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very strong movement, probably spx already finished wave 1, dollar is already in wave 2 and he might have a inverted H&S, if that happen we will see spx in much lower values.
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Thought Steve Liesman was going to jump out of his chair. Such a dick

these vertical morning boosts .... geting sick of them

I'm posting here because I'm sick of having to click on "next" at the bottom of the page.

I remembered that the we had planned to converse last night but had to change plans after some crazy shit went down in "the jungle" (I won't be camping there tonight) and wasn't able to let you know. So, I apologize for keeping you up waiting, especially since you're fighting flu. Is Mrs. Hamster sick too, is she taking care of you, or have you been quarantined? Try mixing spirulina and cayenne pepper into some miso soup. Spirulina keeps me alive. Like POMO cash, it'll rally you back to health.

We may have to resort to asynchronous conversation since I'm leaving soon but will probably be back later this evening and/or tomorrow morning. I'm Pacific time, but don't keep any schedule or routine. That in itself may invalid your RBW-has-AS hypothesis. By the way, I have been reading about autism, Asperger syndrome (AS), schizoid personality disorder (SPD), and schizophrenia. As I visualize them, autism and schizophrenia are at two polar extremes with AS closer to autism, "normal" in the middle, and SPD closer to schizophrenia. Based on my own self-evaluation, which I'll discuss in more detail later, I could be the "secret schizoid."

Hey, sorry to make you worry (even though it's illogical). I'll try to stay out of trouble and promise not to do anything stupid like getting caught keying an apocalyptic Bible verse about the ruin of the whore of Babylon on the hood of some rich bastard's Porsche.

just a question, is the homeless part fact or just part of your persona?

Mind keeping this to yourself? The homeless story is part of my persona, at least for now. I think of it as an "artistic truth." In reality, I'm not yet a tramp. Instead, I'm an aspiring tramp.

Scattered thoughts that I'm too tired to weave any tighter. . . .

I'm trying to bank enough coin to pay off my student loans, buy a year's stockpile of food and other necessities for my parents and grandparents, and cover a year's worth of expenses for traveling frugally, living at least some of the time among transients, and documenting social upheaval if there is another Great Depression (or something worse). I want to do the photographic equivalent of something like a Ted Conover piece of non-fiction even though it may have a low probability of launching a career. I want to do it for the pictures even if no one sees them. I want to do it for the experience. I want to do it for the hell of it. I want to do it.

Unlike Conover, I don't have a father who is a successful lawyer, a degree from a prestigious university, or an established career to backstop my adventure "into the wild." My parents both have full-time work but rent and live paycheck to paycheck. One set of grandparents aren't aren't much better off. As for myself, I failed out of university after I lost my ability to write papers. I have part-time work right now with yearly earnings potential of about 15 K. At the very least, trading with a bearish bias is a hedge against being laid off due to economic conditions worsening.

To my family, my few friends, and my coworkers, I come across as being psychologically normal. Sure, everyone thinks I have ADHD including a psychologist I used to visit on my own and a psychiatrist I used to see at the drug trial/medical research center where I used to go for free meds that helped improve my focus a little but didn't cure my writer's block. But most people think I'm normal enough. My outward behavior appears so. Inwardly, I feel very different (and in some ways superior). I am the most creative person I know. I am also least successful at finishing projects I start.

I've always been an introvert but have become far less social over last two years. I'm still sociable when in social situations, but I find myself avoiding them more and more. I'm becoming a hermit, and I don't mind. Why? Is this preparation for my adventure "into the wild?" Am I observing real psychological change?

I actually like stories, listening to people's personal stories. Most suburban dwellers don't have stories or don't have the knack for telling them. People who are on the streets or barely off the streets usually have interesting stories whether true to life, embellished, or fictional.

ok. I'll keep silent on that front (I think most believe something like that, but I have a principle, why think when you an know if you ask?)

As for the grand depression documentary... in your last sentence you mention stories, photo is so 1929. Might as well do short videos.

As for the rest... a lot is normal when you're 20 ;-)

Well, twenty is my mental age anyway.

and what is your age? you metioned you could drink in canada, I understood as a 18-21

For documentary purposes, yes, raw video would be the way to go. Maybe I'll do that, but that wouldn't be enough. I guess documentary alone isn't really want I'm after. Think Robert Frank's photo book The Americans. I like the artistic expressiveness of photo books like his. To achieve the same level of artistic expression, it would have to be a motion picture. But then you have paid actors instead of subjects and a crew instead of a lone wolf.

Also, you haven't seen my potential as a photographer.

do you have a place where you post your pics?

from raw video you can take pictures, texts that go with them, and motion picture is so XX century. How about a web 2 approach to it? a site with the images, the videos, the texts, the work in progress, and the visitors contribution connected with each part.

Afterwords you can edit a frozen version

I'm SO last century ;-)

SO last millenium indeed

LOL

p.s. guess you'd love a 50mm yashica http://photopolus.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/y...

Yes, I like old things. I have a Leica M3.

http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/images/produc...

well I have a yashica like the one I showed in the link , belonged to my grandfather

do you have a place where you post your pics?

from raw video you can take pictures, texts that go with them, and motion picture is so XX century. How about a web 2 approach to it? a site with the images, the videos, the texts, the work in progress, and the visitors contribution connected with each part.

Afterwords you can edit a frozen version

Not yet. Working on it. Will consider this.

and first wait for the depression before making big plans ;-)

still having dinner, just a pause

The best relationship I almost had was with Jennifer.

After work, I'd sit with her at the bus stop. She'd light up. We'd talk. One time I asked her about my looks. She said, "Uh. . . . I'd take you." I said, "What does that mean? You'd take me if you had to?" She smiled. "Yeah, if I had to."

If were friends at the bus stop, we were more like enemies inside the store. I didn't have conflict with anyone else, but conflict with her was everyday normal. It was great though because any time we reached an emotional boiling point, which happened at least once a day, one of us would crack a smile and we'd both end up smiling or laughing.

When Jenn wasn't wearing the green apron with the stupid mermaid siren logo on it that we both came to hate, she looked like she belonged in a hipster part of London. It wasn't just the way she dressed. She also had dirty black hair, she didn't have prefect white teeth, and she smoked. Further, she absolutely radiated sexiness. It was like I hadn't consciously realized the full extent of this fact until I heard another coworker say about her, "She's crazy enough to be really good in bed. Man, what I wouldn't give to get under the sheets with her." This is when I realized that I really liked her. But I was too busy, distracted, and shy to pursue her. I was also too religious, and she wasn't.

