Keep your eye on the metals. They are making a late year move. For the most part, they have no participated in the 2010 rally. It is widely believed U.S. gdp will grow at a 4% clip in 2011. Surely, we will not build with sugar and cotton. Position ahead of the herd.
Top picks: AKS, CENX
NOTE: ORCL smashed earnings.
NOTE II: TTWO blew away numbers. You’re welcome.
Who you callin’ a Ho?
Scum Bucket Bitchez, prolly.
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Do you mean it will grow 4% in 2011?
Also, why does the banner still say you predict low stock prices? You seem quite bullish.
it brings me good fortune.
This market is DONE – for the forseeable future, tomorrow being iffy.
Gold, Silver and the hot stocks have topped out. They hit people over the head with a HAMMER when they crashed Visa and Mastercard late in the day.
I should change my name to goshort.
Gold might be near the top, but it certainly has not peaked.
Silver will conservatively be $80 an ounce by 2012.
I like silver mining stocks, especially ones with exposure to Peru. (Fortuna Silver mines, FVI on the TSX, being one).
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Peru, I like a lot…
There are two separate bearish patterns in the daily chart of copper
1. A fairly vivid megaphone top
and
2. a “bump and run” bearish reversal pattern–if we fail here, or anywhere beneath 4.30 $
That, and , is there really any more room to build chinese real estate? I mean, aside from their growing teahouse renovation industry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wYCh5nxyCI
It’s estimated that a quarter of the world’s population doesn’t even have electricity yet. Ironically, much of that population resides in Africa where they mine metals like copper used for electrical transmission and power generation.
Copper should stay above $4 in 2011, and could go much higher due to increasing demand coming out of a global recession. It’s in everything electronic and power generating.
The run in copper is forecasting that the global economy will continue pick up in 2011, maybe even surprising a lot of economists. I’m not only looking at ust the price chart, but also looking at what copper has been telling us about the macroeconomic picuture going forward.
This thing is playing out to the upside, as the other industrial metals like aluminum, steel, and to a degree, silver have been rallying.
My question is how does speculation by funds affect all this, versus actual commercial demand—-the latter having a bigger long term effect.
There is no shortage of copper. The world is awash in empty commercial , and residential real estate
And that real estate is filled with copper, which is can be mined with a crowbar.
Illegal aliens are already ahead of the game.
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/08BAB92A-0A12-44AA-9388-54614C248F80/
African banking, that’s where you want to be…
Alpha –
It would be great to see you posting here more often again… You know, with one of those easy-to-follow tabs all your own.
Just sayin’.
Indeud.
AC–
Much appreciated, but my plate is full right now. Besides, there are a lot of good and worthy bloggers here. Plus, I enjoy lurking and interjecting comments to offset Jake’s efforts to manipulate PM prices higher. 🙂
Ha! Well, then enjoy what’s on your plate, Alpha.
Jake’s PM manipulatery has gone largely unchecked this year, as it seems buyers for the Chinese gov’t are following his posts and advice. Hope your efforts are successful… So I can get in at better prices.
Enjoy the holidays.
alpha – i would think that many of us would benefit if you have a blog here focusing on deep value long term investing.
Most copper does not come from Africa.
True, based on the current world supply.
Just look at 2008 to get your answer.
fly is god
What’s the skinny on OCZ ?
SSD’s
Damndest thing…
I clicked “play” on the ghey club music above, and the Dickensian Siegfried and Roy man in the advert above right began whirling about!
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homophobe
Club squirrel.
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No one knows what that means.
LOL! Jake, quit the stuck-up vocab already!
insiders joke
(He knows what that means)
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Squirrels get run over in the road
Who has some skinny on OCZ ?
I told ya … SSD’s
Teaman,
Don’t remember ya telln’ SSDs. Does not matter. Believe you are right; have been and am absurdly long OCZ.
Thanks
I’ll be buying me some Sandforce with both hands when it IPOs.
