Tomorrow marks iBankCoin’s 3rd year anniversary. It should come to no surprise, to any of you, that my largest position exploded to the upside, just one day prior to this joyous event. All of these things happen for a reason, as I am blessed by the stock Gods. I am built to win and I do so repeatedly. However, I am not exempting myself from future losses. In an oddball way, real life losses hit “The Fly” all the time, whether it comes in the form of idiotic neighbor seeking revenge or by egregiously poor service from my local barber. At the end of the day, the Gods bless me with stock market splendour [sic]. To this day, Mrs. Fly is puzzled by the whole ordeal. She really has no explanation as to why or how I do what I do, repeatedly, over the years. We’ve been from basement broke to penthouse rich, back to “hey, you might lose it all again” to God status, all in a decade. Yet here I am bowling on you fucking misfits.
I am not posting this to remind you how awesome Senor Tropicana is through meaningless words, relayed in a grammatical way that is almost morse code for the senses. No, instead, I am here to say Happy Anniversary to iBankCoin, staff and readers alike.
On this joyous day, I am happy to launch 12631 for Ragin’ Cajun and chessNwine, two solid/honorable and loyal people that I am happy to be in business with. At the end of the day, like all things in life, business is about relationships—the ebb and flow between people. I know RC from the old days on Flyonwallstreet.blogspot.com. Through the years, he and Jeremy (aka Vincenzo the IT guy) has helped me every step of the way to build iBC to where it is today. More importantly, he has some sort of space alien magician like gift for picking stocks, often times better than me.
When I was younger, I’d go for the quick kills, like RC. But, to be honest, my comfort zone is for more longer term oriented ideas, built around a general thesis. However, Ragin Cajun’ is simply talented, the best you will find, for identifying imminent breakouts. Couple that with Chess’s innate ability to pick stocks and excellent habits for risk management, I am confident they will provide a top notch service for all subscribers, for many years to come.
For those of you who are interested in signing up to 12631 (remember, you must be a PPT sub first) stay tuned for I might launch it tonight.
Here is an old video that Spyder Crusher aka Danny made, back in the old days, introducing iBankCoin.
Enjoy.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5A3o7iBqc8 616 500]UPDATE
12631 is now available to PPT subscribers. (Note: You must already be logged into The PPT before you can register for 12631. Also, since your 12631 acct. is separate from your PPT account, you’ll want to go ahead and re-register.)
Happy Birthday!
Congrats RC and Chess…..and IBankCoin!
i guess it’s time to delete my old bookmark
http://flyonwallstreet.blogspot.com/
I need time to get used to the PPT, now a new one!
Going to miss the daily stuff from Chess but congratulations to all involved!
Congrats, Broker A!
And thanks for putting up with all us pikers over the years.
Happy birthday and congrats. Happy to be a privileged subscriber of PPT. Well worth every cent. Good luck with 12631
Happy Geburtsstag IBC und das 12631, hike the 1st time!!! Are you gonna have commercial free music soon too?
Happy Anniversery Neighbor Fly. It has been fun, but, who is the “idiotic neighbor seeking revenge?”
I will send Steve,Jr. out tonight to TP the neighbor’s house and will launch stale matzoh balls from the roof through their windows.
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 3 years.
Happy Anniversary iBankCoin!
Thanks Fly! You’re helping a lot of people!
Happy Fly Day
I’m drinking Appletinis again, in honor of you, Fly, and Jake;
and precious metals and HGSI and Mr. Partridge, the Old Turkey.
Happy Fucking anniversary ibankcoin.
INDEUD!
Indeud. So it was written, so it shall be.
Congrats all around.
Great Blog Fly. Awareness and appreciation of great things in your life leads TO a great life.
thanks for FTK fly, more importantly, thanks for ibankcoin
Thanks for the kind words Fly, and thank you for what you have built.
A brief history of The Ragin Cajun: http://ibankcoin.com/rcblog/2010/11/11/a-brief-history-of-the-ragincajun/
Happy Birthday to Fly and all at iBC. Viz (from the old days).
Thanks for the chuckles and the thought provoking ideas through the years.
And of course Happy Birthday to Grandpa Fly.
Indeud!
Congratulations on the first three years. Thanks for the coin, thanks for the comedy, and thanks most of all for the community.
Kudo’s and a couple Huzzah’s!! for Fly and the crew on assembling a truly impressive site. I wish you guys many more anniversaries to come. May IBC last forever…………….or at least as long as we have a valid stock market and functioning economy rather than a Northern version of a banana republic.
On that note………..
This is partially a c&p from an e-mail but it really does make one scratch his/her head. How is it that people with no experience whatsoever in the real business world are vested with the task of over seeing the largest economy in the world? The following numbers are rather telling when considering the type of leadership we may expect would be forthcoming at the federal level.
The numbers represent the percentage of each past president’s cabinet who had worked in
the private business sector prior to their appointment to the
cabinet. .
