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Skip to comments.Bitter Cold Spreads Across Much of U.S.
Posted on 02/19/2006 7:31:59 PM PST by FairOpinion
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Feb 19, 2006 (AP) Utility crews worked Sunday to restore power to thousands of homes and businesses from Michigan to Maine following a weekend winter storm, while slick roads and heavy winds were blamed for several deadly accidents.
As far south as Texas, ice and freezing rain canceled dozens of flights over the weekend at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, including 85 American Airlines flights, according to a company spokesman.
Little Rock, Ark., had a Sunday morning low of 18. Farther west, Alliance, Neb., bottomed out at 8 below, the National Weather Service said.
In the Upper Midwest, the 8 a.m. reading of 2 below zero at Duluth, Minn., combined with 17 mph wind for a wind chill of 23 below.
A reading of 18 below was recorded in Allagash, Maine, while temperatures dipped to a low of 10 degrees in Rochester and wind of up to 17 mph made it feel like almost 10 below zero, weather service said.
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Bush's fault, plus global warming and I am sure Karl Rove is mixed up in there somehow.
Ah the fruits of global warming...
Why is cold "bitter"? I can't taste it. Why isn't it bitterly hot in the summer time?
Yeah. All this global warming is about to freeze me to death. lol
Of course it's Global Warming.
NO MATTER WHAT the weather is, it's evidence of man-made Global Warmning.
It's the Perfect theory.
They just powered up that energy plant in Iraq...I think it was made by Halliburton. There you are!
I see Karl Rove has successfully repaired the Ice Age machine. He should keep the Glacier Melting machine on and let the two fight it out.
I wonder if it has anything to do with it being February.
February made me shiver
with every paper I deliver
bad news on the doorstep
I could not take one more step
(Posted by Fred Nerks on another thread)
ST. AGNES EveAh, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limpd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
Numb were the Beadsmans fingers, while he told
His rosary, and while his frosted breath,
Like pious incense from a censer old,
Seemd taking flight for heaven, without a death,
Past the sweet Virgins picture, while his prayer he saith.
--Keats, "St. Agnes Eve"
Whew, just back from a weekend in northern MI, we got about 2' of snow, it was -10 degrees without the wind - and it was howling. Wild turkeys frozen into the trees, brutal.
WRONG. It's that friggin groundhog.
This is no more evidence of a lack of global warming as a warming event is for global warming.
If you had a fair minded attitude you would know that one arctic blast means nothing.
Oregon is in a midst of a cold spell as well with us breaking a record low in Salem by 3 degrees last night, however, we have had a very mild winter(again) and the avg snowfall that the valley floor has seen has gone down to less than 2 inches a year compared to 36 inches a year in the 50's.
Global temps are on the rise. The dispute is whether or not the human impact means anything or this is just cycles that our planet goes through. One in which I have determined through much reading is in fact a cycle in which the planet would go through without us. Even if we are causing it perhaps it's the fire and brimstone death to the human race that God has called for.
Either way, try and temper your ignorance with the use of facts.
He's right. It must be the global warming. (/sarcasm)
It was four degrees in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland last night, and my little boy, a newly-fledged Boy Scout, went on his first camping trip. Fortunately his scoutmasters are Army Rangers so everybody survived, fingers and toes intact. I am so pleased and proud.
our first winter in michigan was brutal!
the wind chill temps were minus 60! ouch!
no washing the car, it would freeze shut.
kids were out of school because it was too
cold to stand and wait at the bus stops.
That's great! I am glad your little boy had his first tough adventure and came through it unharmed. I am sure that will give him confidence in the future, that he can survive, which is good.
I'm so thankful for my beloved blankie! Anything below fifty and I just can't stand it!
LOL! It's a beauty! But where's the EARTHQUAKE SWITCH?
Did they already have the little red thingamajig that pops out when they are done cooking??? ;-)
We are used to changing weather...but that's a bit much!
That's quite a change in temperatures within a few days.
Stay warm!
Poem appropriate to the weather but not the month. Feast day of Agnes is January 21.
Another fitting poem (for the weather) is the beginning of T.S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" "A cold coming we had of it..."
Thanks. I'm also glad he survived his first experience of having a machine gun pulled on him. Apparently the scouts went for a hike after midnight in an effort to keep the blood circulating, and went far enough to stray close to Camp David. Some of the black-clad guards stepped out from behind trees, guns drawn, and demanded to know what they thought they were doing there. Kid thought it was cool.
