THE WEAPONIZATION OF FINANCE

 

“MANIPULATE ALL THE BUBBLES HIGHER … THEN TAX OR CONFISCATE!!”

PPI today … what surprises are in store for manipulated hungry markets?

… we’re about to find out! … “well, that escalated quickly didn’t it?” … CPI

“HOT”, PPI not so much … and the “Spoos” breath a sigh of relief … 10 YR.

Treasury down a tad in yield … the end game here is simple … blow up all the

bubbles to unheard of heights … pull the plug and confiscate … anything else

ends in a deflationary collapse of the government and default of the debt … and

the rate the Uniparty in “The Swamp” is going, we’ll get there a Helluva lot

sooner than you think … that’s why you hold your crypto in a DEFI wallet, and

why you hold your precious metals OUTSIDE THE BANANA REPUBLIC

… BullionStar in Singapore is my primary recommendation, and you can

buy/sell in crypto.

ECB met today … nobody cared … gold & silver treading water a little higher

post PPI, the “Spoos” hitting off buy stops on the upside, cuz you just gotta

believe, and crypto marking time to the Bitcoin “halving” in 3 days on the 14th

of April … at least so far, I sense a little disappointment hanging over markets

that the PPI number didn’t create the bat shit crazy [BSC] response the CPI did

… oh well, deal with it … and why did the PPI miss lower? … why “seasonally

adjusted” gas prices! … you know, the one commodity that is roaring higher

… let’s just “seasonally adjust” them to take the sting out of ‘em, cuz dumb

asses in the public will never know …WE’RE PROPAGANDISTS, WE CAN DO

WHATEVER THE FUCK WE WANT!!” … all the details from ZH in the link below.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/literally-gas-lighting-hilarious-reason-

todays-ppi-miss-seasonally-adjusted-gas-prices

“Seasonally adjusted” gas prices dropped 3.6% in March, even though gas prices

INCREASED BY 6.3% … “AH YES, THE WONDERS OF MATH IN THE HANDS OF

WHIZ KIDS IN GOVERNMENT!” … what a bunch of bullshit … it’s like I said

yesterday … “RIGGED”, and always has been … if real numbers were used, PPI

would have blown away upside expectations and the “Spoos” for one wouldn’t

be where they’re at now, that’s for sure … but hey, bubbles must be protected,

and rates “massaged” so the Banana Republic can borrow a TRILLION dollars

every 100 days … and if you can’t see how FUBAR all of this is, you’re fucking

delusional AND blind! … and maybe, just maybe, the “Chump Monkeys” sitting

on institutional trading desks at JPM and others, have figured out the whiz kid

“CON”, as the “Spoos” have lost all of the gains post PPI headlines [about 40

index points UP give or take a few, and now down about 30 index points and

counting] … rates also backing back up to 4.58% from 4.52%, the so far high of

the day area … in other words, “Pump & Dump” in all its glory! … the lesson

here is simple … NEVER EVER BASE TRADES ON NEWS, but instead on the

algorithm which will never ever fail you! … that doesn’t mean you’ll never lose,

it simply means losses will be smallish in nature and not hurt you on “false

positives” … if the news is TRUE for short term “FOMO & MOMO” direction, the

algorithm will show it and confirm and then you’re good to go on the trade!

Into the NY afternoon, and nothing is happening in anything … ranges tight, and I

dunno if it’s markets are tired or simply confused, or a combo of both … didn’t

expect this outcome with PPI today … rates pushing up towards 5%, and what

happens if the next Lounge Lizard action is a tightening? … and they gotta

borrow MOAR!, to keep this economic corpse afloat? … at what level on the

10 YR. do rates matter anymore? … 5%, 6%, 8%+? … remember the late 1970’s

with a 21% Fed Funds rate for a top? … at what level does anybody loan money

to a deadbeat? … Is it worth it to get your purchasing power destroyed? … you

may be well asking yourself these questions in the days / weeks / months ahead!

