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ATTENTION TROLLS: Futures Just Went Green

I realize the futures traders are getting a bit overzealous here, by not predicting a horrendous open.

Trolls: this is your chance to set the record straight. Feel free to litter the comments section with expert advice, casually discussing the years of professional investment money management experience and the personal milestones you’ve amassed while gaming this market. Perhaps this is a good occasion to let me know how embarrassing it is to be forced to read this blog and watch me draw down daily. Or, if that fails, you can simply enlighten us how you’ve managed to trade with flawless integrity during all periods of the market, over the past 20 years.

NOTE: When doing this, feel free to forget about the 7 year track record of excellence that has been displayed on this site, every day, for the benefit of the millions of people who read the site.

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98 comments

  1. THEY WILL KNOW ME BY THE TRAIL OF BLOOD
    THEY WILL KNOW ME BY THE TRAIL OF BLOOD

    I CAME FOR THE EGG

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  2. TraderCaddy

    Here is my advice.
    I don’t have any.
    I used to trade like a lunatic and I made $$ but it was boring sitting in front of a computer.
    Then, I recalled the good old days when I had a money tree courtesy of the hourly pricing of Fidelity Select funds.
    So now I pour it into Rydex 2X funds @ the 10:30 price, go for a swim or a bike ride and then sell @ 3:45PM.
    Squeeze out 1% or so a week and it’s all good.

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    • The Fly

      Cmon Caddy with that bullshit.

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      • Frog

        Now, Fly, you did invite people to post bullshit on the board. Caddy was only taking you up on your invitation.

        I wonder what happened to marketdavinci who claimed to have a 90.9% track record and to want to take all your clients away. He was good at bullshitting too.

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        • The Fly

          We will miss Market Davinci.

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        • TraderCaddy

          Not really BS.
          Think about it.
          The market is well settled by then and one needs to go to the strongest (or weakest index – they have 2x inverse ) sector and pour 60-100% of ones funds into same and pull it out @ the 3:45 deadline (hint: 2X EEM and it’s inverse is usually a good one).
          Avoid Fed days and be satisfied with incremental gains.
          One can do it with etfs but have the metal toughness not to day trade.
          No headaches or throwing pizzas at people.

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  3. Jennifer

    I thought u said futures traders are idiots

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  4. The Butcher

    If the company has a profit margin, relatively low debt, and is cheap. I buy it.

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  5. Badduck

    I shorted that bullshit bounce with great vigor and I’m already killing it in Gartman terms.

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  6. Bernard Cornfeld
    Bernard Cornfeld

    Slow your (t)roll ….as you were

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  7. Kai

    The market is such a bullshit I have a hard time to come up with bigger bullshit. Honestly, I am planing to take my profit on my stable dividend stocks (long-term gains) and stick it in high beta stocks. Because all that rotation BS is making me sick and it is probably not true. Btw, the market bullshit comes from the raging bull that I will pack at his horns next week. Baershit comes later.

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  8. Hideous fibs

    Invent the next “Bacon Bowl” sit back and collect 7.5% royalties

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  9. dan

    VXX tits inflating soon y’all

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  10. widespreadpanik

    Enjoying the BIS/BIB swings. Bias to the downside until 4/16. Then one more bio bounce and then stick with the BIS part 70% and you should have a good year. I did load the boat with Brazil ETF options last month and that has made my year so far. What will always be prudent is to accumulate what has really sucked the most. For me it was JNUG/EWZ in February. What else has sucked tit for 2 or more years?

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    • TraderCaddy

      I said it before.
      Buy emerging markets and gold stocks.
      Stick with EEM and GDX (or GDXJ) etfs.
      On Fri. EEM was unchanged.

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  11. Steveorino

    I’ve been around iBC for a while and I know one thing…

    When Senor Tropicana is getting his oranges squeezed, that afford you a great opportunity to play some names.

    I’m a big fan of cash-secured put sales on some of these names that have been shit on over the past month or so.

    Let’s take an example like FEYE. Currently trading at 47.33.

    You can sell an Apr 45 Put for 1.00. That’s 2.27% return on basis.

    In a week.

    If it still sells and you get assigned, then you own the stock at 44.

