BIZARRO WORLD

 

“Costaza trading! … it all makes sense now, right!?”

With the day already more than half over, looking across the spectrum of the

trading world, it truly is “Bizarro World”, and George Costanza is right on the

money … it’s like you know you’re in a dream but can’t get out of it, no matter

what you do … the manipulations so bizarre, so brazen, so out in the open, and

yet nobody cares … to wit, EURUSD can’t even muster but a 30 PIP range, along

with an IVIX INDEX level that’s so pathetic, it needs to rally just to get to 20!

… meanwhile, Bitcoin hums along in the 130 - 200 zone, and it seems “dull” given

what we’ve seen in the last month or so … “oh, and that Thanksgiving drop,

driven by some “whales”, where BTC got “whacked” by 3K, is now about

60% - 70% higher in 4 days of almost straight up buying … where’s the test of the

lows”? … and while every Bitcoin hater in the world was out over the Holiday

weekend proclaiming “fraud, scam, worth ZERO, etc.”, it’s worth noting these

same people got no problem with central bank manipulation of everything else

that is 100X worse in suppressing volatility into the dust in their efforts to control

the financial narrative … cuz what’s REALLY eating them up is 1) they missed out,

2) BTC can’t be manipulated or controlled by their Stalinist Buds in government,

and 3) they’re too fucking dumb, stuck inside their own paradigm of life where

everything makes sense … NEWS FLASH SKIPPY: “Nothing makes sense as the

world burns down”!

There are very few things that are absolutely certain in this world, with 100%

probability … 1) government fucking up everything it touches, and 2) death

… other than that, we climb right into the probability normal distribution curve

… and right now, we’re spending just about ALL of market trading time OUTSIDE

of 3 𝞼 [sigma, or standard deviations] … it’s either “bat shit crazy” or it’s D.E.A.D.

… neither is particularly attractive from a trading perspective, but it’s all we got,

so there’s no escaping the reality of “Bizarro World”.

Welp! … well that was certainly quick … BTC now back above 19,300 as I write

and climbing, having erased all of the Thanksgiving massacre that wiped out a

whole shipload of longs … now what? … well, one thing is for certain, and that’s

IVIX has gone completely insane … now hovering around 500, if you’re looking to

make a market in this, don’t! … I said the other day, and I will repeat, this kind of

volatility that we’ve seen the last month is not what “The Syndicate” trading

algorithm is premised upon, and quite frankly I dunno if this is simply an

aberration, or if this kind of insanity is now the “norm” … practically every single

day we’ve seen $1,000+ 24 hour ranges in BTC, and given that environment I

don’t know how anybody can “make a market” when it can move against you

$200 in 1 - 3 minutes, only to rebound and go $400 the next 5 minutes. 

The “basis” has gone “loopy” as well, with a reading on Thursday of $-40+ and

now at $+20, and over the last month I’ve seen it at $-50+ to as much as +$100

… these kinds of swings in sentiment are literally insane … meanwhile EURUSD

dies in its own sweat … quite frankly, the world is telling you Bitcoin haters to

shove it, we’ll take scarcity over fiat any day cuz the CNTRL-P machines go

“Brrrrrrrrrrr” 24/7/365 at a record pace … there just isn’t any other market that

compares in the history of trading to that of the crypto pairs, especially Bitcoin,

and I have no idea [and neither does anybody else] just how “crazy” this shit can

get … what if we’re simply in the eye of the CAT 6 HURRICANE? … right now as I

write, BTC is going up/down with M1 ranges exceeding $50+ and it’s as chaotic

as I’ve ever seen a market get … and the amazing thing is, it’s consistently been

like this for about a month now with very little respite from excessive volatility.

