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RALLY TIME

Whoo-Hoo!

Those were some kick ass employment numbers. For the month of December, only 524,000 people were fired—keeping the national unemployment rate at a lowly 7.2%. And, to make matters better, the November fired data was revised up to 584,000 people getting the ax.

Mind you, 524,000 folks is less than 600,000 and 700,000.

People, I got to tell you, this is great news for the markets. Sure, if you factor in temp workers and other losers, the unemployment rate is about 12%. But remember, Obama is going to print $1 trillion dollars, in order to make new sewer caps and underground pipe fittings.

We’re saved!

Most of my Wall Street buddies, who are recently out of work, will likely take Obama up on his construction machinations and put down their 24 karat commission pens for a nice yellow hard hat.

Hell, I expect the market to punch the life out of the bears today, as Wall Street rejoices and basks in the glory of such a prodigious number.

Think about it: it could have been worse.

With that being said, after enjoying today’s trading session, I’ll be sure to scurry on over to the local pub, with a few of my Wall Street buddies, in order to celebrate this fine number. God willing, we may be able to share our good nature with some blue collar folk. I am sure they feel just as rambunctious, as the coked out money managers at Legg Mason putting in market orders for DRYS this morning.

We’re saved and rally time!

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70 comments

  1. Dinosaur Trader

    Right on brother! Great news! w00t!

    -DT

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  2. scum bucket

    Stimulus = no mexican left behind.

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  3. The Fly

    Indeed. The stimulus will employ many Mexican nationals.

    BUY MEXICAN STOCKS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  4. Jakegint

    Screw “rally time.”

    ________

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  5. toptick114

    “Rip before the Grip”!!

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  6. GW

    At least Chevron is showing you what you already know….hopefully XOM will feel the pain…..

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  7. TheArtist

    I’m completely on board here…..

    DRYS up 9% at 9:02am in before hours with 840,000 shares traded already…..someone is buying it..

    AA earnings come out monday if my earnings calendar is right, and with the recent way the dingleberried hosers have been moving the market, it, could release o.k. news and drop 20% or release horrible news (worse than we know as of right now) and it rally 10%…..

    What happened to the old days where when bad news came out about a stock you could short it with 100% certainty it would go DOWN….not up…..

    Gold is already headed slightly lower for now….

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  8. Dr. Incognito

    Just trimming the fat…we all know we needed it with obesity rates so high these days. Its good to know Bill Miller will be taking my DRYS shares off my hands that I started buying at 9.40 and last buy at 14.89. What scares me is how well my trading has started this year…feels like the market has already gone full retard…

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  9. Jakegint

    Tacos instead, then?

    ________

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  10. Jakegint

    TBT looks safe, btw.

    _______

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  11. Rally Monkey

    RALLY TIME!!!

    Your wall street buddies would be rich if they just sold their pens to CASH 4 GOLD!! WOO!

    i got stds.. i mean SDS

    RALLY TIMEEEE

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  12. Jakegint

    The Funnel is a system, Jake. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very money of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that Funnel and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be funneled. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the funnel, that they will fight to protect it.

    __________

    Excellent.

    (I shoulda taken the damn red pill.)

    Btw — I think there’s no question that Agent Smith had taken over Devilish Dawg.

    _______

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  13. Reality Check

    Where is Devildog? Is he still trying to photoshop himself behind the wheel of “his” F430?

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  14. TheArtist

    DevilDog must be still sleeping or is real slow at photoshop…..I put his name on a piece of paper and photoshopped it on the hood of a blue F430 about 3 minutes after someone asked him to post it yesterday (just for his sake) but I do not have anyway of posting it….

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  15. mdawsz

    Buying Mexican burrito futures, in size!

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  16. The Fly

    w00t, w00t!

    More Stimulus:

    Crude oil makes lows at $40.43; now off $1.25 to $40.45

    GET LONG OIL STOCKS. CRUDE IS CHEAPER FOR THE WORLD NOW.

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  17. scum bucket

    jobless claims 0.000001% under estimates, hell yeah we’re gonna rally!

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  18. BobPissOnME

    Really..it could have been alot worst..buy stocks

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  19. Sir Douchebag

    LOL.

    Yeah — enjoy the “rally” — all 5 minutes of it.

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  20. Lady Guenevere

    Sr Fly

    I just got here this morning and wanted to ask a question about your PPT from your previous post. I was thinking the same thing as this post:

    “Bob the Builder Says:
    My curiosity would be what were the rankings for those top 10 stocks before they have had gigantic run-ups. All of them, more or less, have ripped through all of their moving averages and have a ton of room to fall should the market
    shit itself.”

    I looked at those tops stocks and they are way overbought for me to trade them. I dont think I can do anything with them is my thought. Is the PPT finding stocks close to their tops and bottoms?

