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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.
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Goldman is Your Daddy

Say Uncle, Goldman Sachs hating clam-diggers. It must chagrin you to know, even Meredith Whitney is bullish on Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. [[GS]] . After all, it’s the American way, whether you like it or not.

Speaking of Goldman, they are exceedingly bullish on “mid-cycle” tech plays, specifically SuccessFactors, Inc. [[SFSF]] and [[SWI]] . In other words, they are so fucking confident the recession is over, they are building positions in mid-cycle stocks— absolute hilarity.

Just so you know, there is nothing funny about this market, nor do I wish to mock it, after humbling myself in failure, being long an aggregate of several underperforming energy stocks. However, at the same time, I realize that my market philosophy, translated through my positions, is often ahead of the curve, as many of my colleagues and enemies work under a simpler time frame through haphazard analysis. There is just one constant present in the man better known as “The Fly,” it is that he is always right.

Thus far, Chinese stocks find themselves getting annihilated under a canopy of fire, as evidenced by the upward momentum of [[FXP]] . Separately, the banks are charging higher, led by overzealous optimism in the substandard, and often referred to as “raunchy”, financial industry.

Finally, as I sit here, watching my screen transform from green to red, I too am chagrined by an irreconcilable fact: I must attend a business meeting in one hour and the market is on the precipice of shitting the shower, for lack of a more elegant term. In short, watch your positions very closely, except of course if you work for Goldman Sachs, since you already know where they will be, exactly one hour from right now.

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89 comments

  1. dumas

    FIG

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  2. dumas

    TIG, in a parallel universe.

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  3. 4fl3x

    Thanks Master Fly.

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  4. TheArtist

    AXL getting slobberknobbed…..

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  5. j

    Goldman is God, fellas.

    All of you dudes that think this a conspiracy well let me say it is in a way. The conspiracy is that they hire reary, reary smart people and the obvious benefit pays off. That’s the conspiracy. They seem to have a lock on hiring high IQ people.

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    • Taco

      The smartest people in the financial industry are RETIRED, as in early retirement. And they certainly don’t work for a meathead firm like GS. They trade their own money for their own wealth gain.

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  6. dumas

    Fly’s anti-mojo seems to continue… so, I hate to say this, but my Fly-contrarian play has paid me again. My gut is telling me Fly is thinking short again, so I guess I’ll flip everything again. Fly, please confirm you are going short.

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  7. DSB

    You are a fucking robot; up and posting at 3AM, now an update before 10:30AM.

    Would you throw on 1-day hedges to mitigate potential shower shittage?

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  8. Largebill

    AIG shorts hung on too long. Talk about greedy. When you start shorting at $28 (1.4 pre-R/S) and don’t cover when it hits $9 (.45) you’re just asking to give back your gains. Don’t get me wrong it is still a crappy company with a perilous future, but it isn’t dead yet and the government will do all it can to ensure its equity stake is safe.

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  9. TheArtist

    Henry, where are ya….??

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  10. Yogi & Boo Boo

    j – great point. I think it’s the same everywhere, smart peeps want to work at the best. A while back Google was getting all of the brightest and Microsoft was sucking wind, then it was VM, and round and round it goes.

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    • j

      and not only that, Yogi. they also have the trading market pretty much to themselves compared to what it was like before in terms of participants.

      It’s a gold mine for the next couple of years as there’s less competition.

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  11. Juiceyfruit

    The Illuminati has threatened Meredith with extinction, if she did not go pos on GS & some other egregious bank investments of theirs.

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    • j

      Juice:

      If you listen to her she isn’t actually that bullish. In fact she’s downright bearish as she thinks unemployment will head towards 13%, which is a fucking disaster.

      And it sounds about right too in a way. She reckons there were so many people involved in the housing industry that they will have to find work elsewhere and the economy has to restructure.

      I’m guessing the rate stays around 10% but I wouldn’t be surprised if she was right at all in fact.

      As for the banks she reckons they have some pretty spectacular one time events that hit their books this quarter but as the unemployment goes up they will have to go to the market for more capital.

      I hope she’s wrong as that would make Devildog right.

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  12. JakeGint

    Dey finally got tah Mer-a–dit!

    SOB!!

    _______

    😉

    _

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  13. mrkcbill

    Whitney now has payroll and overhead……odd no?