My coworker was right on about her craziness too. Not only was her craziness sexy, but her craziness was crazy. She asked me one time, "What's stopping us from hitchhiking to New York, mugging someone to fund our plane tickets, flying to London, and living there." I asked, "Are you suggesting we mug some rich bastard who probably deserves to be mugged anyway or an old lady?" She replied, "The old lady" and added something like, "Easier to knock down." I remember saying, "You know, panhandling would be another way of getting the rich bastard's money. And if that doesn't work, sure, we could mug the old lady." She didn't say anything so I did. "Hey, uh, you're serious about just up and leaving, aren't you? Hmm, let me think and get back to you on this one." I thought about it. I even thought seriously about it. Apparently, I was crazy enough to consider running off with Jenn, but maybe I wasn't crazy enough to do it. I kept thinking about parental expectations to get a university education and my societal obligations to pay back student loans. All that shit.

Well, rationality and/or fear of the unknown beat out (barely) my hell-yeah-let's-fucking-go impulse. I didn't say yes. I didn't say no. Or did I? I said, "That's fuckin' crazy. But, hey, if you really want to, I'll look into our cheapest options for a spring break trip to London." That must have been a resounding no to her ears. A spring break trip is not what she had in mind. A few days later, Jenn hugged me at the bus stop and looked at me with reserved affection, sighed, and let go. I had never kissed a girl before. Still haven't. I wish I had kissed her. If I could go back in time, I would kiss her for sure. Would I run off with her though? I want to think I'm crazy enough to do that, but I really don't know for sure.

The story ends with Jenn abruptly leaving town, presumably for London. I never saw or heard from her again. Every once in awhile I search for her on Facebook. No luck.

btw, your talk about never having had anything with a girl... if you talk half as good as you write they're in line witing for you to do the duracell bunny act on them... but you have to pay attention to see and (though normal at your age) you seem a bit navel oriented

Don't you mean the in-her-gizer bunny? ;-)

raised, don't try to out-gross me LOL

Yeah, I keep gazing at my own navel, not theirs. Why am I so narcissistic? What's wrong with me? I need to explore myself more to figure this out ;-)

LOL, no you don't. You need to live a bit more and do it with others.

I think you're trying to use brains only on departements where you should be using the whole of you and others to FEEL. understanding will come

you have a knack for short stories... not half bad...

how come you say you can' write papes anymore?

During my last two quarters, I experienced some weird, ongoing, and disabling major depressive writer's block episode (I wasn't even procrastinating). Either I didn't turn anything in at all because I couldn't do academic papers anymore or I turned in visual art or creative writing instead because I could do those. I reasoned, "If I can't do their assignments, I'll assign myself my own assignments." That usually didn't go over well.

There was an instance where a professor actually accepted my visual art with accompanying text to explain it. Instead of writing a traditional academic paper on some aspect of mythology, I manipulated/remixed/recontextualized other people's images to visually tell my own version of the "Theseus and the Minotaur" myth. To increase the probability of the professor accepting my crazy ass art project, I wrote some crazy ass text to accompany it.

This is what I wrote:

Remixing Theseus and the Minotaur

Opening remarks on story telling

Generally, there are two approaches to retelling a myth: (1) Approximate form and meaning and (2) restructure form or manipulate meaning (or both). Rendering a myth both accurate and accessible are the primary challenges for the story teller who chooses the first approach. So, the story teller writes or orates for an audience. She asks "Who is this audience?" "Is this audience homogeneous or heterogeneous? "In which languages are these persons fluent?" "Is translation or contextualisation necessary?" "Are there possible cultural inhibitors?" "To what extent will I simplify, subtract from, add to, elaborate or embellish?" "How will I make necessary changes and get as close as possible to the original story?" Some of these questions are relevant for the story teller who decides on the second approach, but that last question is not one of them, and that second to last question does not go far enough. So, she asks herself these questions: "How will I make changes, most of them unnecessary, to deviate from the original story" and "Where and how far will I go?"

My brainstorming process

Deciding to restructure and manipulate "Theseus and the Minotaur", I wanted to explore labyrinths. We encounter experiential labyrinths as individuals and societies. Thinkers conceive intellectual labyrinths and seekers find spiritual realities. There exist ideated and imagined labyrinths. At first, I wanted to explore string theory after reading the headline, "String Theory, at 20, Explains It All (or Not)." New York Times writer Dennis Overbye asks "What if the basic constituents of nature and matter were not little points, as had been presumed since the time of the Greeks?" He wonders "What if the seeds of reality were rather teeny tiny wiggly little bits of string? And what appear to be different particles like electrons and quarks merely correspond to different ways for the strings to vibrate, different notes on God's guitar?" Using the language of labyrinth, he continues "It sounds simple, but that small change led physicists into a mathematical labyrinth, in which they describe themselves as wandering."

In response to "What if?" new and different ideas came to mind. I wrote in my journal: "Different creation/cosmos stories begin as separate threads. As the book progresses these threads spin into each other, crisscross, loop, ravel, and eventually unravel. It begins with a young what-if-er. What if the stories told by her daddy, her mother, her Native American grandmother, her Sunday school teacher, her teacher, and even Dr. Schwarz could be told as one story? Would this many-made-one story make sense? Nonsense? What if they were all connected differently? Word by word? Sentence by sentence? Begin by drawing a line across a page and continuing onto another."

Finally, I decided on the subjects of depression, recursion, and paradox. I imagined a depressed Minotaur stepping out of shadow to deliver a soliloquy. First, he quotes Kurt Cobain, saying, "I hate myself and want to die." Then, he philosophizes with existential philosophers Sartre and Kirkegaard (i.e. "Existence precedes essence"), as well as Pink Floyd: "Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. / Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines / Hanging on in quiet desperation is the [Minoan] way / The time is gone, the song is over, / Thought I'd something more to say." The Minotaur challenges Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Love is More Labyrinthine), who writes ". . . So that human blood may nourish the Minotaur, monster of contradictory forms." The Minotaur contends, ". . . So that an inhumane king might appease another dehumanizer and king greater . . . at the cost of human life lost . . . and mine devitalized."

Inspired by Douglas Hofstadter, I thought to bring in Bach and Escher. Incidently, Bach wrote Little Harmonic Labyrinth. Borrowing words from Hofstadter, the Minotaur explains to his unwilling house guest, Theseus: "The original Little Harmonic Labyrinth is a piece by Bach in which he tries to lose you in a labyrinth of quick key changes. Pretty soon you are so disoriented that you don't have any sense of direction left—you don't know where the true tonic is, unless you have perfect pitch, or like [you,] Theseus, have a friend like Ariadne who gives you a thread that allows you to retrace your steps. In this case, the thread would be a written score. This piece—another example is the Endlessly Rising Canon—goes to show that, as music listeners, we don't have very reliable deep stacks." The Minotaur's reference to himself and Theseus leads to recursive retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur" The Minotaur and Theseus become the same yet somewhat different characters as the Minotaur reads to Theseus from Leonard Everett Fisher's rendition of the myth. While Theseus is stuck on one level with a depressed Minotaur but stuck on another level within the illustrated children's book by Fisher, Ariadne begins to have doubts about Theseus. "If you love me, Theseus, your love will find its way to me."

