WAR IS IMMINENT, ONCE AGAIN

Let me be clear: I do not like being toyed with. I find myself publishing the same Iranian war threats for the past week and grow weary. I’d also not like to see war, if I’m being serious. Because war afflicts the innocent and I’d prefer people to live in peace, building for the future of mankind, rather than be relegated into to senseless conflict.

NEVERTHELESS, we are here, a place where man has been countless times throughout history — on the precipice of war.

As investors: how do we protect ourselves?

It’s simple: you hedge against your longs with inverse etfs, such as $TZA, $SQQQ or $UVIX. I have in my strategic long term account $SQQQ $FAZ and oils with 15% cash. Hedges should be used to hedge, not to be instruments of greed. Take profits when you can and try to remember, even when things look the bleakest, ultimately markets are designed to go higher.

I closed out my trading hedges in $FAZ and $UVIX and only possess $BITX and oil stocks now with 63% cash, proven to be right, +75bps for the session so far.

Do not fool yourselves into believing you are anything like me — a stock market prophet — able to peer into the future by melding the time space continuum and folding its layers like a cake and eating it.

I closed at my session highs down 34bps and I feel really good about it. The brief sojourns into loss enable me to understand how many of you pedestrians feel on a regular basis. Oh, the helplessness. Oh, I do not not know thou art have in store for me!

Meanwhile I was in the laboratory concocting my next wins — all to do with global war, shortages of oil, and a large and unrelenting spike in interest rates and Bitcoin. There is a very heavy easterly wind blowing now and you can’t see it. If you allow yourselves to be still and aware of your surroundings — you can feel it. However, it’s impossible for the uninitiated and you’ll just keep yammering on buying $NVDA and watching transexual shows on $NFLX.

Inside of my Capstone, I have concocted a severe plan to profit from what I see coming. You betting against me is folly and those who’ve been following me long enough inside Stocklabs understands it’s akin to suicide by the rope.

Consider the following:

Nuclear war busts loose between American and Russia and all American cities are targeted and all of its inhabitants are vaporized. Really think about that for a second. It would behoove me not to suggest we could build back better, dare I say. The crime rate would be inexorably ZERO and blue dyed hair would be a relic of the past, something akin to when dinosaurs roamed the earth in search of meat.

People hiding out in farm in rural centers or well to do enclaves in the suburbs would come out and build anew. Denizens of ill repute and democratic watering holes washed from the earth. Sure, the fallout and the clean up would be arduous, annoying even — but I’m sure we could deploy AI powered robots to do much of the heavy lifting.

HOWEVER, it should be noted the vast majority of programmers would be “vaporized” in the fires and folks in W. Virginia are largely retarded. NEVERTHELESS, nuclear war doesn’t have to be a completely bad experience, if you come to think about it.

Some believe Iran will strike “while the iron is hot” and others believe they’ll strike “soon.” I tend to lean on a fortnight or at the very most two weeks.

While one week is possible and 3 weeks too long, I do believe 14 days is the proper amount of time to wait for war. There are many things that can and will happen, once war begins. The only question is: “when do you think it’ll happen?”

I think about this often and have sifted through endless documents trying to find a timeframe and after all of my research I’ve concluded it’ll happen in exactly one day less than 15 days. Perhaps in about a half month’s time we’ll look back on this most and consider it to be prescient. The Persians rarely bluff and are well known warriors, so it’s only a matter of time now.

Dear Sirs —

I am obligated to inform you that I do believe markets are at the precipice of sheer and utter collapse. However, I will preface that bold statement with a disclosure: I am almost always thinking markets will collapse and find myself often disappointed by the specter of it all “working out in the end” so very often.

I closed near my session lows of -2.2%, mostly due to a very large $UVIX position gone sideways (actually fucking lower) on me late in the day. I did not sell it because I am obligated to have shorts into tomorrow. Whether I make to lose money is immaterial. Some things are more important than money, such as being involved at the very beginning of what could end up being THE TOP for 2024.

Bear in mind, the dollar index ran higher today with oil and all of the banks and interest rate sensitive companies fell through the fucking floorboards. Look, it’s all very mundane stuff and I am sorry you just don’t get it. The point is we are at a crossroads from which true disaster might materialize, especially if the regionals start to tank and all of the companies who depend on refinancing their credit to remain in business. Let’s not even delve into ‘cash sorting’ and the housing market just yet. Today was merely the opening salvo of what might turn into an orchestral masterpiece of gloom, regret, and cataclysm.

I am happy to have lost some coin today, as it gives me the proper motivation to get it all back. I am heavily long oils, short bonds, short small caps, and long volatility into tomorrow.

See you catamites tomorrow.