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  14. Cash-N-Guns

    over 890 on S&P will bring in buyers and shorts covering…925 area is possible.

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  15. The Fly

    I find myself eating an early lunch at an egregious vietnamese restaurant.

    More on this later

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    • Cash-N-Guns

      vietnamese girls are great..

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    • TheArtist

      look out for hidden bombs!!!!!!!

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    • ZenProfit

      Watch out for the ants in the Banh Chung.

      Just sayin’.

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    • TheArtist

      try a glass of the couchy juice, I hear it’s yummy….(that is if you ordered the puntang appetiser of course)

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    • maelstrom

      Egregious..that sums up Vietnam. Once the Pearl of S E Asia, now the turd

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    • Taco

      Hope you’re enjoying your Cream of Sumyungui.

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  16. artha

    twas perhaps Herr Sachs or Herr Goldman, wearing Sandals (as Germans do) who stepped on the Fly Ant who was carrying an oversized position ?

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  17. OO

    All you doom and gloomers are gonna get ram rodded. Golden Cross prevails. When the market rallies 40% from its lows, it needs a breather. I don’t think this bull market run is over.

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  18. The_Real_Hmmmm

    HAPhazard.

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  19. TraderCaddy

    Careful Fly.
    It could be Khe Sanh and the Gulf of Tonkin all over again.

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  20. CAP

    @ J – When really smart/high IQ people get together, you get Enron, Long Term Capital, Drexel Burnham ….

    FYI The ‘piano strings and meat hooks’ comment quoted by Mr. Dennis ‘ Asshat’ Kneale was mine.

    Todays rally is a great opportunity to sell longs and add to short positions especially in financials and REITs. There will be huge resistance at S&P 900 , 50 ma S&P 911(how ironic), S&P 925 and S&P 950. 4 levels of resistance and only one support level – S&P 875.

    And one last thing, keep a close eye on CIT. This could be the powder keg that sets it all off.

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    • j

      Cap:

      Is that a pic of you there. If it is I’ll meet you anywhere in the world and fall in love with you.

      Naaa Gs a re friggen smart people . Ken Lay and his cronies were idiots.

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  21. punyandy

    DEVILDOG opens his stupid mouth, and the market takes off. Odd, no?

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    • j

      he’s like the kiss of death isn’t these days. Now if he didn’t say anything, Meredith could have had a fall broken her wrist and never made the interview and the market would be down.

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  22. Bow Tie Fucker

    So when are the asshats from Zero Hedge going to cry ‘Manipulation’, ‘vertical move without catalyst’ and other shit?

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  23. Bow Tie Fucker

    Also, do the mofo’s at Zero hedge blame GS when their site traffic goes down as well?

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  24. newbiewannamakemoney
    newbiewannamakemoney

    loving the upward momentum of GLW.

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  25. Yogi & Boo Boo

    FLASH! Armageddon averted. Correction may be over. Yogi’s going to the beach. Exit stage right. (so sorry Snagglepus)

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  26. TA

    Time for Fly to run around sporting big dicked gains again

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    • dumas

      Yes! The tape has been hard to figure out, but if anyone can do it, Fly can!

      But if he can’t, Terranova is always there for us to fall back on for market analysis.

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  27. iBCtard

    Loading up on UNG here…I know many have valiantly attempted to call a bottom before me, but this time is different. I think we’ve finally hit bottom. Natural Gas is the greatest investment ever. Just buy and pray for a hurricane to slam into the Gulf of Mexico…simple as that!

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    • punyandy

      hard to call a “bottom” as it plunges through it’s 52 week low. but i agree that accumulating here seems like a good risk/reward.

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    • Dogwood

      El Nino weather patterns are likely to significantly reduce hurricane activity this year.

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  28. SteveThe Neighbor
    SteveThe Neighbor

    Hey Fly. Bring me back some Banh Hoi and Bun Cha.
    Thanks.

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  29. Wolfschanze

    What do you guys think of going long CIT tomorrow? 😛

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    • kidstock

      I’m in today @ 1.19…not holding stock overnight

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      • Wolfschanze

        Dammit looks like its already bouncing back midday, pity I don’t have the balls to call intra day bottoms. gratz for you though.

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  30. ZenProfit

    “The Fly says:
    July 13, 2009 at 11:18 am
    I find myself eating an early lunch at an egregious vietnamese restaurant.
    More on this later”

    2 hours for lunch??!!! Does The Fly work for GoldySlacks?