Why wait ? Buy one of their major investors …. do some homework!
http://www.sandforce.com/index.php?id=163&parentId=2&top=1
Looks like VKing is there as well as OCZ … Odd, no?
The custom here looks to be for people to insult one another. Whether the insults are understandable seems to be unimportant.
STFU!
ROFL! That’s one frog duel I’d like to see.
Fuck Yeah. Now move along with those other club squirrels.
When I google club squirrels, all they have are squirrel clubs. LOL. Sort of like bird watching clubs.
http://freegameaction.com/play/89/the-squirrel.html
The beavers want your “tree” … throw your “nuts” at them to protect your tree!
Oh Gawd, I just wasted 2 hours on that game !
Bird watching clubs? I bet DT owns one of them…
Perhaps he is using “club” as a verb. That would certainly upset the people at PETA and the SCLU.
…. (Squirrel Civil Liberties Union)
If you want to play the SSD, computer tablet, and smart phone industry, you must buy SNDK. I lol at the clown that was saying SSD being dead in the water due to its tie with AAPL. Dont try to go for cheap crap. You got to buy the industry leader and ride that wave.
SNDK is a good company, no doubt about that. Have owned it in the past.
The new ibc app is in AppStore now. Go get it
You guys need to get out more.
The only explanation for these great RIMM ,sales is—AAPL is in the midst of having another mediocre earnings quarter. They are barely hanging on to their lead over android, worldwide. And no one has yet calculated the damage from these lousy best buy earnings. There was no excuse for losing that much ATT market share to a device as lame as the torch.
Why else do you think they’ve bumped up the ipad2 release?
Most real malls in the country don’t even have aapl stores. You only find aapl stores in snooty upscale malls. Its appropriate that most of them occupy former “sharper image” storefronts. There was another store with great “foot traffic”, but disappointing sales.
Quick question: Do you know what you are talking about?
I dont think so. RIMM sales are great because they are slashing the prices of their products close to cost of production to regain market shares. It is the oldest trick in the book for businesses on the brink of death. If you are long RIMM, you should take this opportunity to raise cash and get the hell out of there.
Also, the middle class in America is dead. But, upper class consumers are well alive and kicking. AAPL is doing hte right thing by targeting the upper class. There is a reason why luxury good companies like TIF are blowing ERs out of the water quarter after quarter, and it isnt because of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”.
Finally, you need to get out more. That means away from the US. For us gentlemen who have the deep pockets to scout the world 24/7, we know that iPads and iPhones are selling off like crazy abroad. Now, you just need to imagine those gadnets being available in China and India officially. Cha-ching!!!
im certain you are a jet setting saavy world traveler. That must explain what happened to your gravitar
I presume you pawned it to bribe some border guards in peru?
Too cool to have a gravitar.
You are a loser. Fuck off.
Shopped heavily for a new phone and decided on the Galaxy S after getting pissed off at my iPhone. Now I don’t need a special cable or iTunes in order to sync, plus it has a flash player and removable storage, imagine that…HD video recording and playback is stunning with the AMOLED display. And try to see the iPhone display outside, doesn’t work. For these reasons Android will crush market share moving forward.
New App keeps crashing on me.
Try holding your ipad “crossways” . That should fix it .
http://video.adultswim.com/squidbillies/crossways-in-court.html?cid=vplayer_squidbillies_crossways-in-court
New app crashing on me too. Cool new ibc logo though.
I had to delete then reinstall. Try that.
Okay, I deleted, reinstalled, powered down and back on. I can get in now but the latest post is “Down Day” from yesterday, but the comments are a mixture of comments from the current post.
Some bugs might need to be cleaned out.
Bullish
It sounds as though the app didn’t get deleted properly. Delete from both iTunes and the device and re-download from the store.
Here is link to updated iBC app. Whatever feedback you have, bugs, criticisms, please leave them here for the developer to lament over.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibankcoin/id348769530?mt=8
Actually feel free to leave any comments or criticism in the app store if you like; however, if you actually want help for the app and would like any issues you have to be addressed please use the in-app technical support option or contact us at [email protected]. We cannot provide help or respond to any comments or complaints in the app store.
