iBankCoin
18 years in Wall Street, left after finding out it was all horseshit. Founder/ Master and Commander: iBankCoin, finance news and commentary from the future.
Joined Nov 10, 2007
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You Cannot Stop It

You’re an idiot if you are still waiting for the market to come down. You are twice the idiot if you are doing so, from the crowded confines of a fucking Tea Party.

There is nothing wrong with expressing disdain for government, even if it means having to throw perfectly fine tea into the harbor. However, it has become a partisan event, meant to stir people with small brains, who drive yellow punch buggies to work. For that, I am not interested.

When it comes to stocks, I simply bowl. Bowl what, who, when, where?

I bowl on you, as if your head was a wooden pin and I was throwing cannon balls, stuffed with c4 explosives, in your general direction.

I sold out of my [[FEED]], for ridiculously handsome percentage gains. And, moreover, I did something woefully awful. I bought 10,000 [[CROX]]—at the market. Eeekk.

I do not like green eggs and ham. And I do not like rubber shoes with holes. Howsoever, I am all about exploiting stocks with big nervous short positions.

Right here, right now, I like [[GNK]], [[RFMD]], [[CROX]], [[ARUN]] and [[ALU]], just for shits and giggles.

UPDATE: I covered my short in [[ACC]], around $18.49

UPDATE: I bought 30,000 [[CROX]] @ $1.76ish.

UPDATE: Long another 30,000 [[CROX]] @ $1.86.

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56 comments

  1. lazy man

    CROX???

    You’ll move to Florida yet!

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  2. mrkcbill

    Jed likes to bowl too…with shirts and shoes and cheeseburgers and fries

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  3. Some Dude

    Just hearing the word “crocs” sends shivers down my spine. I’ve made a great effort to ruthlessly cull anyone ever caught with them or showing “appreciation for them” from my address book. Double goes for “Modrobes” ehhh

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  4. Cash-N-Guns

    Fly good to see your sticking with quality…perhaps an IBC penny stock edition will be forthcoming…* Note to all…BAC is screwed 7 ways to sunday, then assfucked.

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  5. TraderCaddy

    If one really want to speculate on crap here is a good one for the dopers of America.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GFON.OB

    Seriously, you can’t make this up.
    This apparently used to be (or still is) in the oil biz and now has changed it’s name to Cannabis Science, Inc. after it bought a medical marijuana
    pharma of some kind.

    Actually may be a good play on legalized dope in the US.
    They should put Willie Nelson on the board.

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  6. PRICERUNNER

    Like I said we are still in an upturn it isn’t time to short yet give it time we just have to shake out the funds dip buying. Market is oversold neutral.

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  7. reaper

    You’re an idiot if you are still waiting for the market to come down
    —————-
    fly describes himself, just a week ago

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  8. lazy man

    Don’t doubt that trade. He might have a shot. Every slightly large women with chipped nail polish in Florida wears those fugly things.

    Haute Couture in the Sunshine State.

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  9. PRICERUNNER

    Sorry MARKET IS OVERBOUGHT NEUTRAL

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  10. Razncane

    I’d rather fancy opening my own legalized shop of wonderment. Grand opening: April 20th , 4;20pm as I turn to Mecca wearing my Crocs.
    Breath in, hold, breath out.

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  11. skvm bvkkit

    I just bot… CROX (PPT Rec: Sell)

    Okaaay…

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  12. Ibankbadkarma

    How are your semis doing douchebag? Crox – that says it all about the Fly. SPLAT!

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  13. MOOBER

    I bought a lot of BOOM today.

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  14. boca

    Razncane, will you be wearing your LULU yoga outfit along with the Crocs?

    I have a “thing” against rubber shoes, dunno why.

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  15. mike

    PZG — Wheeeee

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  16. Razncane

    Shoot- my kids won’t even wear those things.

    But some unsuspecting toddlers are running all over the place in them.

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  17. Henry Fool

    Into CROX
    my head is spinning cause I didn’t think of it myself!!

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  18. Cash-N-Guns

    funny to watch you sheep follow into CROX…lmao.

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  19. Henry Fool

    Fly so good.

    He’s simply delicious!

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  20. DennisKneale

    Fly – I’m so glad you’re opening up about this. BTW, you were GREAT last night- D

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  21. Henry Fool

    Cash-N-Guns

    Sheep go to heaven goats go to hell.

    : ) Sheep

    Razncane Says:
    Henry
    Where are you in on DVAX and STP? More specifically, what do you know about them? I read about the Soleos partnership expansion w/STP. But DVAX?

    Razncane, I sold my SOL to buy CROX cause that is just brilliant!

    DVAX just trust me it’s gonna pull a DNDN one day.

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  22. ryan

    Yeah, I can’t believe I am saying this, but I got a good short this morning day trading SRS. There are no fundis, just trades right now.

    It’s like the friggin gulag “don’t ask why! Here, there is no why!”

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  23. Fly the Child Rapist
    Fly the Child Rapist

    I am the Fly, and I rape kids. The Fly will rape little kids (YOU), if you follow his trades. He trades against his PPT, which you have to pay for. You know who also suggested CROX as a buy ? Cramerica did.

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  24. Fly Leech

    Why do I get the feeling that all the recent activity in CROX is just the people on this board?

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  25. Henry Fool

    Razncane Says:
    Henry
    Where are you in on DVAX and STP? More specifically, what do you know about them? I read about the Soleos partnership expansion w/STP.

    Sorry but have you looked at the STP chart Razncane? Go take a look. I need no more reason to hold STP than looking at that chart.

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  26. boca

    ^^^^ your posting name sux, dude. Even if you don’t like someone’s trades, that is just so gross. So fade if you don’t like the trade.

