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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.
Joined Nov 10, 2007
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Handsome Tape; Defying Panic

This is a coordinated bear raid on world indices. Do not be hoodwinked into believing there is much substance behind the fear mongering. It should come as no surprise to see most leaders on vacation now, whilst this is happening. The timing of this raid is sublime.

According to a recent Morgan Stanley report, refiners are pricing in a 2008 style recession plus sub $15 cracks. This is absurd. By no means are we heading back into a 2008 style recession. Moreover, 321 cracks are north of $35 now, new 52 week highs.

You want to know what I am doing about it?

I just doubled the size of my WNR position, in order to reduce my cost and put my money where my mouth is. Granted, the market is fucked up and people are scared shitless over these bank rumors. However, should these rumors get stomped out, all of the refiners will curry the favor of large institutional interest. Look at Tepper’s Appaloosa fund. Not only did he just take a stake in WNR, but CVI and VLO are amongst his largest holdings.

With regards to WNR: they hedged a bit to pay down debt. They’ve paid down more than $400 mill in debt since 2008 and intend on deleveraging some more by December. Furthermore, they have several hundred million dollars in assets for sale, which will help paying down debt. Bottom line: they are a cash generating machine now, having 100% exposure to super cheap WTI crude, benefitting from the Brent-WTI divergence (Brent now trades at a 29% premium to WTI).

In my opinion, one way or another, she trades up to $25, ARGGGGGG (pirate voice).

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63 comments

  1. bearjewatl

    Doubled the size of your WNR position? That is one big cock, Fly!

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    • Mark

      That’s why he’s the Fly and we’re not.

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    • ruggyup

      Just checked the Bloomberg glossary of financial terms and noted the newest listing is “Flycock. Nice job bear….

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  2. Robot

    I bought LNKD 2,000 shares…That’s balls!

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    • SnoopDawg

      Betting on job market while the US economy is hardly growing and the recession fears are highest? Ballzy, indeud!

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    • go2mars

      That’s crazy balls!

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    • lol

      is that the amount of shares you bought or the P/E ratio of the company?

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    • Tutti

      you bought it running right into the 50d when volume is running 40% below avg. balls, yes. brains, no.

      g/l though.

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  3. drummerboy

    i’d get a boner if they started paying a divy. and besides,if a cat like tepper is buying big blocks all the sudden, then he must know something you dont.

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  4. bravo

    Oorah, Sir Fly!

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  5. SnoopDawg

    WNR pricing is a glitch in the Matrix. EMH, anyone?

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  6. Dr. Diablo

    FTK and WNR run neck to neck – just saying – check the charts. Why does Matt Lauerer make 17 mill peer year – can anyone explain that?

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  7. JTU

    With all due respect Fly, if you’ve doubled up on you WNR position, how many inches is that!

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  8. Bullrun

    SD looks good to go up to $9.00 at least!

    5000 shares at 7.42

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  9. time machine

    1987 is back!

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  10. time machine2

    bring your almanac biff, there’s an alternate reality created where this is 2008 or 1929

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  11. 4fl3x

    What in the fuckin cock is this shit!

    I can’t believe you are doing this Master Fly.

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  12. dave

    Concur on WNR on a strictly technical basis.

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  13. logicalthought

    >>(Brent now trades at a 29% premium to WTI)<<

    How long do you think that will last if Europe heads into a major recession?

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  14. Futures

    Uncanny

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  15. StocksRider

    Things are unfolding as I speculated in my last blog post in PG. I had entered a short position in 3x bull mid cap etf $MWJ yesterday into the close and as commented here. I am not going to get swayed even if there is an upswing towards the close. I will hold till Friday. New blog post coming soon.

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    • Apocalypse Now

      Looking forward to it, good call yesterday.

      Looking for a lift just before labor day after B.B. provides tangible QE @ Jackson Hole.

      Gold/Silver/Cash waiting to pounce. Looking to short TLT and grab SPY calls at the right time.

      Interested in higher dividend blue chips.

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  16. razorsedge

    i just heard if u buy a new toaster, u get a bank?

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  17. alf44

    Ahhh … so CNBC trots out Robert Prechter !

    Nice !

    What a bunch of clowns !

    .

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  18. Futures

    So I turn on CNBC for the first time today and Prechter is on calling for Dow 99

    What a bunch of fucking clowns

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  19. Futures

    ^^^^

    read my fucking mind

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  20. TraderCaddy

    Is that Robert Prechter on CNBC?
    Sure looks like him. I can’t tell because I have the sound down and I am watching baseball on MLBHDtv.
    Last time Prechter was correct was in 1987.

