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Thursday, May 12, 2011
If I'm right then this should usher in the next deflationary period just like the rally out of the `08 three year cycle low signaled a coming recession, the next leg down for stocks in the ongoing secular bear market, and a collapse of the CRB into it's 3 year cycle low.
This should also drive gold down into it's D-wave decline. Yesterday the miners made a lower low and this morning silver made a lower low. It's probably only a matter of time before gold breaks below the $1462 pivot. That would confirm that gold is now in an intermediate decline and this late in the C-wave that would almost certainly turn out to be a D-wave correction.
The good news is that sometime in late June or early July we are going to get the single best buying opportunity we will ever get for the rest of this bull market.
At this point the goal is to preserve capital and get to that major D-wave bottom with plenty of dry powder.
163 comments:
Avnx_rocks, The $sox broke support in March. The $sox:$spx is now displaying a down sloping head and shoulders pattern. Looks like a tasty short to me. I guess there are always 2 ways to see things.ReplyDelete
at ease do you consider those slv puts home run plays?ReplyDelete
out of gold at 1498. quick $10 profit on 200 oz. :)ReplyDelete
I'm with Brian regarding tech stocks, nothing but downside if you ask me.ReplyDelete
That was a pretty hard sell yesterday. We can probably expect the bulls to try and hold $1500 today. That being said the miners and now silver have broken the daily cycle low.ReplyDelete
It's probably only a matter of time before gold follows.
China increased reserve ratio by another 50 basis point today. There's a lot of forces at work trying to contain the inflationary pressure caused by the fed.ReplyDelete
hi Gary,ReplyDelete
any view on rates? If there is fear of inflation, how come the long end is so well bid?
I posted this at the end of the other thread so not sure if you saw it. Google HA (hyaluronic acid) and read about it. If you still have cartilage it can help - it has helped me.
Ben pumped up the price of oil too high again and it collapsed the economy...again.ReplyDelete
Can't wait for the A wave already!ReplyDelete
I'll look into it.
The inflationary period is coming to an end. The dollar rally will correspond to the next deflationary period, including another recession and the next leg down in the secular bear market for stocks.
Hi Gary, what is your take on:ReplyDelete
1. The duration of the next ABC wave?
2. The possibility of suppressing inflation (more specifically the PMs) if governments around the world work together to take take it on (margin hikes, etc)?
sox is green now...
Well, I guess I'll hold my DUG for now and give this dollar a rally a chance to build. BUT, Looking at the charts of the miners, its not hard to imagine a right shoulder forming before everything drops into the abyss through summer. We'll see. I am 50?50 on short term directions right now, as the dollar could retrace some of its rally soon, as well.ReplyDelete
What I'm am more certain of is that volatility is going to increase here.
somebody STOP ME!ReplyDelete
I'm starting to get buy signals , and I cant (YET) prove them to be false signals :)
Has anyone taken initial PUT positions in SLV or GLD for the D wave or are most of you waiting for the 1460 break confirmation?ReplyDelete
If so, what strikes and months if I may ask?
Obama team to probe oil market fraud, manipulation. you cannot play against government after all.ReplyDelete
Alex: I posted on the last thread---"These power dives are tough on my signals. During times like this everything gets overwhelmed, so I will have limited patience when something goes against me. Still holding DBA for now, though." Be careful.ReplyDelete
Bush did that also, in 2008 when oil was sky high.
What carnage in silver! AGQ down to 150 level. Glad to be out of it.ReplyDelete
Got left behind in trying to buy SLV puts. How are the others doing on this.
Suppressing inflation would mean putting the world into recession (this is what Volker did).
The global economy, especially the US, is being propped up by monetary inflation. If that is removed down we go. Unfortunately it will go down either way because eventually inflation will rise enough to collapse the economy anyway. $112 oil may have already done the trick.
LOL@Alex. You are a funny man.ReplyDelete
Thanks ( I did ask for someone to stop me).
I am still getting a false sell signal , and a set up to buy signal in a few of these equities, so I am NOT buying, but I will be closely watching this.
Particularly XG , RIC , AG , EXK.
For now its Patience , or buy with Tighter stop that my normal 8%.
Alex, when you say you risk 8%, is that of total account value with cumulative positions, or is that per stock meaning 32% total risk?ReplyDelete
Just curious...
You are getting buy signals because your oscillators are oversold. Oscillators work well in range bound markets or in trending markets during counter trend moves.
They don't work in strongly trending markets where the trend has changed. The trend has clearly changed in silver and miners. Now you need to use your oscillators as sell signals when they get short term overbought, not as buy signals when they get oversold.
I do not know what Bush did after investigation??
But I think "the CME raised margin requirements on oil futures" has something to do with the investigation from Obama.
Thanks Gary.ReplyDelete
Any thoughts on how long the next ABC cycles in gold will run? Or is that too difficult to estimate at this point?
I intend to start shorting stocks into spikes, and it turns out can still borrow SSO to do it although I don't know for how long they'll be available.ReplyDelete
QLD also available for shorting.ReplyDelete
Once in, I expect to be in this trade several months so will use wide stops and adjust position size accordingly.ReplyDelete
SB: I suggest you short SSO now and also buy the same number of shares right away, thus boxing it. Then to "short" it you just sell the long position. They are unlikely to call you in on your short and this gets around the later unavailability of shares problem.ReplyDelete
boy if we don't hold here we have a lot of air on the bottom side....29.83 on slv for starters...ReplyDelete
I appreciate the input, but hate paying double commissions. If it's unavailable when I go to short, I'll just use the futures.
Might even use the futures anyway, but wanted to let others know the shares are there to borrow since it was in question yesterday. :)
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 7:38 AM
if all is as you lay it out, wouldn't it then be relatively safe to go long uup, the Russell, and even Gold? I am talking inverted ETFs without leverage; just for the wait until the A wave is here? Could I have ur thoughts on this? I know u said never to short the bull, but gold is at a comfortably high level here, and I believe having diversification on the short side is prudent too.
And what about bonds? Wouldn't deflation and a rise in the usd bode well for bonds? But Jim Rogers wants to Hirt them right here.
Still having a very har time seeing silver in the low twenties, but if ur convinced the D wave can do a lot more damage...
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 7:42 AM
Sorry, typing this on my phone with big fingers. I meant of course long uup, short gold, Russel, perhaps NASDAQ . And how about bonds?ReplyDelete
Jim Rogers: Silver rally was a 'gigantic crazy spike,' didn't quite reach parabolic statusReplyDelete
Jim Rogers
AGQ trading as 2.55x SLV today.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Oups. My previous commen just deleted by itself.ReplyDelete
Alex, XG gapped down today, that is never a good buy to me.ReplyDelete
RIC- H&S pattern. At neckline now, pointing 3 bucks down, and a gap down today.
EXK- A rather complex H&S but there none the less.
AG- Maybe you have a $1.75 to 50dma resistance. Another H&S.
Gold and silver will have to rally to bust these patterns up.
I don't generally short bull markets because the profit potential is too small and surprises come on the upside. I will buy puts as the profit potential is huge and makes the risk worth taking.
I'll leave the bonds to Rogers. I can't find much consistency in bond cycles so wouldn't really have much of an edge.
spam blockers caught it for some reason. I fixed it.ReplyDelete
alright got to workout and then heading to the rocks for the rest of the day. Talk amongst yourselves.ReplyDelete
The S&P made a higher high from Feb to May. During that time you have a negative divergence on RSI, MACD, and Chaikin Money Flow. Slow Stochs are the only momentum indicator to hold up, but only on the daily chart, not on the weekly.ReplyDelete
8 weeks into a new market intermediate cycle we are close to our 2nd weekly swing high. Things seem to be changing.
With Gary being mum on his put strategy, what do you suspect he would likely be doing?
Is he waiting for 1460 break confirmation?
What months and strikes is he likely to use - is July too soon?
Crazy just a couple weeks ago we were long July calls, now it is likely that it is a good month for puts.
Too late for SLV puts, IMO. It's down $17! Not to say there isn't money to be made, but with these premiums, mmmm.ReplyDelete
Plus many have made 1000% on SLV puts, they are almost ready to sell to you.
