, where dwarf stars are still stars, and dwarf galaxies are still galaxies. Also, the IAU definition classifies objects solely by where they are while ignoring what they are. If Earth were in Pluto’s orbit, according to the IAU definition, it would not be a planet either. A definition that takes the same object and makes it a planet in one location and not a planet in another is essentially useless. Pluto is a planet because it is spherical, meaning it is large enough to be pulled into a round shape by its own gravity--a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium and characteristic of planets, not of shapeless asteroids held together by chemical bonds. These reasons are why many astronomers, lay people, and educators are either ignoring the demotion entirely or working to get it overturned.

July 28, 2010 1:17 AM

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Thanks for that :-); July 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Mannwich said...: Exactly ben. That's the biggest problem right now. It's all about culture. "Shared sacrifice" is for the other guy down the road. Entitlement pervades our culture, but it starts at the top, where there's a MASSIVE sense of it. The worst part about it is those folks have no clue about this.....in their "world", this is all normal and just.; July 29, 2010 at 2:11 PM
McFearless said...: DL, 2:10, no doubt, I agree. I'm beyond tired of hearing from the few, what it is that the many need, you know...what's good for us.; July 29, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I-Man said...: Here comes the changeup CV...; July 29, 2010 at 2:15 PM
CV said...: @Laurel

One of these days then, I'd like to ask your opinion on this:

Before Neptune & Pluto were discovered they were only "theoretical" planets (based on abberations in observations on planet Uranus)...

Then, of course, they were discovered...

But the problem was, that the mass of Pluto was proper with respect to the abberation...

Supposedly, the riddle was solved when Voyager 2 did its flyby of Uranus and the mass of the planet was re-calculated...

CV IS SKEPTICAL of this (intuitively)...

Basically, I think there's another planet out there... LARGER... with a crazy orbit that nobody has yet seen, or discovered...

Thoughts?; July 29, 2010 at 2:17 PM
McFearless said...: C,

haven't you ever heard of krypton?; July 29, 2010 at 2:19 PM
CV said...: @I-Man

If you throw me a change-up, I'm going to watch it drift out of the strike zone...

CV is looking for the heater...

I'll take the walk... & probably steal second while I'm at it (so your walk just turned into a double)...; July 29, 2010 at 2:19 PM
arbitrage789 said...: Astronomy now?

We do it all at Survivor Capital.; July 29, 2010 at 2:19 PM
CV said...: @McF

Sometimes I feel like I'm wearing a KRYPTONITE necklace...

Other times I feel like I-Man...

But NOBODY... I mean NOBODY... can EVER feel like TWSWB...

http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/3/15/633727428395740610-GeneralZodKneelbeforehim.jpg; July 29, 2010 at 2:21 PM
CV said...: @DL

I'm telling you... CV's tactic is to keep changing the subject...

"If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance... Baffle 'em with BS"...; July 29, 2010 at 2:23 PM
CV said...: OK... Here comes TOPSTEP's chance to bust 1104...; July 29, 2010 at 2:24 PM
I-Man said...: The Market will give us a sign.; July 29, 2010 at 2:25 PM
CV said...: @I-Man

"The indices will lead us..."

HIGHER/LOWER

Vote early - Vote often...; July 29, 2010 at 2:27 PM
McFearless said...: so, seeing as how I'm a frou frou drinker...I'll come out with this, I'm also a huge fan of the show Smallville.; July 29, 2010 at 2:27 PM
18 said...: Maybe there's a black hole nearby sucking in all of our planets :O; July 29, 2010 at 2:28 PM
I-Man said...: "Water seeks its level, you can force it higher with a pump, but when you stop pumping it requires no force to cause it to return to its former level. Stocks and Commodities are the same. They can be forced above their natural level of values to where lambs lose all fear, become charged with hope and buy at the top. Then stocks are permitted to sink to a level where hope gives way to despair and the most rampant bull becomes a bear and sells out at a loss."

WD Gann, 1922; July 29, 2010 at 2:29 PM
McFearless said...: great quote I. I'm saving that one.; July 29, 2010 at 2:29 PM
I-Man said...: Bucky, please report to the office...; July 29, 2010 at 2:32 PM
I-Man said...: @ Ben

The Morning Telegraph, Sunday, December 17, 1922; July 29, 2010 at 2:32 PM
CV said...: @I-man

Great quote...

But think of it this way... (Re: PUMPS)...

IMO - the next HIGH on SPX is going to the the highest high we see for many years... MANY YEARS...

Maybe a decade...

So my imagination leads me to believe it will be a PUMP that lasts longer than 21 days...

My ERROR was that I didn't think 1010 was LOW enough to be the point where the pump started... But now that it's CONSOLIDATING... I'm having other views...

