Sunday, December 14, 2014

Occupy the Skynet Illusion: The Idiocracy's Last Lesson

It's the 12 days 'til bonus and Wall Street is ALL IN
The bonus has already been counted for this year...and for next...


Barrons, December 13, 2014
"Born in March 2009, today’s bull market is the fourth longest in history—and it isn’t about to end, despite last week’s shellacking."

"Wall Street’s top strategists expect the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index to rise 10% in 2015"

"There is no dissent on the market’s future direction"

You don't say...

The Dow is up 4% year to date, the S&P is up 8%

Dow year-to-date with VIX (horizontal line is break-even point)


Nasdaq HFT Illusion
w/Percent of stocks above 200 day moving average (DMA):

Seven lower highs 



New 52 Week Highs NYSE:
50 day moving average



From the same Barron's article aka. "Let's pretend this isn't happening..."


Eastern European Stocks: Below 2009 levels
Globalization doesn't do sanctions:



European Stoxx600 Composite
No soup for you...


The "Best" performing stock market of 2014 
Argentina, the only country to default on its debt (so far...):
50% gain YTD, albeit heading in the wrong direction:


Don't count your chickens 'til their hatched, and never trust proven psychopaths who have a conflict of interest.

Two basic concepts the stoned Idiocracy still hasn't learned. Yet.