To clarify some character and plot details, I intended Theseus to walk into the Minoan Labyrinth and become the Minotaur's prisoner. From the Minotaur's perspective, Theseus is wanted as a companion more so than as a captive. If Theseus is Marlow (Heart of Darkness) or Willard (Apocalypse Now), then the Minotaur is most certainly Kurtz. His is a complex character. Likewise, the audience should have complex feelings about the Minotaur. Therefore, we feel sympathetic toward, sorry for, and repulsed by the Minotaur. It is unfortunate for the Minotaur that we do not so readily empathize with or relate with him. Remember, he is depressed and desperately needs to bond with someone. Is Theseus a companion? In subduing the hero, perhaps with music and dance, the Minotaur accidently wounds the foot of Theseus. Is Theseus a hero? Either hearing the screams of Theseus or feeling the life-energy connection dissipate through her life-sustaining-umbilical-cord-like string, Ariadne believes Theseus is dead. A woman, she weeps. A heroine, she wipes her tears away.

Meanwhile, Theseus actually remains alive and detained. This time becoming their reverse characters, the Minotaur begins a second reading of the illustrated children's book.

Besides the Minotaur, Ariadne and Bach—I mean Bacchus, who is also known as Dionysus—are the main characters. Without Theseus, Ariadne and Dionysus will have a future together. Dionysus responds to Ariadne's cries to the gods in a very direct sort of way. The god of passion comforts and seduces her by letting Ariadne continue to believe that her lover-warrior is no more. The audience may wonder whether Ariadne developed object-constancy. Dionysus steals the girl and a line from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, repaying Theseus with some kind words: "A hero does not feel death; an affront, yes, for it is infamy that one born to such high estate should die so basely."

Jump cuts

Jump cut: [In the labyrinth, the Minotaur reads to Theseus a bittersweet ending.]

Jump cut: [On the ship, Ariadne and Dionysus are engaged in hot, sweaty sex.]

In hopes you are getting the concept

Does the textual story you are reading illuminate the visual story? Does the visual story you are viewing enrich the textual story? Let me explain the visual story: With two threads of visual imagery, I replace words with paintings and photographs. Some images may be familiar, such as Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" or W. Eugene Smith's holocaust photographs. Others images, like those of Ralph Gibson and Stephen Livick, may be less so. Although I played with most of these images, it is the forms and meanings of the story that I restructured and manipulated invasively. I tell the story "out of order" or even "backward" with the first flip book (Botticelli on front) and "forward" yet "discontinuous" with the second flip book (Smith appears first). I think it best to view them side by side. The viewer might assume/imagine several settings/scenes: (1) The self-loathing, suicidal Minotaur within the labyrinth, (2) Ariadne and Theseus at the entrance to the labyrinth, (3) Ariadne and Dionysus making love outside—over the Aegean sea?—as well as (4) Theseus inside the labyrinth with the Minotaur. The viewer remains free to imagine/image differently. With this flip-book format, I wanted the viewer to explore relationships among these images and generate new structures and meanings.

Ariadne is not an after thought or a sex object (really, she's not)

I have adapted Ariadne—her sensitivity, her sensuality—from Emilio Carballido's character. I imagined her as complex as the Minotaur, but knowing that might not be apparent through my visual imagery, I desired Ariadne to speak either for herself or with Carballido: "When you enter the Labyrinth, I will have the end of the ball of yarn in my hands. I will clutch it to my belly. I will feel it like an artery that pulses and draws my life toward you. I will feel it like the cord that unites the mother with her new born child. I will support it and through it I will be sending you my prayers, my strength, my ancestors, my name. When you emerge, you will be my husband and my child." Ariadne is idealist and imaginative, arguably, uninformed yet not uniformed. Initially, I wanted reader-viewers to question and re-question Ariadne's depth. Rather, I want reader-viewers to gloss over this character at first and then get around to exploring the depths of Ariadne. Later, not with Theseus but Dionysus, she says thoughtfully, beautifully "Do you know what the sea seems like with the foamy weaving of its waves and the open web of all its invisible ways? A labyrinth. When we have crossed it, we will be different people."

as far as style is concerned the "girl at the store" is much better in structure, flow, emotions

now, for labyrintine issues.. may >I ask if you read certain authors/books?

Borges, Kafka, P.K.Dick, R.Anton WIlson, David Mitchel...

which ones?

The title is also known as "the girl at fuckin' Starbucks," and Starbucks is the offensive word in that alternative title.

Hey, let me show you what real lattes look like:

http://www.espressovivace.com/gallery2/main.php

Working at a place that makes real lattes would be the opposite of degrading.

here in portugal we have expresso coffees in every corner that are second only to italian ones (agreeed upon by the italians, who accept that only two people drink proper coffe in europe... and that all of the americas drink something that only vaguely ressembles cofee) ... at a fraction of the price, less than 1 usd

p.s. go for chapter 2, the fucking girl at starbucks

I have read some Kafka. I want to read P.K. Dick. After all, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep lead to Blade Runner, which is my favorite movie and not just because Mole thinks it's cool.

Blade Runner is the best movie ever. But the boock is very different (try UBIK or The 3 stigmata of palmer Eldritch to start with)afterward we'll talk about weirder PKD

My professor must have been too easy. Hmm, maybe she was hitting on me. Why else wouldn't she flunk my ass?

Don't reread this mediocre piece all over again (the visuals including nudes weren't as mediocre), but look for the change I couldn't help making. Hint, the Minotaur is now gay:

Remixing Theseus and the Minotaur

Opening remarks on story telling

Generally, there are two approaches to retelling a myth: (1) Approximate form and meaning and (2) restructure form or manipulate meaning (or both). Rendering a myth both accurate and accessible are the primary challenges for the story teller who chooses the first approach. The story teller writes or orates for an audience. She asks "Who is this audience?" "Is this audience homogeneous or heterogeneous? "In which languages are these persons fluent?" "Is translation or contextualisation necessary?" "Are there possible cultural inhibitors?" "To what extent will I simplify, subtract from, add to, elaborate or embellish?" "How will I make necessary changes and get as close as possible to the original story?" Some of these questions are still relevant for the story teller who decides on the second approach, but that last question is not one of them, and that second to last question does not go far enough. She is driven to ask: "How will I make changes, most of them unnecessary, to deviate from the original story" and "Where and how far will I go?"

