Drinking Good Wine to Wash the Pain Away
I can’t remember being so mad at the market, as I am now. I haven’t been ignoring iBankCoin today. Instead, I left the office in favor of seething and snarking at people in the streets.
I’m not interested in rehashing the bearish porn-shit that you’ve been seeing, hearing and reading all day. Fuck those people. Instead, I wanted to inform you that Trader Joe’s has the best 1,000 day old gouda cheese in existence. I strongly suggest getting on your organic bicycle to buy some. Pair it with a nice Cab Franc. Be sure to make sure it is a 92+ rated wine, else you are simply drinking shit.
Sometimes it’s important to remember life exists outside of the stock market. Try to enjoy it.
67 Responses to Drinking Good Wine to Wash the Pain Away
I’ve never seen the market so out to kill everybody: bulls, bears, swing traders, day traders, buy-and-holders. It’s almost like a seek and destroy robot in a science fiction movie that is programmed to learn and so becomes progressively stealthier and deadlier.
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That was one hell of a short squeeze today hun fly? 
good analogy. SEEK AND KILL from a sci-fi movie.
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The Terminator Market!
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Time to plan a fishing trip. Awesome post Mr Fly!
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THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, YES.
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Just look at a chart. The whole thing is a mess. Cheers Blogfather.
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Smoke em if you got em
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We will bounce, question is, how much.
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Bounce deez nuts! And seriously, what’s with all this moping around shit? So you lose a little, big deal. Cry about it or man up.
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Go fuck a raw sewage pipe
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greece is OTB. Out the business. game over. or so I was told.
Cheese and wine it is.
regards
chuck
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“make sure it is a AAA rated wine derivative, else you are simply buying shit”
Uh-oh. We know where reliance on the ratings leads.
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Geez blogfather, lighten up for Christ’s sake. I damn glad I’m not managing anyone’s money other than my immediate family, lest I do a Bill Miller and pretend everythong is fine, whilst I run and hide in some culvert or spyder hole [sic].
Look, what’s the worst that will happen if the EZye blows up, or we get a US downgrade on Monday? We go down to the bottom of the old range? Whoop-di-do! Blog on Blogfather. Enjoy your wine and gouda. I’m enjoying mine.
BTW, when in college I worked at a place that made kick ass smoked gruyère. It was something to behold; enjoyed with a fine wine or not.
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Dear Fly, On top of blunt wine advice would you mind answering a travel-related question? I remember you taking a Caribbean trip this Summer. I can’t decide where to go in the Caribbean with my girlfriend, all the islands seem the same… Time frame is the week before xmas. Would you kindly recommend a destination befitting a top hat gentleman?
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Go to Turks and Caicos and stay at the Tuscanny. Thank me later.
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I used to live in Tortola, the British Virgin Islands. Ran a West Indian newspaper there. The very best islands to stay on in the Caribbean are Virgin Gorda and Anegada, both in the BVI. Nevis and Anguilla come close, as well. Be sure to visit Alex at Cow Wreck Bay in Anegada. Go catch a lemon shark for lunch.
Nothing but Africa on the other side of that view…
http://bvipirate.com/images/CWBarView.jpg
She’s a technical analyst. Ain’t no TA analyst better than the 12631 analysts right here.
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OOps. Somehow I put this comment in the wrong place. Supposed to be about the BAC analyst’s comments.
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Drinking shit (because that’s all I can afford) and enjoying it! Cheers!
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Drinking Jameson and getting my Turkey fryer ready for Thursday.
When Fly put up that post yesterday on the PPT algos I had the mental image of the Matrix, with all the different codes and macros fighting it out
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Had me some homemade Mexican raicilla… a pineapple, coconut, agave moonshine from Jalisco.
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I’m enjoying learning about cloud hosted services. Frankly, I capitulated after GMCR (capitulated meaning I quit looking all the time although I am still long a number of names).
I discovered in that time that your iBC Admin is one smart dude! Dude is a crazy genius. I like him. He’s cool. Good man, speaks english and knows IT.
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if you consider 2009 bottle of cheap chardonnay from Kroger good wine im doing the same thing
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SHOMP
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Think about ALL of the negative headlines and doom/gloom we’ve heard in the past month or so.. Now ask yourselves if you think we’ve even heard half of what’s in store for us?? MF Global was the tip of the ice burg, they are scrambling to hide what is beneath the surface!! We are FUCKED!!!!!
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lol!
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Electro. Again?
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I just booked two 3-day ski weekends after xmas and early January. Six days of skiing to get ready for six more days out west in feb/march. Nothing like snow and hot-tubs to clear the head.
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Where you skiing ,Spooky?
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So the Fed has forced grandma into the stock market via zero return on cd’s and bonds… And now we get 2 – 3% daily swings?
Starting to feel like grandma just got run over by a reindeer.
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Grandma is fine. She decided not to open the statements from her mutual fund company. They are sitting unopened in a pile on a table in her house, with her bills and magazines.
Only if she hears on TV that the Dow plunges below 10,000 will she have a coronary and give what’s left of it to you in her will.
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lmao!
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Well on bloomberg radio they said not to open them, so I guess that’s why she won’t look. But CNBC is telling everyone to jump off a bridge, so whom do we listen to?
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Oct was the crazy shit I still can’t get. Will check out the Cheese.