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  31. The Fly

    Still in chinatown on business. My stomach hurts from the curry lunch and the people here are egregious, spitting on the floor non stop.

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    • j

      If it’s the same one my wife and I went to years ago… whatever you do don’t use their fucking toilet. I tried and when I saw the used toilet paper strewn all over the floor I/we immediately walked out.

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    • SteveThe Neighbor
      SteveThe Neighbor

      Speaking of spitting be sure not to eat the Viet food until it stops hissing and spitting.
      It’s for your own good. And since it’s a business meeting I hope you decided to tuck in your shirt and take a shave. I saw you yesterday in your yard and you didn’t look all that good to me.

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      • j

        Yea, he was killing ants, Steve. He murdered the best of the “litter”.

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        • SteveThe Neighbor
          SteveThe Neighbor

          Yes, I saw Fly stomping on ants yesterday. He brought out the flame thrower on the ant hills but almost torched his new PT Cruiser.

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  32. HenryFool

    If I may speak for the Fly. Which I doubt he’d condone but I’ll do it anyway.

    FLY like ENTR under 2.50 cause it’s gonna return huge soon!

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  33. The Fly

    Love entr here. Yes

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  34. Cash-N-Guns

    AGEN
    MRNA
    DXO-ERX–

    all good

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  35. JakeGint

    Cash n Guns with the good bounce call. Is he still a bahr as they say out east of here?

    New post: Baby HUI signals a bounce.

    _______

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    • Cash-N-Guns

      short term bull- for a trade only..LT I think we are in for much lower prices.

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  36. HenryFool

    Houston, we have sunny skies and no winds. Take off!

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  37. The Fly

    You are all manic-depressive. You know that right?

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  38. HenryFool

    95% long

    ROM GLW ENTR CROX GAIA DVAX CYTK CNXT

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  39. TheArtist

    so no one wants to predict the day of the first hurricane to piledrive the gulf this summer?
    only 3 have entered a date so far….

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  40. TraderCaddy

    Hey, isn’t the Senator yapping right now during the Supreme’s hearing a comedian on the Comedy Channel.
    It’s not poosible the fools elected a bad comedian to the Senate is it?

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  41. HenryFool

    new pic

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  42. TheArtist

    DK’s rant on his pathetic TV show calling out a certain blogger here on iBC that it was “piano wire” not “piano string” apparently does not own a piano. They are also called guitar “strings”, not guitar “wires”….
    http://www.pianostrings.com/

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  43. TraderCaddy

    Anybody elses streaming index quotes go nutso?
    My quotes now show all indexes negative.
    Could it be a N. Korean cyber attack?

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    • TheArtist

      nope….mine are fine……

      WAIT!!!!!!

      no………….yep………..working fine….

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    • DPeezy

      Nope, it’s just you. Kimmy must have a personal vendetta against you… lol.

      GLW looking to finally break that $15 level? We all need LCD glass!

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      • TraderCaddy

        Thanks. Good to know, but eveything is frozen now and shows the DIA down 15.42, NASDAQ -19.04, etc.
        Maybe it’s a time machine problem.

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  44. The Fly

    Meeting over, finally

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    • TheArtist

      nothing much has happened since you left…..just the DOW went up say 145 points….

      that is all…..

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    • SteveTheNeighbor
      SteveTheNeighbor

      Be sure to stop at their bank and cash the check and do it quickly.
      Did you bring me some Banh Hoi and Bun Cha?

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  45. Dubz

    If only all meetings ended with a melt up.

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  46. HenryFool

    welcome back Fly sorry you had to work in an egregious fashion today.

    Things look good.

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  47. TA

    Lots of big dicked gains today indeed

    Sorry to everyone and his dog who tried to play the obvious H&S setup.
    Come back tomorrow.

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  48. TheArtist

    someone here mentioned buying the triple inverse ETF’s last friday but couldn’t pull the trigger…..

    they don’t look to good today…..

    x-ray glasses?

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  49. JakeGint

    Forget Peanut Butter Jelly Time… it’s robe & sandals time.

    Perhaps accomonied by some additional stone tablets?

    (Say, Commandments 11 through 20?)

    _________

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  50. TraderCaddy

    DELL and NVLS puke?

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