My brainstorming process

Deciding to restructure and manipulate "Theseus and the Minotaur", I wanted to explore labyrinths. We encounter experiential labyrinths as individuals and societies. Lovers have their relational labyrinths, seekers have their spiritual labyrinths, and thinkers have their intellectual labyrinths. At first, I wanted to ponder the labyrinth that is string theory. The artist in me reached for the scissors and glue stick when I read, "String Theory, at 20, Explains It All (or Not)" in the New York Times. Writer Dennis Overbye asks "What if the basic constituents of nature and matter were not little points, as had been presumed since the time of the Greeks?" He wonders, "What if the seeds of reality were rather teeny tiny wiggly little bits of string? And what appear to be different particles like electrons and quarks merely correspond to different ways for the strings to vibrate, different notes on God's guitar?" Using the language of labyrinth, he continues "It sounds simple, but that small change led physicists into a mathematical labyrinth, in which they describe themselves as wandering."

In response to "What if?" new and different ideas came to mind. I wrote in my journal: "Different creation/cosmos stories begin as separate threads. As the book progresses these threads spin into each other, crisscross, loop, ravel, and eventually unravel. It begins with a young what-if-er. What if the stories told by her daddy, her mother, her Native American grandmother, her Sunday school teacher, her teacher, and even Dr. Schwarz could be told as one story? Would this many-made-one story make sense? Nonsense? What if they were all connected differently? Word by word? Sentence by sentence? Begin by drawing a line across a page and continuing onto another."

Finally, I decided on the subjects of depression, recursion, and paradox. I imagined a depressed Minotaur stepping out of shadow to deliver a soliloquy. First, he quotes Kurt Cobain, saying, "I hate myself and want to die." Then, he philosophizes with existential philosophers Sartre and Kirkegaard (i.e. "Existence precedes essence"), as well as Pink Floyd: "Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. / Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines / Hanging on in quiet desperation is the [Minoan] way / The time is gone, the song is over, / Thought I'd something more to say." The Minotaur challenges Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Love is More Labyrinthine), who writes ". . . So that human blood may nourish the Minotaur, monster of contradictory forms." The Minotaur contends, ". . . So that an inhumane king might appease another dehumanizer and king greater . . . at the cost of human life lost . . . and mine devitalized."

Inspired by Douglas Hofstadter, I thought to bring in Bach and Escher. Incidently, Bach wrote Little Harmonic Labyrinth. Borrowing words from Hofstadter, the Minotaur explains to his unwilling house guest, Theseus: "The original Little Harmonic Labyrinth is a piece by Bach in which he tries to lose you in a labyrinth of quick key changes. Pretty soon you are so disoriented that you don't have any sense of direction left—you don't know where the true tonic is, unless you have perfect pitch, or like [you,] Theseus, have a friend like Ariadne who gives you a thread that allows you to retrace your steps. In this case, the thread would be a written score. This piece—another example is the Endlessly Rising Canon—goes to show that, as music listeners, we don't have very reliable deep stacks." The Minotaur's reference to himself and Theseus leads to recursive retelling of "Theseus and the Minotaur" The Minotaur and Theseus become the same yet somewhat different characters as the Minotaur reads to Theseus from Leonard Everett Fisher's rendition of the myth. While Theseus is stuck on one level with a depressed Minotaur but stuck on another level within the illustrated children's book by Fisher, Ariadne begins to have doubts about Theseus. "If you love me, Theseus, your love will find its way to me."

To clarify some character and plot details, I intended Theseus to walk into the Minoan Labyrinth and become the Minotaur's prisoner. From the Minotaur's perspective, Theseus is wanted as a companion more so than as a captive. The Minotaur is lonely loner. More importantly, he needs someone to listen to him bitch. If Theseus is Marlow (Heart of Darkness) or Willard (Apocalypse Now), then the Minotaur is most certainly Kurtz. His is a complex character. Likewise, the audience should have complex feelings about the Minotaur. Therefore, we feel sympathetic toward, sorry for, and repulsed by the Minotaur. It is unfortunate for the Minotaur that we do not so readily empathize with or relate with him. Remember, he is depressed and desperately needs to bond with someone. Is Theseus an acquaintance or a friend? In subduing the hero, perhaps with music and dance, the Minotaur accidently wounds the foot of Theseus. Is Theseus a hero? An antihero? Or neither? Should he be killed off? Ariadne hears the screams of Theseus and mistakes the situation for a graphically violent his-charter-gets-killed-off scene. She imagines the life-energy connection dissipate from her (not so) life-sustaining-umbilical-cord-like string. Yes, Ariadne is convinced that Theseus is dead. She weeps a little, but then wipes away those precious few tears. Wait, what are her character motivations, again?

Meanwhile, Theseus remains detained, alive but wishing he were dead. This time becoming their reverse characters, the Minotaur begins reading the illustrated children's book version he wrote.

In a parallel universe somewhere, there exists an adult version. Bach—I mean Bacchus, who is also known as Dionysus—figures more prominently in this one. With Theseus stuck in the children's book, Ariadne and Dionysus may have a future together. This is how they meet: Ariadne cries to the gods and Dionysus responds in a very direct sort of way. Uh huh, the god of passion comforts and seduces Ariadne. He lets her continue to believe that her lover-warrior is no more and even consoles her loss. The audience may wonder whether Ariadne ever developed object-constancy. Dionysus not only steals the girl but also a line from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, to remember Theseus with some kind words: "A hero does not feel death; an affront, yes, for it is infamy that one born to such high estate should die so basely."

Jump cuts

Jump cut: [Back in the labyrinth, the audience sees a rainbow-colored flag. The Minotaur is living out his preferred happy ending.]

Jump cut: [On the ship, Ariadne and Dionysus are engaged in . . . what else . . . hot, sweaty sex.]

In hopes you are getting the concept

Does the textual story you are reading illuminate the visual story? Does the visual story you are viewing enrich the textual story? Let me explain the visual story: With two threads of visual imagery, I replace words with paintings and photographs. Some images may be familiar, such as Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" or W. Eugene Smith's holocaust photographs. Others images, like those of Ralph Gibson and Stephen Livick, may be less so. Although I played with most of these images, it is the forms and meanings of the story that I restructured and manipulated invasively. I tell the story "out of order" or even "backward" with the first flip book (Botticelli on front) and "forward" yet "discontinuous" with the second flip book (Smith appears first). I think it best to view them side by side. The viewer might assume/imagine several settings/scenes: (1) The self-loathing, suicidal Minotaur within the labyrinth, (2) Ariadne and Theseus at the entrance to the labyrinth, (3) Ariadne and Dionysus making love outside—over the Aegean sea?—as well as (4) Theseus inside the labyrinth with the Minotaur. The viewer remains free to imagine/image differently. With this flip-book format, I wanted the viewer to explore relationships among these images and generate new structures and meanings.