These are the kind of trading days nobody wants to see … some action early cuz

of the PPI, but then after screwing specs the trade slows to a trickle and most of

the rest of the day is a nightmare … gold particularly vulnerable cuz of its high

spread and slippage, where I’m not interested in being in any position for hours

on end just to make a couple of bucks per OZ. … which brings me to the “Spoos”,

where if you can wrap your head around the following concept you’ll make

yourself rich … “Spoos” have nothing to do with reality … they are a figment of

MANIPULATION BY THE FED, AS WELL AS CORPORATE AMERICA VIA

BUYBACKS … turn your brain off and ignore reality, and concentrate on the

algorithm and you’ll make more money than you can dream … 88% of the time

the “Spoos” go higher, so why fuck around with being short? … concentrate

instead on econ stats as presented at face value and what the Lounge Lizards

say, and you’ll end up in the poor house … the “Spoos” are unique to this

concept, and you sure as Hell won’t find it in crypto or precious metals … 6%

of the time the “Spoos” go sideways, which won’t hurt you, and 6% of the time

they get monkey hammered … avoid getting whacked during this time, and

you’ll need a large tanker to carry away all of the money … spread at Coinexx

today very good at 0.2 - 0.4 index points … compared to gold it’s like night and

day, so when gold ain’t moving like it should, why get tangled up inside the

spread along with all of the bullshit gold brings to the table via slippage?

… crypto at the moment, especially ETH, is in consolidation mode and ain’t

doing shit … and quite frankly the spread there is disappointing cuz you never

know what to expect between 6 cents - $2+ for a spread, right along with

slippage that has become a problem … if gold can correct and show some

downside action, which up to now it hasn’t done, I’ll trade it … but overall,

even when trading conditions look slim by comparison, the “Spoos” are a

better scalp and/or day trade … look for more “Spoos” trading by the PAMM

as we move forward.

With 2 hours to go to the close, about an 80 index point range today in the NY

session, with several RM=3 hits on the upside on the m15 chart, and quite a few

RM=1 hits on the upside on the m1 chart … for the m1 as currently constructed,

about 95%+ of all m1 minutes will be contained by RM=1, and 99.7% will be

contained by RM=2 … it is very rare to see RM=3 and/or RM=4 on the m1 unless

there is news, or it’s a gap open from the previous day or weekend … quite

frankly, even though I would never trade micro “Spoos” futures inside the

Banana Republic at the corrupt CME, they do trade over 1 million contracts a day,

where a 1 lot is 5* the index … the interesting thing is, volume is consistently

about 5X open interest [OI], which tells you in spades it’s a scalping / day trading

contract … better than gold and better than crude oil … I agree, but I’ll stick with

offshore CFDs rather than futures for obvious reasons, not the least of which is

government.

I don’t mind riding a winning position in the “Spoos”, if the opportunity presents

itself … I got a big problem with riding anything in gold other than a scalp, cuz

when it changes, it does so “el quicko mucho” and the slippage is horrendous

… not to say the “Spoos” don’t have their moments, cuz they do, but they are

much fewer and far between than anything gold presents … onto tomorrow and

the “Spoos”, and maybe some gold if it can get its ass in gear and trade instead

of crawling pennies with a very fat spread!

… OUTTA HERE … “The future’s so bright I need 2 pairs of sunglasses 😍😍,

and my own Brinks armored truck” 💓!! … Onward & Upward!!

-vegas

SUNDAY UPDATE: THE BANANA REPUBLIC CANNOT SURVIVE

 

“Does it all die in 2024, or is the hoax carried on a few more years!!?”

I doubt things were worse for the Roman Empire, and the parallels between the

current Banana Republic and the Roman Empire are strikingly similar in scope

and magnitude … political corruption, rampant inflation, inability to control

borders and protect citizens, spiraling debt and last but certainly not least a

complete breakdown of moral imperative … if Trump wins in 2024 he absolutely

must “clean house” and destroy the “deep state” and prosecute Libtards

responsible for “open borders” … if he doesn’t and appoints lukewarm RINO’s

like his first term [Sessions, etc.], the country is over … and if Biden steals the

election once again, the country you think you know will be nowhere to be

found within 1 year … markets as we know them are nothing but propaganda

tools and one giant manipulative HOAX … it isn’t a question of “IF”, but only

“When” critical mass is reached and the country fails … it will happen out of

nowhere, come quickly, and many “experts” will say in retrospect it’s a

“Black Swan” event nobody could have foreseen … BULLSHIT! … all the signs

are there, not the least of which is spiraling debt and interest costs that only

keep going exponentially upwards … POLS & Apparatchiks cannot stop

spending and borrowing, nor do they have the will to do so … it stops when

nobody will lend any longer, and when the ChiComs get enough gold and turn

the Yuan into a gold backed currency pair, the end comes quickly.

