http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39416231/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

It's Obama's fault!!!1!

wait, no that won't work for the teabaggers this time will it?

A certain Messrs. Down and Jones can go hump a camel.
:)

wait, no that won't work for the teabaggers this time will it?


LOL.  Even though I lost a few pounds by having a weight-loss biotech hand grenade blow my arm off, I made up for it by nailing a takeover.  It's been a good month for me too.

At the moment, the Bearded One is buying Treasuries at any price in order to keep things afloat until after the election.  In reference to Dr. McCoy as sampled by Information Society, it's worked so far, but we're not out yet.  Short-term, there is a serious tug-of-war going on around S&P 1150.  Break that to the upside, and the fourth quarter's going to be glorious.  Roll over to the downside, and hell gets unleashed.  We probably get a pretty good hint this week, and we find out for sure in October.  For most of the past month or two, my money's been on the bulls, and I've been rewarded for it (don't ask me about the big dip we had earlier this year, LOL) but that could change at any moment.

Bull or bear, you gotta be there.  The game may be rigged, but it's still the only game in town.  

Ladies and gentlemen,
These snakes are slitherin',
With dollar signs in they eyes,
With tongues so reptilian,
This industry's venemous,
With cold-blooded sentiment,
No need for nervousness,
It's just a little turbulence.

Oct-ober? I'm ready for it.  
Come on, bring it.

 - (Now Playing: Cobra Starship, Snakes on a Plane)

Looks like we may hit 15,000 in the Dow Jones this decade...which is next year because IMO...this year was just sheesh!

Looks like we may hit 15,000 in the Dow Jones this decade...which is next year because IMO...this year was just sheesh!


It's been a meatgrinder this year.  And we didn't resolve S&P 1150 to anybody's satisfaction on Friday.  In reality, I'm actually a retail piker who's made so many mistakes that I'm closer to breakeven than making serious coin this year, but... why not?

I mean, there's always these sorts of things in stock trading, options, and stuff, where guys get up there, and they make that trade - you know - George Soros breaking the Bank of England, Goldman Sachs getting its employees in the Treasure to bail it out - well, a lot of these guys, they all probably have songs that tell them they can make it.  Kind of a turnoff to me, I mean, when you go out there on CNBC sayin' all this stuff, it probably angers the Trading Gods...

But anyways, I did one of those parodies... just in case it works.

Now I'm warnin' all you retail traders, don't follow my hot tips cause you might catch fire,
You are talkin' to a man in a whole other kind of bag,
Well I'm three parts Gekko, one part snake,
I buy while you sleep and I sell when you wake,
And I'm so good that I don't have to brag.

I need a supercomputer to count up all the money I've made from lesser men,
Compared to me, Jim Cramer is a boring drag, ((This is the PG version.  Sing that line Shel's way if you wanna, you'll be half-right!))
I move more shares, flip more stocks,
I trade nothin' less than hundred-thousand share blocks,
And I'm so damn good that I don't have to brag.

Now there's 20, 30, million dollars, a-movin' at the click of my mouse,
And every night, every night I hear 'em sighin'.
They say that I don't miss a thing,
They say that I'm the tradin' king,
And I'm too nice a guy to say they're lyin'.

Now I've been tradin' stocks professionally since I was only 6 years old.
And my brain is faster than a high-frequency trader's lag.
And still I'm such a modest man,
(I'm only twice as great as I think I am!)
Yeah, I'm so damn good that I don't have to brag.

Now I'm tellin' all you motley fools lookin' for stock tips, get off my back,
You'd trade your life for a day in my shoes if you could,
I will say just this in my defense:
Though I'm fueled by liquid arrogance,
I don't have to brag, because I'm so damn good.

Now I once got captured by some central bankers, way out in the Eurozone,
They couldn't reflate their way out of a paper bag,
I mean, I taught Gordon Gekko that greed was good,
They could be like me, if they only would,
Get so damn good, that they wouldn't have to brag...

Now if you're losin' coin, I can cure your problem for a hundred million.
But if you wanna bet against me, go short by 4 o'clock:
And you can cover your short at 4:03,
If you can buy it back from me,
I'm so damn good, you can't afford my stock...

There's a pile of proxies on my desk, from up and down Wall Street,
The annual reports were written by drunken clowns,
Yet they come to me from overseas,
With takeover offers asking "Please",
And I'm too nice a guy to turn 'em down.

Now if you're wonderin' how you're gonna take me quit, better bring a Cadillac full of money,
I'll melt it, Bernanke, and Geithner down to smokin' slag,
Ask me what I want, and I'll say "more",
I'm so damn pimp, the Fed's my whore!
And I'm so good that I don't have to brag.

Now the day I die, every broker in the country's gonna wear a tie made of black,
And my picture'll be in tiny dots in that Wall Street rag.
They'll build me a monument from a bullish rump,
"It was his comissions that got us over the hump,
He was so damn good that he never had to brag!"

 - With apologies to Shel Silverstein

http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/images/objectivist_tree.jpg

  - With even more apologies to Shel Silverstein.

Parody's mine, but I hereby put it in the public domain for anyone crazy enough to use it.  The Photoshop isn't mine, but I saw it on the 'net and LOL'd at the perfect parody of two of my favorite books.  

"The Giving Tree" is an apt parable.  Now all I want is a f**king stump to sit down on and I won't even be able to get that!
::)