    When I learned momentum trading from Brian Shannon, he and the group he used to work for created a system that located 4 types of stocks: overbought, in consolidation, oversold, in accumulation or some such order. I used that system for a while and would follow the stocks in accumulation/consolidation for a move that I could get and ride up or down.

    I am just trying to figure out what to do with these PPT numbers. Your PPT results for AMGN which I bought was a ‘ buy’ and so far it has been going up but it was not a ‘ strong buy’. I am thinking stocks that are ‘strong buys’ on your PPT…are overbought, cant buy them, wait for pull back ?

    Thanks for replying

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  21. Fargo Guy Sweeping Slush
    Fargo Guy Sweeping Slush

    “You got that right.”

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  22. cybtropic

    Hey, look what happened few years ago when Bush gave taxcuts to the rich.

    What did the rich do with that money?

    They didn’t invest it in commodities by any chance did they, taking oil to $147 ?

    So, if you want to pay 3x as much for food and energy, go ahead, support taxcuts for the rich.

    If you’re gonna blow $1 trillion, you might as well invest it in infrastracture, at least that way we will actually GET SOMETHING for that money.

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  23. ot: an mike

    AN Mike
    I would never do that, except for family, but if you’re serious these guys will be happy to oblige – http://www.donors1.org/

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  24. Aris

    sheeeeeiiiit, coppper is up by about .01%. i’d say that’s good enough to run FCX up another $3.

    probably grab a little DRYS, since i expect it to print $49 by 2:45. oil down $1. definitely going into some airlines. should be a double by tuesday.

    grab some PALM, since they’ve just come out with some crappy pda that nobody will buy. that’s good to send it to $10.

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  25. The Fly

    Lady G:

    All of the top 10 stocks have been buys for awhile. The point of showing the top 10 is to display to you what stocks have been working, not necessarily what is best to buy now.

    I’ve noticed some really neat methods, in order to identify breakouts, using the system, such as finding big hybrid movers just prior to it reaching a “3” or buy rating.

    However, at the end of the day, it is not the final authority on making investment decisions. It is a great tool and it will cut down research time dramatically. However, you still need to do some extra hw and utilize discipline.

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  26. Jakegint

    So, if you want to pay 3x as much for food and energy, go ahead, support taxcuts for the rich people who pay all the taxes instead of investing in new employment opportunities for the economy.

    ^^^^^^^^^

    Or rather, support your local Innumerates Anonymous to help “Cybertropic” and those similarly afflicted.

    ______

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  27. mdawsz

    Buying DZZ.

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  28. The Contractor

    haha–Great post, fly.

    I’m sure the number will be revised to >700k next month anyways.

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  29. The Fly

    Yeah but 700k is less than 800k, isn’t it?

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  30. sniper6

    yay, Mexico. Bought 300 CX @ $10.40

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  31. cybtropic

    I’m sure poor americans were very pleased to be paying 3x as much for food and energy last few years, JUST so rich can double their money. Very nice.

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  32. Lady Guenevere

    Thanks for the reply Sr. Fly

    It also occurred to me that perhaps you were looking at these top stocks for your clients and long term investment ideas. Whereas I got really burned with that strategy in 08 and just do momentum stocks now…in and out in a day or a few days. I am too afraid to hold anything for very long.

    I do think the example I had of AMGN …being a buy or a hybrid score of 3.03 might be a good place to ‘ look for buys’ to ride up for a while. That level may have just broke out and still has room to grow.

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  33. The Fly

    OH NO!!

    SOMETHING HAS GONE AWRY!!!!!

    WHERE DID THE RALLY MONKEY GO. I LOST HIM.

    SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE RALLY MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  34. The Fly

    Lady G

    I do not chase performance. So to answer your question: NO. I am not buying those stocks.

    I am not very optimistic on the markets.

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  35. AssholeDipBuyer

    We, the Asshole Dip Buyers of the United Socialist States of America, will be buying stocks around 10:00.

    Stay tuned.

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  36. TheArtist

    Is Devildog still asleep? His SRS is actually up a smidge today…..

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  37. Jakegint

    Devil Dawg’s bullishness killed the rally.

    Simple as that.

    _________

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  38. The Fly

    OH NO!

    THIS IS GETTING SCARY.

    WHERE IS MY RALLY MONKEY?

    HELPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  39. The Fly

    10 o’clock?

    Whew. Thank God. For a moment I thought we would trade down on these great numbers.

    Off to buy some coffee.

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  40. Jakegint

    Calling the game 14 minutes in?

    “Brassy.”

    _______

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  41. TheArtist

    The 10:00 o-clock rally gods better shine or I’m going to get stopped out…….

