BANANA REPUBLIC EDITION: STARTING WWIII

 

“Secret spy bases in Ukraine? … gosh, see my shocked face!!”

Starting right after the coup almost exactly 10 years ago today in Ukraine,

fostered, bought & paid for by Preezy Empty Suit, and directed by the CIA,

here comes the New York Slime in its Sunday edition laying out the bombshell

news … the link directly below.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-built-12-secret-spy-bases-ukraine-

waged-shadow-war-last-decade-bombshell-nyt

Well now, this is a little embarrassing for the Uniparty War Hawks in the Banana

Republic who’ve never seen a war they didn’t like … EXIT QUESTION: “WHO’S

BEEN LYING FOR 10 YEARS ABOUT THIS SHIT, AND WHO’S BEEN TELLING THE

TRUTH?" … Obumba started the lies, the CIA hid it from Trump, and then

“Taliban Joe” picked up the slack and ran with it again … Putin was telling the

truth all along … but of course, as the state run Banana Republic MSM will

gladly tell you, Putin is an evil killer, liar par excellence, and murders political

opponents to name just a few … what’s that make Obumba & Biden then? … oh,

but I forgot, we’re the “good guys” somehow for trying to start WWIII … and

like the Sheeple Dopes wandering around looking at their smartphones all day,

you keep voting for the same mindless evildoers election after election, and

then somehow expecting a different result … that’s the classic definition of

a “Moron” … well, if the shoe fits, wear the fucking thing.

And if that’s not enough, here’s a “twist” the propaganda Fucktoids in the

Banana Republic will find interesting … the link below.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-top-spy-chief-says-navalny

-died-blood-clot-rejects-murder-narrative

Oh wait, he died of a blood clot, confirmed by Ukraine, and furthermore was

scheduled for a prisoner swap before he died … again, who’s lying and who’s

telling the truth? … “you can’t handle the truth!”

WTF got into ETH from the Sunday night open from Friday’s close? … up over

$150 while BTC remains flat … have seen no news that would cause this spike,

but hey … CRYPTO! … no news needed, just FOMO loving Asian session specs

who got tired of playing Pachinko at the local casino! 

News that BitForex has stopped withdrawals from their crypto exchange,

I thought, would have more of an impact on BTC & ETH price … it didn’t

… and away we go again with the NYSE money laundering open … nothing

like a mini melt up to stir the FOMO crowd, huh?

Markets [cough, bullshit, cough] are what they are of course, and there isn’t

much I can do when everyday shit blows up at the NYSE open and heads off to

the sky like a rocket ship … why should today be any different? … huge range in

ETH, but what good is it when there’s no corrective activity? … finally, after

about 2 hours of chop up near the high ETH profit takers show up and we’re able

to see some corrective activity for scalps that make sense … both ETH & BTC

hitting RM=4 extremes on the upside today on the m15, and some hits on the

m1 at RM = 1 & RM=2 … tomorrow I’m gonna highlight how you can use these

levels to either day trade or scalp effectively … multiple PAMM trades today in

ETH, and WE’RE UP SLIGHTLY … bought ETH at the RM=1 orange line at 3130

on the afternoon correction, and got filled at 3136 and change … nice fill fellas

… onto tomorrow!

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

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

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REALITY BITES AT THE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY

 

“Another defeat for U.S. state run media!!”

Despite all of the state run media hacks who continue to deny reality, and

continue to prop up Ukraine … which by all accounts IS ALL OF ‘EM … the guy

in the workout sweatshirt is losing and has lost … it’s time for some kind of

peace that stops the killing, but apparently not enough weapons systems have

been given away and the POLS getting their “kickbacks” & commissions … I

know it’s “inconvenient” to remember this, but context here is key … the

Ukraine / Russia conflict [it’s not actually a war per se] was started by Preezy

Empty Suit [a/k/a Chalky Sotero] AND Cankles Clinton back in 2013 - 2014 with

“regime change” [a favorite U.S. talking point and euphemism for “coup”] in

Ukraine [ssshhh!, it’s OK when the U.S. does it cuz democracy or something],

which brought about attacks against Russian civilians in the Donbass … it

escalated along with continued NATO expansion eastward, something which

Vlad & crew said “Nyet!”, but continued anyway … in other words, there are no

innocent hands here with ZERO bloodshed on them … and right in there from

the start, here comes Corruptocrat Joe Biden & crime fam planting corruption

seeds everywhere … [I’m still waiting on my energy company directorship at

100K per month, but I think the email must have been lost] … all of this and

more altered / denied by state run U.S. media, whose main job is to run cover

for DEM Libtards and their corruption.

