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18 years in Wall Street, left after finding out it was all horseshit. Founder/ Master and Commander: iBankCoin, finance news and commentary from the future.
Joined Nov 10, 2007
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Your Job is in My Portfolio

No one is buying that [[GRMN]] shit. People are milking food stamps for cheese, you think they have a little excess Visa credit to buy some stupid navigation system?

Hey, if you’re long that stock, I have no pity for you. The writing has been all over the wall on that one, for a long time. Remember [[SIRF]]?

Regarding the employment issue, expect people to lose their jobs. Plain and simple.

That’s what happens in economic cycles. When the economy contracts, corporations, in an effort to avoid going bankrupt, fire people. It’s the natural order of things. If you try to get in the way of the natural business cycle, like the Gov’t fuckers did in the 1930’s, you get a Great Depression.

Mr. Monsanto is punching off my face, thanks to some stupid analyst note. I hate those seedy bastards.

[[CSCO]] caught a downgrade. Good for them. They deserve it.

And, it looks like the “solar idiots” over at [[WFR]] issued a significant warning. Quite frankly, I know many of you love solar; but it’s gay. So sorry.

No one is buying those stupid solar panels either. Another GRMN in the making.

Finally, I expect the bulls will try to make lemonade out of today’s disappointing number; but, like Apollo Creed in Rocky IV, they will lose.

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50 comments

  1. Juice

    yeah Jake, u right, I meant FXP

    If anyones got any Chinese Lotto picks dusted off, share them please

    Fly, don’t ya think there may be a bid under asia/emerging markets for a month or 3, that will keep the US markets from falling apart?

    That said, more than 1/2 this rally is over & I think you can bet against certain stocks as opposed to indices, till the Asian Fun is over.

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  2. The Fly

    Juice:

    I believe they will go back down.

    However, I am long EWH and FMCN.

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  3. George Bush

    My fellow Americans,

    Pay no attention to this job number, which is yesterday’s news. Let us focus on the prosperity of tomorrow.

    This number simply means that we now have a veritable army of hungry, motivated willing workers. I call it… “America’s Temp Agency”. What could be more bullish?

    These workers will do the work that illegal immigrants are unwilling to do… clean toilets, wash windows, and clean up doggy poo.

    My fellow Americans… America will have the cleanest fucking toilets among all developed nations. You can take that to the bank (if your bank is still solvent).

    Prosperity is around the corner. (Unless Hussein gets elected, of course, then kiss your balls goodbye.)

    I’ve instructed the Federal Reserve to support our free markets in their time of need, and they will rip this market higher, 500 points. The bottom is in, God bless America!

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  4. Granpa

    Nice how they down graded CROX after it’s down 80%, where the fuck were they 20, 30 or 40 points ago. Must be time to buy the peice of shit.

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  5. Big Mike

    Man, those fuckin ags plays keeps ripping higher…for those holders of SMN, imagine if we were LONG…

    If $ is strong = ags weak = but market higher
    If $ is weak = ags strong = market lower

    WTF..

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  6. Gunners

    I remember about 2 months ago when some guy came on here claiming that CROX was the buy of a lifetime. I wonder where he is now. Maybe he’s like JJ, and he was hoarding the actual commodity (ugly plastic shoes). Now he has a house full of worthless footwear and a portfolio full of $15 stock (basis of $45).

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  7. Thor

    Fly, do you still like FXP this morning?

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  8. Granpa

    G from fast money likes it now too, Karen liked it before but gave up. I thinl it was JP Morgan who downgraded yesterday. That’s the shit that pisses me off. So fuckin late, why bother.

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  9. hmm

    Clearly, the thing to do is load up on QLD, because RIMM and AAPL are “recession proof” (analysts say so). Seriously, this is a retard’s market, so you’ve got to act like one.

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  10. AssholeDipBuyer

    Mr. Cramer is wrong about as often as he’s right, so fuck him and his “L” shaped recovery.

    Selling rallies is no longer going to work. I’m back.

    Cockbags.

