A REGIONAL BANK RUN IS UNDERWAY *

FRC is getting its brains blown out this morning, OFF BY 27% on news they lost 40% of their deposits in last month’s great big bank run. If you’re still banking at a regional, your money is likely safe. However, if you’re investing in KRE or regionals directly — you are a fool and should be shot.

Sure, being shot for mal-investments is a bit crude and probably a tad extreme. But how else will you people learn? The JPM oligarchy is sucking in all of the money from the regionals — because there are ZERO incentives to leave deposits at a regional in this fast paced globalized banking world.

Pray tell me why I should keep my money at FRC instead of JPM?

Markets are SOFT early on — led lower by regionals and commodities. I am not fooled, but down 1.25% because, well, I am a bit fooled early on. Nevertheless, I remain CALM and collected and look forward to the rally that is sure to come.

I will now sit here and wait for the rally.

Do the charts of GOOGL and SBUX look bearish to you?

It pains me to say this — but we’re in a bull market again and the bull have this on auto-pilot. I view the chances of an imminent downside move to be zero. I’ve leveraged up 135% long amongst a pastiche of well to do larger capped stocks ranked highly by the Stocklabs ranking system — attached to an already 100% long book from quantitative picks — many of which are in the oils.

I do not wish a bullish market on my worst enemies. But alas, this is what we’re facing and it would BEHOOVE me to not take free money, when presented in such an easy fashion.

I gained 52bps for the session, in a very easy and delightful afternoon. I am once again feeling excellent and my mood is coming around to being acceptably cheerful.

I should probably avoid trading anything until after 1. I am trying to address an over-trading issue I have in order to better hone in on the high probability trades — casting aside the small piece of shit trades that spend up much of my time.

I spend a lot of time chasing around small returns, toiling in the stock market fields mostly for the joy of the hunt. Alas, as I age and my body withers to dust, it doesn’t seem like a long term plan worth continuing. I just need to figure out how to only get the BIG trades and to eschew the small ones and also forgo the occasional bogging — which seems to happen when I least expect it.

Today you might’ve learned TUCKER CARLSON has been fired at Fox News. I am surprised he was allowed to speak so freely, in a country such as this — authoritative oligarchy oppressively divisive group of evil catamites.

Back to the hourly data — would ya have a look at this now (written in an Irish brogue).

Well well well. Just buy at 1pm and sell the next morning ya cunts.

At any rate, I haven’t traded a lick today, only reallocated my weekly quant and closed out all of my positions at the open. I’m up 56bps and trying now to do anything that might disturb my gains.

Last year the oversold signals were popping off with alacrity. The way the algos work is to constantly adapt to the present and because of that — we’ve seen ZERO oversold signals since 9/23/22.

At the moment, our short dated (3mo) algo is the active one — registering 3 OS signals for the year so far.

It’s worth noting, ALL THREE made money for those adhering to the discipline.

Above are the mean reversion OS for the technology sector. We are currently in an OS cycle, as the system flagged it two days ago for the 3mo.  It’s worth noting for those who have no idea what the fuck I am talking about — this has been my time machine to buy the blood since 2008. The mean reversion algos have been excellent in picking up on panic and discerning whether the levels of panic are sufficient to consider it to be oversold or not. Since we haven’t had a 12mo signal in quite some time, we are definitely in a period of adjustment — some might call it a bull market. Even so, soon the average scores will increase to the point that the OS will be shallow enough to start spitting out signals on a regular basis again.

My best guess — this should happen by summer.

We can revisit this blog in about 5 years and see how well it aged.

The Biden administration instructed the FHFA to REDUCE rates by 1.75% for those with shit credit scores of 620 and lower while at the same time INCREASING it by 1% for people above 680. Most attacked are those with scores of 680+ who put down between 15-20%, aka the middled class.

It will equate to, on average, about $500 to $1200 per annum in additional fees for the middled class — while only delaying the inevitable FORECLOSURE for the morons with low scores — which will severely hurt everyone years down the road in what is sure to be MORE govt bailouts.

The problem with idealogues is they’re stupid and let their perverted little communist brains get in the way of sound logic. If you reward the weakness amongst your populace, you will become a dysgenic society of spend-thrifts and grifters — encouraging those who put their shopping carts back in the parking lot of their local grocery stores to say “fuck it” and throw it into oncoming traffic.

The pigs in DC claim this is to settle the score for equity and permit PERSONS OF COLOUR to get in at the bargain basement discount rates. The average credit score for the whites is 727, Hispanics 667, and the blacks 627. If you’r wondering about the asians — that would be 745.

Whilst we do not believe in crazy theorems such as intelligence quotients or credit scores, it would BEHOOVE you to not see the correlation — if only for a brief moment.

The appropriate course of action would be to send 1 or 2 less missile systems to Ukraine and let the poors get their discounts without making up for it by taxing those paying their water bills on time.

I squeezed out a 0.02% gain for the session. I had a good start and then squandered it in a series of poorly timed trades. Ironically, I’d be much better off had I not sold LABU yesterday, up 6% today.

I’m no damn good at these listless tired and slow tapes. I need an electrifying market with trends shifting quick in order to really hone in and crush. I’m now down nearly 4% for the month — and -4% from my all time recourd highs. In the big scheme of things, this isn’t a big deal. But larger slumps start someplace. For everyone down 90% now staring out into the oblivion wondering where it all went wrong — that fucker at some point was -4% too.

It’s important for me to remember the true purpose of all of this — which is to wantonly collect money without an apparent goal or reason. I just endeavor to stow away cash, and then hope for societal collapse — and then die. This cycle has repeated itself in aging men since the beginning of time.

