LE FLY REMAINS A PILLAR OF GOODNESS AND HOPE

As the world crumbles into the smallest of pieces thanks largely to the PIECE OF SHIT neocon scum who rule the west with an iron fist, it’s important to remember there are some enclaves of freedom out there. Here at iBankCoin, I largely talk to myself and drop TRUTH BOMBS on unsuspecting readers, enlightening them to certain facts, such as, but not limited to: nukes aren’t real, space is a painting, the lunar landing was and still is impossible, America lost WW2, Mary Lincoln SHOT AND KILLED her husband, life did not start in Africa and we’re not all homo sapien sapiens, the earth is obviously flat, gravity is a scam, satellites are balloons, Russia and China aren’t the bad guys.

Life is going exactly as planned for yours truly. I managed to bob and weave today and produce a gain of 1.48%. It’s fairly easy and simple to make money these days and I suspect I will make a lot more this year. If you’re having trouble navigating the market — do not worry for I am here to show you the way. Consider me to be a tour guide.

I closed leveraged long without hedges, especially keen on oils and natty.

Listen to me. You can weave as many boolish stories as you want. You can dress up your homes with gilted brocade and adorn it with the finest mahagonay furniture and maple trim. But if said house itself is crumbling from years of mismanagement, all of the finest upholstery in the world, decadent millwork and state of the art electronics, the house will fall.

Let’s go over the Federal balance sheet for a moment.

Expenditures:

Social Security $1.2t – they tried to kill off granny with COVID but largely flopped, so the expense increases.
Health: $915b
Welfare: $850b
DEBT ON NATIONAL DEBT: $865b (14% OF ANNUAL BUDGET)
Defense/Ukraine: $800-$1t
Medicare: $755b

Entitlements, entitlements. It’s over. Not only is it over — but also cooked. With rates climbing daily, the interest expense on the $31t in debt we owe increases daily. On top of that, we run deficits of $1 to $3 trillion per annum, so every year the balloon gets bigger and bigger as the people inside of the crumbling home get greedier and greedier, adorning it with the finest flooring and chandeliers money can buy.

It’s important to remember, especially when you don’t know what you’re doing, that some people still do. I present to you a status update: RECOURD HIGHS.

Enough is enough already. When is that son of a bitch gonna lose money?

I have my bias and the market doesn’t care and keep going up, so I follow her. I’m 110% long, no hedges. Whenever the market breaks lower, I hedge with 10-40% of my account into SQQQ or some other bedeviled inverse etf and trade is quickly, profit or loss.

The market is very easy, providing you don’t complicate things with your feeeeelings.

I closed out the session +186bps, +8.2% for Feb without any hedges, leveraged long into the teeth of March. The pin action was terrible towards the end of the day and I had hedges in place to deal with that. Bottom line: although it seems like the market should collapse, and we all pray nightly for it to happen, it doesn’t. Because of this, I am inclined to believe we will not CRASH into March and might instead melt up a little.

Bear in mind, my opinions are mostly useless the second I publish them. I excel at real time trading and galvanizing ideas over short durations. Although my opinions can be somewhat useful, if I am being honest with myself and yours truly — my value lies in the now.

As of right now I am bullish. That can change tomorrow.

CIAO

It wasn’t all champagne corks into the faces of laughing fat men in February. We had some severe drawdowns in a number of stocks. Here were the highlights, or lowlights — depending on your point of view.

BABA -20%
JD -25%
MRNA -21%
SIRI -23%
LCID -22%
MTCH -23%
BILL -26%
W -32%
LYFT -37%
LUMN -34%
CHGG -23%
AG -23%
WRBY -21%
CGC -23%
OPEN -31%
BLNK -33%

INDUSTRIES

Synthetic Biology -22%
Silver -17%
Cannabis -16%
Online shopping -16%
Electric Vehicles -15%
Medical Equipment -17%
Chinese Burritos -11%
Nuclear -10%
Solar -10%
Biotech -9%

SECTORS

Healthcare -7.5%
Basic Materials -5.5%
Tech -4.8%

WINNERS:

Tankers +17%
Long term care +8%
Shipping +6.5%
Semis +4%
Auto dealerships +4%
Movie theaters +3.9%

Markets traded DOWN in February — between 2-3%, depending on what index you’re looking at. The semis, however, traded up — and one could say February was a solid consolidation month following an electric January.

But let’s make one thing abundantly clear: Le Fly reigns supreme — presently +8% for the month — outperforming all others with ease and grace.

Whilst you might read that and say to yourselves “oh wow, I am gonna join Stocklabs now and Fly is gonna teach me.” — nothing can be further from the truth. I will teach you nothing. In fact, I sometimes trick people for fun.

Look at Russia now — morons trying to destroy their own equipment they sold to Ukraine — because they got greedy. They sold them all of that military equipment and now that they’re enemies — they’re having a hard time destroying all of it. The same rules apply here. If I really teach you my secrets and we become enemies — I might have a hard time destroying you.