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  27. alphadawgg

    CROX: holy shoes for holy people. Righteous!

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  28. The Fly

    Dear Morons:

    I started buying CROX two days ago, as evidenced on PPT. It was triggered a “buy” two days ago, which prompted me to go long. Also, it came up on my custom short squeeze screen, also on PPT.

    The fact that it is “sell” now is immaterial, since very soon it will be “buy” again. Remember, the embedded rec’s here are delayed, not real time.

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  29. The Fly

    As for my semis:

    long rfmd in size is treating me just fine today. At any rate, this is not a spastic race to the finish. I bide my time.

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  30. lazy man

    Breaking Story of the Day!

    http://cbs2chicago.com/business/united.overweight.passengers.2.985271.html

    wow

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  31. Homo Bob

    I demand a pic of Senior Tropicana bowling in a pair of Crox, pink ones please.
    Cheers!

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  32. JakeGint

    UUP down, FAS up.

    Odd, no?

    _____________

    Hey Fly, whatever you do, Don’t be that guy!

    ________

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  33. mrkcbill

    I thought only mental patients wear CROX

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  34. Yogi & Boo Boo

    Dennis Kneale’s IQ is smaller than a herring’s.

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  35. TraderCaddy

    Jake- The picture of the cover on that book reminded me of the time I was given fancy seats at a Dolphins-Jets game in Miami about 15 years ago.
    Private elevators,great food, etc.

    Anyway long story short I went to the Men’s Room and as I was taking care of business Sylvester Stallone took the urinal next to me.

    I was smart enough not to ask him what’s up.

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  36. MOOBER

    if crocs were smart they’d lock up mario batali for a chef line of shoes. he’s been wearing them forever. before they were cool, and became uncool, and will prob become cool again, now that they are ghey.

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  37. Henry Fool

    boca

    You have my vote based purely on that ad.

    Junior… Just hilarious.

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  38. DennisKneale

    Nasty boy. Fly told me this would be a supportive environment 🙁 Extra spankies for you tonight Fly – xxo, Dennis

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  39. JakeGint

    Speaking of herrings…

    Fly Takes on a Pesky Detractor (Metaphorically Speaking).

    _______

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  40. MOOBER

    Is it just me, or does it feel like this market wants to run hard?

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  41. Cash-N-Guns

    Moober its just you.

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  42. brushbuck

    Noted in the fine print of today’s business section:
    FAS closed yesterday at $7.84 down -69.2% year to date
    FAZ closed yesterday at $11.01 down-69.2% year to date

    Odd,no?

    Can someone please ‘splain.

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  43. JakeGint

    File Under: Things to Remember for Next Market Downturn

    Memories from New Europe –

    “Romanian parties are always lively. They can’t drink without music, and they can’t have music without a drink”

    — M. Palin

    ____________

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  44. MOOBER

    🙂

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  45. leveraged etf’s are the devil, basically.

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  46. JakeGint

    Brush — they are 3x ETF’s. That means they are recalibrated every trading day to reflect three times the movement in the underlying index or ETF.

    Play around with the math on that, and you’ll get it. If losses are magnified three times, it’s always going to be harder to go up than down, right? Because 3x a smaller number (going up) is always going to be less of a move than three times a larger number (going down).

    Sort of derivative of the derivative sorta stuff.

    Short answer: shorting the shrift out of these suckers is a “not bad move,” especially if they’v run a bit, like FAZ had.

    _________

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  47. jake, what is your opinion on using the 2x leveraged funds as an investment vehicle over a long period of time, say 20-40 years, via IRAs and the like?

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  48. TraderCaddy

    I believe that’s my Uncle Melvyn in Boca’s IBC banner ad.
    Not to brag or anything but he is the shuffleboard champ at Building Three of Boca Towers Condo.

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  49. boca

    hahaha my ad is up, excellent. Uncle Junior Soprano supports my candidacy and paid for my ad.

    Technically speaking, when I made my Representing IBC banner I forgot about the whole voting off the island process, and it isn’t really a vote *for* me, of course I meant, please don’t vote me off the island. Oy.

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  50. brushbuck

    Jake & Anon,

    Yeah, I kinda knew that, but holy crap Both down almost 70% ytd!! These things should be outlawed.

    Brings up a couple of interesting questions though…can you shortsell a short ETF e.g. FAZ or SRS? Can you do so within an IRA?

    TIA.

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  51. boca

    TC, that’s Uncle Junior Soprano. In one episode he had a girlfriend who was a hairdresser in Boca.

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  52. TraderCaddy

    Wait until my Aunt Thelma finds out that my Uncle had a girlfriend.

    Gonna be a split vote for sure at the next Condo meeting.

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  53. lazy man

    Jake,

    I think Chart talked about shorting both (FAZ/FAS) together in a thread?

    Aside from that, here is something EVERY 3x ETF trader should understand before you trade. Very good reading.

    http://marginalizingmorons.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-on-etf-decay.html

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  54. lazy man

    “Say that a savvy trader shorted $100,000 of each at the beginning of our time period.

    It’s not too clear, but it looks like FAS started at 14.62 and FAZ started at 165. (I’ve truncated the first day of trading and started with the second day’s close.)

    So our spread began by shorting 6,840 shares of FAS and shorting 606 shares of FAZ.

    FAZ closed at 72.50 yesterday and FAS closed at 4.90. Therefore, our P&L looks like this:

    FAZ profit = $56,065

    FAS profit = $66,484

    Total profit = $122,549 !!!”

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  55. Henry Fool

    DVAX rings the bell!!!!!!

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  56. Vijay

    Let it be known that I am now working in cahoots with Mish to bring down the Fly:
    http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/04/goodbye-to-rally.html

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