NEVERTHELESS, we still have work to do and enemies to destroy. Although I got bogged out this week without much delay, next week could be a complete different story. The tape is sort of evil, with slow moves followed by massive out of the blue pops and drops, followed by more inaction. Then you get the occasional 15 down red candles to really fuck with your day trading religion, offset only by a mean reversion 10 candle upside to close flat for the NASDAQ.

If I just did nothing, my results would’ve been better. But this isn’t always the case.

Good morning Sirs —

It’s important for you to understand a few things about the market. For one, it always likes to go up, eventually. You’ll know it’s in a feverish bull run when themes start emerging. We are not in that type of tape yet — the sort of tape that causes you to trade at 7pm and 4am in your WeBull accounts.

However, and this goes without saying — all morning dips should be bought and hedges closed out. This is exactly what I did today and so far so good.

Inside Stocklabs we measure the returns per stock by the hour and you can see below — for the month of April buying at 10-11am has been a dunk shot. I can also tell you this has been the case all year round.

Now this doesn’t mean we can’t knife the fuck down amidst panic and mayhem. It only means — if you hedged overnight — you should take profits before 10am and wait to see how the market develops.

So far, I am feeling very strong and powerful. My health is good, mood fantastic.

I had reduced my losses midday to just 83bps and then I felt emboldened to LEAN into what looked like a nice tape. As soon as I leveraged up 155% of assets, this happened.

FUCK YOU TAPE *** $QQQ pic.twitter.com/OUO8XMU8Gr

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) April 20, 2023

Straight the fuck down — no stops. I got melted the fuck down in my LABU position and ended up closing it out for a cool and collected $16k loss. To close it all out, I leveraged up to get myself into a NET SHORT position because — WHY THE FUCK NOT?

And then markets gapped up to end the session — nailing me to a cross -2.62%.

The subsequent result of this drubbing is widespread bullying and acrimony inside Stocklabs. I have now been reduced to a man to toss over-ripened tomatoes at — spit at casually as you’re walking down the street eating and iced cream cone.

In my head, I intend to murder all of these people and I’ll probably go home tonight and sharpen my blades while talking to myself. I will think of different scenarios where I end up victorious and literally MANIFEST it to happen in real life.

This happens to be, as a matter of fact, the secret to my “success.” I just think about what I want to happen and really focus on it and then it happens. These aren’t idle curiosities — but obsessions.

I had taken for granted my comfortable standing and returns and didn’t train for the boxing match — and then got knocked the fuck out by Clubber Lang. This will not happen again and as I sharpen my blades you should all fear my wrath.

I felt better writing all of that down — gave me an outlet to release some of my delusions and anger.

Would you look at that — it appears I’ve sneezed my way back into an official trading slump.

My LABU position has gone straight to hell, taking my PNL with it. It was down a little bit at the open and then I felt emboldened by the small uptick around 10:15am — so much so I even bought a tremendous SOXL position just for good measure. I really wanted to make sure that I’d enjoy the rally to come and that I make the maximum amount of money humanly possible.

Instead of that happening, as it would, the exact opposite occurred. The semis topped and my LABU position first languished and then COLLAPSED, leaving a trail of blood and tears in its quake. I am now saddled with the unsavory position of having GRANDIOSE intra-day losses and my lands salted by the ineptitude of our science community.

If I close out these positions, I simply resign my post as trader for the session and start anew tomorrow. It would not be the first time I made a mockery of myself. But part of me wants to keep going — which is the part that I know is dangerous and also stupid. The fact of the matter is, science is dead and no one really cares about doctors, let alone people in a lab coat. We all have more use for barbers in a lab coat than some guy concocting the great next vaccine that kills people, wantonly, when they least expect it. These people have proven, through their actions, to be inept, sort of like me right now trying to trade.

Even though the semis are nearly PINNED TO SESSION HIGHS, I have still managed to box myself into a corner on that position too, now down 1%+ from my basis.

Look, I had a good run — but now it’s apparently over — just like Pax Americana. It was nice while it lasted — but all good things end and in replace of it is evil.

Ever since the COVID pandemic flopped the fuck out with government mandated poisonous vaccines that instead of helping people — killed them — the biotech sector has been iced cold. I think the premise of the bearishness lies with the fact that science has been raped by political monsters who know very little about the subject, other than to wear a mask whilst entering an eatery and then removing it once seated.

The word “science” has been reduced to something to laugh at — crack jokes.

“HEY BOB — DID YOU SEE THAT FUCKING SCIENCE BEHIND THAT HEART ATTACK STAT LAST WEEK IN THE UK?”

The fact is and still remains, civilization is improving in spite of the dysgenic folks ruling over us for the past 100 years, and only recently have we’ve seen the far left pervert everything that was once sacred, including common sense. The field of science, when led by real scientists with good intentions can lead to wonderful advances.

HOWEVER, I don’t give a shit about any of that and if you’re a doctor reading this — you can fuck right the hell off the blog and back into your tray of needles.

What I am interested in is extracting money from the pockets of those shorting science. I am certain the same people betting against science are also gas stove clingers. They likely store all of their fucking guns inside those ticking time bombs too!

I keep getting distracted.

I’ll just post my idea.

That’s the algorithmic score for the biotech index XBI. You can see the score is upticking and perhaps on the cusp of a legitimate breakout. We all know the hottest shit you can buy when times are good is biotech and tech. Well, biotech is lagging like a motherfucker — down 12% over the past 3 months in spite of a decent tape.

Into the close I positioned into a 20% of assets position in LABU — which is already 3x biotechs. The idea is simple: I am a man of science trying to take money away from gas stovers who store their guns in their ovens and are also shorting biotechs. The algo score is moving up and we are in a bull run. It’s only a matter of time before this shit busts loose to the upside — taking me and my fucking internet friends with it.

NOTE: Should this trade flop the fuck out, I will be severely afflicted with seasonal allergies.