I would encourage caution here. Near the top everyone wanted calls; now everyone is talking about puts. The goal is to do options BEFORE a big move not after one. After a trend has been going for a while people's courage is up because of the trend, but a stiff bounce could happen at any moment. Puts can work if we are part way down, but with options a small timing error can kill you. Gary is hoping people will save money for the A wave---and he's probably right that most should do just that.ReplyDelete
so i came in at the top, and just sold, lost 30 percent of my portfolio. recommend just wait for the A wave to do anything?ReplyDelete
FWIW if this turns into a left translated cycle gold and silver have a long ways to go down yet.ReplyDelete
sentiment nearly reset now, the golden bull has shaken just about everyone off..$1650 here we comeReplyDelete
Miners all positive...looks like a bump coming?ReplyDelete
Mitchell: Sorry to hear about that. Hang in there. It is very important to cut losses short when you think you are wrong. Gary and everyone else here made it clear something was seriously amiss and that it was not a normal correction. Once that was clear you've got to get out and not let the losses get bigger. Don't press to "make it back" as that usually makes things worse. The A-wave will be a real opportunity; makes sure you have as much capital as possible for that.ReplyDelete
First victims of the rush to short crowd is SLW, what a reversal. Let gold break its pivot before you go nuts shorting.ReplyDelete
@Sandy101 (7:12 a.m.)ReplyDelete
Despite all of the (well-intended) advice to forgo puts at this "late" juncture, I took a position yesterday in SLV JUL 25's.
I'm traipsing around Ireland the rest of this month and as such have no intention to tend the nursery. Took a position small enough (2.5% of total funds) to be able to lose and still play the A-wave.
And if it were a short term trade, it's up 40% since I bought late yesterday. (And I haven't seen that sort of return in a bit.)
Good luck!
They trapped the longs on Tuesday and trapped the shorts on Thursday. I need a futures account.ReplyDelete
Oh, I am not short yet, except for some July OTM puts on the Russell and the USO fund.ReplyDelete
phew DXY holding below 75.5ReplyDelete
silver above 31 and gold above 1470
bought some PMs this morning to add to my pile, so far looks good.
didn't think the profit taking event was going to be so violent 2 weeks ago. i'm ok though no leverage, but sucks to see the paper profits disappear.
Martin Armstrong latest on silver
One of youz guyz was saying yesterday that techs were ripe for a dowfall, I can't recall who.ReplyDelete
Any further info on that?
Be careful with ETF's! There is no guarantee that they will perform as expected. ZSL is currently way off... should be roughly equal but inverse of AGQ. Currently ZSL is (+3.78%) AGQ (-11.59%) SLV (-4.45%)ReplyDelete
Those investors in ZSL are feeling ripped off. http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/mb/ZSL
110 million shares of SLV trading so far. It is blowing away the SPY right now. WOW!ReplyDelete
I might be interested in some of those Jan 2012 UUP calls. Anybody else eying them?ReplyDelete
Within the last couple years I've never seen ZSL so far out of whack with silver and AGQ. Currently ZSL is (+1.89%) AGQ (-10.51%) SLV (-3.58%)ReplyDelete
Yahoo msg board is really buzzing. http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/mb/ZSL
@Sandy101 for SLV puts, personally I think that if one wants to play puts, to do it small, then now is as good as anytime to buy puts. I sank $1K into SLV July 25 yesterday, and if SLV goes to 20, then I think I'll walk away with $10K... if it doesn't then at worst I paid $1k of tuition for learning options...ReplyDelete
for those than plan to go all in on puts, that's a different story... definitely too late for that now, and probably a bad idea even if you think you are buying at the top.
ProShares must has run out of funds to fuel ZSL... just dipped negative while AGQ at -9.19%... should have been about 9.19%... holders are getting screwed.ReplyDelete
Yeah, complete thievery on ZSL/AGQ ratio.ReplyDelete
Gosh damn bandits are punching the nuts of traders on both sides of the fence.
Ahhhh, breath!
AGQ is down 3X more than silver and ZSL is flat when silver is down almost 3%, I wonder what's going on? At least HZU.TO and HZD.TO is still tracking it normally.ReplyDelete
I started selling my puts and sold my short position this morning. I think we may have a bounce from here, we got a double bottom at 32.40 and waayyy too many people here discussing puts.ReplyDelete
No one was interested in buying puts when I was posting my purchases & now everyone is talking about it. Not a good sign.
do you guys think that this dead cat bounce we are experiencing with the reversal in gold/silver prices today will hold into tomorrow? wondering weather would be a better idea to remove remaining positions today or tomorrow. curious to hear bloggers around here's thoughts.ReplyDelete
Im liking this candle thats likely to print on the USD if this keeps upReplyDelete
There are twice as many SLV buyers than sellers at this time.ReplyDelete
Just sold half of my SLV puts. Will look to add again at higher price.ReplyDelete
Yan, I suspect at least until Tuesday.ReplyDelete
and i'm liking the emerging gold candleReplyDelete
BLH why Tuesday?ReplyDelete
thank you, bob. wish i was in hawaii right now myself, would have made this a much less stressful past 2 weeks!ReplyDelete
Dan: I agree. This board is turning into a decent contrary-indicator when options get promoted. I am hoping a dollar fade here will set up some nice shorts in various sectorsReplyDelete
Whipsaw city.ReplyDelete
I'm preserving capital for the a-wave and deciding when to exchange CND to USD. Any opinion with the Canadian dollar? Just do it now or wait for a pullback on USD which should give me a better rate on the exchange.
Lot's of chasing going on in here, then subsequent dumping for losses!ReplyDelete
Metals are over sold, these don't just roll over for you. Silver already down 35%, D-Wave's don't happen over night.
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 10:27 AM
Bob, and James r,ReplyDelete
have you changed your view about your upside expectations or are you still contemplating the double bottom?
Can't really get myself to have a clear opinion on that and am sitting back for now.
Follow the yellow brick road.....ReplyDelete
Ryan: I'd follow the chart on FXC. Looks like it held the low and reversed so CND ought to bounce for a few days, IMO. But I'd do it Monday or Tuesday if the dollar pulls back a bit. Nothing screams out at me though.ReplyDelete
ZSL is taking on water... broke... somebody call the plumber. How convenient while AGQ tanks.ReplyDelete
I finally sold my shares of AGQ today. Too much bleeding.
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM
If my question seems out of context - I haven't read up on this morning's posts here...ReplyDelete
I am considering a small position in ZSL (with no margin) for this D-wave ...anyone else?ReplyDelete
Do you expect some kind of bounce here? Do you still keep your gold positions you bought yesterday? Thx for sharing!
Thanks DG.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 10:35 AM
what does that mean, you're suggesting gold will go higher? Thx
Just a trade, anything can happen, i just feel gold has held up very well and a run to challenge the high's is a decent possibility, that's been my position since the cycle low. Stops at the cycle points.
The trade yesterday at $1,500 got stopped out. Other positions still open.
Are you saying that ZSL is much cheaper than it should be, based on silver?
back in gold at 1505. Looks strong to me today. People selling silver and buying gold?ReplyDelete
Hey Alex! You are the man! Good picking. You going to hold them?ReplyDelete
Yes, that's been my position since the cycle low last week. I'm letting the daily cycle low tell me otherwise.
Confusing picture - looks like Ben spooked the USD rally with his comments and there has been a hard bounce for gold, silver and crude off the rising weekly/monthly up trend lines. Being a good trader involves taking the market signals and ditching bias; having the ability to turn your opinion on a daily basis based on the charts alone and not what you think you know.ReplyDelete
The hammers (if the day closes as such) on gold, silver and crude could be worth a bid after 2 pushes down (from the highs) into that trend line. The weekly trend lines have not been violated on crude or gold yet.
Friday could be interesting!
Even AGQ has a large negative divergence vs. SLV. These leveraged ETF's are to be dropped like a hot potato once the trend changes.ReplyDelete
Keeping my calls 36 Silver for tonight...shall see in the morningReplyDelete
Rather large SOS today. Odd place for that.ReplyDelete
Basil, I never changed my view. Gold is not yet broken. I have no idea how high it will go, but I will mange my hedges appropriatelyReplyDelete
Neil, gold and silver seems to rise out of a sell off on Thursday, and then get crushed on Tuesday AH. I am just playing the odds.
Brian, more likely the early morning sell program is still higher than the covering still going on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM
A question to all:ReplyDelete
the way silver broke down a second time, making a 'double bottom' with a lower low, thereby breaking out to the downside...
couldn't that exactly be the type of smart money triggered set up that gets retailers and the technical crowd to panic out of their positions and for the smart money to collect these positions on the cheap?
Gary pointed out this type of set up a few times, the last time he pointed it out when talking about the possibility that USD might break down to a just lower low after the spike up, so that everyone panics out of their long position - and that would be when the smart money goes fully long.
Is that view or theory possibly applicable or not at all applicable to the very current situation in silver, you think?