Trading EURUSD with a 30-ish PIP range? … do you have any idea how “f-ing”

ludicrous this actually is? … talk about a “bank meat grinder” for specs, it’s a

“death trap” for those dumb enough to think this is anything but order flow

driven banks fading your MT4 or MT5 buy/sell signals for measly PIPS … they win,

you lose … and from their perspective, what’s wrong with that, it’s the normal

course of things? … at some point of course, what’s gonna happen, is that IVIX

INDEX will literally explode from below 20 to about 110 within 15 minutes, and

even if you had some dinky profits, they’ll be gone when volatility explodes

… and again, that’s the “game” the manipulators are playing on you, cuz quite

frankly they know you’re all a bunch of “Pavlovian Dogs” waiting to be led over

the cliff by the elusive “MOMO” that they’re fading … and it’s why you simply

cannot be sucked into extremely low range days [unless of course you like

losses] … EURUSD now trying so hard to bust 1.20 on the upside, looking for

buy stops to save the longs … maybe they get ‘em maybe they don’t, who

cares? … who do you think is going to be selling the buy stops, and if you’re

competing with the scumbag banks to get a decent sell fill, I wish you luck, cuz

your limit sell is simply an MIT order [Market If touched] that is gonna get

butchered like a hog! … and don’t look now, but that’s exactly what happened as

we just hit 1.19918 for a high on buy stops, and within the minute it’s 4+ PIPS

lower from that high … nothing like honest & fair markets with complete

transparency, right? … this is embarrassing.

Over in crypto, BTC trying to vault back above 19,000 again, now only a few

hundred bucks shy of that mark … that shellacking on Thanksgiving Holiday,

only taking out the “Johnny-Come-Latelys” on sell stops, cuz there has been

ZERO interest in taking BTC lower in the last 4 days … quite frankly, this

mornings price is in what I’d call the “Danger Zone” … get to giddy about 19K

being vaulted again and sentiment could change quickly to the downside … sell

it here and get sloppy thinkin’ it just has to go down after that Holiday “Thelma &

Louise”, and volatility to the upside could go out of control and bust your ass

“bigly & yuge” … in other words, a dangerous area for BTC price to be in right

now as I write.

The fun never stops in BTC, now coming within a couple dollars of 20K … and

yes Skippy, we are now at “peak stupid” … 2 things of note … 1) the basis is

now trading +$50 - $100, which is totally nuts, and 2) the IVIX INDEX level is

somewhere around 800 - 850 … and remember, anything over 150 presents

problems … “Houston, we have a problem”! … and as if I’m writing the script

myself, BTC breaks $770 in 19 minutes … OK … meanwhile, as the London Fix

comes and goes and Europe closes for the day, an embarrassing display today

of bank manipulation of EURUSD around the 1.20 level, where stops have been

run and then crushed by the scumbag LP banks a number of times … ho hum,

just another day of thieving! … “and oh looky here, EURUSD gets blasted to a new

low for the day exactly 43 minutes after vaulting 1.20, and with the London Fix out

of the way and Europe closed, leave it up to the virus scum on Wall Street to make

it happen … and we were going along so well, and then the rug gets pulled out

from underneath the pair … this is what happens when there is no volatility &

ranges are tiny, so embrace the suck and know the pattern of how the banks steal

& manipulate you! … come tonight, no doubt the “Chuckleheads” will have

something wrong to say about all of this, along with BTC where you can almost

make “sure thing” book they’ll take BTC above 20K, if it’s not done beforehand.

One market can’t move worth shit, and the other can’t fucking slow down to save

its life … what a dichotomy presented before me … I didn’t do any trades in

anything today … BTCUSD won’t break and has been straight up since

Thursday’s bloodbath, and EURUSD can’t move worth shit to make a difference

& algorithm parameters are all right on top of each other, meaning the usual

suspects are manipulating the shit out of it for the ECB … and if somehow specs

do get it over 1.20, expect some ECB Apparatchik to be sent out post haste to

“tell” markets it doesn’t like that rate and look out below as the scumbag banks

will clean your clock on the sell stops just waiting to be hit off sometime later

this week … this is what’s referred to now as “honest markets” in the era of

central bank manipulation … “just look at the difference between traditional FX

and Bitcoin, and the way they trade … one free the other manipulated as all hell

getting hot! … and now a $770 break off the panic top in BTC in less than

19 minutes, pretty much all straight down … sure, just get an average and you’ll

be OK … NOT! … FUBAR, FUBAR EVERYWHERE”!

I don’t know whether I need a bottle of tequila for BTC, or a sleeping pill for

EURUSD? … the dog says do both [of course he does!] … in any event outta

here … until tomorrow … Onward & Upward!! 

-vegas

WE LIVE IN A “MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE” WORLD

 

“That moment you realized the ENTIRE world is run by the CHICOMS!”

