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To: TH who wrote (269959)	8/19/2010 10:31:20 AM
From: No Mo Mo	Respond to of 306849

"Does anyone have an actual trend to play right now in anything?"

To: TH who wrote (269959)	8/19/2010 10:37:14 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

don't want to dis NMM -- he's right on a longer term trend but we are already both in that -- but you make a good point -- we are in the throes of something here -- a point of "transient instability." That much is sure!! that said, I think we are close to the point of a confirmed downtrend in the indices ... we don't have much further to go

To: TH who wrote (269959)	8/19/2010 10:49:00 AM
From: Perspective	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Checked in to see if we were green yet. WTF is going on here? This must be outlawed. Risk on, risk off. Risk on, risk off... Wake me when it's worth investing again. I've got plenty of capital in search of a decent risk/reward ratio. And no, my machine (the neurons in my head) won't buy "stuff" just because it happens to "look boolish." Cycled around with a guy last week who was writing algorithms for the black boxes. These guys really don't get it - no interest in the big picture whatsoever. It's all just a statistical exercise to them. And they're ALL looking at the same dataset. Draw your own conclusions. I want to see what happens when all these black boxes try to cram through the exits at the same time. I'd like to buy a fractional interest in a few companies that have dependable income that isn't dependent upon financial perpetual motion. Since over half of S&P earnings are now "financial," that's evidently pretty rare. `BC