The U.S. led defeat in Bakhmut is just the latest example … the “lame stream

media” has got nothing on North Korean news, having been trained by ardent

Communists at indoctrination centers [what used to be know as “university”] all

over the U.S. by guys smoking pipes in corduroy jackets … directly below from

ZH yesterday, a link to a good post summing things up rather nicely.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-media-disinformation-

campaign-fall-bakhmut-case-point

Try as they might, they just can’t control or intimidate the internet and the truth

eventually escapes … imagine that? … of course, Sheeple will be Sheeple and

you can feed most of ‘em anything you want and they’ll believe it, especially in

blue states where reality has been suspended for decades in favor of “saving the

children” … it just gets worse every day / week / month / year.

Turning to the financial slot machines run by the FED, not much of anything to

show for the first half of the day … Lounge Lizard “minutes” of the last meeting at

2 PM EST the highlight of “Slots-A-Rama” trading … and yes, it does feel like a

roulette wheel doesn’t it? … right after the criminal NYSE open, gold putting in

another DOUBLE REVERSAL … another fuck job from the usual suspects on a

spec public that never learns, and consistently gets trapped on the wrong side

of the trading equation … you buy, they [bullion dealers] sell … you sell, they buy.

Every spec buy is nothing more than a potential sell, waiting in the wings to be

activated on panic … ditto vice versa … and unless you learn to play the banks

instead of them playing you, you have no chance … gold today getting

whipsawed before FOMC minutes, natch … clean out both sides of the order

book before 2 PM EST … problem is, with no trading and only straight up /

straight down ‘til next time, you got no idea how long the pony is gonna gallop

before it stops … 50 cents? … $2? … $5? … more? … and then it reverses on

some kind of spike and you’re screwed … buy the rally or sell the break and

you’re toast … cuz without decent VIX [and they know this, and that’s how they

manipulate it] you’re gonna get trapped in chop, OR buy/sell way too early.

Well, that escalated quickly didn’t it? [NOT!] … yawn, and thanks for playing

… come again! … gold with a double reversal today, and then a sharp leg lower

to the 1950’s again … who knows where support is from the chicoms, but I’d say

it’s not very far lower if at all … No trades in gold for the PAMM today, as we

simply can’t get corrections that then go higher when the HULL 204 is blue

… everything is either straight up or straight down, and if you take trades with

the Hull 204 when it’s pink, you run the risk of very shallow runs higher before it

gets whacked, and you run a greater risk of large red spikes lower … now what?

… over in crypto land, finally BTC has a somewhat normal range, coming in

today so far at about $1,200, with some nice corrective activity going higher

… multiple trades in BTC for “The Syndicate”, and we’re UP APPROXIMATELY

0.6% … I’m hoping things are returning to VIX normality in BTC … for gold, all

we can do is wait for conditions conducive to long trades … onto tomorrow.

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

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

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THE SMELL TEST

“When it dawns on you everything is a pack of lies!”

Yesterday we finished up for the 4^th day in a row, after the “Trump Dump” cuz he was gonna get impeached, on the lightest volume ramps I have ever seen in my trading career; after getting totally slammed almost 500 Dow30 points in 36 hours, suddenly at the European open on day 1, thank you very much central planners, it’s off to the races … 5 days later here we sit on what I call the “Vapors rally”.

