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Although this is a (primarily) TA site, behind the bearishness are concerns about fundamental problems with the U.S. economy and the stock market, including valuation. If you are bearish on the U.S. economy and the dollar, being bullish on PMs goes hand-in-hand.

 

And I don't think there is any stoolishly correct position on Treasuries - both bullishness and bearishness is allowed.

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Regarding decorum, I used to pay little attention to Fleck's "hate mail indicator." After all, there were other indicators like II and the VIX that worked just as well or better. Still, I've been seeing the equivalent of Fleck's hate mail popping up on the boards I read. There have been enough nasty bulls at this point that even a good-faith, honest bullish post can get your head chopped off.

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sorry to see so much acrimony here. seems to happen on the back end of big tops.

 

on a practical level, one word that really needs to have a concise description posted along with it is 'crash'. crash is probably the single most inflammatory and sensationalist word in the entire market/economy lexicon. if i think we'll have a 'crash', and you don't, what are we talking about? 3 consecutive down days? a 10% drop in a week? circuit breakers flipped? a 100% retrace of the last IT move in a quarter of the time? etc....

 

I can't see a crash scenerio, I don't think people will suddenly decide to sell after accumulating for so long, there is no alternative to put money into..

 

I'm thinking a reinflation is going on, it's definitely on the agenda, maybe they're not pushing it much for not to crash bond market but I think they will definitely step up if it goes down much..

 

So, my best guess is sideways at most, probably up a little...

 

coboy, i'm clueless as to the reasoning behind your bullish guess, but i appreciate your willingness to put forth the 'sideways/up a little' case, if for no other reason than that dissent is usually healthy or at least sobering. and i too think inflation is in the cards, although not right away, and not really in much outside commodities.

 

but people don't suddenly decide to sell because a better alternative exists, like they're browsing frozen pizzas in a supermarket. they decide to sell because everyone else is selling. you can call it a cycle downturn or a corrective wave or a fib retrace or a bradley turn, but the bottom line is that it's sheer migratory behavior that ebbs and flows in myriad overlapping patterns. this is a bear market, and we're miles from the true bottom. and a massive amount of evidence suggests overall that we've started, once again, to ebb.

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My timeframe is days, who knows or cares what's gonna happen in two years...

Since I don't plan on being dead, I sort of care about two years down the road.

 

Fundamentalists with a futurist bent try to project from current data and trends to see where they want to be when we reach that point two years down the road. Some things take time to put in place ......... not all of life can be "day traded". Real estate is slow and illiquid and debt elimination doesn't happen over night for most. If you purchase an asset looking for capital gains (or wealth preservation), most benefit from longer holding periods through lower tax rates and singular buy-sell transaction costs that could easily offset gains accumulated by frequent trading.

 

For ease of indentification I would suggest all bull-bears here don a cap with horns sprouting from each side. True hard core bear Stoolies will of course retain their solar-powered tin foil caps with the propellors. :P

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GOOD NEWS, GANG, THE U.S. SM TOPPED YESTERDAY

 

My bank of Cray computers you hear humming in the background just spit out the following report: There is am 87.394876273% chance that we topped yesterday.

 

Richard's preliminary roadmap for Friday-7/11--posted 7:34 am est-The U.S. SM topped yesterday-lack of put buying confirming factor

 

Europe & U.S. SM futs are trying to put Japan in the isolation ward.

The U.S. mkt looks like it has become bearish--SM futs were up srtongly about 5am NY time but have faded--showing no fear--Europe is trying to keep up a bluff & hearty exterior--Europe is hanging on to meagre gains, waiting for direction from the U.S.---most likely scenario--we open down--then, trying to regain "that old feeling", the dippers will come in and rally the indexes and THEN we fade and end the day down--possibly 100 or more DOW pts. Like yesterday, all will depend on the put buyers--they must cease & desist for this next bear leg to "blossom

 

DJIA Index a/c/e (CBOT) Sep 9010 9054 8990 9023 +8

DOW futs were up 41 earlier

Euro SMs were higher earlier

France CAC 40 ^FCHI 7:26am 3,105.47 +7.19 +0.23%

 

Germany DAX ^GDAXI 7:27am 3,281.96 +12.12 +0.37%

When the SM is bearish stock futs are always up obernite--as if the previous day's decline never happened--the other feature of a bear phase is heavy call buying.

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The July $7--2004 silver call-possible 20-40-60 to one payoff

Date: 7/11/2003 7:57:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time

 

The July 2004 $7 silver call--I bought 50 calls about 10 days ago for 5 cents an oz or $250 a copy--they have a full calendar yr-[almost] on them--I like the silver story-as a monetary and deficit play--but mainly I like the LTCM-style leverage-Just $8-$10 silver could yield 20-40-60 to one on one's money-at a cost of $12,500 for 50 contracts[50X5000oz=250,000ozs], I could make $750K on $10 silver-[$3X250K ozs]--I only like "big casino" trades-I'm not interested in scalping $579 & running home to tell Mom. 8$-$10 is not a lunatic target considering silver hit $50 23 yrs ago and was in the $30-$40 range for 2 months of that yr and in the $10-$20 range the other 10 months--& that was with huge supply extant-I can afford the cost of the trade & intend to keep it on for the next few yrs.--as a perpetual hedge'play/lotto ticket. Besides I trade nothing else & it gives me an interest in the mkts. Gang, is there any need to state the obvious: I have nothing to gain if any of you buy one or 1000 of these calls--they do not move becuase of volume--they move when silver moves--oh, sure, if u tried to buy 500 or 1000 lots they might move a few pennies but that is meaningless to me. Look at it this way-if u bought 10 contracts at $2500 & it was a total loss, you can deduct up to $3000 a yr in short term losses--so really u are only risking about $1500--10 calls would be 50,000ozs--if u make $8 silver U got a buck an oz on 50K ozs or $50,000---$1500 to make $50K--pretty goll-danged good leverage & don't let silver go to $10-!!! Then U got $75K for your forshtugganah $1500 spondulaks! Forshtayst? Capiche??, as they say in Yittish!

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Could we add a board that is more bearish than the new bear board? I'm talking seriously bearish, not wussie bearish. A place where only those who believe that the apocalypse will happen in the next 24 hour are tolerated? Where the posts make references to the Book of Revelation, and angels pouring forth their bowls and saying "it is done"? That would be nice.

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