Who knows if the U.S. has the 8,000 tonnes of gold it says it has … there has

been NO AUDIT IN OVER 70+ YEARS TO VERIFY, cuz the FED won’t allow an

audit … what are they afraid of? … well, we know the answer … the gold ain’t

there and hasn’t been for a very, very long time! … how does $32 TRILLION

DOLLARS OF DEBT [AND GROWING EVERY DAY!] GET PAID OFF?

… Easy Peezee: “it doesn’t, it gets inflated away into nothing!” … no country

in the history of the world has ever repaid debt, they all have inflated it away

into NOTHING OF VALUE BY DEPRECIATING PURCHASING POWER! … the

Banana Republic is no different, and will join Weimar, Venezuela, Zimbabwe,

and others when the time comes … maybe it happens in 2024, who knows?, or

maybe it goes a few more years … point is, IT’S GONNA HAPPEN!

In the history of the world, there always has to be a place where the monied Elite

can park capital and be reasonably assured it can thrive there … markets are

already shifting emphasis to other parts of the world, OR going DEFI

[decentralized] like crypto, to escape the clutches of greedy government to

control and cheat markets like they always have … and that trend is only

growing stronger into 2024 and beyond … you can feel the pure panic every

time they bash crypto, or accuse Dubai of harboring money laundering … what

they can’t control via manipulation, THEY SEEK TO DESTROY … another 10

years, and the U.S. will be lucky if there are ANY PRIMARY MARKETS LEFT TO

TRADE IN THE U.S.! 

Nobody wants or needs all of the bullshit the U.S. brings to the table, and traders

are already fleeing in droves, but you won’t hear about it from state run

Dumbberg or North Korean Biz news CNBC … they’re too busy spewing state

run propaganda for the Sheeple … they absolutely know what side of their

bread is buttered and dutifully toe the line … and when Saudi Arabia starts pricing

oil in Yuan, what then for the Banana Republic? … well, that’s easy to figure out

… if by chance Libtards are in charge, your wealth gets confiscated, and if not

consider “capital controls” … what then Skippy? … I’ve said it before and I’ll say

it again, “it’s better to be 10 years too early, THAN 1 DAY LATE! … diversified

crypto [held by you in a DEFI wallet in your possession] and PHYSICAL gold

held outside the reach of the Banana Republic … they confiscated it once in

1933, why would you think they can’t do it again? … I recommend “BullionStar”

in Singapore, the best place IMHO to hold physical gold, or other precious

metals … [HINT: take trading profits from your offshore account in Bitcoin, and

then buy metals at BullionStar via Bitcoin … a great way to diversify your

holdings and build wealth over time!] 

Like last week, the upcoming week will be Wednesday & Thursday [maybe Friday,

but I doubt it], and the world comes back on January 8 … not expecting a whole

lot of movement given the calendar, but we’ll see … directly below, this week’s

20 Day Range & Median values for selected markets.

click on table to enlarge

MATICUSDT & SOLUSDT continue to set the crypto space on fire, and one look at

their respective session ranges, and you’re looking at monster values in terms of

tick ranges … For the PAMM, I’m gonna start the year out in gold, although I’m

somewhat disappointed in NY session MA & MEDIAN ranges … hanging under

$20 with gold up at 2070 or so is embarrassing … that isn’t even a 1% range!

… we should be seeing 1.5% - 2.5% session ranges, which would be appropriate

given the price … there is the possibility it’s running lower cuz of the Holiday

season, so we’ll have to see how things shake out … still, gold is acting better

than FX, which I find like watching paint dry on a wall it’s so “Hoover Dam” slow

in terms of moving anywhere and in terms of corrective activity, which is

abysmal to say the least … for “The Syndicate” trading in MATICUSDT is about

as good as it gets … SOLUSDT as well … I’d be surprised if range values grew

substantially from here, but the good news is that we don’t need that … these

crypto markets act EXACTLY HOW YOU WOULD EXPECT THEM TO ACT IN A

FREE MARKET ENVIRONMENT … plenty of “pump & dump”, excellent

corrective activity, and a trading algorithm that models price behavior as GOOD

AS I CAN MAKE IT! … if you can’t make money trading these crypto pairs, then

you can’t make money PERIOD! … onto the week, I’ll be posting again on

Tuesday … HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! 

… OUTTA HERE … “The future’s so bright I need 2 pairs of sunglasses 😎😎,

and my own Brinks armored truck” 💓!! … Onward & Upward!!

