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THE RAILS WILL GET THEIR REVENGE

Post TRN conference call, the stock dropped $1.50. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why. The call was entirely bullish, with management claiming they’ve seen zero evidence of a slowdown, despite the drop in crude.

Listen to me: today’s decline is 100% horseshit. You will soon begin to understand that we are in fact residents of Dante’s inferno. The pin action in TRN is designed to drive people mad, flush them out of the stocks and into a life of manual labor.

I am a railman, always have been and always will be one. I was born inside of the coach of a train car, worked the tracks as a lad, and helped connect this great nation from coast to coast–no matter the cost. I will not be shaken out of my position, all because a bunch of milquetoast carousel operators couldn’t hold their butter.

Today was a dreadful day for me, losing more than 1.5%. On the bright side, I am still up 1% from yesterday’s open.

I intend to partake in a little cold blooded revenge tomorrow.

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32 comments

  1. speerothekid

    UP ERRDAY

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  2. smartestone

    big day for GPRO tomorrow

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    • budh

      GPRO killed Michael Schumacher. it was a GoPro camera that jammed thru his skull. No problem otherwise.

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      • alf44

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        … last I heard he was still alive !

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        Not likely he’ll EVER drive a Formula 1 car again though !

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  3. pirate

    I thought you were an oilman?

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  4. zuul

    Short gold, retire.

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  5. rahagar

    Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. I danced out of a long, into a short, and covered by the close..for a grand total of….breakeven on TRN. Fvck, lived to fight again.

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    • Dr. Fly

      There is a special punishment in hell for people like you.

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      • rahagar

        I am envisioning hell as a place where equity markets run 24/7/365 and Beelzebeb himself (played by lloyd blanked-fein) controls the sell program algos….and you can’t short in hell. Now that would be punishment.

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  6. project_pat

    high divy oil stocks and the rails are on the radar. 10-4 FLY. Long the GPRO…liftoff soon.

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  7. therealhmmm

    Snowpiercer is a new railman flick. Didn’t think it was that great though.

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  8. rigged game

    Who is this moronic jackoff on CNBC who says “The Fed has to admit their policy has not worked”?

    Is he Son of Fox?

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  9. matt_bear

    investing in JC Penney and railroads….sounds like my grandfather.

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  10. superbus1982

    Today was a very modest victory for bears including myself. If we don’t get anything going tomorrow, I will give up for a little while and leave bulls alone. It’ll take me at least a month before I can play the long side of this market again. Energy is still barely alive. They did not sell stocks today and the machines kept control. Fomc was moderately tight as proved by the large currency moves, yet tlt finished green. Talk about another good sign. We will see if bulls keep cool tomorrow again. good luck to all

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  11. alty

    breadth looks very strong to me. Not much breaking last weeks lows and plenty has rebounded completely from the lows. i’d be neutral at worst right now, but in fact am bullish

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    • superbus1982

      Depends on your timeframe. Short term, there is no way you can should be bullish. No way. Maybe the fly is a longer term player and will end up being right. However short term the r/r is massively biased in favor of bears. As good pretty much as those 2007 tops when it wasn’t energy but subprime that was crashing.

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  12. tradercaddy

    “…and helped connect this great nation from coast to coast–no matter the cost….”
    Blazing Saddles all over again.

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  13. longview

    Ok this isn’t about laying rails across THIS great nation, but it’s still a great song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoU1Qkeizs

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    • longview

      And when the young man’s fancy was turnin’ to the spring
      the railroad men grew restless for to hear the hammers ring
      Their minds were overflowing with the visions of their day
      and many a fortune won and lost and many a debt to pay

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  14. tradercaddy

    I found a video of Fly working on the railway. It’s the first guy who fainted but he is okay as he joins in the sing a long.
    http://youtu.be/L7QF32mxftE

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  15. ironbird

    What about the surprise hawkish Fed? What exactly is the bull case now?

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    • superbus1982

      The bull case if that we consolidate… the bear case is we drop. Very asymmetrical situation right here.

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  16. schizo168

    I AM ALL IN VXX with margin right now

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  17. alf44

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    “Post TRN conference call, the stock dropped $1.50. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why.”
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    In a word …

    “PENDING LAWSUITS” !!!

    Okay … admittedly … that’s 2 words !!!
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    WAKEUP before YOU become the next “guardrail casualty” … as it were !!!

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  18. alf44

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    Putting in an early request for the old ibankcoin “Gravestone” front page graphics … just in time for Halloween !!!
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    Can you make that happen ?

    Thank you in advance !!!

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  19. budh

    So, railman— why’d you kill all the damn buffalo? Was that really necessary?

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  20. chrismark

    Reducing the dimension of a piece of metal from 5″ to 4″ and not going through the gov approvals – obviously a stupid move. For that they now have a parade of lawsuits to defend. Someone or group in that company fucked up big time. To boot, you get triple fucked on the jury award when defrauding the gov.

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    • alf44

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      … AND … the Personal Injury/Wrongful Death guys are coming !!!

      Wait for it !!!

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      • chrismark

        Found some data, this is laughable ….

        The guardrail system consists of a flat piece of steel at the front of the guardrail that is intended to protect passengers in the event of a crash. The unapproved design changes to the ET-Plus system, made in 2005, consisted of shrinking the end guardrail terminal from five inches to four inches. While the change was a cost effective measure for Trinity, with projected savings of $2 per guardrail or $50,000 per year http://www.cnbc.com/id/102134252

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