Some users are experiencing a crash after installing the latest update, others are not. If you are one of those users try rebooting the device and/or deleting the app and reinstalling from scratch first. If you still have issues please contact us. These steps have resolved the issue for those experiencing it so far.
Delete and reinstall app at least gets the app to load, but it still crashes once you click on an article/post. Tried a reboot and reinstall to no avail. Still, who fucking cares? I can access IBC via web.
Holy shit —iCrap = it’s delete this and re-boot that and upload this shit and download that trash. I’ll be sticking with my Blackberry = it freaking works anywhere, all the time and my communications are secure = ask any drug dealer in Mex. Uncle Stevie’s supplicants continue to be inordinately enamored with the inconsequential. Dinosaur that I am, I’m barely capable of using 10% of the capabilities in any of these damn phones. Maybe I’ll just get a Maxwell Smart shoe phone.
“Intense Profanity or Crude Humor” I like that disclaimer
App works fine on iphone. Thanks for the picks Mr Fly.
It’s all good now. Reedacles was right delete and reinstall again. Don’t reinstall from the update page. Reinstall in the app store.
Looks good.
4% clip
Says who?
Your deceased ancestor. Crystal ball says more upside from here.
Can’t ignore them crystal balls. As reliable as TA. At least.
I traded my a majority of my physical gold for physical silver tonight via craig’s list.
It was a very surreal experience. Both parties came armed to the meeting. It felt like a drug deal.
Prior to meetup we agreed on a 47:1 ratio.
hmm, did the buyer/swapper use the standard gold verification testing – scratch & bite?
(Sorry about the poor grammar above, I had been celebrating with some bunnahabhain 18 y.o.)
All of the traded metals were US mint eagles. He was satisfied they were not forgeries and forewent the scratch and bite test haha.
Yikes, I hadn’t realized we’d dropped below the 50x multiple…. silver is become “less cheap.”
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Still a ways to go before we get close to 40:1 as I expect Gold to rebound with silver.
Nice. No commissions.
I’ve bought and sold things w Craigs list. They always seem like drug deals. 2 cars rendesvousing in a parking lot.
Isn’t the long-term historical gold : silver ratio <20:1?
Whatever your direction, remember one adage… Don’t provoke the Borg!
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From the notes of an observor:
Bank of International Settlements (the BIS is privately-owned corporation)
> The BIS is managed by the Financial Stability Forum (G7 country finance ministers + NASDAQ + NYSE + World Bank)
> The BIS is owned by all 168 central banks worldwide (all central banks are privately owned corporations; there are 195 countries)
> If a country’s government does not go along with BIS policy, the BIS coordinates the selling of that country’s currency to threaten its economy
> The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (created in 1944/1945 by John Keynes and Harry White, communists), to create a borderless world
> The World Bank sets up stock exchanges in third world countries
> The IMF and World Bank are the financial arms of the United Nations
> Governments go into debt, borrowing from the privately-owned central banks
> Public-private partnerships allow the selling of government (taxpayer) assets to the central bankers
> One goal is a global stock exchange which would require a global currency / regional currencies, that will not be backed by a gold standard (despite media suggesting otherwise)
> There is a possibility this new global currency would be backed by carbon credits
> The 1992 Rio Earth Summit clarified that the Earth and all its creatures have dominance over man (allegiance to the pagan Gaia religion)
> 179 (of 195 total) governments were represented at the Rio Earth Summit
> UN Agenda 21 lays out the complete reordering of the Earth
> Claims people are destroying the Earth (people are disposable) and people are the cause of pollution
> Reordering of private property rights and individual rights
> Major environmental laws passed under the auspices of manmade global warming
> Sustainable development claims that resources must be preserved and protected from mankind and that the population must be reduced
> Sustainable development is a merger of capitalism and socialism, which is communism
> Sustainable development claims the human soul has no value
> Population reduction through abortion, condom distribution, promoting homsexuality, euthanasia (die with dignity)
> If you put all the people in the world in the State of Texas, all of them could each live on 1,200 sq. ft.
