What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
Charlie Freak wrote:
What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
How do you know this?
Charlie Freak wrote:
What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
How do you know this?
NASDAQ down over 2% today
agip wrote:
fair warning - I just put on what I call the agip hedge.
the SP 500 dropped below a certain technical mark, so by my rules I pulled a risk control rip cord and sold some. I also bought the vix and long term zero coupon bonds.
It is all a bit silly, b/c it adds up to only 3% of my portfolio (this is my fun money account), but I bring it up because...
Every time I do this, it works for 1-3 days, I make a few percent on my hedge and I am happy...and then give it all back in the big rally that inevitably follows.
So feel free to use me as a contrarian indicator here.
WTF are you talking about?
Charlie Freak wrote:
What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
Actually I check it later in the day.
And of course I am rooting for it to go down. I want to have sold high and then buy back in low.
Another country wrote:
Pointing out the Obvious wrote:Feel free to point out where I said I was "confident the next week will be one of gains". Otherwise please feel free to come back on here and apologize for trying to put words in my mouth.
Thanks.
Not sure how else to interpret your comment "So, a better question (only slightly better) would be to ask you, "Why you want to be out during another week of gains I have no idea." "
Feel free to explain
Disingenuous at best.
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Klondike5:
Hell, if it lasts another week and the Dow goes down 100 points a day, then I will be glad to be on the sidelines. Why you want to be in on another week of losses I have no idea.
Pointing out the obvious:
Really? No idea?
My guess is that it has something to do with him not knowing that the market will be going down for another week. Indeed, he probably wants to be on the right side of the odds which say that there are more up weeks than down weeks.
So, a better question (only slightly better) would be to ask you, "Why you want to be out during another week of gains I have no idea." Except, of course, I would have some idea. It would something like my paragraph above except in reverse.
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So, am I to believe that you lack the intelligence to note that (1) I pointed out that it was really quite obvious why FP would choose to be in the market for another week, (2) I then pointed out that an only slightly better question would be the reverse, but that (3) the answer to both questions simply depends on the individual's belief as to whether or not the market would be going up or down in the next week and finally (4) that it is quite obvious that nobody should be confident of either direction in such a short time frame?
Seriously?
No, sorry, you are not that stupid. You are, however, that disingenuous.
Now the only question is do you have even a sliver of personal integrity such that you would come back and admit the obvious. Personally, I doubt it. You certainly have not shown it in this exchange. But you never know.
Charlie Freak wrote:
What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
Why would that be funny/sad? Seriously, if you were out of the market waiting for a better buying opportunity wouldn't you be hoping that the market was tanking while you were out of it?
Look folks, you can criticize K5 (or FP or agip...) but at least try to have your criticisms make sense.
An awful lot of words but you did not answer the simple question, hoe else are we to interpret your comment "So, a better question (only slightly better) would be to ask you, "Why you want to be out during another week of gains I have no idea."
And I am not being disingenuous
And I must say, you have a strange concept of what is obvious.
What the What wrote:
Charlie Freak wrote:What's funny/sad is Klondike5 gets up every day and feverishly checks the stock market, hoping it tanks so he'll be right.
Why would that be funny/sad? Seriously, if you were out of the market waiting for a better buying opportunity wouldn't you be hoping that the market was tanking while you were out of it?
Look folks, you can criticize K5 (or FP or agip...) but at least try to have your criticisms make sense.
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no, pls don't criticize me.
Tks.
Klondike5 wrote:
An awful lot of words but you did not answer the simple question, hoe else are we to interpret your comment "So, a better question (only slightly better) would be to ask you, "Why you want to be out during another week of gains I have no idea."
And I am not being disingenuous
Well, then stupid. But I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt until now.
If you can't answer a simple question in one or two simple sentences but instead ramble on for several paragraphs, then I can fairly conclude you are full of sh%t
agip wrote:
What the What wrote:Why would that be funny/sad? Seriously, if you were out of the market waiting for a better buying opportunity wouldn't you be hoping that the market was tanking while you were out of it?
Look folks, you can criticize K5 (or FP or agip...) but at least try to have your criticisms make sense.
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no, pls don't criticize me.
Tks.
Good luck in your attempts at comprehensible posts.
Stick to bragging about how smart you are whether the market goes up or down
U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, indicating the S&P 500 may rebound from Tuesday's drop - its worst since August - after Janet Yellen was picked as the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
What diversity for the chair of the Fed!
Following decades of the Chair being a Jewish man, we will now have a Jewish woman.
Smythe-Smythe wrote:
U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, indicating the S&P 500 may rebound from Tuesday's drop - its worst since August - after Janet Yellen was picked as the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
What diversity for the chair of the Fed!
Following decades of the Chair being a Jewish man, we will now have a Jewish woman.
well that didn't take long. I'd say odds are 80% that smythe smythe is Klondike.
agip wrote:
Smythe-Smythe wrote:U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, indicating the S&P 500 may rebound from Tuesday's drop - its worst since August - after Janet Yellen was picked as the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
What diversity for the chair of the Fed!
Following decades of the Chair being a Jewish man, we will now have a Jewish woman.
well that didn't take long. I'd say odds are 80% that smythe smythe is Klondike.
I'd put the odds a 100%
Also "Another Country" too. What's the record for different names used by one person on the same page?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
agip wrote:well that didn't take long. I'd say odds are 80% that smythe smythe is Klondike.
I'd put the odds a 100%
Same odds that the new Chair of the Fed would be Jewish!
According to the news report, futures are up as the Street loves this "new" (??) development.