• agip
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 9:13AM - in reply to Ghost of Igloi
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      • ya done, sellers? Your index finger tired of clicking on the red button? You out of things to sell? Thrown everything over the side already? Mouse worn out?
    • Ghost of Igloi
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 9:21AM - in reply to agip
      • Ghost of Igloi
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      • Sellers: “No, we just need you index ‘buy and hold investors’ to hang in there a little bit longer so we can keep selling our holdings. We are moving to ‘cash on the sidelines.’”
    • Racket
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 9:27AM - in reply to agip
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      • agip wrote:

        ya done, sellers? Your index finger tired of clicking on the red button? You out of things to sell? Thrown everything over the side already? Mouse worn out?

        No buyers are just waiting until 3:30 to drop the Dow by 300-400 points aka the new norm in this market
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 9:30AM - in reply to agip
      • Racket
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      • Also agip, where's all your buying friends? Volume is lower energy than Jeb Bush right now
    • Racket
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 10:02AM - in reply to agip
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      • lol SPY goes red and then double volume kicks in to put it back in the green. It's almost as if there's some sort of team with giant bags of cash trying to prevent a plunge. Some sort of...

        PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 10:12AM - in reply to Racket
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      • Racket wrote:

        lol SPY goes red and then double volume kicks in to put it back in the green. It's almost as if there's some sort of team with giant bags of cash trying to prevent a plunge. Some sort of...

        PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM

        Nah, that was me, putting to work the pile of cash in my trading account.

        #bigswingingsomethingorother
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 1:09PM - in reply to agip
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      • agip wrote:

        Racket wrote:

        lol SPY goes red and then double volume kicks in to put it back in the green. It's almost as if there's some sort of team with giant bags of cash trying to prevent a plunge. Some sort of...

        PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM

        Nah, that was me, putting to work the pile of cash in my trading account.

        #bigswingingsomethingorother

        I was thinking earlier today that this whole day has basically been just you vs bots because I don't think anyone else is trading. I had a picture in my head of a guy wearing running shoes behind big wooden desk submitting buy orders and yelling "BOO YAH" when a green candle came up
    • Ghost of Igloi
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 4:12PM - in reply to Racket
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      • Looks like the little boys and girls may get a lump of coal for Christmas.
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 5:43PM - in reply to Ghost of Igloi
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      • Ghost of Igloi wrote:

        Looks like the little boys and girls may get a lump of coal for Christmas.

        I'm disappointed in the bots. I was expecting to see them close 0.00% change from open. Need to calibrate those suckers a little better.
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 6:27PM - in reply to Ghost of Igloi
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      • Igy, I got a good buy for you that's only slightly less of a meme than bitcoin : palladium. I'm actually looking at shares of PALL. It's up 32% in the past 3 months
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 8:04PM - in reply to Ghost of Igloi
      • Haters gonna hate
      • Ghost of Igloi wrote:

        Looks like the little boys and girls may get a lump of coal for Christmas.

        I don’t think much investment money is spent on Christmas presents. Stop being a hater.
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 8:55PM - in reply to Haters gonna hate
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      • Haters gonna hate wrote:

        Ghost of Igloi wrote:

        Looks like the little boys and girls may get a lump of coal for Christmas.

        I don’t think much investment money is spent on Christmas presents. Stop being a hater.

        Huh?
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      • RE: Down goes the Dow 12/13/2018 9:30PM - in reply to Financial Advisor
      • Ghost of Igloi
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      • So, common sense for anyone with people skills. At the same time an advisor should be giving advice not just trying to get the business.