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  11. JakeGint

    Go over to GreenHippy’s last Peeg post and click on the link he has to an article from back in last October about mortgage resets. Then read the comments, especially the one from a guy named “Phillip” about “the bank trade being over.”

    He compares that comment to the one about the Housing Group when they had plummeted about 50% of the way to their lows (ie, that the trade was “over.”). I know we’re six months beyond his comment, but I think Phillip is still correct, and that we’ve got another six to twelve months of shitty bank news here, no matter what Congress and the Fed do (and it looks like Congress at least plans to leave the banks holding the bag).

    So in a nutshell, I guess I’m saying — “Skiffles uber alles.”

    Which is German for “The banks are still nutsqueezed.”

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  12. George Bush

    My fellow Americans, another bullish report.

    ISM number at 49.6 shows our economy is shrinking (also beating the pessimistic estimates put out by liberal economists). This makes it smaller and more efficient, and better able to compete with scrappy Asian economies.

    Which would you rather have? A big bulky iPod, or a small slim one? Exactly. Speaking of which, a new iPod would be great to have right now, wouldn’t it? Don’t worry, in May, you’ll be able to get one, on me.

    The evil-doers are working hard to bring this market down, using their outdated facts and figures. But I’ve seen this market’s heart… and it’s green.

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  13. JakeGint

    Speaking of “lines of death…”

    I have allocated (rather generously, I believe) a “line of death” for FED at the $26.69 mark.

    FED is currently (@10:22 EDT) below that line at $26.50.

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  14. Nancy Pelosi

    Don’t you listen to that eeeevil, eeeevil maaahn!

    Grandmama Pelosi is going to take gooooood care of you all, and remember — we’re the ones who are in charge of the purse strings during this whole shebang, so you just pay this Republican Conspiracy Bear Market no mind at all.

    In fact, I’m proposing legislation today that will eradicate all markets altogether. Who needs ’em when you got us telling you what you can do with your money, right?

    An allowance, you say? Let Grandmama search around in her purse….

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  15. Joe Stalin

    I think this Pelosi woman is kind of hot wit her rhetoric to calm the bourgeousie. In good shape for ze grandmama, too, no?

    Take her off ze “to be shot” list, Vladimer.

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  16. George Bush

    We may have our differences, but there’s one thing we can all agree on: the more the government gets involved in the economy, the better.

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  17. Crazy Howie

    (Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!)

    Hoo! Hoo! Hey boys & girls! Ya hear what me and my staff down at the DNC are thinking of for our 2008 Election slogan?

    How’s this?

    Vote Dem in 2008, We’ll Take Goooood Care of Yer Munny! Swear ta God.

    Catchy, no?

    Bye bye, now!

    (Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!)

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  18. Joe Stalin

    I like zis Boosh’s “metal,” Vladimer.

    Wait six montz before zending him to zee Gulag.

    (By da vay, have you sent ze Pelosi woman to my chambers yet?)

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  19. JakeGint

    Speaking of “Lines of death…”

    JOYG has been consternating the shit out of me lately. Dead, alive, dead, alive, etc.

    Well, I figure it’s short term “line of life” (otherwise known in bearish parlance as “the line of ball candling”) is right here at $68.25.

    If it busts that, it’s probably going higher still, so I’m out.

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  20. Karl Rove

    Bush is a stupid fucking idiot

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  21. wow

    It’s funny how much Bobblehead Ben uses the term “prevent disorderly unwinding… disorderly this… disorderly that”

    Read between the lines, the only thing the Fed is working on is making sure there’s an ORDERLY unwinding of things… might want to tweak that speechwriters.

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  22. George Bush

    Can somebody burp l’il Turd Blossom? He’s feeling a little bloated.

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  23. Ted Turner

    In thirty years when global warming has destroyed us I will be feasting on your carcases. My Communist News Network (CNN) will be transmitting from a cave in Somalia stocked with beans, gold, and autographed pictures of Hanoi Jane.
    Your Mr. Fly will be in charge of cave drawings as he is quite a chart chomper.

