I just got home from that fucking rubed out bitch of a whore place in central, PA, where goats and fuckers looking like Abe Lincoln reign supreme. I had a bit of a scuffle at the local pancake house, where the service was way less than acceptable. I make it a rule, never bitch when at a restaurant, just walk the fuck out. Fuck those people running sideways (no idea what the means, but it sounds insidious).
My house survived the storm, unscathed. The only causality was two potted palm trees on the ground. I picked them up just a minute ago, while eating a granola bar.
As you can see, the market melted the fuck higher today. I love it. All of those brilliant risk managers on CNBC getting air time due to the end of the world thesis just got blown the fuck up again, for the umpteen time in so many years. Seriously, you don’t sell when fuckers go on teevee and tell you to go to 0% equities. Look, you don’t let those people manage money for you. They aren’t qualified to run an UGMA; keep them away from your brains.
My investment strategy has evolved a great deal over the years.Before I built The PPT, I used to spend an inordinate amount of time sifting through balance sheets, looking over momentum runs. Now, all of that, and more, is run by my algorithms. Because of this, I am able to trade bigger. My average position size is 10-20% of assets now, up from 5-7%. See when I am buying WNR, DECK, GSVC, VHC or IPGP, I don’t think they are going to trade higher, I know they will. My convictions will either make me richer than a mothefucker swimming in crude oil or carnival poor. Here’s the thing, I’m already rich; I just want to get richer.
For the year, I am up 17% and I am up on my WNR position, now 26% of assets. The whole “never put your eggs in one basket” argument is poor fallacy. If fallacy could be embodied into one fucking statement, that would be it. Look, if you don’t know what you are doing, you will lose. There are no short cuts around that. From time to time, we all fuck up and get lost in a sea of idiocy. The key is to bounce back and stick space swords into your enemies with great swiftness. Typically, I won’t up the size of a single position over 30%. But, I am no longer comfortable with babysitting a bunch of positions, having to run 10,000 trades per month.
I refuse to do that on principal.
Don’t follow this strategy because you will blow up. “The Fly” is on another level, zipping through neighborhoods, vaporizing crops, abducting fuckers from Idaho. During this last dip, immediately, I sold out all non-central stocks and focused on averaging down on core positions on dips. As a result, I am now up on all of them, sitting prettier than Pepe Le Pew, sans the stink, on top of a 42% cash horde.
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Fig
Given we live in a naturally long bias market…you totally make sense! Who wants to short when clowns will rape you?
Most stock market players have a natural optimism…so good news = buy, bad news = buy more (Fed steps in). Still…its hard to play this game with big looming headline risk still out there!
Looking forward to joining the PPT heading into a turbulent September.
May the S.A.M. grace me!
look forward to seeing you there.
It’s orchestra seating only in PPT.
P.S. FIG
fly, have you noticed a recent drop in traffic since you have changed the site format? or it is jus me.
just you. The site traffic is always highest when market drops.
Do you really think people would stop coming due to site design?
it is abit harder to navigate and the tabs are slow to respond
slow?
email Jeremy with your PC browser details and experience, at [email protected]
Glad your house is okay.
thanks
You should fire your landscaper for not securing your potted palms. You need to send a message
Whoever is spamming thumbs down will be tracked.
Live the simple life
Pitchfork at hand
Chin Slinky
QUICK VOTE:
Should iBC keep the black background or switch to white?
Thumbs up for black, thumbs down for white.
Who the hell even pays attention to the background? I don’t know about everyone else, but I just read the words.
Can’t we just change it back and forth and add pics?
Glad all is well at the casa. Now we just need to get Scott some electricity and hopefully hear from Cronkite with good news.
now i’m a bit worried for cronk,scotty was able to post so we know he’s good.
I thought I had arbed my 28% win with an 18% loss on another position (it was an M&A dealio)… but it turns out sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.
Of course, sometimes I’m lucky and good.
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That’s almost as good as the days of old when Tim Knight would brag that he accidentally went long when he meant to go short. Then the market skyrocketed thus making him look like the stud trader that he is. (full sarcasm included)
“That’s almost as good as the days of old when Tim Knight would brag that he accidentally went long when he meant to go short. Then the market skyrocketed thus making him look like the stud trader that he is. (full sarcasm included)””
lol
He was short from 6600 all the way to 11000. It was the worst trading performance in history. Man he was pissed at those of us laughing at him.
Meanwhile
Case Shiller came out and for the 3rd month shows US house prices are up. But Italy’s bond auction was pretty awful. Currencies are steady with the buck a tiny bit stronger.
I think we do a heap of nothing today. Enjoy the rest of the summer if you can get through the debris in the North east.
Well, it does go to Fly’s point about having too many positions, etc.
This is especially true w. me in the miner space, but I’m afraid there’s not much one can do if one wishes to keep one’s hand in the “junior lotto” game, like this NDX acquisition just showed.
Now I think it may be time to buy AUQ, however….
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BTW, it was nothing personal. I’m sure I have a lot fewer positions open at anytime than you and I have lost track of stragglers before.
But my favorite is when I have an odd number of shares, go to sell out of my position and then realize I left one piss ant share in the account. And it’s some fucktarded microcrap piece of shit worth less than the price of a commission.
been there.
Is that a blunt?
Any word about Cronkite?
What’s up with Cronkite? Isn’t he GW?
Yes, he lives upstate with the moose and deer and Vermonters.
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great read. FIG = fucking ingenious grandmaster
No word on Cron/gw.
He lives up in Catskills and his areas got flooded hard.
Good Post Fly
Hope everybody gets up and running up in Northeast. Rough weekend.
My thoughts are with everyone struggling with this disaster.
Glad to see the house did well.
The Steve The Neighbor family must have done a good job sandbagging.
And a shout out to those illegal Mexican Gardeners for helping. This should help to keep Fly from calling ICE.
I’m finally starting to find the humour in rap. That tune is hilarious!
I bailed out of half my TZA after the opening. Price 42.04 made a mere 1.5 percent.
Ozzie Jay — check this out, maybe that carbon tax ain’t so bad after all?
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Looks like my town is still in the top 4 on Earth. Sounds about right.
Vancouver dropped because its crime rate is increasing due to immigration from fiestier, dumber parts of the world (or so I hear).
welcome to the ghetto. ha
market super duper resilient to horrible consumer sentiment number
we are going higher than most will perceive
Looking at the Year Chart…Major Downtrend is still intact. Clam is beaten.
Agree completely however if you are shorting on that thesis be reay to ride this bear market wave to mid 1250’s or even higher before rolling over.
I doubt is S&P gets above 1220, and look for
the market to get BUTCHERED on Thursday 9/1.
Buy your TZA and FAZ at 10AM tomorrow near
the peak of this rally phase.
Refer to Thursday August 18 as reference.
Do not underestimate the triune power of momo/pomo and shorts getting clownraped
All you bears will be eating humble pie this time a month from now.
Fly, glad you’re house came out unscathed…like the new look…took a little while to get used to…you’re missing out on the EXK run….JG did as well…I’m SHOCKED!
I am not missing out on it. Still have a 35% position.
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Apologies to you JG…I meant no ill will or superiority. I defer to your wisdom in these matters.
Great advice there, Fly. Thanks. And glad your house survived the storm unscathed.