T. Roosevelt…….. 38%
Taft…………………40%
Wilson …………….52%
Harding………………49%
Coolidge………….. 48%
Hoover ……………. 42%
F. Roosevelt……… 50%
Truman………………50%
Eisenhower……….. 57%
Kennedy………….. 30%
Johnson……………..47%
Nixon………………. 53%
Ford………………… 42%
Carter……………… 32%
Reagan……………….56%
GH Bush…………….. 51%
Clinton …………….. 39%
GW Bush……………. 55%
And the winner of the Chicken Dinner is:
Obama……………. 8% !!!
I’m just sayin’………………………..
Interesting stats.
Source?
Bump..
Turns out… it was started by Glen Beck….
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/dec/02/glenn-beck/beck-says-less-10-percent-obama-cabinet-members-ha/
If you read the whole story it’s is largely correct. The guy who did the original study (Michael Cembalest, the chief investment officer for J.P. Morgan Private Bank) admitted to making a mistake on one guy, Salazar, but the others– Hillary Clinton, Gary Locke, Cho, Vilsack, Geithner have limited experience as lawyers or running research labs or Geithner at Kissinger & Assoc., so actual business experience is in a gray area. 8% is a little low. But not all that much.
Politifact is as slanted as anyone. They just claim objectivity from their own point of view.
another fox news stat? like obama’s $200m / day trip to India?
you forgot to paste the part that says to send this message to 1000 people like you who think glenn beck kicks ass
Funny
Fly
My gift to you, is to unveil the Final mystery of puma punku
I’ve found Tim Seymour’s true identity. He is one of the descendants of the first victim of “horatio clawhammer”
All kidding aside, someone examine these photos–and try to convince me Tim Seymour is human. Seriously.
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu317/panamaorange/seperatedatbirth.jpg
as a two year vet, sad that i missed the early days.
this place revived my love for the game. period.
Happy Anniversary/ Birthday!
Best blog on the internets!
ps. Indeud!
I joined the PPT today and will be doing 12631. As an 8 yr vet, what better way to spend the evening then with a scotch aged 16 years and the PPT.
I followed Fly into FTK last week after watching the saga for so long, at $1.80 last week. Not sure why, I just think I heard a voice telling me to do it. Thank you god. Nice way to start the PPT.
Doji –
Me too – just signed up for the PPT, *and* bot some FTK calls. Voice inside my head had me to do both. How does Fly do that?
How does one go about becoming a fly?
Never seen the movie with Jeff Goldblum?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film)
…. first, one must be nimble!
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In perverse honor of the Fly, the VXX will rock n roll tomorrow. Long live iBC!!!
Agreud.
Happy Birthday IBC! I am 100 percenter happy about this day. Will be signing up for 12631 as soon as the link is up.
In preparation for 12631, Tonight’s sandwich:
Lightly toasted 12 grain bread from the La Jolla bakery
Thick slices of chicken breast, dipped in barbecue sauce piled about an inch high
Melted cheese
Avocado
Mayo
Mustard
Bread and Butter Pickles
Dash of cayenne pepper
To add a layer of pomegranate / raspberry jam or not? Wifey thought it might work well, but I’m not so sure. Any other suggestions?
Might as well slap some bacon on that fucker.
…and some clams
It was epic
How about a slice of key lime pie to finish it off…
Happy Birthday FLY> , Its also my third year to the month I bought my current home. A foreclosure, never lived in… Good ol Texas
Fly, Congrats on your well deserved successes!
it should come AS no surprise, phux sakes!
yew gonna git me UPSET if yew carry on like that
Just chilling out in the 12631. Fuck yea!
shanghai down 3.5%, so far
Now 4.5%
….inflation? Who would have guessed…
Happy Birthday to iBC and Happy Veteran’s Day to a Special Veteran.
If you’ve never read or heard “To an Athlete Dying Young” now’s your chance.
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Live chat in the 12631 inner circle is really fun. Better than Chatroulette!
Thanks Veterans, today and every day.
Happy Anniversary tabbed blogsters past and present, PG denizens & regular contributors. And you too, Fly.
Congrats Fly!
Happy Anniversary IBC!
Happy B-Day IBC!
Are these weak openings indicating that the Bearded Clam is losing his market touch? Today’s open would give back the entire rally since QE2 announcement – and with no QE3 on the horizon.
Why is the US dollar doing so well today? FED planning to cancel QE2 or something?
QE2 not working? Give it time. If it doesn’t work, then we need QE3! (or so the thinking will go). Full steam ahead. Bernanke is nimble enough to steer this ship through the icebergs, no?
But Palin ordered him to “cease and desist”! And she’s gutted moose! 🙂
This sucker could go down.
Happy birthday iBC! I’ve been here since April, and have learned so much just by reading and watching you guys. Thank you for what you do day in and day out.