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Best Quarter Since 1998, Now What?

Back in 1998, I was a hardcore piker, opening new accounts for idiot brokers. In my personal account, joint with Mom (shamed), I had an early AMER position building, which later turned $6k into $250k. I was on the verge of greatness and didn’t even know it.  Without a doubt, 1998 was the low point for “The Fly’s” career, nearly checking out of the business in exchange for a salaried position at Schwab, dealing with the perplexities of supporting a family on zero income for 4 consecutive months. One year later, after paying down $35k in credit card debt, I was fucking bowling on pikers, securing an office at my firm and a staff of junior brokers, even though they were older than me.

Here is the month to month  returns for 1998. Repeat?

January +1.29%

February +6.93%

March -0.89%

April +1.27

May -2.08%

June +4.25%

July -1.35%

August -14.12%

September +6.36%

October +8.11%

November +5.55%

December +6.51%

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21 comments

  1. HalfBloodPope

    was has?

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  2. Yogi & Boo Boo

    Why not?

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  3. Quint

    Lesson is…ignore the market until Labor Day.

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  4. kelkun

    I prefer a repeat of 1995. 4 straight quarters up.

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  5. James

    1998 month to month returns for what? or who?

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  6. Chris

    Dude when you gonna stop acting like a piker and put me on the team or something. We on the same music wave and I can learn a lot from you… and help somewhere I’m sure. Eazy

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    • JTU

      If the rally follows through tomorrow, metal producers may be up by as much as 3%!

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  7. Mr. Partridge

    Having a joint account with your Mom is nothing to be ashamed of, I still have mine. It only has one stock.. many years ago she saw a picture of Steve Jobs somewhere and that was her pick lol he looks just like my programmer geek uncle (her brother) Leo. She also like the Apple logo lol Moms have a great talent for picking stocks I think lol

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  8. Trading_Nymph

    LTRO was huge cocaine for the market. This is no 1998.

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    • Trading_Nymph

      BTW, I am so jealous..I have learned so much since I started in 2007, I can’t imagine how incredible it would be to watch the market since 1998. Tonights Official PMI came in a bit stronger and HBSC PMI still down out of China..

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  9. JTU

    The ASX 200 came out gangbusters at the open Monday morning up over .80% only to piss away all of it’s earlier gains throughout the trading day. With 2 hours to go it is now only up .12%.

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    • Trading_Nymph

      Australia building data sucked, Japan Tanken Sucked..China mainland is on vacation until Wednesday. All of the global pmi’s are coming out tonight. For this market, IMF’s party now, no pay, no more play for traders. IMHO they won’t give up the money and will say EFSF/ESM is not enough.

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  10. The Fly

    Nymph is no joke

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  11. drummerboy

    the ever, long and winding road.

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