Scanning the financial press this morning, I see over on ZH that Asher Edelman went on CNBC and told the “talking heads”  on “Fast Money” he isn’t in the market anymore cuz the “Plunge Protection Team” is behind the latest bogus rally, and he doesn’t want to be caught when they “pull the plug”. “OMG! Stop the presses! Can you imagine the horror … oh, the humanity … on whichever clueless Infobabe happens to have the studio feed in her ear when he says this on live TV … this is blasphemy … this is heresy … Asher, don’t look to be invited back anytime soon OK”? But that’s not the real news.

No, the real news is immediately after, when somebody tweeted the obvious; “can't believe @AsherEdelman just talked about the PPT on @CNBCFastMoney. Didn't think anyone was allowed to talk about it. That was crazy”. And so, when everybody finds out the “emperor”” has no clothes, what happens next?

And of course, unless you want your first appearance to be your last ever, there are some things you just can’t do on CNBC; 1) criticize the FED or ChairSatan Yellen, 2) say anything negative about Uncle Warren Buffet, especially when Becky Quick is around, 3) say anything negative about Cankles Clinton or Ex Preezy Empty Suit cuz most hosts are Libtard Dems with bylines, and 5) mention government intervention in the holy temple of Wall Street, even though everybody and their brother knows the ECB, BOJ, & SNB are active manipulators right along with the “Plunge Protection Team”. “Oh wait … if they never mention it, that means it doesn’t exist … right”? I’m predicting right now … this isn’t going to end well.

Simply to put a cherry on top of this idiotic cupcake known as the USA, from the financial to the political … well, whaddaya know … “I’d just like to know where the “outrage” is on the left”? Directly below the link to ZH.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-24/fisa-court-finds-very-serious-fourth-amendment-issue-obamas-widespread-illegal-searc

“Oh wait … I forgot … he’s black & a “DEM”, so that makes it OK … I’m waiting for Maxine Waters to start an investigation … if it weren’t for double standards, Libtards wouldn’t have any.

Turning to today’s market … of course we open higher … isn’t there a law or something? … I, for one, can’t wait until they make downticks illegal; now you got something! … watching the first hour, if this isn’t manipulative trading, then I don’t know what is … seriously, this is a sick joke … since the start of 2016, right after the “Plunge Protection Team” [PPT] cleaned up the FED mess left by Yellen & Fischer at the end of 2015, moving to Brexit, and then the U.S. election, and now to the melt up, I don’t think anything pre 2016 means anything anymore in the stock indices … it’s a new game of coordinated manipulation, and come hell or high water, the central banks are going to ramp stocks to levels you never dreamed of in your wildest dreams, in order to pursue policy objectives they deem desirable. WE MAY NEVER SEE A 2% DECLINE IN THE SP500 OR THE DOW30 AGAIN.

Now, I know some of you think I’m being sarcastic, but I’m not; what’s happening is very large bids under key stocks are driving trading action, and everybody and their brother knows who it is that’s doing it [SNB, PPT, BOJ, ECB, etc.], and they are simply “front running” the bids … this is the reason for absolutely no downside trading action whatsoever … why sell into the bid, are you crazy? When the bids get pulled, trader’s panic to sell, and that’s why we get these 15 point 30 second down moves … when the bids come back, they panic buy to “front run” yet again. And what the SNB is finding out, and most likely are not very happy about, is all the front running of their orders … which is why they pull them to screw with trader’s heads and cause them to lose money. How else do you explain this unexplainable action I’m looking at on my screen? “Government lies at all levels, Pols lie, the FED lies, the talking heads in the MSM lie … it’s all lies, deception, and deceit … and now the market lies and is almost 100% totally controlled day-to-day by central banks and their sycophant Apparatchiks who drink the Kool-Aid. Simply put, they see no reason stocks should ever go down; and as proof, I would suggest you remember what Fed Pie Hole Bullard was told to do, the day after the "Trump Dump" when he suggested maybe no June rate hike and more QE in the future. Anything to change the narrative and “wink-wink, nod-nod” to the big money that we got your back … mission accomplished, the selling dried up, the PPT went to work along with the SNB, and here we are back to the highs in a flash. It is what it is, and to ignore the obvious is to be delusional”.