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  24. alphadawgg

    Jake ,

    JOYG bustin’ loose with great joy. Good decision (assuming you were vertically challenged)

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  25. Troy

    I’m sick of listening to you whiny bitches on the ag plays being linked to the dollar (only). Pick up a fucking newspaper you internet-tough-guys, farm exports have been weakening in spite of the weak dollar. There is a major rice shortage stemming from high demand and limited product substititions… thats creating major panic in many markets and causing manic buying of seeds, fertilizer, ag stocks for what will be a surge in prices (from already high levels).

    Selling brokers is a great idea because they have an excess supply of stock, because they need to keep issuing shares to raise capital. Don’t short ag plays that are high demand/low supply.

    This comment board is like playing basketball against special-ed kids.

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  26. TraderCaddy

    Some of my best dunks have come against the special ed. kids.

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  27. Albert Einstein

    I was once a special ed ikd [sic]. So, fuck off Helen of Troy.

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  28. Troy

    Good point TraderCaddy….lesson learned

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  29. Mushroomz

    You know what feels great to own? MO. Everytime I see someone smoking a Marlboro I get all excited, thinking about the fat dividend and stock buybacks.

    You want some yield in your account? buy MO

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  30. alphadawgg

    hoMO?

    Who’d have thought it was a manly Marlboro stock to own?

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  31. JakeGint

    True fact: Marlboro, the world’s most popular cancer stick brand (by a long shot), started out as a woman’s brand.

    ‘Cause filters were for pussies, etc.

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  32. wow

    South Korea confirms H5N1 bird flu outbreak, news agency says – DJ

    Is it wrong to hope this helps FXP? I’m probably going to hell.

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  33. newequity

    I DUG myself into a deep hole.

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  34. JakeGint

    Just remember, there’s nothing that can get you down that can’t be fixed with the addition of a little bling-bling!

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  35. FilterlessLuckyStrikes
    FilterlessLuckyStrikes

    Filters ARE for pussies.

    Real men only need one lung.

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  36. TraderCaddy

    Filterless is correct-John Wayne is (was) a real man.

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  37. alphadawgg

    Nothing like a little more “in you face” promo for the Super Bowl champs.

    Can I get that with some giant diamonds?

    I wonder when they’ll come out with the Michael Strahan commemorative coin?

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  38. JakeGint

    This is kind of exciting here….

    FED has not one year, not three-year, and not even five-year but ten year support at $26.00 (or so, hard to tell exactly with the monthlies)….

    It’s right there, so we prolly should cover here, but if it breaks through…. owchee wa-wa!

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  39. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Fuck you GRMN was a huge buy at 47.50 this morning in Pre-Market. Atleast I made some good money on it.

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  40. Mar'borah Man

    Real men only need one lung.

    Make mine “iron,” and I’ll take it “ta go!”

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  41. alphadawgg

    Jake, ten year support lines are a figment of our imaginations. Plus they are past the statute of limitations.

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  42. Francesco

    retune time machine you’re loosing coins

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  43. calvino

    fwiw.. Jimmy Jimbo, the leaping, talking magic baboon had it in for tech this morning.. and it would not be wild to surmise he is going to stick the fork in tonite.. except for rim.

    while it’s a sign of good stewardship to invest 30,000 into a solar roof, the environmental largesse is a reach at a time when you can get the roof, the walls and the foundation for the same price, if someone will extend you the credit. Uncle Sugar and Zee Governator may be ineligible to extend credit as well for environmental projects. Since resource nationalization in the form of grain export bans is now spreading through Asia, Africa and South America, there may be a lack of capital to pay for expensive semiconductors for the roof.

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  44. JakeGint

    Not if he’s short FED he’s not.

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  45. JakeGint

    Sorry that last was to Franny, not you, Zooie.

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  46. TraderCaddy

    Looks like a major double bottom breakout of SMH. Yeah, I know the economy sucks but they are looking out six months or so and by then the run may be over IMO.

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  47. CubsRock

    12,800 or Bust!

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  48. alphadawgg

    Is this the fate of the bears near term?

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  49. howard lindzon

    sirf is a takeover at some point soon.

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  50. skot

    LEH still going to 10? Went green for a second there. Scary.

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