This is no more evidence of a lack of global warming as a warming event is for global warming.
Boy you can say that again. Its very clear no global warming.
LOL! I went to a summer camp not too far from there when I was a kid for a few years.
Always wanted to go harrass the Camp David folks :-)
.....or the tsunami lever, or the shield that prevents the NY Yankees from winning the World Series despite record payrolls.
They should have asked us to design that machine!
Where are you in Iowa? I'm going to Iowa City at the end of the month and am afraid I'll freeze if the current temps keep up. Wasn't it about -15 w/the windchill?!!
In any article on global warming or cooling I cannot believe they never address the glacial ages and why they came and went. It wasn't the SUVs I am certain. Half of North America was covered with a sheet of ice. I give Mother Nature more credit than I do man for climate variations.
"Not down here in the Clearwater, FL area! I'm out on my screened porch and its dropped to 67 degrees. "
Rub it in for those poor souls suffering in below zero temperatures! ;)
I am in CA and it's been around 60 today, and I restrained myself from making those freezing their noses off, feel bad -- no wonder CA & FL real estate is high and is going to stay that way. A lot of people who survive that winter, won't want to go through another one.
Like Spock said: "bitter dregs."
With the windchill it was at least that...we had a windchill warning for up to twenty below the other day! I'm in the central Iowa area...a little West of Iowa City.
It looks like it will warm up over the next week (into the 30's at least). But most of Jan and Feb have been wonderfully warm; 50's and 60's many days.
Be sure to check the forecast on TWC's website before you leave so you'll know what to pack. This time of year can be very unpredictable! We sometimes have temperature drops of 20 or 30 degrees during the day if a front moves through.
It was a balmy 22 today...Hooray!
Ha!!! Lot's you know! Who do ya think bribed the groundhog!!!
Then aside from annoying hurricanes we have spiders that you can actually hear running across your wall. We don't use flyswatters for bugs around here we use RPGs.
In Guadalajara, MX they use lead drain plugs to keep out the roaches - doesn't work here 'cause the bastids have wings! They're called Palmetto Bugs in polite company but they're just roaches with wings, Trust me.
Oh and 9 months out of the year plan on sweating as you walk to your car between AC refuges. Gardening? Can you spell heat stroke? Down here if you take off enough clothing to cool off you'll be arrested! Come on down! Buy my property. Please!
I don't know what it is, but I'm in eastern upstate NY and this is the first winter I ever remember with no snow. Instead, my neighbor's fence blew into my backyard and two old pines are down in my daughter's backyard. We didn't lose power, but the other side of town did. Trees down everywhere, grocery stores closed for lack of power, major highways closed. We've only ever had one windstorm that was equal to what we had the other day and that was 1989, I think. Winds were 30-70 mph and 143 on top of Stratton. Needless to say, my grandson's ski trip was canceled for the second week in a row. Last week it was heavy rain and this week it was the wind. Usually February has us with at least two feet of snow on the ground and 4/5 ft. snowbanks. This year, there isn't a flake to be found.
Geez... Bush better cut it out! He's just getting too powerful. : )
Don't forget Haliburton. /sarc
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Cheney shot Mother Nature!
Winter in Iowa.
When I was living in Iowa in 1957. We had a week in winter when night temperatures went down to 26 or 27f below zero. Daytime temperatures did not go above 21 below.
When I moved East we would have winter temperature a little below zero and in the 0 to 15 range. It has not been getting that cold for the past decade.
Come on.
"W" can't have all the fun.
God saved some for himself! ! ! !
LOL! And here I thought my family were the only ones (that looks funny.. English grammar is annoying :P) crazy enough to think 20-30F was balmy! Back in Nevada, it wasn't unusual for night-time temps to hover around -5 to 15.. from about late October to March-April. Brrr. No wonder I'm a blanket hog :P
But here in Washington state, we've been having what feels like a cold snap - wouldn't be surprised if the current temp was around 20.. In fact, I'll check... Hm, I was close. 25F. Still cold. Rather warm, comparitively, but I'm rather a bit too sensitive to cold for my own good. As proved by the eight or nine blankets I have on my bed. Hey, I said I'm a blanket hog, didn't I? Hehe.