Ariadne is not an after thought or a sex object (really, she's not)

I have adapted Ariadne—her sensitivity, her sensuality—from Emilio Carballido's character. I imagined her as complex as the Minotaur, but knowing that might not be apparent through my visual imagery, I desired Ariadne to speak either for herself or with Carballido: "When you enter the Labyrinth, I will have the end of the ball of yarn in my hands. I will clutch it to my belly. I will feel it like an artery that pulses and draws my life toward you. I will feel it like the cord that unites the mother with her new born child. I will support it and through it I will be sending you my prayers, my strength, my ancestors, my name. When you emerge, you will be my husband and my child." Ariadne is idealist and imaginative, arguably, uninformed yet not uniformed. Initially, I wanted reader-viewers to question and re-question Ariadne's depth. Rather, I want reader-viewers to gloss over this character at first and then get around to exploring the depths of Ariadne. Later, not with Theseus but Dionysus, she says thoughtfully, beautifully "Do you know what the sea seems like with the foamy weaving of its waves and the open web of all its invisible ways? A labyrinth. When we have crossed it, we will be different people."

Hamster, do you have Asperger's yourself? Do you have a family member or friend who has Asperger's? Are you an educator, counselor, or psychologist who interacts with people who have Asperger's?

it is something clinicaly considered only lately, 1%+ do.

Oops, I liked you comment on accident. I'm not THAT liberal with likes.

Do you . . . or do you not mean it is something that is being clinically considered for you?

I asked you questions that could be answered with yes or no. You didn't respond with any yes or no.

no, if you reread your question you'd be none the wiser with a yes or a no (unless you meant a double or a sextuple sequence of yesses or nos)
so I'll sugest you google the meaning of life the universe and everything
then think of the answer within the right context LOL

google AQ test, your spectrum view is a bit off , it goes from autists, aspegers, men, women to hysterical ultrasensitive

usualy analytical capacity is also directly correlated

skizoid has more to do with divergence from shared worldview

I took the Autism-Spectrum Quotient at WIRED.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest....

I scored 17, which is about average since the control group was about 16.4.

did you google the meaning of life the universe and everything
?

42 = the meaning of life the universe and everything

Yeah, 42

not 17

17 = where I fall on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient

more than average, good news, as soon as you change your attitude normal interaction should pose no difficulties

Good news unless I'm starting to develop some other disorder ;-)

I'm quite content with my ADDvantage :-)

20's disorder IMHO

can be a pain

Not in a bear market buddy. You will need to recognize your perfect reloading opportunities for what they are.

Skål!

still holding but these days always hurt and they'll keep trying to pump beyond resistences...

only thing positive is nasdaq went below oct2 low on friday.

strong signal to ignore

Yeah, not denying it is painful. Also not denying that is is SOOO much fun to be shorting the rally up to only have it turn at 10:30 and dump itself silly for the rest of the day. I may be a few wiggles to early for this kind of reaction, but I have to recondition myself.

Skål!

careful, this will may be a thursday replay and then I expect 1060 close to EOD

it plays out with my 1.496 for he euro C up

Could be. And if it is, I will be shorting all the way into the close. Bought enough for now... Need to see how the next few hours play out. Fed meeting tomorrow/Wednesday. And you will always hear me say that nobody can call a top better than the Fed...

Skål!

seems mole has both scenarios covered (+ the one where gs wave gets liftoff)

MajorTurnip - you owe me

Very cool post Michael. Great post to start the week with. I am a fan as well... your site is one of only a handful I regular visit. Thanks.

NO sucking up to CV - he hates that ;-)

You have to hand it to them. That is hilarious.

i'd be laughing my ass off... but it still hurts

methinks somebody knows the ISM #'s

or the mkt is just squeezing out all the shorts first. tells you something about positioning

lol the ISM report leak must be out :)

can I say enough? look at nasdaq

Just saw that and was thinking (hoping) the nasdaq will lead as has been pretty good indicator recently.

as long as it resists the push... nasdaq is already solidly beloe the oct.2 low

But AMZN isn't solidly below any October low. :-)

Here's a simple game road map not just for AMZN but also the overall market using AMZN as leading indicator:

http://screencast.com/t/ZWKviuTW

up, down or sideways

that about covers it :-)

p.s. that gap is calling...
p.p.s. seen the older thread?

re: p.s.

AMZN could be feigning mortal injury. Look at the RSI (2,1) on a chart with weekly candles. See the RSI plateau top? See the weekly candles? My mental odds calculator says the possibility is too high that today's low will the weekly low, and my mental risk calculator says I don't want to fuck with this beast until I can confirm that it's mortally injured, or better yet, wait for it to get back up and then throw a spear into it's side. I'll hang onto my two AMZN lottery tickets, but I won't be adding any puts until after a gap up. 135-150 here we come?

http://screencast.com/t/0kqKw8Cg

3 is over, but 4 may be over as well (nice catch) and 140 would seem to be the final top if it this was the low

My plan is to do a Dec put vertical on the condition that 140 is reached.

re: p.p.s.

Yes, but let's hold off until non-market hours, which for me means tonight. I do know that I'm ADHD without H, and it's extremely difficult for me to focus during the day. My focus goes laser sharp at night. That's why I don't like to sleep.

talk tonight

p.s. H is what blocks your focus
p.s. any chat where you'll fel more at ease?

re: first p.s.

Probably right. So, ADHD with introverted H.

re: second p.s.

No, I feel at ease on ES. You? I don't care if our conversations are in public view as long as I'm raised-by-wolves and not xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxxx.

humm those x's, and some other things...

RBW are you also known as MJS?

tiny hamster brain loves enigmas and small leads

ok cub, time for sick old hamsters to be put to sleep (nothing like a morbid, make childrenn cry, joke at 3 am)

waited a while but don't even know your timezone, so...

raised, are you there? it's 2am here and I'm still with a flu, if you can talk know I'd appreciate

no probelem for me, we can keep at this dead thread just as not bothering other with OT stuff

i just love morning headfakes on3Xshort etfs

stops' time

Bob,

This ISM report better be good at this stage, because this "oversold rally" is looking tepid at best.

I have no idea what the report will be, I only know what I think the odds are.

I'd like to give a shout out to LVS. I knew you wouldn't fail me...

Skål!