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  42. The Fly

    I am just worried. I thought we’d run higher today. And why is oil down?

    DAMN IT!!!!

    CVX is supposed to be up, no?

    WTF is going on?

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  43. kwikgains

    market tanking yet drys holding up odd no??

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  44. The Fly

    HERE LITTLE MONKEY (Fly with banana in hand), come out and play.

    WHERE ARE YOU, YOU STUPID FUCKING MONKEY?

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  45. Jakegint

    You purchase your own cawfee?

    I have mine brought to my desk by my cawfee servant.

    ________

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  46. Juice

    The DevilDog Long Capitulation selloff !

    that said … look for a late day save from your friendly PPT 😉

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  47. Lady Guenevere

    Sorry Sr. Fly I didnt mean to insult you about buying performing stocks if that is what I did. Guess I was thinking about normal money managers that I have dealt with and NOT YOU. I imagine you manage other people’s money very much like you manage your own…SHORTING OIL and SELLING everything…..while riding some inverse ETF’S or whatever.

    I love those ETF’s sorry but I am hooked on them. I always have a couple of them going on …along with other stocks. I made 6% on them yesterday and am riding up TZA right now from 45.90

    🙂

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  48. Mr. EB

    I’d like to thank Devildog for helping me save TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars today. If he didn’t post he was turning bullish for 2 days, I would definitely bought the open off the jobs # and lost a ton of money. Instead I did the anti-Devildog trade and shorted the open and just covered. Banking major coin.

    Link of my trade comment: http://www.ibankcoin.com/flyblog/index.php/2009/01/09/ppt-stats/#comment-80079

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  49. The Fly

    JUICE:

    Perhaps. However, I still don’t believe the real DD wrote that. The real DD would never go bullish, even if it was March of 1999.

    In other news, BUD is shipping its own energy soda with HANS.

    HANS is a short.

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  50. Mr. EB

    In my gut I knew the most idiotic perma-bear of our time, Devildog, turning bullish for the first time after a year of super perma-bearishness was a significant data-point.

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  51. The Fly

    10 o’clock is almost here. I can’t wait for DRYS to lead us higher and make me happy.

    I need to be happy.

    The market needs to go up.

    Where is the rally monkey.

    Oh no!

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  52. mdawsz

    RIMM is strong this am.

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  53. Jakegint

    Devil Dog indicator still 100% accurate…

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  54. The Fly

    10 o’clock can’t come fast enough.

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  55. Merlin

    WTF happened to stocks are cheap? Generational lows?
    It’s all priced in? Buy the bad news?

    I’m confused.

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  56. The Fly

    Merlin:

    WTF are you doing here. Where is my monkey?

    Did you see my monkey?

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  57. The Fly

    Will one of you assholes please help?

    The market is collapsing here and it’s almost 10 o’clock.

    We need to find the rally monkey.

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  58. TheArtist

    Devildog is spanking the monkey? perhaps that is why we have not heard from him?

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  59. Aris

    LOL @ this market

    where are the ADBs now? i believe it’s called GTFO.

    that ‘good’ jobs number is a lock to be revised downward next month. what a joke. it’s probably more like 700k.

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  60. Merlin

    Never fear, Merlin is here for the 10am bounce.

    I think your monkey is doing a threesome with Dennis Kneale and Vince the shamwow guy.

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  61. The Fly

    Whew. 10’oclock is here.

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  62. Dr. Incognito

    Sold out all my DRYS AT 17!!!! THANKS BILL MILLER

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  63. Lady Guenevere

    Dont lose hope all is not lost Obama will save us, the month is not over, dont forget the Messiah Rally.

    His power is very strong and he will step in here….in just a little while , after his coffee and rescue his flock.

    .

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  64. TheArtist

    well, we’re not hitting new lows, it’s after 10:00, might be looking good……of course I’ll revise my statement in 65 seconds…..

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  65. sniper6

    Maybe your monkey is getting a shave

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  66. TheArtist

    O my fucking god!!!!!!!!! look at PALM………..

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  67. Jakegint

    Would be pretty ironic if we visited this week’s lows and bounced rather than this week’s highs and bounced.

    The latter being the Dawg’s “prediction” according to his reading of “the dark pools.”

    Seriously, I think he’s typing from the asylum libray in between cigarettes poker games with Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito.

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  68. BeWater

    Is this what you are looking for?

    http://www.rallymonkey.com/oldvideo.php

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  69. pn

    Market’s down and no DD post means DD went long & wrong.

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  70. Juice

    Fly – I think that was the real DevilDog … he will check in later

    HANS looks like a fab short … I’m in on your rec

    Look for a late kick save, and a beaut, from the PPT. (not the IBC PPT )

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