MrHanky Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Bulls and bears tortured all year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 There's a Persian pimp who's a goose And his clients all like a big caboose There will be many frowns If the mullahs shut him down So all eyes are on a Straight-Whore-Moose http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/middleeast/iran-more-threats-over-waterway.html More evidence that demand in the US doesn't weigh on oil price as it once did: "Measured in dollars, the nation is on pace this year to ship more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than any other single export, according to U.S. Census data going back to 1990. It will also be the first year in more than 60 that America has been a net exporter of these fuels. " http://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-gas-other-fuels-top-200739135.html;_ylt=Apguj0TireKi10osbhBj1UiiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTNyc2dxdTJwBG1pdANGUCBUb3AgU3RvcnkgTGVmdARwa2cDZmI2MjhlMzktMjRmZC0zNDM3LThjNTAtMjRhMWYwMzMwM2NkBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN0b3Bfc3RvcnkEdmVyA2ZlMWZlNWYwLTMzMjctMTFlMS1iYmNkLTdjYWE5ZmQwOGExYg--;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharmaeye Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Interesting thoughts on 2012 http://seabreezepartners.net/letters&id=1105&catid=15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlag Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Interesting thoughts on 2012 http://seabreezepartners.net/letters&id=1105&catid=15 Thanks for the link "Goldman's forecasts for 2011" "year-end S&P 500 price target at 1450 (Friday, Dec. 23's close: 1265 actual); " "Below are Goldman Sachs' forecasts for 2012: 2012 U.S. real GDP up 1.8%, and global GDP up 3.2%; 2012 S&P 500 operating profits of $100 a share; year-end 2012 S&P 500 price target at 1250; 2012 inflation of +1.7%; and 2012 closing yield on the U.S.10-year Treasury note at 2.50%. " Sounds like 2012 is going to be great for bulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrHanky Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Thankfully it was my best year ever counting actual dollars in my pocket (cap gains and divvies),but it was second to the internet bubble days of 1999 as far as percentage gains. I am not expecting the same for me next year.I would be very happy to be up 10% including divvies next year.But I got a feeling 2012 is gonna be very tough indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cwd Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Thankfully it was my best year ever counting actual dollars in my pocket (cap gains and divvies),but it was second to the internet bubble days of 1999 as far as percentage gains. I am not expecting the same for me next year.I would be very happy to be up 10% including divvies next year.But I got a feeling 2012 is gonna be very tough indeed. Congratulations, it pays to be concerned all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugnut Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Happy New Year! (That has to be one of the most depressing new Year articles I have ever read). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugnut Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 The $10 to $20 "Iran Premium" on each barrel of oil is about to get a haircut: Iran wants talks as more sanctions loom and 'Occupy Hormuz' fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldmember Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Happy New Year! (That has to be one of the most depressing new Year articles I have ever read). Happy New Year! That was an interesting read about all the frightening global aspects to 1932. I had no idea the world was such a frightening place at the time. ...and to think in 1932 the smaht guy bought schlocks and made veritable fortunes within a year or two, if they held. This was dependent upon actually having money to spare for investing in the schlock market. Very few could say or do that. All the doom and gloom inherent with present time and 2012 forecasting and predictions, of which I haven't seen one positive market projection yet [nope, not one!]...kinda has my contrarian nature buzzing loudly. I mean really, even Goldman Slackers has a 1250 target for year end 2012. Goldman low-balling has got to be a sign. 2012 may well turn out to be the 1932, 2003 schlock market. This summer and fall of 2011 may have been an extended bottoming process similar to 1932 and 2002-2003. One of my steadfast rules for big picture trading: Always buy schlocks 3 years after a schlock crash The Aztec or Mayan Calendar worshippers? Give me a friggin' break already! The morans couldn't even conceive of an arch in their masonry structures! So, I'll be the lone, lame duck and predict a very good year for schlocks, eventually or whenever...maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldmember Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Interesting thoughts on 2012 http://seabreezepartners.net/letters&id=1105&catid=15 Hey, there's a bullish one! Some of his predictions are kind of...out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quanta Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 YAF (Yet Another Forecast) From our friends at Societe Generale Looking for QE3 in the Spring. Many interesting relationships shown in this report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dopamine Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Ok boys and girls, fess up. Which one of you is going to Tao tonight? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/30/144443433/are-you-being-paid-600-000-to-party Wishing up all Happy and Healthy New Year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quanta Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Sydney New Years Fireworks Awesome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_crNUYe3q8g Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Wave Rider Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Obama ends the year by signing NDAA as his last act of business for 2011. With Reservations, Obama Signs Act to Allow Indefinite Detention of American Citizens. including a controversial component that would allow the military to indefinitely detain terror suspects, including American citizens arrested in the United States, without charge. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/with-reservations-obama-signs-act-to-allow-detention-of-citizens/ Our nation inches ever closer to a totalitarian dictatorship...little by little, so as not to alarm the sleeping sheep too much at any one time, just like Hitler did. The American people had better make a stand pretty soon before it is too late. At least the comments section shows some hope that folks are waking up…..pretty much universally condemning Obama for not vetoing it. Here is one from federal employee. Heartbreaking is what this is. I am horrified and ashamed as a federal employee to see this happen. I swore the same oath as the president and all other federal civilians and military to protect this Nation and the Constitution of this United States of America. This act is in direct conflict with that oath. How many of our citizens will be ‘disappeared’ before there is a public outcry? How long before a comment such as this is deemed ‘enough’ to indefinitely detain without charge? How long? Good video from Freedom Watch regarding this. Happy New Year America...maybe 2012 is not the end of the world, but instead the beginning of the great awakening...let's hope so. Feel free to delete if too controversial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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