It was nice and warm Saturday - went to water my grandparents dog and kept stopping in the patches of sunlight and wanting to curl up like a cat cuz it felt so nice. Mind you, it was rather a bit more frigid in the shadows. Of course, I wasn't wearing a jacket.. for which over-sight (under-sight, perhaps? :D) I called myself an idiot. Oh well.
Personally.. I rather doubt we'll ever be fully able to predict coming weather for any amount of time beyond perhaps a 50-70% accuracy rate until/unless we somehow learn planet-wide climate control. But that's rather a bit too much out of a sci-fi book for my tastes, thank you very much. Oh well, guess I'll just have to continue hogging the blankets. :D
That sounds British but I like it.
10.7 F at Casa de ElTianti on Sunday morning (2/19/06), in Ellicott City, MD.
That's cold.
I can see you read only what you want to read.
You might of miss the part where 3 feet of snow no longer falls on the Northwest.
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X-POSITION: Marjorie Liu on the final issues of 'Astonishing X-Men'
(CBR) Marjorie Liu has had a good run on "Astonishing X-Men." In fact, by the time her run finishes with "Astonishing X-Men" #68 in October, Liu will have written a number of issues second only to the title's original scribe, Joss Whedon. During her time on the series, Liu has brought more of a grounded take on superheroics with everything from romantic entanglements to conflicted creative impulses -- and while she's currently built up a Death-Seed-enhanced Iceman as one of the biggest threats Wolverine's squad has ever faced, it still stays cemented in the relationships of her characters with human reactions and interaction.
For more insight on Liu's current arc and final issues of the series, the scribe joined X-Position for a series of fan questions about her run with the characters, possible future plans and a number of revelations about Iceman.
Derek kicks off this X-Position with a few questions about Iceman and his past relationships.
1) In this arc, we've seen several women that Iceman has been involved with over the years with varying degrees of severity -- from a one-night stand with Nurse Annie to obsessive unrequited love with Polaris to his first serious relationship with Opal, etc. As far as I'm aware, it is the first time you've written several of these women. Was it strange to come at all these characters for the first time from a relationship they had with this same man?
Marjorie Liu: I won't say it was strange, but I found myself wishing I had more space to explore their characters. Writing women from the starting point of a relationship with a man -- as in, defining them only by that relationship -- is pretty unfortunate. This was a story, though, that was all about relationships -- Bobby's -- and how our ability, or inability, to have one says a lot about who we are.
2) Looking at Bobby's love life, there doesn't seem to be an obvious thread of commonality to explain his choices. What do you think he wanted from each one during the relationship and what do you think they saw or in some cases of several didn't see in him? Also why did you decide on the women you did include, while excluding Darkstar and Zelda?
I think the common thread, with the exception of Opal, was that these women weren't really "available" when he started dating them (or tried to date them). Polaris wasn't into him -- she had a crush on Havok, in fact -- and the same was true of Nurse Annie, who had the same fixation. What does it say about a man (or woman) who always dates people who can't be truly available and open to a relationship? The problem with Opal was that she was open, available -- and so he found excuse after excuse to push her away and make himself unavailable. Yikes.
I couldn't include all of Bobby's past relationships! Too many women! I chose the ones I was most familiar with -- and Opal, of course, because I felt that she was the closest Bobby ever came to having a real, serious, girlfriend.
3) I'm not sure if you're aware but there is a very vocal group that's convinced that Iceman is in the closet. Given you're writing a story about his relationships with women in a very gay-friendly book what's your take on the theory?
Listen, it's fun to look for undercurrents and create alternate relationships for our favorite characters! Just think about Kirk and Spock, or "Supernatural's" Dean and Castiel -- heck, "Hawaii 5-0's" "bromance/romance" between Steve and Danno is part of their actual advertising! Personally, I love to play with sexuality in my work, and tease relationships, possibilities and so on. But do I think Bobby is gay? Who knows? In some ways -- maybe in every way -- that's up to the reader to decide. What I will say, though, is that Bobby has always been written as a straight man, and what I love about him as a straight man is that he's like the "everyman": the guy who has daddy issues (and other problems), and who has got no game, whatsoever, when it comes to picking up girls. The dude who is always the "really good friend" but never the "boyfriend." For me, that's what Bobby represents. But if he ends up coming out of the closet, that's cool, too.