Be WATCHFUL & WARY, "capitalists", in the month of August...; July 29, 2010 at 2:34 PM
McFearless said...: Hope I'm not reposting if someone already did but check this out:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-29/fed-should-resume-treasury-purchases-if-deflation-risk-grows-bullard-says.html; July 29, 2010 at 2:37 PM
I-Man said...: Alright... time to pull out the big guns...

"PIECE OF SHIT DOLLAR!!!"; July 29, 2010 at 2:37 PM
I-Man said...: That article is really getting around today...

I'm seeing it all over the place.; July 29, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Bucky said...: @I-Man

I'll be back; July 29, 2010 at 2:38 PM
CV said...: @McF (2:37)

What are they worried about?

They rolled 200 billion this week...; July 29, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Squirel said...: I-Man - Put a stamp on the little fellows head and send him over her, I know EXACTLY what to do with it.

Mutt; July 29, 2010 at 2:41 PM
I-Man said...: Bucky... are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qwlMILW1wU; July 29, 2010 at 2:42 PM
karen said...: 1104 is my line in the sand.. 4 dishtowels and two pillowcases later : )

rev h&s on spx 10 min for the day.. but larger upside down cup and forming handle on 30 min for the week.. one will win.. 1105 is my line in the sand : ); July 29, 2010 at 2:42 PM
I-Man said...: The Mutt is in the house...

Whats up man?

Good to see you.

How far is it over to your place, he might make it...

:); July 29, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Bullwinkle said...: @Squirrel

"Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat."; July 29, 2010 at 2:43 PM
I-Man said...: The tape is a battlefield... glad I'm just watching for now.; July 29, 2010 at 2:44 PM
karen said...: my disgust is utter.; July 29, 2010 at 2:46 PM
CV said...: @karen

ask mcHappy...

But 1104/5 looks like a 5 wave up from todays lows...

Cv says this where it ends...

Lower low tomorrow... But probably finish around 1110, in the end...

Just for S&G's; July 29, 2010 at 2:46 PM
CV said...: 1110 tomorrow (not today); July 29, 2010 at 2:46 PM
McFearless said...: C,

what they are worried about is that they have no control over anything! these people can't tell the market what to do, but that doesn't mean they won't try, hahahaha; July 29, 2010 at 2:47 PM
CV said...: Hey Mutt...

Are you in for FF?

Laveriunus Coles wants to know? :-); July 29, 2010 at 2:48 PM
CV said...: @McF

exactly...

But it's not hard to start a stampede...

It's just hard to predict where the STAMPEDE will go...; July 29, 2010 at 2:50 PM
karen said...: black candles in JNK are common of late.. black candles in HYG:LQD generally signal a turn and we got two this week.; July 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM
Put him in the River said...: I-Man stick him in the river he should be able to swim across, I will get him from there.

Mutt; July 29, 2010 at 2:55 PM
I-Man said...: I'm in WA, Mutt.

So he'll have to cross the mountains, over to the desert lands...; July 29, 2010 at 2:57 PM
CV said...: 1084 close... QUICK... any takers?; July 29, 2010 at 2:58 PM
I-Man said...: 1078 on ES...; July 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Lavernious Coles said...: Cvienne - Yea Lavernious Coles was one of my better moves last year, that guy was MONEY!!!!!

When are you guys starting up the league? And how much is the buy in, I read some where that it was $100.

If I am able to get I-man's squirel, I will make a potato gun, duck tape a $100 bill tightly around the squirel and shot him to you....... Hmmmm I wonder how much lighter fluid it would take to launch a squirrel from Wa St to your place.

I-man I might need some practice squirell so if you have any extra......

Mutt; July 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM
karen said...: i'm buying bzq..; July 29, 2010 at 3:02 PM
karen said...: Mutt, you are upsetting me with that talk.. hope you are happy.; July 29, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Portland said...: I-man - you said the Portland criter hospital would not take it, I figured you were from Portland, of which I am across the river from.

Mutt; July 29, 2010 at 3:03 PM
I-Man said...: Mutt,

I just have to drive down to the City to get things once in awhile...

But I and I a Washingtonian Rasta...

And no, you cannot have Don Carlos the Squirrel...

He shall conquer, and arise from his babylonian captivity.; July 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM
CV said...: @karen

Mutt is a kidder... He's just joking...

@I-Man

1078... he he he he; July 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM
CV said...: @I-Man

SC needs some fotos of Don Carlos...

Could become the new mascot...; July 29, 2010 at 3:08 PM
McFearless said...: C,

are you going to make FF a pay league this year or is the jury still out on that? fwiw, I'm down for paying (would prefer it) but if it keeps people out of the league then I'm fine with not making it for money too, I'm not about to ask people to spend money on something like that if they don't think it's a good idea for them to do so.; July 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM
McFearless said...: so this squirrel...it will come close to you? there were tons of them at PSU, they would get close because they were used to the people. neat animals.; July 29, 2010 at 3:10 PM
CV said...: @Mutt

It seems everyone wants to toss in $100 bucks for this years league...

I'm not against that...