Well, what more proof do you need? … we’ve known for years / decades that the

degenerates in Hollywood are in the tank for “CHICOM love” … ditto the media

companies like Disney, ComCast, etc. … then came “King LeBron” and the SJW

tears shed in the NBA over freedom in Hong Kong, a/k/a “money talks, bullshit

walks” … quite frankly, it started with the “Clinton Crime Family” back in the

‘90’s with the $10K “coffees” in the White House organized by Charlie Tre, that

eventually saw the CHICOMS get technology thanks to Slick Willy & Cankles

… it all ended when Ron Brown was murdered in a plane accident

… remember that?

As I said yesterday, Hunter Biden is the “tip of the corruption iceberg”, and his

“Pop” is so compromised by the CHICOMS with dirty deals, is it any wonder

“Creepy Uncle Joe” has called a “lid” ‘till Thursday’s debate with President

Trump? … Hidin’ Biden and his crew of criminals simply have got to figure out,

then pass to sycophants in the MSM, their “talking points” & how they’re gonna

handle this … and of course, it should be clear to anybody with one functioning

brain cell, that once the dominoes start falling, scumbags are gonna start

“accidentally” dying all over the Swamp … and as I posited yesterday, and am

more convinced today than ever, it’s ALL CONNECTED to finance via central

banks and their BFF scumbag LP banks … “quite frankly, the grease that takes

care of all of the squeaky wheels COMES FROM THE CHICOMS … now you know

why the mysterious “risk on / risk off” bullshit that comes in the middle of the

night from nowhere, and spreads at the speed of light to every market within

nanoseconds, is directed by the murderous criminals in the CCP [Chinese

Communist Party], who pay off everybody within sight and have for years &

decades starting back with Clinton, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY have tons of

incriminating criminal evidence to use against Hollywood degenerates,

Corporate CEO’s, POLS, Royal Families [are you listening Andrew?],

Apparatchiks [what’s up Spicoli?], judges [SCOTUS Roberts is compromised me

thinks], and the list goes on & on … all tied together in a network of corruption,

murder, pedophilia, drug dealing, and money laundering ... this should make

every human sick to their stomachs … sadly though, look at the MSM “circle

the wagons” and protect the Bidens, just like they did the Clintons … who cares

about Monica Lewinsky? … certainly not Cankles and the other women whose

job it was to destroy her credibility and life … all for money … if you don’t see

how despicable & utterly gut wrenching these people are, you need

professional help yourself!

And you somehow thought the “Manchurian Candidate”, the movie … not the

newer one [2004], but the older one done back in 1962 with Frank Sinatra, was

fiction? … hardly … and when the ultimate truth comes out, if there’s anybody

alive to “sing”, the stench is gonna go way back to the creation of the CIA after

WWII, with Pappa Bush crony Alan Dulles at the helm … let’s not also forget,

the patriarch of the Bush family was Prescott Bush, who got his bank shut

down by FDR cuz it WAS FINANCING HITLER … amazing, the movie was out

1 year before JFK got blown away … coincidence? … so here we are, and all it

takes to bring down the “Death Star” is Hunter Biden being a dope, cuz it starts

the birds singing, if they don’t die, and who knows where it ends? … is it any

wonder, the CHICOMS are confused right now, and don’t know where to take

FX & “Stock Bellies”, and complete chaos is the order of the day … just look at

this “circus shitshow”, a/k/a GBPUSD today and wonder no more!

Speaking of which, Cable only a few PIPS from a “triple reversal” day in the

European session, all inside a 68 PIP range [so far] that was a complete joke

from a trading perspective from start to finish … M1 explosions, followed by

nothing … rinse, repeat, and it’s all planned confusion where the scumbag

banks win.

No trades today in the TURNKEY PAMM / MAM.