35.25ish looks to be a good place to reload on X. I missed it this morning.

Agreed. However, no I have reverted to my break-out trading system that says I should have a full load of units on should we push below 34.5.

Skål!

A break of 34.06 will take us to 30 in no time.

Which is exactly the type of trades I am looking for!!

Skål!

Grabbed some DEC 30 puts on that bounce to resistance. Looks like it will hold for now.

Sure does. I added a few Jan and Dec to my mix of APR...

Skål!

Got through resistance with some strength. Think I am going to unload and reload later.

My first unloading level is just shy of 37. But do what you do...

Skål!

I go by 15m price bar closes above key levels, waiting till 10:15 to decide.

Incidentally, could someone tell me if this ISM report is one of those thats leaked to certain people 3 minutes before the offical announcement?

Nice one, Shamazon continues to fall even though the market is up. Puts from friday doing nicely.

“Asian factory activity grew again in October, with China hitting an 18-month high, suggesting the region is on an economically solid footing and will likely lead the global recovery”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125712671524921...

Why do popular media outlets continue to blindly & unquestioningly print hopelessly optimistic garbage that’s so full of holes and based on numbers that everyone in the world openly acknowledges are probably fake?

I mean, every man and his dog knows china is falsifying figures, counts things at the point of production rather than point of sale, counts money supply at the point of lending rather than being deployed for any sort of productive investment, is building inventories and commodity stockpiles at a frightening rate and has a ridiculous overhang of completed and empty commercial and residential real estate. Yet they will somehow lead the global recovery.

Whats laughable about this is that these things become accepted where a cursory examination of facts reveals them to be illusory.

Chinas GDP? $3-4 trillion at best guess. Even if you believe their ridiculous growth rates, how is this supposed to compensate for the reduction in US GDP of $14 trillion. It will eventually, but not in the next 2 years.

Yes, a little nervous on the the 1-2 thing. Yet, with the five minute chart it appears to be doing an abc fourth wave a one degree lesser, with a small fifth. to come.

Or as usual I missed a completed count.
http://screencast.com/t/idgYfdUYH1

I'm also inclined to call a truncated 5th where you have II. That would have us moving down in a straight impulse, heading lower right now...

Skål!

hummm, low gap up on nasdaq... me likes it

Looking to add to BK, RIMM, BGC, ATI, JRCC, X, FLR, STJ, FPL, ECX, and SCHN this AM.

Skål!

Don't forget CHL!

Appears we have a fifth wave to go for completion of minuette wave three in the 1020 area?

Alternate is ones and twos.

http://screencast.com/t/RpMwUcSJMq

Looks pretty good. I agree that we should have at minimum one more push lower, potentially a reasonable bit lower. I tend to be in the camp of I-II, i-ii, but we will see.

Skål!

Good Morning guys,

Here's my charts and market expectations.
http://eminitrends.blogspot.com/2009/11/market-...

Comment and critics are welcome.

Powerful move in the EuroUSD. Since almost hitting the 1.48 its reversed course sharply, and continues to drop. Equity futures still positive however although dropping from best levels now.

time change i think in usa

Is everyone getting the zero correctly? Mine is updating the time only...

Or did you Americans changed the time from Summer time??

It's probably the later...

markets will only open in 40 m (winter time change this weekend in the states)

Yeah, we Martians left that summer time a long time ago since we've joined the galactic coalition...
Only galactic time for us now... :)

Pre-Market warm up
I posted my daily SPX chart along with some dotted lines showing possible scenarios. I thought that down was the most likely scenario given the TD indicators. However, having thought about it overnight, I am still hesitant given how TD pressure behaved. Notice that it moved sideways on a higher volume red candle (big one) day. This suggests that it will take a lot to move to oversold territory. This can mean (and I’m not sure which – so DavidDT and other DeMarkians can probably clarify this) either that SPX can move down quite a bit before TD Pressure goes into oversold and can possibly provide a low risk BUY indication; or that it won’t take much for the TD Pressure indicator to rise to the overbought level – where the odds of a drop are higher (low risk SELL). In short, it suggests, to me, that any move up may be short lived – BUT I’m not sure about what is most important about the recent TD Pressure behaviour.
http://screencast.com/t/LS0w26SL

Possible scenarios in the chart are based on FIB and trend lines drawn from long term highs and lows. The scenarios are green, yellow, and 2 red ones - and the direction /time frame should be obvious from the chart. Note that other combos are possible. The first green arc could be followed by the second yellow arc. The first yellow arc could be followed by the 2nd green arc.
Even though today could be an up day, the TD BUY setup only needs to close below SPX =1083 for the count to continue. In other words, we could move sideways and the BUY setup count could still be valid. At it’s completion, the BUY setup is sometimes followed by a 1 – 4 bar relief rally before establishing the direction down again (IF the trend has changed to down).
NOTE THAT SPX NEEDS TO get below 1020 for a lower low to be printed, and a possible trend reversal to occur.

Equity
Asia was red; Europe is mixed – but DAX and FTSE are both moderately green. I don’t see any strong news one way or the other. Still waiting for that Eastern Europe shoe to drop and cause Euro-bank difficulties.
For the DAX, green sectors are Tech, Telecom, Industrials and Consumer Goods. Financials are red. Looks like an “economic recovery” led by inventory rebuilding and the consumer, type of story.

FX
EUR is moving up steadily. USD seems to have been weaker from the open, but really began to move when Asia opened. Neutral pivot is acting as a floor at the present time. EUR could be forming a right shoulder – but it is hard to say. Also looks like an inverted cup and handle. Both of these would suggest a move down below 1.47 at some point.
Pivots:
R2: 1.4915
R1: 1.4817 – went through this like a hot knife through butter on Friday.
Neutral: 1.4760 = acting as a floor right now. Equivalent to ES = 1041.75
S1: 1.4662 – Nowhere near this overnight
S2: 1.4605

The daily longer term chart for EUR (below) shows that there STILL ISN”T a lower low or lower high. Until the trend is broken, it’s difficult to say that the USD is on a solid move up. Note that there are regular red dashed lines which are TD TDST down lines. These are points of support for the EUR. In order they are:
1.4576
1.4287
1.3898
1.3213
1.2533 = This one is MAJOR support that has been tested twice: October – December 2008 and March 2009.
EUR needs to break 1.4576 for a downward trend to be established on a longer term. The bias can still be down within range trading, until this point is broken – or it could be up within range trading.

NEWS
Bank of America is buying treasuries.
No major news from a quick scan.