But ANDY, or somebody should hold the money... I'll just "commish"...

If we do a 12 team league... we could do it this way...

$1200

$400 for HALF YEAR winner (standings)
$400 for full year winner (standings)
$400 for league (playoffs/league champion winner); July 29, 2010 at 3:12 PM
CV said...: Spread the wealth; July 29, 2010 at 3:13 PM
karen said...: oh brother.. just remembered i have a 1pm appt.. last thing in the world i want or need..; July 29, 2010 at 3:14 PM
I-Man said...: I could get some pics...

Mrs I took a pic of me feeding him earlier... he's about the size of a mouse. I think he's about 3 wks old.; July 29, 2010 at 3:18 PM
McFearless said...: wow, that's pretty wild, I'm not Yukon Jack or anything but if you feed it too much that's probably not good for it's survival though right?; July 29, 2010 at 3:21 PM
mcHAPPY said...: There is an abc off yesterdays highs with, what looks to me, like a five waves down from today's open to low.

IMO a break of 1083.48 and subsequently a break of 1056.88 is needed to confirm anything to the downside.

If we are finished iv of C then the highest we should get is 1092.82 being the start of v, the highest we could go would be 1156 area (1092.82 + 64.06 as wave 1 = 1010-1099, wave 3=1056-1120, wave 5 must be shorter than 64.07).

The more painful option would be with iv of a of C i.e. break 1120 and most likely a break of 1131 (v=i at 1133), hard down for b to 1100 area (4th wave on a daily chart looking at the ABC expanded flat off May 25), and final 5 waves up (last up would need to be less than around 77 points if this is correct). Therefore we could be looking at a max pain of 1170's - ouch. A daily close below 1096 after a break of 1120 first would rule this out. This scenario would drive bears crazy and have bulls so complacent they would not know what hit them.

Until we break 1083 and subsequently 1056 the doubt is to the upside - for me.; July 29, 2010 at 3:23 PM
CV said...: @mcHappy

I can handle that; July 29, 2010 at 3:27 PM
CV said...: Bring on 1083; July 29, 2010 at 3:28 PM
mcHAPPY said...: A close below 1083.48 soon would answer a lot of questions.; July 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Soooorrrrryyyyy Karen :( said...: Karen - I would never intentinally hurt an animal, I have a parrot and two turtles.

We just moved over to this part of the state last year. The area we were from had no squirels (Plenty of stray dogs, but no squirels) and when we first got here there and we saw the squirels it was, Awwwww look they are soooo cute, but they are EVERYWHERE, they pull stuff up from the garden, will get into bird feeders and will cross the road right in front of moving cars. So they have lost their awwww factor.

I have not and will not hurt any animals, I was just letting I-man know there are options :)

Mutt; July 29, 2010 at 3:33 PM
karen said...: I know what a nuisance squirrelies can be : )
One ate a hole in my friends backpack recently trying to get at the almonds we mistakenly fed him.. his car key fell out in the sand and he spent an hour searching a 3'x10' swath.. it was fortunate he noticed the hole before leaving the beach! what i learned that day was what a keen sense of smell squirrelies have.. i put that backpack upwind so he would stop bugging us but he circled round and in the process got downwind of the backpack!; July 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM
karen said...: PIMCO says stress test smokescreen can't hide Europe's hard future

http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Viewpoints/2010/Balls+Stress+Test+Smokescreen+Cant+Hide+Europes+Hard+Future.htm

..the tests look to have been designed to ensure that as few banks as possible fail (as it was, 7 out of 91). As a result, the results were not accompanied by a plan for recapitalization or consolidation, beyond what some countries had already announced. And there was no mention of potential cross-border support for banks, if needed, or how that might be achieved.; July 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM
Shortcrone said...: A squirrel is a rat with a prettier tail and better P.R.; July 29, 2010 at 3:49 PM
karen said...: iceland downgraded, too, i guess...; July 29, 2010 at 3:51 PM
karen said...: i probably should go.. later all!; July 29, 2010 at 3:54 PM
arbitrage789 said...: Never mind cruelty to animals. How about his woman who gave birth to eight babies, and killed them all by smothering them.

http://tinyurl.com/2cppmp3; July 29, 2010 at 3:57 PM
CV said...: The KT close...

Now that makes sense...; July 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Bruce in Tennessee said...: DL said...
McF @ 2:02

Of course we have to cut entitlements. But one of the points is that, of the pundits and journalists who were telling us how wonderful bailouts and “stimulus” would be, none was willing to tell us that as a consequence, the entitlement cuts would come sooner and go deeper than would otherwise have been the case. (To say nothing of the tax issue).

July 29, 2010 2:10 PM

...Absolutely right on.; July 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM
CV said...: @AmenRa

The squid? WTF?; July 29, 2010 at 5:03 PM
AmenRa said...: CV

I was just looking at their chart. Haven't looked for reasons why as of yet.; July 29, 2010 at 5:05 PM

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