Days like this, and you literally don’t know whether to laugh or cry … traditional

financial markets so manipulated & distorted versus the past, it’s hard for me to

describe to those who don’t know history, what the alternative looks like … if all

you know is this bullshit, then I’d be skeptical as well … as most of you know,

Turnkey doesn’t trade any of the well known crypto pairs on its MT4 platform, so

it’s not possible to trade Bitcoin [BTCUSD] at Turnkey … in my personal account,

I’ve traded some crypto [BTC] over the last week, and there are sooooooooooooo

many advantages to trading crypto, I could spend about 50 pages documenting

them … my point today, in bringing BTC up in the blog, is to mention that starting

this Sunday with the blog update, I’ll be doing a “blog series” next week on

Bitcoin, along with some news & information on where I’m going RE Bitcoin, and

how to profit in different ways in crypto … the fact is, crypto IS THE FUTURE, and

it’s where “decentralized finance” [DeFi] applications on the block-chain are

headed … “wanna stay stuck in the past with traditional investing / trading, then

be my guest … would you like a quote on typewriter ribbon & black rotary

phones? … I’m gonna lay it all out starting this Sunday”!!

Turning to today in GBPUSD, what can you really say? … joke comes to mind, but

more along the lines of “psychological terrorism” where the scumbag LP banks

get you to act like a “Pavlovian Dog” and buy tops and/or sell bottoms cuz your

antiquated MT4 and/or MT5 platform indicator gave you a buy / sell signal, that

they generated the signal to fade … “nothing like a big bag of “false positives” to

make your day, right”? … 68 PIP range, and there isn’t a “Hoover Dam” thing to

do other than move to tomorrow and hope conditions are better … certainly they

can’t be much worse!

Outta here early before I lose it … Onward & Upward!!

-vegas

THE INSUFFERABLE MOMENT OF ENLIGHTENMENT

 

“Pure enlightenment!”

It’s those moments in your life when the fog lifts from your eyes and you see

clearly what’s really going on … and the “enlightenment” from those moments

you remember for a lifetime … it is both insufferable & exhilarating at the same

time, cuz while on the one hand you see the truth of the matter, on the other you

realize there’s an entire structure of lies, deceit, and manipulation going on that

really pisses you off to no end … “life imitates trading, trading imitates life”!

Today’s financial “markets”, defined succinctly as “exercises in manipulative

psychology” with heavy influence from “game theory” and criminal abnormal

pathologies, a site to behold this “Clusterfark Week” of BREXIT bullshit

… already today, “sources say” says Reuters, have tried to inject some M1

madness into Cable & the DAX30, but nobody is playing here early so far

… maybe later? … we’ve simply reached that point in time where the critical

mass of players only want to hear “Deal” or “No Deal”, and leave the bullshit at

the door … that doesn’t mean they’ll stop  their efforts at manipulation via the

usual whores in the financial MSM [Reuters, Dumbberg, CNBC, etc.] , cuz the

feed the mistress fund crowd made up of POLS & Apparatchiks all throughout

Britain & the E.U. only know & hear the driving force of their being, and that is

to “line their pockets” at everyone else’s expense.

And that “whoosh” you’ve been softly hearing in the background lately is VIX

coming out of markets as players have had quite enough of the efforts at

manipulative bullshit over 56+ months and running… especially IVIX, which is

intraday volatility, and how the market moves relative to the day in question

… nowhere is this more pronounced these last 10 days than in GBPUSD & the

DAX30 … Cable obviously you can understand until there is resolution to this

clusterfark, but it’s another point entirely for the DAX30 when you consider

what is going on in European economies … and what is going on is entirely

180 degrees opposite of what the dinosaur stocks in the index are doing … and

if this doesn’t clear the “fog” from your eyes and enlighten you with a painful

reminder of reality and how the financial world really works, then nothing ever

ever will!

Why is it “OK” for governments to manipulate markets, but “NOT OK” for

individuals? … why is gambling illegal in the U.S. but it’s “OK” for states to run

lotteries? … asking for a friend.

And then coming very soon, suddenly SHTF and IVIX explodes to new records

of instant insanity … like a massive star somewhere that goes supernova, and

in microseconds releases more energy than our sun over its lifetime … and after

the body bags are filled with trader accounts that used to be, it simply begs the

eternal question of “why aren’t any scumbag banks hurt in this mess”? … after

all, markets cannot hedge away all risk from the equation, cuz a group of

somebody’s has to be “holding the bag” somewhere … how come never any

banks?