> The IMF and World Bank created the Family Dependency Ratio to determine if a human being is adding or subtracting from the Earth’s resources
> The Family Dependency Ratio determines your usefulness to society, as a human being
> Volunteerism may be required if your ratio is low
> Kelo vs. New London: Private property can be taken when it has a higher and best use (violates the US Constitution)
> Clean Water Initiative will create highly regulated buffer zones around rivers and bodies of water
> The demise of the farmer due to Smart Growth and the Wildlands Project
> Creation of alternative transportation systems in urban environments, to help move people from the country to the city
global revolution observer.here’s one for ya observer,lets say 500 people really run this world,ok.lets say that there are 300 mil in the us,ok.if 300 million people were to KILL these 500.who the fuck is gonna be left to prosecute that many people…………….0………their biggest problem,the 500. is we have guns.
It’s not just 500. If you look around, you will note how many people are willfully on their payroll, who make a living working for these individuals — and who will therefore protect them at all costs.
Many of these individuals are also hardboiled socialists, some of them communists. They despise capitalism and they see this as their chance to shine.
They will do what their TV tells them to do — which is to kill the ones who threaten them.
Glenn Beck is too liberal for you. And why do you misspell observer?
Go back to TV Land, LA LA BOY.
Who gives a flying fuck? Why don’t you talk about things that would HELP America?
1) Pull ALL TROOPS AND CONTRACTORS out of Iraq and Afghanistan within one year.
2) Dismantle the Dept of Homeland Security
3) Close 98% of our foreign bases and cut our Attack budget in half
4) Put a 110% tax on all income above $250K
5) Publicly fund all political campaigns – a ONE MONTH ELECTION PERIOD
Taking a few hits from terrorists would be a small price to pay for those improvements!
# 4 is just rediculous.
The rest are great!
6) End the federal reserve.
7) Sterilize repeat convicts.
8) Beef up Science & Research spending.
9) Don’t allow unreasonable/unsafe credit.
10) Stop monetizing the debt.
11) Follow your constitution.
12) Have controls on news dissemnination ownership structures.
Outlaw censorship.
A-fuckin-men.
No. 4 stops most of the bullshit from hedge fund managers, job-exporting CEO’s,
unscrupulous bankers, physicians who do 10 lap bandings per day.
And it would let you see Yankees games for $5 bucks.
End the Fed? How are you going to do that when just about every country in the world has their own version of the Fed? You really think the central bankers will ever just walk away from the US? I seriously doubt that.
Besides, the central bankers are our real government. Ending the Fed is like asking the government to step down. Never gonna happen.
Also (in response to another poster), how can I be liberal or conservative or anything else when what I am stating is 100% factual. Facts don’t give a shit about opinion or political leanings. Facts is facts.
I think it is very unlikely for your reasons and more. But to be realistic, the United States is the only country that could try it without as much worry of war/isolation. Others may side with them in ousting the owners of the Fed from their money systems. But only the US has the military clout to consider such a move.
One month election period will never fly. The media makes too much $ from political advertising.
Will quad-witching screw with our usual Friday afternoon rally???
Fly, where in the PPT do you mention what you are doing with your experimental accounts?
Or anyone else who can point me there…
A new lethal injection drug passes its first test…almost a 2-for-1 given he was put to death for strangling his cellmate…and who thought we weren’t making any progress in medicine.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/am_top_news_oklahoma_killer_is.html
Just testing it out before it’s covered by medi-cade. 😉 Helps with the social security budget and all.
Poor taste. I know.
caid
two faggots next to me are talking about “co-watching” and “the portability of netflix” and all kinds of gay blue sky shit; i love calif+technology, but i’d like to take a homo-hammer to these a-holes. its a nice quiet morning on a blustery day, and these gaylords are non-stop waxing philosophical about consumer tech. rant.
And then you blew em?
why yes!