Appreciate any feedback. Thx
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Btw, silver almost hit my downside price target of $31.ReplyDelete
I think what we saw today can still be considered a bounce off the Auguts 2010 to May 2011 ascending trendline, but I have not yet looked at it closely.
Over the past few days I saw that several others voiced an expectation of a bottom at $30 and $31.
Gary's call of possibly going down to $21 shocks me a little. Is he alone with his view or have you heard of other analysts who have such low targets?
I got to admit that it gets me a bit hesitant following my initial plan to get in at about $31. Yet, I would be slightly annoyed if I'd miss a nice run on the metal, watching with my pockets full of cash.
Nice intraday reversal on PMs after double bottom on silver. I think may get a bounce here for a day or two. Sold all my puts now and my slv short this morning. Let's see what happens from here...ReplyDelete
ok glad to see there are still a few of us waiting to see this cycle prove itself one way or another. This morning, 7 AM est was the first time in this correction I thought about just selling everything and sitting around for 8-10 weeks. Now I see we are green. Volatility is crazy.ReplyDelete
I think I am going to stick with poly and Bob FH and the few others and let this cycle prove itself. If I get stopped out it has been a great 3 yr run.
@ Bob or Poly or others still long. Will you raise your stops anytime soon or continue to leave them at the 1460 level ( at 1459..everything is sold for me)
Plus gold is still holding above the 50ema. The uptrend remains intact for now - what a difference the US session makes after the European session it looked like further downside in all commodities!?ReplyDelete
I just wish that it would either shoot up to 50$ or down to 20$ and get it over with. By the end of next week.ReplyDelete
ok..that was weird i signed in my kids computer and my name got changed. those hedo2cu were mineReplyDelete
All, if this is the "D" Wave, remember, it lasts 6-8 weeks and does its best to keep everyone on board hoping they caught a bottom. If this is a D Wave, rips in the POG and POS are to be shorted, if you are inclined to do that! I guess we should find it in less than one weeks time if this bounce has legs or just rolls over.ReplyDelete
Yes, ZSL appears to be much lower than where it should be by over 6 % at the moment. But.... it only SEEKS a price level that is 200% the inverse of silver. No guarantees!
SLV went positive briefly...not much of a head fake even though it recovered from lows. No-one will be convinced by this move that d wave is not here...not enough of a gain to fool anyone(suprising if that was big moneys intention)...see what tomorrow brings.ReplyDelete
Gary, would we be looking at lower prices for GDX and GDXJ to buy than today? My thinking is the miners led into the D Wave.ReplyDelete
Anyone think there could be some follow through on what appears to be a key reversal day on silver?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Romeo Bravo,ReplyDelete
if this move will have had legs or not we might know in a week, but if it has it will be even more difficult to buy it then. This reversal, if this is one, will be questioned all the way to $50, if it gets there. That's the problem.
You judging-the-puts sentiment folk are funny!ReplyDelete
There are just as many, if not more, going long. And the general consensus seems to be that it's a crapshoot either/any way: Stay in cash and maybe you miss out, maybe you save; take a stake and one way or another you're going to make something or lose.
I took my position based on my best synthesized "guess" of what I imagine will be a longer-term trend as I don't fancy baby-sitting my trades right now. If it's wrong, I don't lose much but if we're in the dreaded d-wave, I might as well find some sweetness there.
I just happen to not feel that way about going long at the moment, and judging by the anti-put sentiment being vocalized here today, perhaps I ought to rest easier :)
Do you really think we are going back to $50.00 silver? I am not setting any silver targets. My sell decision will be based on Gold. If gold hits the 1600 target or slightly higher, I would be surpised if silver got above 45-46. But who knows with this crazyness last 4 weeksReplyDelete
many people thinking a d-wave is at hand.ReplyDelete
thinking and hoping is not going to make it come true.
1460 gold hadn't been violated, the bull is still in play and many are jumping the gun with puts and leveraged inverse ETFs?
greedy anyone?
be careful, leveraged etfs are nasty in a whipsaw. they only stair downward. you are using a vehicle that doubles/triples already a volatile asset.
dollar collapse still in play too, need it to break down to 74 and then the fireworks should start as the shorts have to cover.
c'mon longs where are you? SB, announce QE3 man.. you don't have enough cash to run the economy/no less the gov't.
Silver retraced more than 50% of the past two day's drop. This is a slight change in the action.ReplyDelete
What this means is that even SI is going to tag its 200 Day averages, it is not going to be a straight line down but more jagged action. This is NOT good for ULTRA long ETFs since the zig-zag kills their price. It is good for shorting the ultra ETFs but that is negative gamma.
BTW the 200 day EMA on SI is just under 31. We came within a buck and change of that. We are also getting a doji in SI today. If this double bottom holds, and we take out the 39.50 high the measured move target for SI will be in the high 40s (yeah right.....).
I have gone flat in PMs except a very small position in DZZ, primarily for trading swings up and down the D-wave.
Basil, I'm convinced the PM trade is busted for now. The action of the miners, POS and volume on the 2x ETFs tell the story. I coughed up quite a few of my gains from the silver reversal but am happy to sit in mostly cash and wait until the A wave. I think that is the next high probability scenario. Otherwise you just swing from emotional low to high and arrive at the A wave exhausted and not ready to dive in.ReplyDelete
Dipped my toes back in a little, bought some slv july's puts at 25.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 11:58 AM
that was just hypothetical. I am just saying that you can buy these moves only the moment they bounce off like today. If it goes up Friday and Monday, it's too late, because a sudden down move like yesterday would bring you way into the red premarket. So in the very hypothetical case that silver would find its way up to $50, I believe that almost all here (including me) would miss the entire move.
Gary originally thought silver would hit 41.33 ...never happened ...was interrupted by bank BOT action....maybe that is the silver target? Next few days will tellReplyDelete
I asked Gary but didn't get an answer if the BB crash trade is still on the table.ReplyDelete
Vonda: Just FYI, my comment was not directed at you, but the board did absolutely light up with call option comments at the top and there has been a lot of discussion of puts now. I feel better when I am alone in something like that. Just like Gary said about getting record number of hits to his site, huge activity usually means at least a pause. I did not go long, so my feelings are muted, but silver did reverse most of its power dive this morning.ReplyDelete
Hey Guys,ReplyDelete
Looking at Silver, does this not look like a textbook double bottom? Also Gold remains above the pivot. I'm buying silver miners today.
I know Gary's analysis does not coincide with this but I am not about to substitute his judgement for mine. I found myself doing this too much but I have to do what works according to my analysis. We have a well defined stop in place with the dollar, gold and silver.
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Just logged in. Nice not to have to look at the markets now!
My thesis was broken yesterday and I am out in the no-stress zone (cash) and I will wait for the A-train to arrive.
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Romeo Bravo,ReplyDelete
I agree, just not with full conviction. Like Mr. M, I wish we could be done with D and go straight to A; but then we couldn't take a nice vacation break :)
Gary's on the rocks.ReplyDelete
Despite a bit of a talk regarding SLV puts on the blog, only 2 people took the trade ( from what I can remember).ReplyDelete
I was one of the guys who talked of missing the trade. I was planning to by SLV puts with 2-3 % of portfolio and would have taken it had silver bounced to low 40s. Maybe, we still find that opportunity in next few days.
Looking forward to going in big at D wave bottom and recovering lost profits.
Man, what a difference a day made. Had the gap down not happened and we had been able to sell silver positions that Monday morning, it would have been more than 100 % returns since January. We can still dream for next phase of PM bull:)
Baba Ghanoosh,ReplyDelete
Double bottom from the 39$ level, not from the top.
I have some Jun 30 puts.
Regarding double bottoms, I'm not sure how much technical analisys can be used at this time, it seems to have a mind of its own.ReplyDelete
Just went all in AGQ after having sold miners on the retest of the 50 day MA for a 7% loss a few days ago. We just broke to a new low, but if the dollar does a double bottom here and this is a classic hedge fund run the stop day on silver, there is a chance that this will be a bounce. I'm still expecting things much lower eventually, just playing a bounce here if it's a retail trap day. Will sell tomorrow on the open if I'm wrong.ReplyDelete
Miyagi San,ReplyDelete
Good for you. I wish I had got some a few days ago! Missed the bus.
I am hoping I can still catch it at next stop.
Did anyone who follow's Beanie's blog notice how bullish he was on SLV at the VERY top? Just sayin'ReplyDelete
Not sure how all this is going to play out in the short term but it seems to be on the downtrend.
I'm not an analyst or a shrink but I feel that maybe there are still some holding on to SLV hoping for rebound, maybe they bought more today to "average down".