No. I will not be fooled into giving away state secrets for as little as $59.99 per mo. Am I retarded? Certainly not.

I am a fisherman and you are a customer. You are welcomed to enter my place of business and I will not only catch the fish — but cook it too. You can pay me for the fish and my time to cook it — and you may eat until your stomach explodes.

It’s very simple, quite frankly. You can study trading and eat books about it for the next 50 years and still not be as good as me. You wouldn’t ask Michael Jordan to teach you basketball and then expect to be as good or better than him — would you?

Don’t be silly.

I closed out my shorts at the open and now have a 107% long book, breezing into the late morning without a worry in the world.

Catastrophic day for the bulls. You could not stop the late day selling and the people are getting really nervous out there — staring at rates barely down 2bps on a strong up day.

Today, after it’s all said and done, was a dud. I close down just 1%, near my session highs — because of a late day COLLAPSE in semis and tech. I am 50% weighted SHORT on top of a fully long book.

There is no hope because there is no bull case. You should make arrangements now and plan for the worst.

I gave it until 1pm, the crashing of the market and all. It didn’t happen, so I allocated back into my weekly quant and now have a market neutral position. The expectation for today is SOFT LANDING because housing starts went up around +8% vs the 1% expected. Because of this chicanery, amongst other things, we’re back to fucking dreamland where war is peace, down is up, and sharply higher interest rates is GOOD for housing.

How often can one person get upset over these things? Eventually the heart gives way and the agitant dies off only to be replaced with someone younger who will also die off after enough years have gone by in deepening purple anger.

I cannot fight it anymore. I acqueisce to the faggotry at large and might now perhaps support Ukraine and their fucking homosexual flag and all of the other cool things NATO is bringing forth around the world, including expanding the Atlantic Ocean into Asia.

With regard to money supply and the Fed, they’re so awesome and amazing. I just can’t wait to pay my taxes.

I am down 1.25% for the session and I am sure 90% of you assholes are up for the day, enjoying the market as you day drink like the fools you are.

I thought markets would drop this morning and I was wrong. We raced up, paused, and raced up again — led higher by commodity related stocks, sans natural gas. Even still, I am giving the market a final chance, a warning if I might so bold, to collapse before lunch.

I sold out from all of my longs and now only hold SOXS and SQQQ, a dastardly combo in the midst of a melt up. The feeling of stupidity is enrobed around my person. All other persons seem to be having fun and making money, but me. All I wanted, frankly, was a small collapse — nothing too big, just so that I could profit and then feeeeeeel really good about my decisions. Instead, I an chiefly underperforming and on the ass-end of the market.

It’s very possible that my streak, my hot hand, is over and I am now to be faded. By the looks of it, today might be one of those pivotal days. Let’s see how it plays out until noon.

I’m often regaled with comments such as “you just said this Fly — and now you’re saying that! How dare you!” Whilst the sum total of what you’re trying to say, at least on the surface, makes sense. After all, how could a person who proclaims himself in the highest esteem be so changeable? You think that any person with an iota of integrity in what he believes in would be obstinate and more robust in his convictions.

But I am not such a man as this.

I am merely a weathervane in the big scheme of things — a person who is swayed easily with market whims and bases his decisions on real time information and not news that is stale and dated — a flippe flopper if you will.

For example.

The day before last I was bullish and in “excellent health” in both mind and spirit. And then the inflation data came out and I changed my mind. Now why in bloody hell would I do that? But the real question is this: If you need me to explain this to you, you, Sir, aren’t in the lease capable of managing your own money and should cease trying to do so at once.

I want you to take a gander at this chart I am about to post and look at the trend and tell me where it’s going next.

TLT

Before we gameplan the potential bullish scenarios for the market, let’s see what Larry Summers has to say about all this. I know it’s Lawrence Fucking Summers, liberal POS. But he is also known for speaking his mind when it comes to economics and really, when it comes down to it, knows more about this stuff than 99.9% of people walking around in these halls.

.@LHSummers: "The Fed can stop inflation. But whether it can stop inflation with a soft landing, without impacts on economic activity, that's been very much I doubt from the beginning."

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— Bloomberg (@business) February 24, 2023

To summarize:

“We do not have historical examples of when unemployment is below 4% and the inflation is above 4%.”

In other words, if we were to have a soft landing — it would be unprecedented. There isn’t a base case for NOT barreling into recession. You understand, prole? Hard landing means zero bid trading and worse than expected economic data and unemployment. This will establish fear into markets and fear means we trade lower.

My entire bull case was predicated on the idea of a pivot, amazing soft landing, and homosexual giraffes serving iced cream outside of the White House for all of its visitors.

The current bull case is the next CPI number will come in softer than expected, led by a sudden collapse in commodity prices and/or substantial gains in Ukraine by NATO.

Can we trade up on Monday?

NO.

Good day.