4) Why did you decide to have Polaris seem so interested in starting something with Iceman? I'm an uber Polaris fan but looking at their shared history she been a real bitch to him in the past stating to him she never considered them a couple and joked about how under no circumstances that she would ever sleep with him to all of their friends. As a former horseman and likely Apocalypse's intended mate during her incarnation of the Horseman of Apocalypse does the presence of the Death Seed make him attractive to her? At least to me it's never came across in the past as genuine romantic interest from her -- more of a manipulative friendship to prop her up when she's was feeling particularly vulnerable. It's not nice but it's certainly very human.
I had an idea that would have brought Jubilee, X-23 and Daken into the book -- with a completely new, startling spin on their characters. They would have been around for a 4-issue run that would have forced Cecilia into the spotlight. I regret not having a chance to do more with her character, and Gambit.
2) I was wondering about the future of the members of your team, Northstar and Iceman will go to Aaron's "Amazing X-Men," Warbird is part of "W&TXM" and Wolverine is pretty much everywhere. Do you know what will happen to the rest of the cast? Any hint on the future of Gambit, CeCe and Karma would be great.
I honestly don't know. I wish I could tell you.
3) I always thought that the friendship between Gambit and Wolverine is very entertaining. Can you tell us a little more about their upcoming adventure?
It'll be a continuation of events in #66, and they won't be running solo. They'll have a stowaway -- several of them, in fact -- one of whom I think some fans will identify with. It's both a space adventure, and an examination of how the X-Men impact the lives of "normal people" in the Marvel universe.
mr_infinite wants to know more about your possible future plans outside the Marvel U.
You've had a massive run on "Astonishing X-Men" -- far longer than most other creators on the title. Why do you think this cast of characters had such a wonderful longevity under your care?
I feel as if I just started on the book, to be honest! I give all the credit to my editor and the X-Office for being so supportive. I was allowed to play with the characters, and find my footing -- and I'm so happy that I was able to write "Astonishing" for those twenty issues.
While another Marvel book by you hasn't been announced yet, is there a character outside of the X-Universe that you'd really like to take on?
I'd like to do something creator-owned next. And I'm writing a short "Red Sonja" story as part of Gail Simone's run, which is a character who I totally love.
Wrapping up, cora reef asks about the overall goals of the series and the types of stories you'd like to tell moving forward.
Dear Ms. Liu, Looking back over your time on "Astonishing," what do you feel your primary goal with the series was? Do you think you achieved it?
My goal was to tell stories that started first with the characters -- and not the big fight, or explosion. I love the X-Men, each of these characters, and I wanted to delve into them, to explore who they are and create stories that allowed them to grow in meaningful ways. I wanted the book to have a quieter vibe, to be firmly entrenched in the "real world." Did I succeed? That's for the reader to decide, but I know I tried.
I was a big fan of "Astonishing" as a book somewhat apart from everything else that was happening. As you move forward in your comics career -- and especially with work at Marvel -- are you hoping to tell more stand-alone-ish stories or those more deeply entrenched in everything else that's going on?
Time will tell. My process as a writer, the stories I love to tell, is always evolving. What I do like about working on books that are set slightly apart from the rest of the Marvel Universe is that it gives me a certain freedom to do what I want. I don't have to be bound up in the big crossover, necessarily.
Finally, here's our Behind-the-X question: If you could bring any of Wolverine's past loves into your book, who would it be and why?
Domino. Because she's got this beautiful edge and wildness, and a grim sense of humor that I love to death.
Special thanks to Marjorie Liu for taking on this week's X-Position!
Next week, it's a jaunt to the Deadpool side of the Marvel U as "Deadpool Kills Deadpool" super-scribe Cullen Bunn joins X-Position to take on all questions about every Deadpool across the multiverse! Got a question for Cullen about his vast library of Marvel work? Send your questions over via e-mail with the subject line "X-Position or in a 140 character question via Twitter. Either way, make sure those questions are in by Friday! Do it to it!
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F3Q09 Earnings Call
February 3, 2009 5:30 pm ET
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Neal Verfuerth – President and CEO
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Erik Birkerts
Thank you for joining us for Orion Energy Systems' Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Conference Call. With me on the call today are Neal Verfuerth, President and CEO, and Scott Jensen, CFO.