If, if, if, the price of silver/gold continue downwards tomorrow, a whole whack might just give up and sell off, that would cause a panic slide like last we saw.
On the other hand, maybe I'm an idiot and the price will go to 48$ next week.
Again, grain of salt, bla bla.
We will just have to see how this plays out. Gary's insight in terms of the bull throwing off riders prior to a big up is still in play.ReplyDelete
If correct, the straddle strategy should work well.
This is the ultimate bull and a final MONSTER run over a couple of weeks would be the ultimate signature of it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM
my thinking too, but I think I'll stay put. The moves have become too violent for me.
What would you do if there's another -10% or more premarket? Just saying, because you mentioned all in on AGQ.
In contrast to 3 hours ago where there were 1630 buyers and 840 sellers, there's 1440 buyers and 1105 sellers for SLV.ReplyDelete
The ZSL MysteryReplyDelete
ZSL calculates its NAV at 7:00AM Eastern Time.At that time its official NAV was 24.28 and it was pretty much trading at that price.
To get the price differential you need to look at the 7:00AM price of the SI futures and then make the calculations. This is really confusing, but for them to price the swaps they need some trading desk to work with them.
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Net Asset Value
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London and New York. The actual times equate to noon London time for silver, and 3 p.m. London time for
The NAV is calculated as described under "Description of the Shares; the Funds; Certain Material Terms of
the Trust Agreement—Net Asset Value ("NAV")" for more detai
Fund Name,Fund Ticker,Fund Identifier,Security Description, Shares/Contracts , Notional Value , Market Value ,NAV
ProShares Ultra Silver,AGQ,74347W841,Silver Forward,46739800.00,1518901390.01,null,null
ProShares Ultra Silver,AGQ,74347W841,SIN1 Future,373.00,60901575.00,null,null
ProShares Ultra Silver,AGQ,74347W841,Net Other Assets / Cash,789765821.91,null,789765821.91,150.431184
ProShares UltraShort Silver,ZSL,74347W643,Silver Forward,-46585500.00,-1513886788.07,null,null
ProShares UltraShort Silver,ZSL,74347W643,SIN1 Future,-111.00,-18123525.00,null,null
ProShares UltraShort Silver,ZSL,74347W643,Net Other Assets / Cash,766004879.98,null,766004879.98,24.283411
As the saying goes, you only have to get rich once.
If I was sitting on 20 million burritos, I'd be trading small through the D-wave.
You will turn that into 100 million easy during the next A-B-C cycle. No need to be a hero right now.
- AnonymousMay 12, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Looking at all my charts, and intermarket stuff, it sure looks like we're undergoing a big Turning Point today, one that argues we're still in the C-Wave.ReplyDelete
Big Picture: It looks like early last week, because of perceived problems with Greece (and rumors they might be exiting the Euro), money fled from the "Risk On" trade (Euro, stocks, commodities, gold/silver) to the "Risk Off" trade (dollar, Treasury bonds).
[My understanding is that at different times, gold'silver can be part of the "Risk On" trade OR the "Risk Off" trade.]
The perceived problems in Greece made the Euro go down, which made the dollar go up, which made commodities and stocks and PMs go down. And at the same time, the Powers That Be decided to give the PMs an extra kick by demanding 5 margin hikes in 2 weeks. (Come on! If they were really doing this for LEGITIMATE reasons, they would've had 1 or at the most 2 margin hikes. 5 absolutely shows that they were doing this primarily to stop the silver and, by extension, gold, locomotives. "Oh, 1 and 2 didn't work. Let's try 3. Nope, 4 should do it. Damn! Still hasn't done it. OK, 5 should screw the longs. Ahhhhh -- sweet victory!!!!").
Anyway, "Risk Off" started last week. Today, it looks like "Risk On" is coming back on. It looks like the Euro is going to go back up, and therefore the dollar down. It looks like commodities and stocks are going back up too. And it looks like gold and silver are going back into their uptrend as well.
I would bet that the Euro, silver and GDX all put in lows today, and that gold put in its low last Thursday. And I would bet that Gary's original scenario is still going to play out: the dollar catching fresh long stops on the way down, causing a runaway train that crashes through the recent floor, and gold going to 1720 -1750 by the 3rd or 4th week in June, with GDX breaking out to new highs, and dragging silver to new highs as well.
*****Of course, I add my usual caveat: THIS COULD ALL BE ABSOLUTELY DEAD WRONG.***** (I'm not watching end of day action here, and, for all I know, my thesis may already be dust.)
I'm just saying, please try to watch the charts with "unbiased eyes" (if that's possible), otherwise, you might be missing a good opportunity to make back some profits that were lost the last 2 weeks.
And if this thesis does come to fruition, it'd make me very happy to know that I might've helped some people here, all of whom have helped me SO MUCH. After all, that's the basic philosophy behind Gary's Incredible Site -- to help other people with his high-level trading expertise. And I believe in his enlightened philosophy 200%.
I gotta run. Might be gone for a few days.
*****Again, I have to WARN everybody: everything I just said might be the purest wishful thinking on my part. And if it is, I hope you won't throw tomatoes at me next time I show my face here. ;^)
Wishing good luck to EVERYBODY here!
jhnewman, I share your thoughts too.ReplyDelete
OK... if SLV can't close above 34.. then I'm out at EOD.ReplyDelete
SLV is very short term (daytrade) oversold, it should end above 34$ unless a last minute selloff happens.
B ganoosh,ReplyDelete
Sorry, I was looking at silver over 34$ and SLV over 33$ but far below 34$.
ZSL reminds me of how painful it is to be right and still not make money.ReplyDelete
I think it was Eamonn that asked why I'd short the double long SSO rather than go long a double short etf. ZSL's behavior today is the answer, if one shorted AGQ they did better than 2x SLV's decline (3x to be exact), while ZSL might not even close positive.
I'm staying long but cut my position in half. I think IF it is going to bounce this is a time to take a shot.
The only thing is that according to my indicators the market still has lower to go which should pull down silver, however a strong reversal like this usually leads to a couple of days of strength as many sellers are taken out.
SLV down $1...lost half its retracement...too many headfakes to know direction...hope Mr M is right about closeReplyDelete
I have a style of trading that is not for everyone. I firmly believe the only way to make money in this game long term is to buy bull markets when everyone else is scared. I try to find the "run the stop" days that come at cycle lows, and if I'm wrong I'm wrong and I sell. Those are actually the lowest risk days when you look back at it, and you can rarely tell it's one of those days unless that's all you look for. The signature is always well-above average volume right below a support or pivot.ReplyDelete
When I was in the business (like 100 years ago) a colleague of mine referred to "the cost of coming in to work every day" because he'd come in, watch the market all day, and wind up doing something because he couldn't watch it all day without wanting some action. The trades he pushed for were generally losers. I will at worst have as much capital as I have today for the A wave. Just sayin'...ReplyDelete
I agree Cory. I've waited patiently for a day like this to add some silver miners. We have easy stops in place with either the dollar, silver or gold. Also a divergence in the miners and the metal price also could be constructive.ReplyDelete
Gary has been wrong before and he could be wrong here although I do appreciate his input.
SB, great point. I think I'd be slow buy ZSL as a short nowReplyDelete
No worries, DG.ReplyDelete
I thought of going long at the same time. Honestly, probably the main reason I didn't is because I'm afeard of wash repercussions--I need those recent losses to remain losses.
I can understand your "fade the crowd" attitude, but I'll bet that the crowd is correct most of the time.
The crowd isn't stupid. On this blog, for instance, the vast majority were correctly bullish on silver for weeks and weeks.
It's at the turn that the crowd is almost always wrong. But, if you know where the turn is, what do you need the crowd for ?
Wes: I agree with that, but I think a sudden burst and acceleration of enthusiasm is also noteworthy. Yes, the majority is right for months during a bull, but the extreme call interest didn't happen here until the gains were giddy on the upside, I think.ReplyDelete
I would also submit that we are not in a bull market in silver right now.ReplyDelete
By any conventional definition we are in a bear market -- maybe a cyclical bear within a secular bull, but a bear nonetheless.
That said, I'm rooting for you.
If you get a moment, could you shoot me an email? It's on my profile.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Comic 589: Puzzling
I'm not sure why so many people seem to like this particular comic - but then again, I don't know why anyone likes xkcd, ever. Nonetheless, some people who usually have better taste than that like this comic, and I guess my cynical jaded hateful nature is obscuring the joke. I see a man making a simple situation complicated for the sheer joy of finding something useful for his math degree, and then it's like "ha ha, you made it like an old puzzle! so we will make it more like an old puzzle, by adding animals." I am not going to get crazy mad though, because maybe this is just one of those situations where I am biased. And maybe I'm a little biased....