So let me help you out here by wiping away the “fog” … the “how come” is cuz

they know what’s gonna happen in advance and are positioned correctly on

EVERY SINGLE IMPORTANT MARKET MOVE … “how else do you rationally

explain their trillions or quadrillions in exposure AND NEVER ONCE DO ANY

OF THEM EVER SUFFER LOSSES? … cuz they’re so smart? … NO, IT’S CUZ

THEY ARE SO CROOKED”! … they get that way cuz of 2 big reasons you & I

aren’t allowed to have … 1) since they are positioned in the middle of every

single trade, they have mega data order information nobody else has, and 2) if

they get “stuck” the wrong way, central banks trot out Apparatchiks to send

markets the “proper direction” and allow the banks to cover at specs expense

… banks win you lose … what’s the problem?

This brings us to today, where I can assure you scumbag LP banks computer

networks are hard at work setting off “false flags” of buy/sell signals on MT4

and/or MT5, and then fading your order … and since specs as a collective

group ALWAYS act like “Pavlovian dogs” with lemmings leading them over the

cliff, it doesn’t take much in the way of a healthy size balance sheet to get the

ball rolling and seize the moment for some sharp M1 spikes from hell that do

nothing but separate you from your money … thank you, come again!

… meanwhile, nothing has happened … feel manipulated yet? … isn’t financial

trading enlightenment wonderful?

And the way things are going here very early in the trading day, just a few hours

after Europe has opened, it very much looks and feels like another IVIX

implosion where we’re headed for the 11th day in a row of 30%+ LOWER range

than the DAX30’s 20 Day Range MA … and another very dangerous “sleeper”

until that moment when SHTF … to be sure, nobody is looking for it today,

maybe Thursday or Friday says conventional wisdom … NEWS FLASH:

“conventional wisdom will send you out the door “toes up”, and rarely if ever

pans out”.

“Well, looky here won’t ya”? … amazingly, now that specs all over the world

have piled LONG into Cable & the DAX30 these last few trading days and lifted

both up, now that there aren’t more buyers to fade, suddenly and without

warning both go “Thelma & Louise” today, and once the dust settles here in the

PM of the New York criminal afternoon, right now as I write Cable has an

approximate 146 PIP range, and the DAX30 about a 210 index point range

… “Ok, where did this come from? … at least this horrendous streak of 10 in a

row 30%+ BELOW the 20 Day Range MA is over in the DAX30, and in Cable the

day’s range eclipses its 20 Day Range MA by about 20 PIPS … about frickin’

time! … check with the fraudulent financial MSM for the “official” reasons for

the disappointment, cuz the real reason is both markets ran out of buyers, and

when scumbag banks see that, it’s time for a trip lower … and btw, you won’t be

hearing that from any of the usual suspects.

Multiple trades today in DAX30 … TURNKEY PAMM / MAM UP SLIGHTLY LESS

THAN 0.1%

Expanded ranges usually mean higher IVIX INDEX levels throughout the day, and

by extension leads the trading algorithm to buy signals … quite frankly though,

I’m anxiously awaiting the end of BREXIT so I can get back to trading GBPUSD,

cuz it’s advantages over the DAX30 are substantial in more ways than one … it’s

simply a more CONSISTENTLY tradeable market with much deeper liquidity &

volumes … this week looks to be the end of this BREXIT nightmare, but let’s see

what the POLS do by the end of the week  before popping champagne corks … at

least today wasn’t a “sleeper” … would have liked to see more upside action, but

that’s gonna be hard for the DAX30 cuz there’s no logical or financial reason for it

to be up here around 13K in the index as it is … should be closer to 10K than 13K,

but what do I know?

Nevertheless, the trading algorithm is actually more efficient & profitable in Cable

than “Stock Bellies” … the reason should be obvious … “Stock Bellies” are being

jerked around so violently, the price “noise”, a/k/a “chop” in these group of

indices is much higher than in Cable on a consistent basis … not to say Cable

can’t get this way, cuz they don’t call it “The Widow Maker” for nothin’, and it has

its “moments” of pure stupidity as well … but overall, given the paradigm we find

ourselves in today, Cable is more consistent a market … now, once this

“Clusterfark” of political idiocy is over, and we can all utter “BREXIT” no more,

all it has to do is keep ranges around where they are at now OR HIGHER, and we

will be in great shape going forward.

Outta here … Onward & Upward!!

-vegas