Before we begin, I will read the Safe Harbor Statement. Our remarks that follow, including answers to your questions, include statements that we believe to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are generally identified as such because the context of such statements will include words such as "believe," "anticipate," "expect," or words of similar import. Similarly, statements that describe future plans, objectives, or goals are also forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements are subject to risks that could cause actual results to be materially different. Those risks include, among others, matters that we have described in our press release issued this afternoon and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K and Form 10-K filed with the SEC on June 27, 2008, and other filings we have made with the SEC. Except as described in these filings, we disclaim any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, which may not be updated until our next quarterly conference call, if at all.
Now, I'd like to turn the call over to Neal.
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I'd also like to welcome everyone to our Orion Energy Systems Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Conference Call. After I make a few opening comments, I'll ask Erik to provide some highlights from the quarter as well as describe progress within our business. Scott will then provide financial detail in the third quarter, and I will conclude with comments on Orion's strategic direction and long-term vision.
We're pleased with the results our business delivered in the third quarter despite navigating through the worst global recession seen in decades. These results demonstrate the strong fundamentals of our business, the value of our technology that we deliver to our customers, and most importantly the hard work and commitment of our people. Additionally our results during the quarter nearly reached the record levels we achieved in last year's third quarter, a time when the economy was healthier and business confidence was high.
For the third quarter of fiscal 2009, we reported revenues of $22.4 million, net income of $1.2 million, and earnings per share of $0.04. During the third quarter we installed our high-performance energy-efficient lighting known as Phase 1 in over 344 facilities, an increase of over 300 facilities that we completed in the second quarter. Our installed base of our customer facilities in total now numbers 4387 facilities and represents over 725 million square feet of space retrofitted. Our projects have a positive impact on grid capacity and since late 2001, we've delivered permanent base load reduction of over 422 megawatts of base load. Furthermore, we've made significant progress in delivering new and innovative solutions to our customers with strong shipments and installations of our products, which include in addition to our Phase 1 offering a specialty freezer fixture and we continue to gain traction on our phase 2 and phase 3 deployment of the Apollo Solar Light Pipe and Wireless InteLite control systems.
Despite the economic headwinds, we continue to win new customers and roll out our solutions across our existing customer base. Even in the tough times, the economic savings and improved working conditions delivered by our technology are major contributors to our customers' cost cutting and lean initiatives. However, this overall uncertainty in the market continues to present challenges to Orion's sales engine. We now have to invest more time into developing new deals and reselling existing deal due to plant closures and key contacts and decision makers losing their jobs.
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Joseph H. Loveman Village is a public housing project operated by the Housing Authority of the Birmingham District located at 248 1st Avenue Southwest in the North Titusville neighborhood of the Titusville community east of Elmwood Cemetery.
The project was constructed in 1951-1952 and contains 500 apartments. It was named for Joseph Loveman, president of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb department store, who served on the city housing board from 1940 to 1949. The project was designed by Charles H. McCauley & Associates and constructed by the Batson-Cook Company.
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I hate to say it but any progress we made we have lost. This is a game that a good football team wins easily. Colorado is a very below average football team. Unfortunately we are worse.
"I loved it dearly for the experiences, for the people. I've never seen people embrace you with love as much as they did when I was in college," he said. "They just opened up their arms. I'm proud to be a Cyclone. They gave me a chance when nobody else would." -Ellis Hobbs III
Didnt clonemaniac ask if it was possible for Colorado to win this game? HAHA
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Not tooting my own horn here but I actually wrote that we had to watch out for Colorado. The reasoning was that b/c Hawkins got fired, the team would rally around each other and become dangerous. Looks like that became true.
That doesn't explain our performance, though. Didn't CPR call this the biggest game of his career?
Actually I am optimistic.... Missouri game still a MEANINGFUL game.... A win would still not be that FAR FETCHED being played at home. Season goals still there to be had.... Tiller sounded like he did well to drive and score. Offensive line didn't come to play.... Iowa takes yet another step back from ELITE status we all know they have... NOT. Iowa State has taken steps forward this season.... YES Optimistic... and a Missouri win wouldn't even be SO Shocking... Coach will rally em back and expect a good Senior Night at the JACK !
Yes... Optimistic even in a loss
There are no conference road gimmie's when you're ISU. Colorado beat Georgia, who is a very similar team to Texas. Very talented, but play not so great football.