I do really believe though, that this comic is really similar to 173 - even with the graph of the common social situation laid out there in true nerdy form. It also seems a little similar - to me at least - to 287, in the common-situation-turned-into-obnoxious-puzzle way.
The line "The logistics of who can get drunk are nontrivial" confuses me - not on its own, but because I can't really place it into the rest of the comic - I assume it's being said by the main character, in that it appears underneath what it clearly his text ("someone has to get...") but it doesn't feel right for him to be saying it then. It feels more like the kind of phrase Randy would place as a caption, centered, under the whole comic, as a sort of explanation for the whole series of events. A guy saying that phrase sounds a bit like a dick, and it doesn't even really make sense at that point in the conversation.
Also, from a graph point of view, Panel 3 is just kind of dumb. They don't mention dinner anywhere in the comic, so I feel like Randy just looked at a simpler, bar+party version of the graph and said "hmm that is not NERDY or FANCY enough for me" and added another node to the graph. It's especially odd, given that it doesn't seem to even describe the situation he his in. Not that I'm saying it has to, but a real nerd would have worked to include those little details.
Details of course, on why Randall is not allowed to be left with the goat, will be spared for the sake of good taste.
99 comments:
- AnonymousMay 28, 2009 at 7:34 PM
You know...It could just be but did anyone else have an issue with the wording/grammar in panel 3?ReplyDelete
"Someone has to get Paul, and Julia and Emily have to leave by 10:00"
Maybe it's just me but it seems like a poorly constructed and worded sentence. I didn't find the comic overly funny for the reasons you stated too.
Looks to me like an ordinary compound sentence, separated by a comma. It's grammatically fine, but greater symmetry might help the flow.ReplyDelete
"Paul has to be picked up, and Julia and Emily have to leave by 10:00."
- AnonymousMay 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM
It seems to me that instead of taking a strip for what it is, you start out with the notion that it sucks and look for reasons to hate it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Oh god todays is another stupid "My Hobby" comic, wonderful.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 28, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Ok, this is my first comment here but I really think there's something to be said for this one. The last panel is a good punchline without being all in your face super-nerd. The 3rd panel is a decent set up for the kicker. I'm with you in the xkcd hate, but this one is redeemable.ReplyDelete
I also like how the goat looks a little like a cat.
I like this one because superficially, in the first three panels, it leads you to believe this comic is like the other ones you mentioned, all overthought math or graph theory.ReplyDelete
And then in the last panel it's turned on its head somewhat by interjecting an element from a famous riddle that's just barely similar.
It's different from 287 because in that case the entire comic is always about that concept (which, also, are not riddles but important math/computer science problems). It's not a twist in that comic, nor a change in context, but rather a further elaboration on the same theme.
I know the "maybe you just aren't the target audience" explanation doesn't go over well on this blog, and that's fair enough, but if you're looking for why people like this one more I think it applies in this case.
I also think the complaint about the dinner portion of the graph is kind of absurd -- like you're looking for something to piss you off.
In other news, today's comic is pretty shitty. It's "I know famous fonts!". The comic has been done a million times before, and the only difference here is that usually it's about Comic Sans.
@First Anon:ReplyDelete
You're at a site called XKCD sucks... are you suprised by that? That's the kind of dumb ass shit -I- would say.
I didn't mind this comic so much, Fridays makes me blind with rage though. How many typography nerds are there exactly? And if it's more than one I'm probably going to kill someone.
Shit, man. Who do you think makes fonts? It ain't just been one guy kerning furiously since the invention of the Gutenberg printing press.
- AnonymousMay 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM
When I first saw this, I thought, "that doesn't seem as bad as usual." Then after a few seconds I realized it was, indeed, very bad and not very original since The Simpson's used essentially that exact punchline/reference a few weeks ago (and it wasn't funny then).ReplyDelete
It's just another, "something something NERD THING IN REAL LIFE," comic that is completely lacking in any jokes.
My favorite typography joke is in the last four panels of this Unwinder's Tall Comics.By the way, I heartily recommend UTC as a good comic.ReplyDelete
- Cuddlefish PrimeMay 28, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Nothing about the alt-text? To me, that was by far the worst part.ReplyDelete
No shit? So where's the joke?
I didn't get it, at all, not gonna lie. But I liked it because it reminded me of old XKCD.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM
"The comic has been done a million times before, and the only difference here is that usually it's about Comic Sans."ReplyDelete
Worse than that - PvP did one just two weeks ago, with the same font (Papyrus) as the punchline.
Already added to the "In Popular Culture" part of the wikipedia page.ReplyDelete
- JonathanMay 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM
I didn't like the comic itself but I liked the reference to the famous puzzle at the end, I thought that was quite clever. Still, when a 17 year old can instantly see how to improve your comic, you know you aren't doing a very good job. Was that 'Damnit guys' really necessary? All it does is distract from the punchline at the end.ReplyDelete
Yet another comic I feel totally bland about. I think there could have been something to it, but really, the set-up doesn't work at all. I think this might actually have worked as a longer comic, with him putting some actual effort in to figuring out who needs to go where, when, and with whom. Maybe have the guy whip out an easel from nowhere, and start working it out. And THEN, after he's got it worked out, have the guy go "I can't travel with the wolf, since I have my goat here." And then the "dammit guys" works well, too.ReplyDelete
Regarding the newest comic, it's the exact joke in this PVP comic: http://www.pvponline.com/2009/05/11/the-font-snob/ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Oh, bravo, today he went with the font equivalent of slipping on a banana peel. I've already heard Comic Sans and Papyrus jokes way too many times. Usually words around a character performing an action indicate a sound effect, but here they indicate action the artist lacks the ability to draw.ReplyDelete
Here we also have an example of the comedy of getting professionals in their field upset by doing things to provoke them. Meeting an astronaut back from the Hubble and asking them how their astrology project went? Hilarious!
In #xkcd Randall just said he just sketches whatever he feels like, then after a while picks something and touches it up before posting. I take this as personal verification of your "blog entry comic" idea.
Best reason to invoke a Comic Book Guy reference. Ever.
The "Dammit guys" is my major concern here. There shouldn't be anything after the punchline. The rest of the comic I didn't mind that much, it's just that the setup could have been handled better. The joke itself is pretty decent, in my opinion. I don't know, I kinda like the absurdity of the goat/wolf thing being interjected. A better comedian could've run with this and made it hilarious.ReplyDelete
Look like the forumites got Wikipwned. Check the link again:
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 2:29 AM
Guys, there is a big discussion on the Wikipedia page re: XKCD's vandalism, please show your lack of support and hopefully Wikipedia will take the same stance on XKCD fanboys as they have on scientology:ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 3:00 AM
@Malethoth K.ReplyDelete
"My favorite typography joke is in the last four panels of this Unwinder's Tall Comics.By the way, I heartily recommend UTC as a good comic."
All I see in this is a fuckton-a words. You maintain a blog about supposedly terrible webcomics and yet you link to the same shit that did this? I thought it wasn't possible but it managed to make all three comics it ripped on better in comparison. Jiff Janks of QC fame suddenly seemed a ten-fold better artist, the xkcd parody (apart from making xkcd look witty) has been done many times before and more humorously, and the Powerup Comics? Wow, he managed to mock a comic that's only known amongst the inbred pigfuckers that frequent Drunk Duck, and by copying it exactly? That's ironically being unfunny? No, sorry, it is the worst attempt at parody ever. And yet you try and follow in the footsteps of John Solomon? Christ, why not just stalk him down and rape his family to death in front of him? Your webcomic taste is bad and you should feel bad. In your link's defence the joke wasn't particularly awful but the rest of the comic before it was just offputting (mostly with it being boring, pointless, terrible and clearly the author's public masturbation) - I only flicked down to see what your four "best joke" panels could contain, and saw a non-sequitur. Great.
In fact, fuck this, let me run quickly break this down, this douche uses more words than that fuckstain Tim Buckley, he uses photographs of girls of questionable ages (ephebophilia is a crime too, ladies and gentlemen), he makes a shameful attempt at copying Perry Bible Fellowship in this bottom row, he cannot draw facial expressions to save his life, he whines about anime not being exactly as he wants it when he gets it for free and so that's why he'll get the official releases (probably via pirating) and then there's this. So many things are wrong with that strip, so many that I will just say "look at each row [if not panel] and you'll see something." I can't believe that anyone would read that, let alone recommend it. Heck, his guest week had more artistic talent than he did, and his 'writing' just consists of throwing words at it until sentences just about form. Not that it matters because anyone braindead enough to read that many words at once in a webCOMIC aren't of any mental faculty to understand what they're reading nor notice how fucking awful it is.