Data
See here:
http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Public/Calenda...
Major items:
10AM mfg data – could be a market mover, and I think the move up this AM in ES is related to anticipation of an improvement (whisper number) because the expected is around 53 vs prior of 52.6 – above 50 indicates expansion, so watch out if for some reason the number is below 50). My own personal opinion is that it will be above 50 due to inventory build ups and strong tech results we saw in US and Europe.
10AM Construction Spending -0.2% exp vs 0.8% prev
10AM Pending home sales YoY: no expected. Prev = 12.1%

I’m still not back in the market until I can get my head around how to match my execution to my vision.
Cheers.

as i said earlier

forex is saying EUR/USD going to make 1,4962 with a perfect C = 1,62 of A

so 0.005 above your R2?


s&p (without a 20 point gap up) will be hard pressed to make 1050 and 1060...nah, not without 20 point gap up

so it could be contained by your yellow trend line

p.s. thanks for your posts

yep cheers gmak

hamster - did you see/like my $bpndx:$bpspx chart? I like it cos it is price independent and still managed to nail top 2007 (divergence) and bottom 2009 (to the day) nicely. the correlation flips are interesting too I think. seems to be a useful tool for calling intermediate lows on the way down.

might be, still have to find a way to find it palatable

by my reading we either started the fall end of august or it will take a long while

what is the future today? the leading world index, FTSE100 is up 30 points - will the Dow follow?
folks, are long-term index puts for holding long, or does it makes sense to buy/sell them on highs/lows as you go along

I remember Mole saying that he tried this last time and would not bother again.

My strategy is going to be hold the long-term puts (still am holding from September lol - but then I have quite a small account compared to a lot of folks around here), add more on this bounce here if it plays out. Then use front monthers or futes to play the rips and dips.

Bullish RSI divergence on SPY going into the close on Friday. Expecting strong up action today, at least initially.

But hey that's just me.

cheers (is that an avatar of Zippy!). yes, might just hold them, and add a few more long puts on a bounce up. I wont be trading the front monthers, as not skilled enough to handle the time decay (and futures are too scary). Other option is spread-bettiing i suppose (but not into 'betting'). thanks !

sell the rips then. but as mole says, when we start dropping VIX is going to fly which will pump up option prices big time, so this bounce is your last real opportunity to get value.

I see a nice 5 up in VIX though, so would not be suprised to see this correct back down short term. which hopefully will coincide with our nice bounce.

truck stop.

spreads and fees are crap on spread bets - only worth it for large swings IMO.

yes it is the zippermeister - ooooooooowwwwwwwwww jeffrey (this will mean nothing to anyone outside the UK or under 30 lol)

ah C downgraded Rimm to sell my puts should do nice today :)

Wow, I've just logged on to my spreadbet account and see the Dow contract traded overnight at 9,651. Despite what I said earlier, if I'd been awake I would have been tempted to cover a small portion at those levels. Its now indicating a 60 point higher start.

I think any rally here will fade, and am adding some at this point.

would not add ahead of ISM report

I only did a small piece, which incidentally I can cover now for a decent little profit after the dollar has rallied after almost touching 1.48.

Why do you think it will be significant? (or rather more significant than the GDP announcement)?

As a general point, ISM is more forward looking than GDP report so tends to drive markets.

Last report was poor, expectations not that high for this one, market 6% off the highs so upside risk seems strong to me. Also, last report showed evidence that destocking may be finishing, also seen in GDP report. If the inventory component comes in above 45, everyone is going to start upgrading Q4 and 1H10 GDP forecasts and I think equities will rally on that.

Thanks Bob, thats educational. I've only added a small amount however, and in keeping with my strategy of not being able to pick every swing, I'll just leave it on for the time being as my position size is manageable. If we get another decent spike will add more.

man, had a great day friday, so lets see if we can bag another one today.

DAX up, FTSE up, Asia up.... so we should see a nice start today, and see if there can be seller that come on board.

if the dollar can come down to its rising trend that will take to the sweet spot on ES.

as my old mentor us to say, SELL DEM RALLIES BOYZ!!

Greetings from not so sunny Ireland folks. The weather has been miserable here the whole weekend, a deluge on Saturday ruining Halloween for the kids, and also my living room (I really need to get some roofing quotes).

I’m looking forward to this week after a great week last week. A few weeks ago, I had some terrible times trying to trade swings, suffered exhaustion and covered some Dow shorts at 9,930, which at the time looked like it might be the top. Thankfully, it proved to be a good decision and I reloaded at various levels from 10k up to 10,080 and let it sit.

I continue to believe the market character has fundamentally shifted from “buy the dips” to “sell the rips”. I think this bear market rally is decisively OVER. Friday’s action means the market has essentially moved nowhere in 6 weeks. Momentum has been waning for some time, but I think the number of intra day reversals recently speak volumes about where we are from a sentiment perspective.

Even if I am wrong, I think the best the bulls can hope for now is a stuttering, grinding advance that maybe can take us to new highs but not much farther. All the action around the 10k/1080 level is surely creating formidable resistance (if the market even manages to get there) and I also think that having totally gunned their 2q and 3q results, JPM & GS will soon reach the point where the direction of maximum opportunity is down. If we do get back to 10k or thereabouts, I think that shorts will have far greater confidence in committing to the trade in terms of both size and resilience.

My strategy now, having a small negative delta, will be essentially to sit on my core position and average down as more technical damage is done to the various indices. I’m not going to try to capture every swing that occurs.

If I do, I will almost certainly cover too early, miss a drop, start getting afraid of missing the big one, then re-shorting just as the market takes a bounce, get afraid again that we will rally to new highs, cover high, short low….etc etc etc you get the idea. So I guess on the short side, I will be adopting the inverse of a LTBH strategy 

Interestingly, I spent a lot of time this week reading every piece of material I could find on the likely direction of the market, and the general sense I get is that despite the damage that’s been done over the last week, bears are generally more expectant of a significant bounce here than they were at say 9,000. It is kind of surprising to me that many who have a long term bearish view are going long here to capture small upward swings, when its clear that potential downside drops are far greater than potential rallies. I think it speaks volumes about the power of this rally, and how even people who predicted the rally could not predict the accompanying change in sentiment that would occur.

Anyway, I hope everyone makes money this week regardless of your bias.

Incidentally, my exact spec of car has just come up for sale but I’m not in a position to move until March.

http://www.hrowen.co.uk/ferrari/Used-Ferrari/us...

I’m so tempted its not even funny. But I can’t unload the long side of my portfolio until then so it would be kinda risky to do something reckless at this point.

ITA. +1

I have a similar strategy, will not be trying to catch the swings. Something tells me they will become too fast for me.

