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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve susko who wrote (88963)	7/21/2009 10:41:56 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 94695

Leaving alone. Maybe I should buy some aapl, it will be in da DOW before too long. Oh, the irony - the IBM was supposed to win that war in the 90-s -g-

To: steve susko who wrote (88963)	7/22/2009 8:03:08 AM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 94695

Shorting is dangerous fundamentally in this environment, even though the economy is in depression. Some silly deflationist folks think the environment did not change much since last year. Oh, it did! Our currency already got destroyed by our dear government, to pay Wall Street. (see the link below about the financial environment we are in). I like a trade when fundamentals and technicals align. That said, a sell is a sell, so one has to be careful on the long side of the stock market, or sell it short term for a trade. I don't think we'll see new lows for SP500, and a buy will be issued at some point. Message 25801985 And the fundamentals are: US of A is a Banana Republic, and the recent Goldman scandal clearly shows it! Thus, I simply not going to trade on the short side, except the short side of the dollar, with these kind of printed money flows. They will lift a few things, some more than others. Jumping on some new bubble is still the trade of the moment. Most of all, Banana Republics normally see soaring prices of everything, and gold is your best protection