    You can then sell the May 50 call against your position for about 4 bucks. That would put you in the stock with a basis at 40, and if called away, you’re looking at 25% return on basis.

    In a month.

    A metric shit ton of these high-beta nasdaq names are now broken, technically. They will need time to base and develop new uptrends (if they do ever come). This is why I think put sales/ covered calls offer a better bet than just straight up stock buys.

    Good luck, Fly.

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  12. Required

    7 year track record, fuck off dude you have nothing resembling a track record. Blogging each day isnt a record, and speaking of, I’m sure your “clients” would love to know about how the dope managing their money can’t be bothered to check a PnL statement for weeks or manage risk whatsoever but can surely take the time to blog and engage in chit chat on twitter. You are as unprofessional as it gets bub.

    no position size, no strategy, no expertise, no nothing. You think “added to YELP down here” provides any indication of anything?

    I’m an oil man, no, now I am an expert on IT solutions, but not before I declare pawn shops the buy of the year because “they’ll make money on loans from gold”. The “research” is so facile it’s retarded.

    Your revisionist history is pathetic.

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    • The Fly

      What sort of missive is this?

      Take a step back, read it again, and ponder to yourself: “am I a man or something else?”

      I call into question your manhood. Forget about me arguing with you about stock market expertise or providing you with a full list of my “clients” for proper auditing.

      I think you’re a bit too sweet, have too much time on your hands, and generally angered by the malcontent state of your life.

      How do you like that?

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      • xxxHuggieBearxxx D.P.M
        xxxHuggieBearxxx D.P.M

        haha

        +1 The Fly

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      • Required

        I think your impotent, off-topic deflection speaks volumes. You cannot refute.w

        Thanks for the confirmation on my “missive”.

        Oh, and for fucks sake, at least pretend to use the proper terminology, you hack.

        Hundreds of percentile since 2007?

        A.) who cares, a reference point with no reference, gee whiz, sure showed me, and B.) a percentile is a rank in a group, a measure of distribution. A percent is a proportion out of 100.

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        • The Fly

          Where is it stated that I should feel it necessary to offer you of all people a rebuttal? Judging by your opinionated response to my misuse of useless terminology, I think it’s fair to say, old chap, it’d be an exercise in futility, would it not?

          I think my time is better served stirring my cup of tea than trying to please you.

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    • jules

      Were you not just giving him 10,000 thank you’s 2 threads ago? Bi-polar much.

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  13. Dusty_Rhodes

    They are down again. You degenerates shut the fuck up about the futures and take a zanex. Trying to watch tv here

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  14. alf44

    .
    … OVERDUE BOUNCE THIS WEEK !

    Before Good Friday !!!

    … YELP, WDAY, SPLK & FEYE will ALL catch a BOUNCE this week ! IMO

    Might wanna consider “lightening up” a tad …

    —–

    I posted my “SUPPORT” levels (for these names) in a previous thread ! FWIW

    GLTY
    .

    In The Land Of The Blind … The One Eyed Man Is King !
    .

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  15. The Fly

    At the end of the day, all people care about are gains. Some do it one way, others do it another way. But the bottom line is what have you done for me lately?

    All of this talk about “how to” properly manage money is a bunch of crap. You’ve been sold a bag of shit and believe it to be gold.

    Investing is as much an art as it is gambling. There are subtleties to it that cannot be quantified or gamed. So quit lying to yourselves when you think you have it figured out, with your 12% annual gains. I’ve fucking crushed your skull in for the past decade. Last I checked, the year isn’t over.

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    • alf44

      .
      … while”Investing may be an ART” …

      “preservation of capital” IS the MOST important thing !
      —–
      You just CAN’T ride this shit down … and take this sort of DRAWDOWN … and expect ANYTHING OTHER than serious scrutiny !

      That is just the REAL WORLD !

      It just IS !!!

      .

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      • alf44

        .
        … in your “personal account” … MAYBE !

        … in a “managed account” … HOLY FUCK !!!

        .

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        • alf44

          .
          …that said, if anyone can trade their way out of this hole you are in …YOU prolly can !!!

          .

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        • The Fly

          Please, clients are still up hundreds of percentile since 07

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      • The Fly

        Haven’t i accepted the scrutiny?

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        • alf44

          .
          you HAVE !!!