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The "most shorted" stocks have quadrupled the performance of the broad market this week as the dash-for-trash remains the best-performing strategy under the premise of an ever-rising strike Yellen put. The ammo for this latest rampapalooza, as we noted here, was hedge fund specs the 'shortest' in over a year which were then squeezed by an ever-present visible hand willing to sell JPY against any and everything in the world (or smash VIX - which ever works best). But as one more skeptical manager noted, "I've been a non-believer for so long that I just am not believing yet."
What's better than being long stocks? Being Long the "most shorted" stocks...!
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Five years after the credit crisis, equity markets are showing zero tolerance for bears.
"If I were bearish, I'd be very concerned," Doug Foreman, chief investment officer at Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management in Los Angeles, said by phone. His firm oversees about $9 billion. "What's it going to take for me to be right? I don't know. There is no evidence that they're going to be right any time soon."
"What we're seeing is a resilient economy and I'm afraid there's been a reluctance on some people's part to focus on the bigger picture," Howard Ward, the chief investment officer for growth equity at Rye, New York-based Gamco Investors Inc., which oversees about $47 billion, said in a Feb. 25 phone interview. "There's a lot of good news out there that has not been received."
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"I've been a non-believer for so long that I just am not believing yet," said Landesman, who helps oversee about $1.3 billion. "We're going to see a very volatile year, with the potential of low 1,500s to the downside."
"The rose-colored glasses being worn by investors might be cleared in the year ahead as the withdrawal from QE and low rates might be harsher than many expect," Kass said. The Fed's stimulus, known as quantitative easing, "doesn't create a safe world, it creates a temporary high and the danger always comes on the flip side," he said.
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...every time even a modest threat of a downside correction reappears, momentum ignition across key FX carry pairs sends the Spoos and other equity indices higher triggering upside stops, which in turn forces even more hedge funds to cover short positions, once again sending the S&P too all time highs. And so on. Until the volume in the market is so low one block of E-mini futures sends the whole thing limit up, and everyone can just sit back and laugh.
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How are Soros' puts working out?
These big time douche investors are all in and leveraged to the hilt. If they don't go bulltard they get the wrong end of a bull's cock and the chance to jump off a building.
After they skewer and fry Soros these short positions will be so ripe.
I can't wait for new highs based on the worst economic numbers in history this spring summer.
I just can't wait!
He is hedging. It is about 10% of his portfolio. Good investment strategy if you want protect a bazillion dollars. Crappy strategy if you are trying to make money overall.
Going short is very dangerous for retail folks like us. Only for the very connected or very rich.
Safer than going long lol
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
But that red arrow says we're going down, must be true because I saw it on the internet.
I want to see more bankers attempt flying
We're off. Again.
I was sure it was 2011..
no way past 2012...
2013 it better be or...
2014 i'm broke
you'll have free Obamacare, a free phone and a SNAP card!
2015 your obamaville camp gets raided by FEMA, you loose again
2020 It's closer than you think.
Everything is free, you just never get out of line.
All we need now...is for the Fed to cancel the taper. At that moment in time, all "market" and "Federal Reserve Bank" credibility will plunge into negative integer land...and that will be that.
So you go, Janet! Taper that taper and blow it all up....pretty please.
what if they just resort to off the books QE. It shouldn't be possible, but what really stops them?
People trying to short this market crack me up. They just don't get it. When this market does finally give up the ghost there won't be anybody left to capitalize. They will all be Mt. Goxed.
No shit, this looks like it could be the big one. Only a hop skip and one big red candle from a major asswhooping for the Bullls.
"If I were bearish, I would be very concerned." has to be the understatement of the last five years. I agree Doc. If you know something is going to be supported at all cost, whatever the cost, then why would you bet on its demise?
I don't know, it's almost as if they wanted to be parted from their capital..... oh wait, it's not their capital. Maybe that explains it.
Actually if you were to short at the pinnacle and the shit storm hits, at least you won't have to worry about covering.
Other than bragging rights good does it do you? If you can't cover then there is no profit.
I wish that someone was shorting the miners and gold so they'd go up.....In any case... I don't short anymore.....that's for damn sure. And seeing the NASDAQ up like 12 out of the last 13 days reassures me that my call to no longer short is a good one.
Yeah... it seems short only works for one asset class.
All this accumulated "wealth" will disappear in less than a second when the algos go berserk and the brokerage houses do a MTGox. Aaannddd.... it's gone!
"If I were bearish, I'd be very concerned," Doug Foreman, chief investment officer at Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management in Los Angeles, said by phone. His firm oversees about $9 billion. "What's it going to take for me to be right? I don't know. There is no evidence that they're going to be right any time soon."