Friday move seem to had been a wave 2 on metals, Silver and Gold are rallye on a 3rd up, EUR also seems to resuming thursday up move.

http://screencast.com/t/K4UxtDgEa

Short scenario using Person Pivots on ES

Nasty short covering seen in the German banks and Infineon. Trip to 5340 area temporarily canceled due to an extremely possible repeat of Thursday's action.

PS. First resistance seen at 5.543 - GL.

EURUSD is confirming that, todays move is pretty similar to the thursday move.

Yup. Euros & DAX...they know stuff.

What are you watching TJ?

neckline touch and then right shoulder and then go down my boy :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42905134@N08/40673...

i swear to whatever you want i didn't see this until now http://slopeofhope.com/2009/11/leaps-by-fujisan...

Stainless_Steel_Hamster, I'm putting this at the top so others have an opportunity to read it too.

Man! Bus driver wouldn't let me on with my forty in hand. Thought they never paid attention or didn't care. This one did. I have a long way to walk. Where was I going again? I'll just find a doorway some place around here to shelter me from the wind. Who needs sleep when you un-fucking-believably still have a WiFi connection in the now dead heart of the city?

You wrote this with enough clarity, explicitness, lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity, and precision that everyone here should be able to understand your meaning without me having to interpret it for them; that said, what was most notable about your GO paragraph was the sheer pathos of it, pathos that Aspies could detect but that programs still wouldn't know what to do with like Raised By Wolves conversing with a woman who doesn't comprehend debt-to-GDP ratio:

"EWT deals with masses, those that compose 30% of the current market will be led even without having heard of EWT. But what rules, abilities and limitations do the individual "brains/bots" behind 60% of the market? It's not Terminator but close, there's no calculation that we can do, nor speed were we can beat it, but machines never were capable of beating humans in GO, we have a highly parallel, holistic approach coupled with the finest analog calculator available. We should be able to find the rules, twist them and win."

Should our goal be to minimize exposure to tactical play and maximize exposure to strategic play? What does that look like for you? What does that look like for me? I think I know what that looks like for Mole. Hehe.

-Raised By Wolves

P.S. Hamster, despite my lack of interest in sustaining most personal relationships, I don't think I could have ASD. I bring this up whether your suggestion was silly or serious. I couldn't have ASD because I feel too warm and fuzzy toward you (though that may be because I keep thinking of you as my pet. Got to stop that! Remember, I'm Mr. Bad Attitude. The only pets I'd tolerate would be bull dog or tougher). Furthermore, I do have the ability to empathize when I choose to let my defenses down. Moreover, I wouldn't say I'm characterized by qualitative impairment in social interactions—sometimes but usually by choice (or the illusion of choice?), and sometimes it's quite the opposite.

Mild disorder or no disorder—doesn't matter to me.

What I really am is cynical and fatigued. My beliefs mesh with Tyler Durden's. Frequently, I bring up Fight Club as well as the Matrix as a way of developing connection with others. Even if we have a conversation that goes far, most people don't want to take it farther. Most refuse to go beyond looking out the window of the prison for their minds. People either deny the reality of their enslavement or just bitch about it. I have difficulty dealing with people that never want their blissful ignorance challenged or people who don't mind a little truthiness but then want to wake up in their beds believing whatever they want to believe.

If you're reading this before bed, listen to the melancholic Woodstock version of "Villanova Junction" to share the feeling with me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWYgP7rbRa0

If you're reading this after waking up, listen to the Maui version to warm your mind to hear and see nuance in the markets as you trade them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYrrVQrCl3o

P.P.S. At the moment, it's difficult not to imagine /es busting higher than 1040 and then . . . 1060! Haha, but don't let that influence you.

forex is saying EUR/USD going to make 1,4962 with a perfect C = 1,62 of A


s&p (without a 20 point gap up) will be hard pressed to make 1050 and 1060...nah, not without 20 point gap up

Get some f'n German Shepherds....you will be in good company.

Short at 1041.25....and nicely....stop set at that same point already....time will tell.

No post from mole ?

Aight, well, night all! may gaps go in your favor!

The DAX is flat, about 70 pts from today's pivot of 5.469. It looks like it's trying to rally from here but technicals suggest a trip to 5.340 area before it can really bounce.

A daily chart of the DAX shows similarities to June-July. However, as with any past patterns it might be dangerous to assume that things will play out the same way. It would have to break 5.750 again for me to bet on that.

http://www.screencast.com/t/zJhzUf6zeZk

his daily calls are pretty bad, and few people lost money with him.

But i must say his vids on tech analysis is pretty good.

i find he runs hot and cold jester - like friday when he called it long. but then i find most people in this businesses are streaky -

But how about his great call Wed. nite for Thursday's UP?
And this year, that I've been aware of him, his major turn calls have been good.

Good morning MariAroma,

Would you mind going back to your Halloween story and reading the responses? I apologize if I crossed the line. Good luck trading today. I got to get some shut eye before the US markets open.

Best,

Raised By Wolves

not trying to be critical Mari - -i use him as a ref point and apart from Fri he's been pretty good the last two weeks but impossible to be right all the time.

yes not bagging him... he cant be right all the time.

those vids were intresting but.

"oscar" weekend webinar, why he's turned bearish.
http://livewithoscar.com/modules.php?name=Daily...

Some shorts for this week: PRU,MET,SHLD,LLL
Bershire dumping more Moody's: MCO
Big insider selling: CBE and I also bought some NKE puts (like the charts and big insider selling last two weeks.

Good luck!

It's short the rallies mode. If we can break SPY 102 decisively, a trip to the 900's looks likely. Next week is FOMC week and we also have unemployment data on Friday so watch for the usual volatility. Like we didn't have enough last week ;)
http://tinyurl.com/ybxmka4

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Ok not sure if Mole wants me posting off-topic exotic pics and meanderings, so i uploaded this version up on the CD site

these girls had my blood boiling, suffice to say

Night Gallery (Burroughs Flight 496 to Beijing):
http://tinyurl.com/yd329eq

Authoritarian but real people.

Thank you, CD, for the snapshots.

Conditions necessary for a black swan? Perhaps something like this:

The charts: (These are long term charts, # stocks above their 200DMA

DOW: http://alturl.com/wdof
NASDAQ: http://alturl.com/gcbm
NAS 100: http://alturl.com/3xkv
NYSE: http://alturl.com/nspo
S&P100: http://alturl.com/u7d8
S&P500: http://alturl.com/ffsw


THE 20 Day EMA is crossing the 50 Day SMA, but the SMA & EMA THEMSELVES are both some 42% ABOVE the 200 Day MA! WITH MORE STOCKS ABOVE THEIR 200 SMA then at the PEAK in 2007!

IF they are looking for support, that's some 42% DROP to find the closest support.