          And THEN some !!!

          —-

          And you have “owned it” like a true Gentleman !!!

          .

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          • The Fly

            And to your point Alf

            I shouldn’t ever accept draw downs like this. I never have and always kept losses at 10%. I don’t know why I just let things slip, but it happened. And now I have to deal with it

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          • alf44

            .
            “I don’t know why I just let things slip, but it happened. And now I have to deal with it !”
            .

            Those are the absolute LAST WORDS I want to hear … from the guy I have entrusted my MONEY with !!!

            .

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          • alf44

            .
            … let me quickly add … I LOVE YA, MAN !
            .

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          • The Fly

            There’s no winning with you, I see.

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          • alf44

            .
            see above post !!!
            .

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          • Required

            That, and “hundreds of percentile”

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  16. Hobbs

    Tricky environment we’re in. Looks to me these it’s a simple case of everyone in these MOMO stocks getting on the same side of the boat. I have no doubt the fed will bail everyone out eventually as they have to print forever. They’ve backed themselves into a corner and have no options left except to print until they completely debase the currency. I don’t think it prudent to just buy willy nilly whilst they crash, too many still holding out hope and must be thoroughly routed.

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  17. IncomeTrader

    Bullish markets open down or flat and move up into the close.

    Bearish markets open up or flat and move down into the close.

    Futures are meaningless…

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  18. Dusty_Rhodes aka Jeremy
    Dusty_Rhodes aka Jeremy

    Fly you don’t have to answer to these fucking people. No one puts their neck out like you do, broadcasting trades in real time, especially with high beta and small cap names you trade. Hope your just having fun with the comments and not letting them bother you.

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    • The Fly

      They don’t bother me, truly. I like to see how people react to certain things.

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  19. No One

    If we bounce I doubt it would be a big rally. I would use it to sell.

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  20. mickeyrobbie

    VIX tits was last weeks trade. These momo names should outperform this week:

    CORN
    WEAT
    GDX

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  21. larry

    Why do you think the nassdaq was crushed? Some omniscient being sitting in a dark room puffing the fattest, blackest cigar decided to take these suckers down a notch, just for shits and giggles? Please… And why in the hell should these same stocks regain their losses in any reasonable amount of time, if ever? Throw away the hope bullshit and see it for what it is.

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    • The Fly

      Larry

      I expect earnings and forecasts will drive them going forward. It will be a long time before they fully recover, some never will.

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  22. Dusty_Rhodes aka Jeremy
    Dusty_Rhodes aka Jeremy

    At the end of the day, no one knows shit. Some time the markets better than others but at some point, past performance stops correlating with present results. Try to manage risk and hope things work out, and be very grateful if you are one of the lucky ones to make a fortune in the market over a short period of time, as I am. And do your best to get through life without getting cancer.

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  23. negrodamus

    There’s a hole in the ozone layer
    I’m rippin vampires
    You think I give a fuck
    Who’s the biggest player
    Or who’s got the fattest bank roll
    What is it if a man gains the world
    And lose his own soul?

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  24. typebtrading

    Over the years I have noticed that you become more docile and generous when the world is collapsing around you. When you’re account is up you tend to throw more piping hot slices of pizza at people’s heads. I will say whatever your mood you are always a true gentleman Just an observation.

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    • The Fly

      I do become gentle during hard times. No one needs a big dickhead when the world is crumbling.

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  25. typebtrading

    Indeud. A true gentleman is magnanimous and holds himself accountable for his actions. Hat tip sir and good night

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  26. buylo

    If we could all just get along and stick together, we could beat this market hands down!

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  27. The Fly

    Free trials for PPT/12631/OA service ends in 1.5 hours.

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  28. Noni Kavuri

    Do you think Yelp will recover with its strong balance sheet and growth prospects?

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  29. Raise Taxes, Raise Spending
    Raise Taxes, Raise Spending

    The corner of the bedsheet hiding the HFT world has been lifted this week and people have had a peek at what lies beneath.
    I am waiting for the first class action suit. Hopefully some jury gets to assess damages for the billions of dollars skimmed from the market by those guys. It pisses me off that the market allows somebody to get between a buyer and a seller and cop a few bucks, without anyone even being aware it is happening.