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Oct was my best month of the year, so far. Testing out new trading systems based on years of previous good systems.
pianochocolate…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4pTUhOkPfM
Lanterna….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBlAIQxlc4
Which reminds of David Gilmore?
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I think of Einstein, and these “faster than light” neutrinos.
Einstein didn’t like the attention e=mc squared brought him.
Sometimes the spotlight stays on you, regardless of your intentions…it’s a Hollywood thing.
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Tonight I am actually pondering how many spend their entire lives trying to understand the universe thru math…and how Fly’s obsession with the PPT shares those same passions of understanding our universe.
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Nymph-
I certainly cannot speak for Le Fly, however, everything is peaceful in the wild universe around my home tonight.
(fresh snow in the forest)
I think money is wonderful, but love is even better.
So, how about a toast to real men, real women, and real love?
Cha-Ching!
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Damon, Love is wonderful and it will always will be. But, “real passion for something” is an intense junkie rush that in its purist form most will never experience. Van Gough had it, 2 am in his room painting. IMHO, I think both the Fly and I are not doing it for money, but the passion…look at a physist’s eyes when they talk about string theory, passion. Can’t pick your passion, if that was true, mine would not be so geeky.
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Here, here! A toast to real men, real women, and real love. And to the wild universe around us.
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Speaking of hearing too much chatter about the Germans.
I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT DEUTSCHE BANK “DB” who knows the real exposure here? anyone? i believe it’s going to a great short ! someones going to fail ! …any links?
This John Kerry insider trading shit has put me on edge tonight BIG TIIME.. I’d beat the piss out of that bitch and his wife if they were in front of me right now..Modern day Bonnie and fucking Clyde..
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not quite. bonnie and clyde were true amerikan outlaws. the kerry’s are simple scumbags. agree with the sentiment tho. fuck em.
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Things NEED to change in this country. WE can’t stand for this BS any longer..
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I guess when he sold his teva shares, I should have taken my cue. They should let us citizens access their trading records so we’ll know what to buy and sell.
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Come on Man, you have everything ! but I have evrything !!
germany going down man ! , I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT DEUTSCHE BANK “DB” who knows the real exposure here? anyone? i believe it’s going to a great short like Leman !
someones going to fail ! or come close to take the heat and dump on them …any links ?
… tha TRADE is SHORT !!!
It is a POSITION TRADE !!!
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Just put tha trade on … walkaway … and go eat a frickin’ sandwich … JEEEZ !!!
Honestly … this place is inhabited by a bunch of schizophrenic drama queens !!!
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In The Land Of The Blind … The One Eyed Man Is King !!!
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Speaking of drama queens – welcome back, Rip Taylor!!
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Interesting article in the Globe and Mail today about how all the central banks are amassing gold. 350 tonnes in the first 9 months this year as opposed to 76 tonnes in all of 2010.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/central-banks-go-on-a-gold-rush/article2239253/
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Preparing for carnage of epic proportion!!!!!
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Dinner party with Steven Bell, DB INSIDER !
LIBOR WAY UP ! TROUBLE
I found this blog a while back because I was interested in the stock market. I have stuck around and continue to read this blog every day because of your writing.
In light (spite?) of the recent turmoil in the market, I think your writing has never been better. In particular I have really enjoyed the autobiographical narratives that you have been sprinkling in…fascinating stuff.
Thanks.
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MARY ANN BARTELS,OF BOA&MERRILL LYNCH
technical breakdowns in the broker/ dealer in the money center banks !
measured moves on those will take out Oct . lows..by 1st qt. sooner possible if credit markets freeze
50% chance hit 950 area give or take 15
Nice, can’t wait!!!!
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Fancy title. What’s her track record for these kinds of predictions?
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Forget other TA analysts. Look at our 12631 TA folks right here. They are the best.
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but if they can’t manage their debt should we be eating their cheese?
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That reminds me of terms like, “sucking up”, “kissing ass” and “unctuous hyperbole”.
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I recommend the Chimichurri Rice at Trader Joe’s – just a splash of cherry tomatoes with the right mix of spices. And for dessert – wrap your lips around some Salty Chocolate Balls. Our guests just can’t get enough of our wonderful Balls!
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Haha win
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That Van Dyke “Euro-Buddist-Fembot-bull-shit” was fascinating.
No replays, however.
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Again, Stock market is not very close to the 2007 ALL TIME HIGHS. When unemployed was 4.7% and everybody had a second house.
This entire rally is going become undone.
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What is that “pinback” bullshit? “Investmentwatch?” Is that some kind of leftist anti-wallstreet watchdog group?
What, the guy wants to see a black hole swallow us all up tomorrow morning? And I’m pretty sure the Fly has not “thrown in the towel” so that guy needs to get his reading comprehension fixed.
The market is in the same trouble it was in 3 months ago, but in the meantime, it lured us all in long with pretty charts and a pretty rally, and it forced the people who were short to begin with, who had the right trade with the right macro view aligned, to abandon their correct trade in the face of a punishing senseless rally. Now no one knows what to do, but perhaps alf is right, it’s only a matter of time before crickets and cockroaches are crawling around nuclear ruins with Dow 1000. This year was my initiation into trading the market, which I haven’t done before. It’s been a test by fire and damnit I’m better for it. Let’s throw some more money into flaming garbage cans!
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