No thanks, I think I'd rather stick with xkcd: even though it is fucking terrible, its author has some form of intelligence, and at least the art is meant to suck.
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 3:14 AM
Also this Wikipedia business is fucking retarded; the xkcd Sycophant Squad are in full force, and like hell they're going to let logic step in their way, no doubt this behaviour by the Wikipedia admins is "Orwellian" and "some bizare form of [that oh so violent] nationalism" and maybe even "creepy."ReplyDelete
But don't forget, my friends - if they get it added to the article, then maybe Randall will become their friend! Will their pathetic attitudes ever come to an end?
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 3:34 AM
590 it seems is just another "My Hobby: Being an Asshole" comic. Yay!ReplyDelete
The only humour i can really see in 589 is the sudden twist to the bizarre by the addition of the goat. Other than that its just "look at the problems of having a social life! With added graphs!"
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 5:24 AM
Those pictures are not sexual in any way, and thus not illegal in any way. Also, those girls are his girlfriend and sister. Learn to read, genius.
It should be a very minor quibble, but the fact that the 2nd guy in the first panel asks "why?" before answering the question makes me hate this one. It is just intolerably bad dialogue.ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 6:17 AM
Did I say they were sexual? And if that's the only part of what I said that you can dismiss then boo fuckity hoo, the comic is still terrible even if those images weren't there.ReplyDelete
Also, "girlfriend" and "sister" aren't 'ages,' just to let you know. But I'm willing to agree that the girlfriend is 25 or something; no clue about the sister, but I don't shack up with young kids so I wouldn't really know my way around anything <20. Maybe you can enlighten me, O white knight of UTC.
Rehoboam, it's not exactly child porn, is it?ReplyDelete
boo-fucking-hoo it's a photo story that might or might not include an underaged girl.
SO FUCKING WHAT, shut the fuck up already, IDIOT.
(also, ephebophilia is not a crime, L2English, thankyouverymuch)
For that matter, neither is pedophilia. It's child molestation that's a crime. Or child pornography.ReplyDelete
production, possession, and distribution of child porn is a crime in most countries, yes.ReplyDelete
Randall certainly can't be left alone with the goat if it's a kid! (OH NO I DIDN'T!)ReplyDelete
...Oh. That was a really bad time.
But, erm, Rehoboam, don't let anyone tell you this, but... erm... you're allowed to take pictures of young people, as long as they're not sexual. I mean, holy screw, school photos. They pretty much by definition have young people in them, but, as far as I am aware, there are schools within the United States of America.
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Rehoboam: I have never read that comic until I saw your comment. I saw the word "ephebophile, and my interest was piqued, so I clicked on it and was disappointed at the lack of teens in bikinis. Being a teen myself, I don't really feel much guilt about this.ReplyDelete
You said that he uses photographs of young girls, and go on to say that ephebophilia is a crime. First of all, ephebophilia is /not/ a crime. What is a crime is having sex with underaged kids, or possessing sexualized photos of them. We can agree that these photos are not sexual, and do not imply underaged sex or anything of that sort. All we have here are photos of two girls, one of them probably underage. Are you suggesting that simply having a photo of a girl under 18 is breaking some moral code?
Think about it? All this is is a photo of a fully dressed girl, doing nothing sexual at all. Sure, some ephebophile may say "she's pretty" and start wanking, but is that the author's fault? Are you saying that we shouldn't share any pictures of children anymore--even completely innocent ones like these--?
If I didn't know better, I would think that you are looking for anything to hate about something without actually putting thought or research into it, making you as bad as a person who would mindlessly protect a comic with no value at all.
Plus, wasn't Unwinder one of the people who created Powerup Comics, anyway? He was involved in it in some way.ReplyDelete
Also, I love how you complain about how much text there is when he's deliberately switching to a text-based medium for the purposes of telling a joke. It's like going to, you know, a news website and complaining that there's too many words.ReplyDelete
I'm surprised Carl didn't mention the alt-txt in this entry, as I felt it was the worst part of 589.ReplyDelete
All the Wikipedia vandalizing of xkcd makes my blood boil. xkcd is NOT NOTABLE. You'd think these presumably Wikipedia loving xkcd fanboys would understand the notability guidelines.
590 is terrible. It's such a tired joke. In fact, I was reading a Digg thread just yesterday about fonts (http://digg.com/design/I_Shot_The_Serif_PIC) and people reference Papyrus and Comic Sans throughout it. The same story was on reddit, which Randall seems to love, and then Randall makes a lame font joke. This was quite possibly Randall's laziest comic yet (not counting the absolute worst, like that stupid two hats comic).
I hope you mean "xkcd mentioning papyrus is not notable", cos if you mean "xkcd as an entity is not notable" I'd have to be mean at you for a bit.ReplyDelete
I once went into a cafe because it had a sign written in Gill Sans. I keep going back 'cos you can get a 6 by 4 by 4 box full of jacket potato, cheese and beans for only £2.50. Class.
I meant xkcd is not notable (as a reference in a wiki). Obviously it's notable enough to have its own entry.ReplyDelete
I mean, why not link to every reference made by PA or even say CAD (or Garfield or Foxtrot for that matter)?
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 8:52 AM
I can't really comprehend how empy one's life must be to feel the need to start lebgthy blog about how they feel a webcomic is starting to go downhill. I'd say "get a girlfiend", but I feel the situation is more dire. You must have masturbated so much that your penis is scabbed and ulcerous, and you can't manage to masturbate one more time. Only this could explain why you would have so little to do that you spend hours of your life commenting on a stick figure comic.ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM
"Also, I love how you complain about how much text there is when he's deliberately switching to a text-based medium for the purposes of telling a joke. It's like going to, you know, a news website and complaining that there's too many words."ReplyDelete
I already drew attention to the concept that this is supposed to be a web[b]comic[/b]. If you cannot do a comic page without going, "Hmmm, shit, I don't know how to make this funny FUCK IT I'll just throw words out until someone laughs" then you might have to question whether you're any good at writing. At all. For anything.
Don't get me wrong, here, I know that we must have too much time on our hands to read webcomics (and complain about them), but if you have enough to time read through those poorly-written dictionary-dumps then you really need to question if your life has any direction, worth or meaning to it.
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Also watch me crying because I used BBCode due to how often I've had to repeat these arguments on more suitable areas: boo. Bloody. Hoo.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Rehoboam, you are my new favorite troll.ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 9:15 AM
"If I didn't know better, I would think that you are looking for anything to hate about something without actually putting thought or research into it, making you as bad as a person who would mindlessly protect a comic with no value at all."ReplyDelete
Yes, very good, this was a properly structured argument that I could concede to. You're right, there's nothing explicitly wrong with including them, but it's still a cheap way of getting people to read the crap. Maybe it was this quote from the 'news' that worried me:
"She is not available for dating unless you are that vampire heartthrob from the Twilight books."
Maybe I just worry to much about these things because creepy people and the internet go hand in hand, and because Twilight readers are generally in the "not of age" range (although I know adults read the fucking books, no-one need point that out). But yes, my 'research' wasn't well thought out; I had just gotten up. I literally spent 5 minutes just hitting random numbers and describing what was wrong with whatever came up. In this case it was more he was using photographic images to make people read the comic, because face it, that 'story' wasn't interesting enough to warrant reading WITH them in it, and would be less so with his normal artwork. Gaining readership using women as a hook, that was more what I was getting at.
No, no, if you want a well thought-out one I could produce it, but this was a speed criticism, although the fact that the comic is terrible is clear from the outset, so I hoped the comics would speak for themselves. I noticed that of the two retorts that Mr Solomon-wannabe came out with only one refuted me and that was actually refuted by you, Mr Anonymous. Congratulations. Next he'll assume because one of my points was shaken that he then try and worm out a second (technically third) feeble attempt to try and make me concede that that travesty is good, after all.
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 9:17 AM
"Rehoboam, you are my new favorite troll."ReplyDelete
I do what I can.
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 10:04 AM
"I can't really comprehend how empy one's life must be to feel the need to start lebgthy blog about how they feel a webcomic is starting to go downhill. I'd say "get a girlfiend", but I feel the situation is more dire. You must have masturbated so much that your penis is scabbed and ulcerous, and you can't manage to masturbate one more time. Only this could explain why you would have so little to do that you spend hours of your life commenting on a stick figure comic."ReplyDelete
Why would you even read this blog? Is your penis scabbed and ulcerous or something? It's a two-edged sword, my dudette.
