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Attention iBankcoin: The Head Lemming Would Like to Have a Word

Jump off a steep cliff.

That is all.

Gradually,

Fly
Head Lemming, Chief of Cliff Jumping Operations, iBankCoin

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82 comments

  1. KansasFarmer

    And what shall we do if a steep cliff is not available? Would a 3-story building suffice?

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  2. muktukchuck

    Lee Ming – wasn’t he head of that Chinese Dynasty or was that a Chinese Burrito ???

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  3. GETGroup

    Fly, I bet you have one of the best “muahaha” in the industry…

    Reductively,
    GET

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  4. FIG

    Looks like Jake struck a nerve. If you guys have a fight, please record and post it here, for the entertainment of it.

    In regards to stocks, the market will eventually turn south, and you will be a big winner. I don’t know when that will be, but I think we have a rough patch coming at the end of this week with the employment report.

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  5. JakeGint

    The Head Lemming* seems to have forgotten that said Darwinian anecdote requires that he, himself make said-instructed leap, first.

    Thereafter, the whole following scenario ensues….

    +++++++++++++
    * copyright, JakeGint 2010

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  6. panamaorange

    In the past 2 days,(USO) oil is up about 4%, while smallcaps (IWM) are barely up 1%. I can’t find a bullish angle in that divergence.

    At this rate, we’ll need a 8% rally in oil to push smallcaps up another 2%.

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    • FIG

      All ETFs are scams. IWM is no different. Do yourself a favor, and buy into a real company.

      I only use ETF’s when absolutely necessary. For instance in my IRA account when I expect the market to sell-off.

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    • drummerboy

      oil is up,cause the buck is cheap etf’s suck the big cock a large armenian cock none the less. the royal scam…………my buddies’ band…………….steely dan

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  7. panamaorange

    IWM and USO are non levered etfs with extremely high volume. The only scam etfs are the triple levered junk like DRV, and TNA.
    My statement was in regards to the price action in the underlying indexes. The old “Oil up/Market up” correlation is dying. That’s a fairly bearish omen.

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    • FIG

      Levered ETFs are worse than non-levered ones. However, even the non-levered ones are bad investments overall. If you don’t believe me, compare the charts of USO vs the actual price of oil. Or even better, compare UNG to natural gas. Neither are levered, and both have and will continue to underperform their underlying commodity.

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      • shaz

        What you mean to say is that ETNs that track futures contracts are not a good trading vehicle, for you. To say that all ETFs are bad is extremely ignorant. Read the fucking prospectus.

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      • YaBollox

        ETF’s are run by people getting big paychecks.

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  8. Le Fly

    Some of you should stick to your professions, which is not in the field of proper money management.

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  9. arch

    i can assure you sir that i exercise proper stack management ..i always place my hundos in front of my fifties while at the poker table

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  10. omfgitsjd

    THIS JUST IN. DOW FUTURES DOWN 1 POINT !!!!!!

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  11. Le Fly

    You will all pay for your insolence

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  12. Rockstar

    Fly, what do you know about the effect the price of sugar in Maharashtra has on the stock market?

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  13. speedius

    Last night I reread “The Important Matter of Position Sizing”. Good stuff for these troubled times.

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  14. Le Fly

    If i could have one penny for each time i proved you clowns wrong,
    I could buy a new teevee

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  15. omfgitsjd

    I already jumped.

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  16. Le Fly

    Japan following steep cliff orders

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  17. Ix

    An Ode to The Market, Summer 2010 Edition
    (c) 2010, IX. A Distinguished Gentleman of The PPT

    My long’s been ground
    My shorts are blown
    Portfolio’s downed
    and profits have flown

    Much like in Vegas,
    some play just to lose
    it doesn’t take Bernanke
    Or a mad Madoff ruse

    I’m in a timeout,
    been told to go chill
    The market’s a bitch,
    and not worth the thrill

    Been smacked in the head
    and suffered whip lash
    Time to go eat a sandwich
    and hold onto my cash.

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  18. arch

    kinda quiet in here tonight…was it something i said ?

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  19. omfgitsjd

    Prior to jumping, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thyself off the holy cliff.

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  20. Carsony

    Everyone is quiet because the market is scalping it’s participants.

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    • arch

      then may i suggest if your trading the long side cash your chips in …asap without reservation…and for the love of your money stop buying shit in pre market..this is not the time to be chasing stocks…go short a little

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  21. Bullish

    Didn’t i send a few bearshitters beware comments out a few weeks ago?