And so here we sit, and I’m supposed to believe it’s all because we are waiting for Fed Pie Hole Minutes @ 2 P.M. EDST? Where’s the “profit taking” the glorious talking heads love to spit out anytime there is the slightest bit of selling? Where is the volume? Where is the frickin’ trade that isn’t 100% attached to a central bank bid in Apple & Google? Try nowhere, that’s where. And every single time, almost without exception, somebody comes in and sells, immediately the PPT or the SNB pretty much says, “no, no, can’t have that”!, and then immediately bids it higher to regain the lost ground. It’s gotten to the point where they won’t let the SP500 go down any more than about 2 points and the Dow30 about 20 – 25 points, before frantically raising bids in large quantities to get the market back its lost ground … quite frankly, I’m beginning to wonder how long this can go on before something really, really ugly happens, making October 1987 look like a “downtick”. Nobody is bigger than the market … nobody … the hubris of the central banks is “off the charts”, and some day there gonna find out what a “melt down” really looks and feels like … when that day comes, and it surely will, look the hell out.

Last night I had a session with Microsoft tech support for my Office 365, specifically my Excel spreadsheet which isn’t working… seems the level one college dropout trainee knew even less than I did … so, tonight, same time, I get the next level of super duper customer service from a company I literally detest on every level … I’ve been “assured” it will get resolved tonight … “umm yea, sure it will”. So again tonight, I get to spend time with Microsoft … I think I got a tingle down my leg.

If you ever needed more evidence of Government lies & deception on a scale that would make any dictator proud, all you have to do is read the Minutes of the Fed meeting from last month; truly delusional and they simply have no clue what the hell they are doing. This is gross negligence on a massive scale. But it doesn’t matter, cuz even though rates are going up in an environment of global slowdown and terrible economic stats, we’re assured it’s “transitory”. What if it isn’t? And on cue, stocks take it all in stride cuz the large bids are underneath Apple, Google, etc. and who in their right mind is going to hit them and sell? Somebody please, tell me who?

Ok, it’s twenty minutes after the Fed nonsense so we can go back to nothingness again; slow grind higher with bolts down that go nowhere followed by more slow grind higher, and of course all on non-existent volume. I’m sorry, but this is a gigantic F-ing joke, as all rallies come on “vapor” as the central banks adjust their bids and traders panic to get in front of them … then literally zero price movement until they again decide to raise their bids, at which point we gap 20 higher again … rinse & repeat until Jesus returns. You want some proof? Directly below.

 

Oh yea, tell me how “normal” the chart above looks; it screams manipulation. I’m telling you folks, we are in a brand new ballgame where the rules have been changed drastically … to be sure, we will get our shots at buying at lower levels … but anything you look at prior to 2016 doesn’t mean anything anymore. All that matters anymore to these markets is what the central planners got planned for the day … that’s it, and to ignore it or refuse to acknowledge it is going to be a problem for you.

One trade today that led to nothing … a scalp after the Fed Minutes looking for buy stops above 21000 … didn’t get any so exited with very minimal gain rather than hope for a rebound that might not come [and it didn’t]. All in all, another pathetic day for U.S. finance … across the board it’s terrible action, with a mini flash crash in the Russell 2000, blatant manipulation in the bond market [via ZH], and of course our own Dow30 which sings to the desires of the SNB & PPT. If only my investment finance professors from back in college could see this; I can only imagine their utter horror at what is going on and what passes for policy in government … what a clusterfark. Tomorrow is another day, with Super Mario’s turn [ECB] at 08:30 A.M. in New York for another installment of complete policy stupidity from Europe; oh joy.

Finally, as the trading day draws to a close, if this isn’t the sickest rally I’ve ever seen, then I simply frickin’ have no clue … no volume ramp on central bank bids … oh yea, count me in … nothing says “buy stocks” more than the FED using the word “Transitory” to describe abysmal economic & global conditions … only thing is it’s been abysmal for over 6 months. Next stop Dow30 @ 30,000 by end of the year … why not, when you got CNTRL-P at your disposal and there are zero consequences for your policy genius … makes sense to me.

 

Time for a little beach until another of the  Microsoft Excel “whiz kids” comes a callin’… the dog and I are outta here … until tomorrow.

Have a great day everybody!

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