-vegas

SUNDAY UPDATE: FUHRER BIDEN & RINO MCCARTHY 💕

“The “Uniparty” mascot wants you to see how pretty she is!!”

Oh, what a relief! … Fuhrer Biden & RINO McCarthy have “cut a deal”, in which

Repubs cave, natch! … ZILCH in spending cuts, but instead a “cap” [right, sure]

for 2 whole solid years! [oh, the horror & sacrifice of the “Deep State Swamp”

bureaucracy for not having unlimited play money for 2 whole years!] … and for

that monumental sacrifice they up borrowing another $4 TRILLION, which will be

hit again in about 20 months or LESS … normal Americans will suffer higher

inflation, higher interest rates, and a lower standard of living so 1) the guy in the

workout sweatshirt who runs the Ukraine corruption machine can have all he

wants, 2) more “woke” bullshit shoved down everybody’s throat, and 3) we get

that much closer to “financial Armageddon” cuz this shit can’t be sustained

… already, the largest spending item in the federal budget is now interest on the

national debt, and it is starting to exponentiate from here right up the frickin’ wall!

The de-dollarization of the world economy is hustling along briskly, oblivious to

most Americans who are dumber than a bag of carrots … give the masses

iphones, an EBT card, and worthless promises, and you can control about 80%

of the Sheeple inside the U.S. with no problems at all … they’ll accept all of the

woke bullshit thrown at them for “free shit” from government … just one small

problem, as Maggie Thatcher so eloquently put it some 40 years ago

… “socialism is great, until you run out of other people’s money!” … and the

U.S. of China is at that point in the math equation where things are starting to

get “sticky” … won’t be that many more months before the Banana Republic

goes full throttle Venezuela … so for those of you who think this “deal” from the

Uniparty is a good thing, think again … it simply “kicks the can” down the road

some more for a few more months, and quite frankly when the recession /

depression hits it’ll come faster cuz the government & the FED Lounge Lizards

will panic and hit the CNTRL-P machine button for infinite money printing that’ll

make the COVID inflation bullshit look like a frickin’ picnic in the park!

If there’s any good news in this heap of bullshit from “The Swamp”, it’s this … you

got a little more time to protect yourself from the ravages of government … trust

me, it’s coming … buy physical bullion [I recommend BullionStar in Singapore],

and diversify into crypto between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and stable coins in

a DECENTRALIZED WALLET outside the clutches of government [there are many

good DEFI wallets … for ease of use, safety, & privacy, I recommend Atomic and

Exodus] … under no circumstances do you leave crypto inside a centralized

exchange in the U.S., like Coinbase … Fuhrer Biden & his crew of Communists

can confiscate that in a heartbeat!

Gold, and to some extent Bitcoin, has had a pretty rough few weeks in terms of

price action … gold simply cannot keep a bid on the screen, EXCEPT IN THE

ASIAN SESSION, where the Pac Rim crowd including the ChiComs are heavy

buyers … however, get to this side of the world, and gold slides faster than

Biden climbing stairs … quite frankly, this is simply the transfer of precious

metal from West to East, and once gold hits the Pac Rim, it doesn’t come back

out! … for all practical purposes, it’s gold, silver, & others like platinum that

won’t see the light of day in Western hands ever again … it’s basically lost to

the market.

The day is fast approaching when the criminal gold cartel, made up of 1) the

LBMA [London Bullion Market Association], 2) the COMEX, and 3) the FED

through its “Rally Protection Team” [RPT], will dissolve and go the way of a

squirrel fart … we aren’t there yet, but cuz of Basel III new rules effective with

2023, EFP transfers from paper to physical have become easier … add to that

the increasing hegemony of the Shanghai Gold Exchange is gaining some

serious momentum … maybe it’s gonna take a bullion dealer going down, or a

major Lounge Lizard policy mistake, or an announcement out of China from the

ChiComs that they are willing to buy everything at a substantially higher price

and in the process bankrupting the FED short positions, but at some point gold

is a market set to explode higher … we’ve seen what happens when a few banks

go under … imagine the entire system going down … and that’s not even

considering what happens when the Banana Republic can’t borrow enough

money for the “free shit army” at any interest rate!

Directly below, this week’s 20 Day Range MA’s for selected markets.

click on table to enlarge

Onto the week … OUTTA HERE … “The future’s so bright I need 2 pairs of

sunglasses 😎😎, and my own Brinks armored truck” 💓!!

… Onward & Upward!! 

-vegas