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    • arch

      theres the problem ….weeks ago, isnt now..buy and hold ,well thats way past my 8 hour moving average..and when im home it would be an eternity past my 3 hour moving average…more profit taking tomorrow…

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  22. Bullish

    I never said buy and hold. An upward flowing market is a time to choose the hottest stocks in the hottest sectors in the soon to be future. Rotation and placement are key.

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    • arch

      thats when you should be selling not buying in my opinion…you should be looking short now…again my opinion…thats my rotation

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  23. Jim Carey

    Arch and bullish are you guys making any money?

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    • arch

      you can check back thru the logs i try to post my buy and sells ….i get in and i get out..sometimes im out for awhile …i get by, i dont do this for a living…but im thinking about staying in for the downside this time

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  24. Bullish

    Very much so… daily

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  25. JakeGint

    Who put that piece up about gorilla glass made by GLW today? Was it in the PPT or out here?

    Anyways, I got notice tonight that they will be making it very close to the country’s major bourbon distilleries.

    Should make for an interesting show.

    ____________

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    • Keyser Soze

      Yep… looked it up on the map – Highway 68… Reminded me of a line in one of my favorite songs

      “Raised in the city, spent the summers in the country
      How you think I learned the backroads of Kentucky
      Head straight out 68 got time to to kill
      Beautiful day, top back and it’s time to chill”

      To GLW – “All I can say is Welcome to Kentucky”

      Backroad music – good stuff.

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  26. JakeGint

    Make like a former University of Houston QB and BeWare!

    ____________

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  27. InspectorInvestor
    InspectorInvestor

    FIG and FAG skipped up the hill … what is this queer fucking fagotery on display?

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  28. Le Fly

    And like clockwork, late night link whoring.

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    • Keyser Soze

      It’s not late out here on the left coast! Honestly, Le Fly – do you ever sleep?

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    • JakeGint

      I could see you being more legitimately upset if like, you didn’t own my blog too. .

      __

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  29. TraderCaddy

    Kool Aid drinkers make better lemmings.

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  30. Dr Fly

    No, I do not sleep.

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  31. TraderCaddy

    I sleep except when my wife is snoring like tonight.
    Late night thought-A Rod hasn’t even had a hit in the last 6 games or so.
    Good for him.

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  32. HuggieBear

    Can i just tell you how at ease i feel after worrying incessantly for the last two days, making trades at video game speed, trying desperately not to blow 20% of my account.

    I escaped -3%. I am now comfortably positioned:

    25% TLT
    25% EWZ (collared at 69)
    25% QQQQ (collared at 45)
    1000 shares VXX
    30 september S&P 107 puts

    And here I shall rest until i see an overextreme reading in the PP T hybrid. And no harm shall come to pass against me.

    Although I may not move much.

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    • Space magician

      you got it.. pointless port… might as well sit in cash…

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      • xxxHuggieBearxxx
        xxxHuggieBearxxx

        Its system based….without boring with details, the TLT part could move into something more aggressive any given week.

        The only discretion here is the VXX and S&P puts….

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  33. noodle

    I dont know how I do it.

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  34. francesco

    almays smile to people near the cliff’ poolside

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  35. francesco

    look ISIS safest daytrade for the day , if we’re uptrending still .. look no further ..

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    • francesco

      for downtrend .. lot of names to short here , tza by far the best

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  36. YaBollox

    I know a guy who jumped off a bridge. He said that halfway down he was thinking, “That was really stupid.”

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  37. panamaorange

    Scaled out gains back down to 1/8th short. Watch that UUP chart. Any escalation in the mideast, or further good econ reports, and the dollar could run for 85. Not good for the dow.

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    • Po Pimp

      Good econ reports = dollar runs
      Dollar runs = bad for the Dow

      By the transitive property you are saying good econ reports are bad for the Dow. That’s fucked up. And wrong.

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  38. francesco

    there’s a sense of perfection and harmony in the way gs computers handle the accumulation process, isn’t it ?

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  39. JakeGint

    This should make you feel better, Fly: Fuggedhaboud Sarah Palin, already.

    ____________

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  40. rain noodle

    You know… the JPY run might be getting a little sssstretched out.

    -beam-
    🙂

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  41. buylo

    Have you got your own private signed copy of Tim’s book yet? Which reminds me, are you gonna write a book too, Sr. Tropicana?

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