THE CHINA TRADE DEAL SCAM

“#6) Rig the stock market for social control!”

It should be obvious to everyone with one functioning brain cell … the

“China trade deal” is now the du jour weapon of choice, trotted out by

President Trump & various Apparatchiks, who feel the need to jawbone

equity prices higher on an almost daily basis, and is one of the very big

reasons in the “80/10/10” paradigm of stock indices why it’s extremely

dangerous to be short.

Count on the fact that, from now until the 2020 election is over and done with,

there isn’t gonna be any kind of “China trade deal” … first of all, we’re talkin’

Chicoms here, and if you trust these asshats to keep any commitments, I got

some beach front property in Kansas I’d like to show you … they will agree to

nothing they can’t back out of when they want, or totally ignore when

convenient … second, Trump is attempting to “massage” the U.S. stock

market for his own political convenience moving towards 2020, picking and

choosing rallies and breaks … if there is gonna be any deal, it’ll come in late

Summer or early Fall 2020, right before the election, and be heralded as the

greatest deal ever, with the hope the stock market melts up to recorder-er new

all time highs, and along with that prosperity for working stiffs who see their

IRA’s and/or 401(k)’s go north “bigly & yuge” … and that prosperity marches

them right into voting for the Donald … compared to the unhinged, Libtard

socialists, loony tunes Dems, it should be a no-brainer landslide for the

incumbent … we’ll see.

Now, part & parcel of all of this, is being aware of the paradigm you’re trading

in … that won’t guarantee profits, but it will sure help … and the NDX100 is

right at the center of the “POLS & Apparatchiks trading paradigm”, where

tweets or lips moving on shitboxes like CNBC will move markets, sometimes

greatly. Remember, the hardest part of trading in an “80/10/10” market

[80% of the time up, 10% sideways, and 10% down], is being patient and not

getting mauled and killed during the down 10%, cuz often times the moves

lower are account killers … what you can get away with in the “80”, in terms

of trading style and risk, you can’t get away with in the back “10”, and if you

trade the same way during each, they will carry you out “toes up” when the

back end “10” shows up and rears its ugly head.

I totally understand the technical backdrop of U.S. indices, and especially

after 19 out of 20 weeks higher since Christmas 2018, the need for some kind

of correction to take away the froth … it just so happens, the manipulators

have chosen the “China trade deal” to be their new weapon of market control

and behavioral manipulation, not only for specs but for HFT’s as well … I’m

pretty sure, they’re very happy at manipulator HQ with their efforts that

started last October, and will continue for the foreseeable future … but, if you

somehow believe there really will be some kind of trade deal with China that’s

binding and levels the playing field for the U.S. … well, you’re delusional.

China plays the long game, and no doubt Trump is right when he says they’re

looking for his defeat and the ability to roll over some Libtard Dem come 2020

… what have they got to lose by waiting? Why make a deal now when you

could get far easier trade terms by throwing money at some Dem? And if by

rare chance there is some kind of deal this year, it won’t be enforceable or able

to be verified, and there will be enough holes in it to make it look like Swiss

cheese … it’ll all be PR & bullshit. With enough time to the 2020 election, and

enough time for analysts to actually dissect any agreement, why would Trump

intentionally sabotage his own re-election with a bogus deal? … by the Fall of

2020, that can’t happen, and all people who have investments will be very

happy … and in a nutshell, that’s the game being played on investors &

traders going forward.

Today’s horseshit, comes of course, from a Trump tweet last night, and finds

the NDX100 higher at the NYSE open … and for the record, it’s impossible to

trade the NDX100 for the first half dozen hours of the new day, cuz the

bid/offer spread is somewhere north of 5 index points, to as many as 10

… they always find a way to make life difficult. It looks like we’ll open the

NDX100 about where it was at 9 PM EST last night.

And of course, what makes more sense after getting clobbered 6 days in a row

for over 500 index points, than a higher opening and a move higher back

above 7400 … all from a Trump tweet, which makes zero sense … welcome to

the “POLS & Apparatchiks trading paradigm”.

Here in the New York afternoon, it’s MOAR! buying from God knows who,

and we’re now up about 150 points on the day, where we haven’t seen a decent

break all frickin’ day [except for the 6 minute, 40 points straight down, that

then went straight up] … quite frankly, this market is pissing me off to no end

with its freight train moves that have no corrections either way … going down

you can’t get it to rally to save your life, and at the drop of a tweet you can’t

get a break to save your life either … but one thing is for sure in this idiotic

paradigm we find ourselves in, and that’s if you’re wrong, you’re gone

… there isn’t enough intraday volatility to make up any but the tiniest of

losses should you make a losing trade.

Quite frankly, this market and the whole paradigm sucks … everything, and

I do mean everything moves only on bullshit tweets and Apparatchik Pie

Holes lying through their collective teeth … nothing else matters, and all of

these markets put together are nothing more than a craps game in Las Vegas

… throw in fat bid/offer spreads, huge “slippage candy” from the scumbag

LP banks, and fills that would make Vito Corleone blush if he were alive

today, and it is a rigged game stacked against the ordinary trader … and

since there aren’t really trends anymore, it makes it impossible to make

money unless you “throw the dice” and sell option premiums and go “short

gamma” like a lot of hedge funds and CTA’s do … and it’s the reason more

and more of them are shutting their doors and going out of business, cuz when

it blows up, they can’t recover in any way, shape or form … and that’s just

fine with the manipulators and their BFF’s the scumbag LP banks … in a sane

world, the FED & the bankers would all be in prison … they are nothing but

criminals.

There just isn’t any trading to do, when markets are one way freight trains

… any semblance of a market known to exist years ago, completely replaced

with rigged bullshit from government … from gold to stock indices, and

everything in between, it’s a “shitshow circus” of overt manipulation right in

your face, each and every day … in so many ways, this country is headed for

complete ruin a lot quicker than most can imagine.

And so it is, today a complete melt up from a Trump tweet last night, and a

wasted day … Oh, you want to make money honey? … Ok, buy the rally, get

a shit fill, and then pray it goes higher still, and hope there’s a bigger fool than

you out there willing to buy it higher still … whoops, we just broke 20+ points

after 2 PM EST [where was this earlier?], and in 8 minutes it takes out 90

minutes of crawling up action … so now, tell me how you make it back if you

were long? … sorry, this isn’t any kind of rational trading strategy. Just

another drive by mugging/stop hunt by the banks is all … Onto tomorrow mi

amigos, I need a drink … Onward & Upward!!

Have a great day everybody!

-vegas