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  30. Jennifer

    ” No one needs a big dickhead when the world is crumbling.”

    The world isn’t crumbling. Just the peoples accounts who loaded up on stocks trading at 20 to 70x sales after the market moved up 170% over the prior 5 years

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  31. Narwhal

    Dusty Rhodes, please spell you drugs correctly. It’s Xanax.

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  32. ironbird

    Thanks for the look under the hood Senor Fly. The scumbags currently littering these hallowed halls of IBC will get what they all deserve. Time is the great equalizer. Thanks again.

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  33. Trading_Nymph

    You know FWIW, I think the market topped in Dec in that 1755ish area. (even though the market kept going up). In Feb that is where it caught support after Draghi spoke. Now, we should retest my Top and IMHO it should break finally to the downside. Well, Unless Draghi or BoJ go and throw more coke at it. Us Nymph Bears hate that.

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    • Trading_Nymph

      Also, I am still looking at you AA. You should be at that 11.90 level that I told Jennie or Fake Jennie you would be at.

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      • ironbird

        Nymph what is the time line? Do you really think the WH will allow a collapse before the midterms? If we do rollover into hell fire, when?

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        • Trading_Nymph

          July/Sept is the big drop if Bank of Japan doesn’t act and wants to continue to wait. EU has to lower the Euro in a big way, which in turns makes a stronger Yen and USD, which neither will help this market. IMHO, we will take out the 1755 level soon..but we will chop around alot turing the mid summer. Commodities continue to fall to confirm there ain’t no global growth happening.

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          • Trading_Nymph

            lol, during, not turing. I never proof read, and fly doesn’t believe in edit feature.

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          • Trading_Nymph

            Nov is election time, plenty time to drop. Normal People won’t care much..this recovery hasn’t helped them.

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          • ironbird

            Normal people did not elect the dems. Panicked socially moderate independents recently wealthy did back in 08 and then on the upswing in 12. If the tape tanks the dems are done. Thanks for the thoughts. Unlike the vagrants. Some of us still know how to converse with a shade of class.

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          • Trading_Nymph

            The Presidential Cycle normally points to a weaker market at this point. Not sure who voted current Govt. Obama Care isn’t making anyone happy so far. My Doctor wants to Quit and all I hear is my friends complaining about less benefit and increase in rates.

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      • ironbird

        What is your opinion on gold?

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        • Trading_Nymph

          1243ish KEY SUPPORT, 1405 for upside. China may really start to get worried over all of this, especial with the massive drop of copper we will see during the Summer. Gold could drop with everything, but as long as it could hold that support it will be a place to hide out at. But I am Bear, I would say that.

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    • ironbird

      Obviously this is a mid term election. But after 0care the 401k is all that is left to vote hope and change. The panicked independents of old are panicked again.

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      • Trading_Nymph

        not sure. Central Bank/Govt Action made this bubble. Bubbles always Pop. I have been watching this bubble form since 2009, it is an interesting study. But, once 1755 was taken out the entire logic of the market was gone, (unless QQQEEEE is coming, which doesn’t seem to be the case).

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        • ironbird

          Without the soccer mom vote the dems are swimming with the fishes. Hard to be a soccer mom with a crashed hubby 401k. The hope and chains must have a healthy spy. But wtf do i know.

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          • ironbird

            The QQQEEEEE will likely come from Europe just in time to save the soccer mom vote. lol

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          • Trading_Nymph

            weaker Euro isn’t going to help our USD at all?

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  34. Hugh Hendry

    I’ve been here nigh on 7 years and I’ve seen Fly get out of some serious shit in the past. I expect nothing less this time.

    Still. Buy treasuries you ne’er do well, stock jobbing, vagrants! This ain’t over by a stretch.

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    • ironbird

      You went all in late last year, Hugh. You must be having a flashback.

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  35. it is showtime

    I’m shorting the blood moon

    And I should have shorted the Red Sox (wtf)

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  36. razorsedge

    some say russian special forces are behind the take over of ukraine gov buildings. i pray this ends peacefully , i didnt think that the crimea would be the end of this,(as posted here) russia mkt down another 3% , and the world will ?

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    xxxHuggieBearxxx D.P.M

    What is the deal with eggflo? I don’t get it.

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