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  21. dave

    Elliot Wave horseshit can’t account for news and psychology. Market action is a mixture of headline news, psychology and technical analysis.

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    • TeahouseOnTheTracks
      TeahouseOnTheTracks

      EW can’t but OEW does …

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    • StocksRider

      You are missing the point. Wave and cycles theories are nothing more than a reflection and sometimes an extrapolation of psychology and headline news. If this is horseshit, moving averages are also horse shit. The reason why technical analysis and chart patterns are not booed down is because they are more widely followed and easier to understand. Why is it that magical events happen everytime a major index has a rendezvous with the 200 DMA and that is generally accepted fact, while wave analysis is voodoo?

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      • dave

        When you move to an outlier range like this and you’re invested long, you get your balls cut off. Up 20% YTD one week, negative 10% the next. It doesn’t happen often, statiscally speaking, but when it does, it hurts.

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  22. Futures

    It would be exceptional if the DOW gapped up like 1100 points tomorrow just to fuck over the global doom vigilantes

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  23. Mike

    WNR up in a down market…here we go

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  24. Dr. Diablo

    What is this? A whole flock of black swans? I thought those fuckers were supposed to be rare? This shit has been going on so long that I am getting used to it.

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  25. Suck my WNR

    WNR is a looser. Single digits around the corner. Then, and only then, I buy.

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    • TraderCaddy

      Uh oh.
      He said “looser.”
      Here comes a ban in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,…

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    • razorsedge

      why would u state that? give explanation..

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      • TraderCaddy

        The other day somebody wrote “looser” instead of “loser” and as I recall Fly told that person to bring his “A” game which includes proper English.
        That person was banned.
        I guess it is understandable if Mr. Suck My WNR is from Kurdistan.
        Based on what Mr. Suck wrote WNR is not fastened, restrained, or contained.

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        • razorsedge

          tradercaddy, wasnt commenting on u, just wanted to know why someone would post a statement on wnr w/out an explanation,

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    • The Fly

      banned

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    • TeahouseOnTheTracks
      TeahouseOnTheTracks

      Suck it yourself you autofellator ….

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  26. Trading_Nymph

    Come on Little US Dollar, I have a Spine in my hands to beat down anyone that attempts to attack you…ignore the good trade data tomorrow, it was ordering back at the end of May…look at how the Australian Employment data will suck tonight.

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    • ruggyup

      Nymph, you talk inexorably about your ‘little dollar’. Yet I don’t know what you do with it or about it. Do you trade the little dollar or just study it. Please tell me Little US Dollar is not merely an erotic pet phrase of your own invention. In any event, you must be, or are you, anticipating a dollar rise.

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      • Trading_Nymph

        long DRR, SMN, FXP, FAZ, VXX, AUY and Givn. Give me the direction of the dollar and I can tell you how everything will trade.

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  27. ruggyup

    Minerva, my pet owl, tells me it is time to make selective moves in Flycock mode i.e. large aggressive longs.

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  28. theedge111

    Fly

    Hedge yourself with some TZA dude.

    The fear is legit. I can’t believe you can’t see it.

    Protect yourself.

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  29. Big Wee Wee

    Closing my VXX and TZA calls.
    If market rallies tomorrow, will reload on these.
    Sell the rallies do not get sucked into these rallies.
    Dylan Ratigan is the voice of reason these days .
    Fly beautiful call on GSVC.
    B.W.W.

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  30. CAP

    FLY IS GOD FLY IS DOG (DEVILDOG)

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  31. mike mancini

    Steve Grasso has been spot on with his intraday SPX resistance / support levels, his prescient insights shared with the peasantry via twiiter. (@grassosteve). Banked coin today trading the boundaries.

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  32. CAP

    Very Handsome tape indueed ! Handsome like a retarded cross eyed clown sporting a handle bar mustache and dressed in leotards.

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    • TraderCaddy

      I saw that once on Bozo The Clown on WGN when they were playing the “Magic Bucket” game.

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      • drummerboy

        aw dude,the bucket game. schwwinn 5 speed stick shift bucket #6

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        • TraderCaddy

          Yeah.
          That’s the one.
          I may be showing my age but I remember when it was in black and white.
          This kid threw the ping pong ball and missed the bucket.
          The kid said “Shit.”
          Bozo said: “That is a Bozo No No.”
          The kid says: “Cram it Clown.”
          That was before the y had the dump button for live TV.

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  33. dave

    Somebody give me odds on equities and the dollar moving lower, much lower. Once confidence is lost, everybody loses, even goldbugs. Rome was based on gold and silver.

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  34. Yikes!

    Mortgage the house! Triple bottom support. Buy fucking buy!

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