If you’d just entertain me for a moment I’d like to remind you that the housing market is fucked, as well as the regional banks, and quite possible REITs. The US 10yr is now at session highs above 4.5%, +15bps, with eyes on MOAR. It’s important to remember that the entire western economic scheme is predicted on low interest rates. Now with rates moving higher, eventually, all will collapse.

Meanwhile, we are seeing some bogged pin action in various financials today. In a perfect world, this small start will soon blossom into something much larger.

$RKT -11%, $VLY -8.5%, $FNF -8%, $NYCB -7%, $VNO -7%, $IVZ -7%, $BXP -5.5%, $OZK -5%, $ZION -5%

Bear in mind, the treasuries are still on the books of the balance sheets and the regionals need tier 1 capital to pass stress tests, meaning they’ll either have to sell at heinous losses or raise capital or simply go out of business. Because of this, I have a position in $FAZ and will hold it at least until tomorrow, in the hopes that rates continue to climb and this causes fractures in the banking system — permitting me to profit from its eventual demise.

Because the CPI came in hot, bond yields have soared 13bps to 4.5% on the 10yr, the dollar +0.9% v euro, and stocks have collapsed. I’m of course greatly chagrined by this all, especially since I came into today 141% leveraged with just 20% short. I had to pare down my longs immediately to get me into a slightly net short position and now possess losses of 1.75% for the day. I did not think the CPI number was going to be deleterious since Biden rigs everything. He is all knowing, a true Machiavellian genius hiding behind a grotesquely large cone of iced cream.

My temptation is to unequivocally tell you that “it’s over” and there’s no way the housing market can sustain at 9% mortgages and how the idea of a rate cut is now fantasy. But I’ve learned many lessons the past two years and will not underestimate the stupidity of my fellow trader, to get in that fucking market right now and bid $NVDA higher.

I wish I had more bad news to give you, such as broken elevator cable pin action, or some regional bank about to bust lower on liquidity concerns. After all, they’re all leveraged long treasuries at fresh fucking lows.

But it’s all papered over and we live in fantasy land.

I’m 42% cash, 20% short, still thinking on which direction to bet on.

The last few days only by God’s grace am I still at record highs. In another reality where I am not favored by celestial beings, I’d be hammered into an early fucking grave — trading loose and poor. I find myself chasing whimsical fairytales like a fucking pussy. What I need is, I need religious fervor back to solidify a backbone to my idealism in my trades.

I blew a +170bps gain and finished +67bps, HIGHLY FUCKING LEVERAGED at 141% of assets — pared with some fucking $UVIX and $TZA hedges. Late in the day, I was tricked and fooled into buying $VMEO, some retarded third tier video platform after seeing an immense volume and price spike. I was almost sure there was a takeover rumor causing the shares to spike. Fifteen minutes later, I’m down 5% and it ruined my day.

Even though I finished the day with gains and am merely 1% off the session highs, I feel like I lost 10%. Tomorrow, I am cleaning house in a number of ways and will be switching up my trading methods to conform with, but not limited to, conviction beliefs emanating from my very high IQ — eschewing the refuse and the autistically evil day trading gambits which too often consumes me.

If I don’t step away from the computer, I find myself glued to the screens, whoring my money out to any stock shaking its ass for any number of screens running on any number of my monitors. The madness ends now.

Back on March 15th, I warned the fucking readers here of impending rotation out from tech and into basic materials. I blogged about potential rotation for weeks afterwards, warning you of its eventuality based upon the laws of seasonality. Hopefully, a few of you didn’t chase the other dodo birds off the slide of the cliff and into hot tar pits and instead enjoy the comforts I now enjoy long the oils.

I do not need to explain these things to any of you reading. Giving you information to trade on is like throwing it away. If you want to trade better and watch me do it in real time, join Stocklabs while I am still here for you. Very soon I might get bored and moved onto other things, and you’ll still be there like fucking morons attempting option gambits with half your accounts — blowing the fuck up and out of the business for good.

I am +127bps today, focused on basic materials and trading freely in this session. I have a small 6% position in $UVIX which is largely ceremonial and it makes me feeeeeel better having something there to protect me in case of imminent nuclear war. Meanwhile,

Look at me, +18.6% for 2024, coming off +55.5% for 2023, +61% for 2022, +218% for 2021: who can fucking stop me?

Good day —

I was positioned courrectly and stand before you +125bps for the session. I caught some winners early and pared them down, then hedged with a $UVIX position into the crevasse, booking a 6% gain in the process. I am now unhedged, long mostly commodity stocks, 63% cash.

I am sanguine on this tape and believe it to be ok, in spite of the shit quality of the runners. Even so, I am not compelled to buy just yet and will bide my time waiting in the tall grass, in hopes of spotting a weak zebra straying from the pack, at which point I will chase it down and bite it’s fucking head off — enjoying a delicious meal and feeling good about it because of my effort.