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 10:21 AM
Wait for it, wait for someone to say, "Well where's your comic Mr Smart Guy?"ReplyDelete
- Cuddlefish PrimeMay 29, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Well where's your movie, Mr. Ebert?ReplyDelete
I really enjoy it when people imply that it takes an incredible time commitment to post a few paragraphs on a blog three times a week. Unless you are an illiterate howler monkey with no hands and a severe concussion, bitching about a webcomic in text form is not a strenuous or time-consuming activity.ReplyDelete
On a related note, commenting on this blog takes even less time, as can be evidenced by the fact that I usually type comments while I'm waiting for an application to build.
Rehoboam do you want to get gay marriedReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Sure do!ReplyDelete
But not to you, Rob!ReplyDelete
(Captcha: baconsu; what Japanese people say when they want some bacons)
Which is never, 'cos all Japanese people are actually allergic to pork. FACT.ReplyDelete
I don't really know what the word 'actually' signifies in that sentence. What, was I making sure you didn't think they were just pretending to be allergic to pork?ReplyDelete
The Japanese have long used the guise of not being allergic to pork to blend in with other Asians whilst conducting espionage operations.ReplyDelete
The fact that it takes surprisingly small amount of effort and time to keep this blog doesn't mean people don't have the right to find it pathetic. It also takes very little effort and time for a guy to yell "KILL ALL BLACK PEOPLE", yet it's perfectly alright to chop off the bastard's head beacuse of that.ReplyDelete
Wednesday's comic: blah blah blah nerds overcomplicating thingsReplyDelete
Today's comic: Well, at least Randall didn't use Comic Sans as the awful font to ridicule. I'll give him that.
I apologize for writing this blog post instead of knitting socks for homeless Ukrainians or whatever would have been a better use of my spare 5 minutes waiting for my printouts.
Pvp already did the papyrus joke like last week. I didn't want to admit it at first, but you guys are right. XKCD is truly f*cking terrible now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Is Rehoboam a troll or a dumbass?ReplyDelete
Rehoboam I admire your spirit of telling people what is wrong with what is in my objective opinion one of the worst web comics of all time, I would direct you toward a slightly different method of destructive criticism which I will outline for you in this next paragraph that is coming up next.ReplyDelete
You need to get down on your hands and knees (I know it's not easy) and evaluate these comics on THEIR OWN TERMS. If you ever think that you are going to be good at those things that you do you are going to have to realize this, and I am humble and understand your predicament.
For instance, you might read a comic and say "there are pictures of young girls in this comic." I would read the same comic and say "This comic is an underarm, and those photographs are either armpit hairs or little beads of sweat." See what I'm doing? I'm approaching that comic from its own perspective and finding it mercilessly worthless, which is exactly the way a man does things.
I apologize if you are not a man, but even women sometimes want to do things like a man, even if it's just for the sake of giving it a shot.
Another thing by the way that I find useless and unfair about these tall comics is that they have never once defended the mentally ill.
You know, my Solomon ripoff only lasted, like, five updates, and I stopped doing it thirteen months ago. FYI.ReplyDelete
And if you guys REALLY wanna see how shitty I am re: webcomics, have fun and try reading through my own. It may actually be the worst webcomic I've ever read, in the sense that it makes me angriest when I actually contemplate it.
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Rehoboam I don't think Unwinder is really trying to do a traditional webcomic. You don't have to like the fake news websites and scripts, but some people do. Maybe for the same reason one would read The Onion. Anyway, have fun being a moron with zero valid points.ReplyDelete
i always thought it was bullshit how watchmen had all those goddamn text excerpts at the end of every chapterReplyDelete
what the fuck alan moore this is serial imagery i want pictures
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM
It's okay to not like things, but at least just admit you plain don't care for it. Going on a tirade against some comic because there is a blog about how XKCD is bad doesn't do anything for anyone, except make you look stupid.ReplyDelete
@MallyK: haha!ReplyDelete
(what, is this twitter or something?)
I like how people are blatantly admitting that they used to hate Papyrus too, until they learned that it's used in Serenity.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 8:02 PM
If you don't get the joke,ReplyDelete
Wolves eat goats.
- AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 8:37 PM
It's not a matter of getting it, it's that it's just not funny. Referencing (this case a riddle) =/= joke.ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 29, 2009 at 11:54 PM
"Rehoboam I don't think Unwinder is really trying to do a traditional webcomic. You don't have to like the fake news websites and scripts, but some people do. Maybe for the same reason one would read The Onion. Anyway, have fun being a moron with zero valid points."ReplyDelete
I love fake news and I love scripts. I like things that are done well. I don't particularly care if you like a crappy comic but if you suggest it to people, you're going to have to deal with people who won't like it. That's how it goes. I'm not going to launch a vendetta against the author, but I'm not the one thrusting myself into defending it by calling someone a "moron with zero valid points" without actually backing up my claim. In fact I genuinely did back-up my points, give-or-take an issue with photography.
And Malethoth: "And if you guys REALLY wanna see how shitty I am re: webcomics, have fun and try reading through my own. It may actually be the worst webcomic I've ever read, in the sense that it makes me angriest when I actually contemplate it."
I did read it, actually. I wasn't going to say anything about it because I thought you were being ironic. To your credit your updates were okay, they just lacked the genuine levels of vitriol that made Solomon's reviews unrelentless (thus entertaining).
Finally Anonymous: "It's okay to not like things, but at least just admit you plain don't care for it. Going on a tirade against some comic because there is a blog about how XKCD is bad doesn't do anything for anyone, except make you look stupid."
How does it make me look stupid? That on a blog where someone with a belief in standards posts about a comic that has slipped from them, someone who applies standards to other webcomics is some kind of strange, unwarranted occurance? Sorry to refute your totally valid point.
I know it's really not on topic, but he's been mentioned in this comment thread and is possibly the owner of the largest single webcomic hatedom, so...ReplyDelete
Why does everyone hate Tim Buckley (and Ctrl Alt Del by relation) so much?
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Look him up on Encyclopedia Dramatica.ReplyDelete
CAD is awful, with no redeeming value. I don't know why you feel the need to ask that question.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 4:40 AM
Tim Buckley is possibly a paedophile.ReplyDelete
Tim Buckley has the biggest ego in webcomics
Tim Buckley is a jerk to his fanbase.
Tim Buckley is a sell out
Tim Buckley has no originality, his whole shtick and even some of his jokes are stolen from Penny Arcade
Tim Buckley can't write realistic characters or non-forced dialogue
CAD isn't funny, at all.
CAD has a giant obsessed fanbase
CAD is more popular than a lot ofgenuinely good comics
CAD is written like a bad sitcom
1. Romicide- A rumour on one of his forums (Rantings of Madmen I think) that Tim Buckley sent a picture of his wang to a 17 year old girl on the forum. He deleted the subforum and banned everyone who had even LOOKED at the thread. I think.
2. B^Uckley asked for donations from his fanbase to make a CAD server on a game. He got bored of the game and cancelled the server, WITHOUT GIVING THE MONEY BACK.
3. The Miscariage Arc
Can't be bothered finding more, but there is. Google it.
I did read it, actually. I wasn't going to say anything about it because I thought you were being ironic. To your credit your updates were okay, they just lacked the genuine levels of vitriol that made Solomon's reviews unrelentless (thus entertaining).I was being ironic, and the comic is STILL painfully bad, because it's really shitty irony.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM
The uninspired copypasta, lack of DRAWN backgrounds, etc. Don't forget that.ReplyDelete
- The ScyphozoaMay 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM
This comic is funny because it was surprising. The punchline was unexpected yet fit right in.ReplyDelete
That said, Friday's SUUUUUCKS. All the My Hobby ones suck as far as comic-y-ness. They only serve to add to the foundations of the community, and are actually pretty good as minimemes.
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 4:58 PM
The Wikipedia edit war over the Papyrus reference is hilarious. Much moreso than any xkcd itself has ever been.ReplyDelete
@Anti-Tim AnonymousReplyDelete
As for the "Wang to a 17 year-old girl" thing, I've actually heard that before, but the explanation sounds like one of those crappy conspiracy theory Youtube videos. "He did something evil and then destroyed any sort of evidence, destroyed it because he's SO FUCKING EVIL". The age of consent is actually below 18 in a lot of areas of the US and other counters (I have no idea where Tim and supposed girl were located)... but it's still creepy as shit either way.