"What we're seeing is a resilient economy and I'm afraid there's been a reluctance on some people's part to focus on the bigger picture," Howard Ward, the chief investment officer for growth equity at Rye, New York-based Gamco Investors Inc., which oversees about $47 billion, said in a Feb. 25 phone interview. "There's a lot of good news out there that has not been received.
the bolded part is hilarious, still laughing
Tylers, Thank you so very, very much.
On a lark, I followed your hypothesis.
By far the most profitable trade this YTD!
Well that's dissappointing. As it turns out humans are not that smart.
< shocker >
Time to short the 'most shorted'.
What a madhouse. Granted it's been a madhouse for two decades running now, but FB going up after buying What'sApp, TSLA surging due to broker notes about 'utopian dreams' and promises to build a 'gigafactory' in something outside of its core expertise, while another Elon Musk even bigger scam, SCTY trades at 18 times 2016 revenue, bigger market cap than any other solar player, they don't make anything, and don't do the installs either ... it's all so corrupt and juvenile at the same time ... and then they quote someone who would be worried if they were a bear??
We should all be worried, and about more than market prices.
You forgot NFLX. Stock shoots after their deal with ISPs.
I so wish Bernanke were still around. Then the title for this post would have been: Ben Spoos all Over the Spoos. The connection between FX volatility and the need to short cover is not crystal clear to me, but the inverse logic of the markets (bad economic news - lead markets higher) is apparent for all to see. Is it too early to say the markets are broken? Or, are they merely irrational?
"Going short is very dangerous for retail folks like us. Only for the very connected or very rich."
You can make safe short bets if you stick with companies that are pretty much doomed to fail. I think GM would be one of those companies, but I would need to see a very bad quarter before pulling the trigger. I'm not sure about when, but eventually it will crash. I think Tesla would be a great short opportunity at some point, but I don't know when. Even if Tesla does not go bankrupt, the stock price will need to crash down to reality at some point.
Timing was also a problem for me. So, I don't "trade" anymore, I just lost money doing it, so I don't anymore.
"Five years after the credit crisis, THE FED is showing zero tolerance for bears."
Fixed it for you!
The economy as presented by Wall Street has always been a mirage. But a mirage is based on something believable, it looks real. In the 1990s the wealth effect looked real, homes were appreciating, salaries were going up, and life was generally good.
After the 2000 crash everything changed. Organic growth was dead, only the illusion of growth remained. Commodities skyrocketed in price, making it look like there was growth, paper prices for homes went full retard making people think they could afford things way outside the budget of their crappy job.
Now we only have the stock market increasing in value. Everything else is cratering. It's not a mirage of an economy anymore, it is a full blown fantasy.
I don't know if anyone else saw The Lego Movie here, I have a five year old, but the movie had the greatest representation ever of what I believe Wall Street sees, Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Imagine Unikitty as Janet Yellen:
Nervous going long but scared to death going short/bearish. All market/business fundamentals have been replaced by one simple policy change - QE! The importance of cash flow, IRR's, time value of money, real GAAP based financial statements, etc. have all been replaced by CBs continued efforts to print, support, inflate, and bailout every market or TBTF, or even the TSTCs now (too small to care) as even China has been sucked into this game by bailing out some small trusts over the past 30 days.
Still a believer that fundamentals will reign one day but watching the shorts get creamed on a daily basis is testing my resolve. Starting to think we may be entering an entirely new world of financial/accounting/economic theory where old school fundamentals (as previously noted) are all replaced by one new MBA class - Understanding QE and How to Front Run the Fed. Nothing else really seems to matter these days.
and how's 'ol Hugh Hendry doing these days?
While I'm bullish on stocks in general, I think there's some money to be made in the short term shorting some of these stocks. I bought puts on TWTR, FB and TSLA today and I expect to make a pile of money off them as they retrace some of the terrific run up they have had.
Fannie and Freddie are up almost 50% YTD.
The WTF is strong with these ones.
Buy the motherfucking dip bitches!
I wonder how many points we will be up tomorrow after yellen announces an increase in QE? I am thinking we may go limit up so that would be what, 100 points or so up in the ES?
We will be up at least 50-60 points on whatever she says, straight to 1900.
Up less than 20 would be a huge disappointment and the probability that we close down on the week is zero.


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