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God Smiles Upon Those Who Smite You

I initiated my first short position, in a long, long time, via going long [[SRS]] —based upon the algorithms of The PPT. At the present, SRS has a technical score of 1.05 (1 is the lowest score possible). There have been just two occasions in PPT history when the score was below 1.10, today and 5/11/09. Back in May of last year, the stock bounced quickly off the lows and netted about 14% in two trading days. Will history repeat itself?

As a matter of fact it will, indeud.

I am long SRS until mid next week, then I vamoose to cash on the position.

Your disobedience to Goldman’s Trading Robot (Harry) C14452q has been duly noted. As we speak, they are hacking into your trading account, in order to sell short your longs and mark up your shorts. Betting against “a sure thing”, better know to you as “the stock market” is nonsensical and always results in arduous losses. While the burlap gets ripped to shreds and blue blazers lit aflame amidst risk assessment models, I am reminded of a dream I had last night, where I was riding from state to state on this stupid bicycle that had a giant blue flag attached to the back seat. I was peddling all over the place, running over people and then, suddenly, it stopped. I woke up laughing at my dream, because it made no sense.

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31 comments

  1. Le Fly

    Ta

    Do not take offense to my moves. You are not obligated to agree with me but refrain from ever offering financial advice. Its a pet peeve of mine.

    Thanks!

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  2. Smitty

    Fly,

    it means you’re gay and your wife will leave you for buying SRS

    I’m a world known psychologist so I know what I’m talking about.

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  3. FIG

    Looks like a smart play. A lot of stocks have reached their 2008 peaks. I don’t think we stop here for good though. We will have a rocky few days next week, but I expect my ES, NG, and USU will continue to soar after a brief break.

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  4. Prospectus

    What was on the giant blue flag? Are you sure it wasn’t the ominous Black Flag?

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  5. darin

    Mr. R.W. Pelican?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFFyLl_s64#t=1m24s

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  6. ok y not

    Senor’ Fly,

    Should I gas up the Faz Mobile?

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  7. panamaorange

    JPM and GS bought SPX futures in the pits all week, Greece got a bailout agreement, and we couldn’t make more than a 40 point advance–or even print 11001 —for a week straight.

    The $TLT (Bonds) and $FXY (yen) have begun their squeezes.the $UUP (dollar) held monday lows, and $VXX is holding quad 60 min bottom.

    The Nasdaq trin and Vix have officially gone “Full Terranova” in their race to zero. So, i now expect the QQQQ to outdo the Dow on the way down.

    I was bullish since December, i didn’t flip Dow bearish last week on a coinflip.
    There was,however, a Santeria “Magic 8-Ball” ceremony performed in a warehouse full of refurbished Ouija Boards.

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  8. sandfleas

    Don’t you know that flies are colorblind? That flag was white. And it was a towel.

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  9. Bow Tie Fucker

    Gutsy move by Fly to take PPT signal! but i still think goldman and his friends are so addicted for 40 point days. The company which has missed earnings every quarter in its history (AA) reports on monday and we had two wallstreet teabaggers downgrade it already to sell rating…. and a beat from those asshats over at AA, it will be pamploma.

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  10. Under-resourced
    Under-resourced

    That dream made all kinds of sense:

    Quickly, to the Flotecycle!

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  11. Pait

    Off the Wall Question:

    Fly or whomever, someone gave a link to a fascinating article on preternatural abilities of animals, I think, somewhere on this site in the last few days and I cannot find it.

    Does anyone recall such a link?

    Thank you in advance.

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  12. tgarfield

    The best thing to do when you miss a rally is to put on the hate trade and start shorting.

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  13. TA

    WTF? Why go short here? because of some oversold technical score?
    The leaders were just fine today, price action is very positive.

    It’s not that you can’t be 100% right but why try to predict the future?
    You can make plenty of money letting the market decide when the trend is over and THEN get the fuck out.

    Don’t compound one mistake by making another.

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  14. clandersen

    You probably already know this but SRS is doing a reverse split of 1:5 on April 14. Just mentioning this so no one has a heart attack when they wake up next Thursday and SRS has a nav of 27.50 instead of 5.50.

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  15. Mike

    4 distribution days on the Dow, 3 for NYSE and NASDAQ

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  16. panamaorange

    A whole week’s price action, summarized in one simple diagram

    http://tiny.cc/1yz50

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  17. HuggieBear

    I took a mild beating today but I like my odds going short into next week. Seriously, if there is even one or two bad reports, the market is going to sell off proper.

    I’m hoping we sell off 2% – 3% early next week, at which point i’ll cover quickly.

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  18. Hawaii Five0

    Does anyone know how many distribution days I.B.D. says we’ve had in the last several weeks?

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  19. gappingandyapping
    gappingandyapping

    Oh god, CLASSIC DYKSTRA! “Legal papers? I write em all dude!” “I had to correct the judge!” Check out this shit Fly: http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2010/04/09/dykstra-strikes-back-at-bankruptcy-judge/?mod=rss_WSJBlog

    “I just happen to be one of those lucky kind of guys,” said Dykstra “I’m a [expletive] lightning rod for money OK? But that doesn’t change the fact that I was put on the street.”

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  20. TheArtist

    the bicycle had a back seat?

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