Webcomics (and art in general) has a lot of people who think really highly of themselves.
I'm assuming the "jerk to his fanbase" is in reference to the donations for a server thing. Once again I don't know the whole story on this, but isn't it entirely possible that the donation money (gasp) was already spent during the server's run?
All the rest of him having no originaliy and comic critique can all easily lump together. I'm hardly an avid reader of Ctrl Alt Del, though I do Stumble it now and then and it doesn't really seem any different than Penny Arcade or any other Sarcasm + Games webcomic. It doesn't seem like it's worth much attention, let alone a hatedom that manifests itself every chance it gets.
I'm not really defending him or his comic (well, other than for the sake of conversation), but it doesn't seem that he's done anything radically different than a whole ton of other webcomics out there... like, he's probably an asshole, but it doesn't seem any more so than plenty of other assholes with smaller hatedoms.
He's significantly worse. Hell, even other webcomics people hate him. They are usually a pretty friendly group.ReplyDelete
" but it doesn't seem any more so than plenty of other assholes with smaller hatedoms."ReplyDelete
"Miscarriage. Plot line."
With no warning, and no prior pretensions to seriousness, Buckley made his self-insertion's fiancee miscarry. Just to fuck with the fan base. Not for any lasting pay off, since the characters still ended up getting married, and seem unchanged by the experience. And THAT is why people hate him. A flippant treatment of a fairly horrifying event.
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Thanks Mike. I'm the Anon from before.ReplyDelete
He made a blog post to go with the comic.
Wow, check out that wall of text.
Here's a little highlight:
"Again, I disagree. A miscarriage is definitely not a joke, and I have no intention of making light of it. And it can be a tough and emotional thing for couples to go through, speaking from personal experience. And I know that it's often much harder on the woman than on the man. However, I also know that it doesn't necessarily turn you into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of your life. People can move past it, and heal."
Buckley had a girlfriend and she had a miscarriage. Hmm...
Anon: Yeah, it might have been based on events, but he planned the arc for something in the neighbourhood of two years, and didn't lay a shit's worth of groundwork for it. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a serious moment in the comic that didn't involve the death of his robot buddy. You'd think he could have prepared the readers for that a bit, eh? Instead of just having his character act like a fucktard the entire time, and then manage to have all the characters over the event in something like 2 months? It's a self-insertion blip on the radar that proves Buckley doesn't actually give a fuck about the integrity of the comic. He makes a feign to continuity, but consistently does shit all with it. Not to mention the characters are pretty damned poorly written. Does anyone honestly believe that Ethan, the complete and utter tool he's previously been, could run an entire store with no management training? And Lilah has no characterization. Literally. Name a defining characteristic that goes beyond "female" and "likes video games." Considering how long the comic's been going, and how much "story" there's been, you'd think you'd know a little about what kind of food she likes, or anything.ReplyDelete
Yeah the characters are pretty much all about as one-dimensional as you can ever be. There's no psychology to them at all.ReplyDelete
The worst part, though, is that Buckley isn't just self-important. I think most people in webcomics are to some degree or another, with a few exceptions. It's that he is pompous, deranged, and narcissistic. It adds up.
First, there is the format of his news posts. They are still the front page of his website--because he assumes that his readers care what he has to say. This is also true of a few other comics--Penny Arcade being an example--but in the case of Penny Arcade, the news post always contains relevant text to the comic, and Tycho is also actually a good writer.
Tim Buckley, in contrast, is a pompous narcissistic blowhard who thinks that his opinion is important to his legion fans. It's all in the tone. He can write a review of a game and sound loathsome while he's doing it. He is utterly self-absorbed, and simultaneously incredibly insecure. He maintains a sock puppet account on Wikipedia to monitor the CAD article and root out any criticism or negative press about the comic. He lashes out with vitriol at even very thoughtful and kind criticism, with a harsh and dismissive "well then don't read it, dumbass." Even the ones fully intended to be constructive, that would actually benefit him greatly to pay attention to, that come from people who are legitimately fans--"don't read it, no one is holding a gun to your head."
I don't understand how he makes money. I mean, xkcd, for all its faults, is still compelling enough to read. I tried to read CAD once and just got bored.ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 30, 2009 at 8:56 PM
"I was being ironic, and the comic is STILL painfully bad, because it's really shitty irony."ReplyDelete
Well, yes, but I was giving you a get-out-of-judgement free card.
And now while I panned UTC, it is a relatively harmless comic that lays low. Timothy "Look at me guys I'm Irish" Buckley's miscarriage is the opposite kind of comic: harmful and well-known. I can provide commentary to this end, but I'd rather let the King spread the good word.
Rehoboam: I could go on for hours about how batshit insane and egotistical Buckley is. To Randall's credit, he is a million times better than Buckley.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 10:35 PM
CAD is a piece of shitReplyDelete
xkcd is still decent every once and a while.
I wish TSGA would stop fucking around so much and make more good comics. Or any comics for that matter.
This one I found pretty good. It would have been better if he hadn't skimped on the dinner/bar/driver logistics.
I guess I don't read CAD nearly as much as the people who actually get no enjoyment out of reading it.ReplyDelete
Though once again, to be fair, I can't think of a single video game comic that doesn't have the author's blog as teh front page going in. It's pretty much the only way to get your fanbase to read it... assuming everyone on the internet has teh exact same browsing habits that I do. Which is completely reasonable to make.
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Hey, who likes Awkward Zombie?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2009 at 11:36 PM
I have awkward zombie on my list of webcomics that I read, but the appeal has really faded. I might end up removing it if the next update sucks.ReplyDelete
I am ASTOUNDED at how she can look like she does in her comic. I am just aghast.
- AnonymousMay 31, 2009 at 6:21 AM
I didn't know what papyrus was, I had to look it up. I think more people would have gotten it had he used Comic Sans. The comic itself still didn't amuse me muchReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 31, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Am I the only one that hates the site color scheme for akward zombie?ReplyDelete
That's why I never check her comic, because the huge bright red makes my eyes bleed.
- AnonymousMay 31, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I actually do enjoy reading CAD. But only because it's so terrible and unoriginal.ReplyDelete
- RehoboamMay 31, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Carl you are taking forever to talk about Papyrus, has something come up? Would you like a guest speaker?ReplyDelete
- COVIZAPIBETEFOKYMay 31, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Carl has taken 2 days, so far.
Forever is far more than 2 days. Forever is more than 10 days. Forever is more than 10*10 days.
In fact, forever is more than 10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10 days.
Furthermore (and this is REALLY going to blow your mind away):
Forever is more than 10^10^...^10 days, where the number of tens is 10^10^...^10 days, where the number of tens is 10^10^...^10 days, where the number of tens is 10^10^10^10^10^10.
WOW! Forever is a LONG time!
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nitpicking: okay so as someone who has studied that damn lettuce-goat-wolf thing, actually if the guy were traveling with the goat he would be able to travel with the wolf. The whole premise is that the farmer needs to stay with the pairs wherein one will eat the other. So maybe have him say "Yeah and I have to stick with the goat and the wolf to make sure the goat doesn't get eaten."ReplyDelete
8:52 AM Cuddlefish: .... how does one's penis get ulcerous from masturbation?? That is a terrifying thought.
And then 10:04 Cuddlefish and on, you have made my next hour. Then I will forget this amusing interlude and go back to being bored.
BACONSU PLZ! Actually my captcha is "tater"! YUM.
Fernie, the fact that it takes surprisingly small amount of effort and time to keep this blog doesn't mean people don't have the right to find it pathetic, but it does mean that people cannot use the argument that anyone who frequents this blog has no life.
Lastly, on the subject of hated webcomics that should not be as popular as they are... is LICD on that list for most of you? I have noticed it being mentioned in disdain, and am wondering now if the reasons behind hating CAD are similar for hating LICD.
- AnonymousJune 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM
This is actually a really good comic, IMO. I literally laughed out loud.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Why does your opinion matter?ReplyDelete
- COVIZAPIBETEFOKYJune 3, 2009 at 6:44 PM
First things first, 7:03.ReplyDelete
4:05 never said his/her opinion mattered. So the question is:
Does your opinion matter?
With your question, you're clearly and undeniably guilty of a strawman.
(warning: this post is sarcastic. If you were too stupid to realize that before you read this warning, then you need to dowse yourself in gasoline and light a match to your clothes. I am NOT kidding.
You have been warned.)
- MichaelJune 29, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Regarding the graph, you'll also note that a party isn't mentioned anywhere else in the comic.ReplyDelete

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