1 801 And the market returns to its now-default (ha!) cheering of socialism and big-govt intervention. $$ Tue Feb 09 17:36:06 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8863401849 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> Everyone and his dipster will be buying $SPX 1030. Interesting, as everyone and his dipster also bought 1080. Worked well. Fri Feb 05 02:58:46 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8660354104 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> SPX Am I the only one seeing a disconnect btwn $AMZN DRM-free mp3s and DRM-charged ebooks? Doubtful. Fail regardless: mp3s are a cheap biz ploy. Fri Feb 05 02:39:51 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8659667349 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AMZN My grandkids just called from the future to say that though they live in a bankrupt Chinese fiefdom, they find the $PNC payback thrilling. Wed Feb 03 05:09:10 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8575623064 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> PNC Whether you like the $AAPL iPad or not, dumbing down the featureset is a major strike against smarter users, who become better engineers. Wed Jan 27 23:03:36 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8298467121 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL $AAPL trades all over the place, exactly like $SPX will in 35 minutes. Rational markets indeed. Wed Jan 27 18:41:15 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8289121218 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL SPX Thanks $IWM. I now return you to regularly-scheduled knife cat--err, dip-buyers. Tue Jan 26 20:58:44 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8250217429 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> IWM $IWM wants to sell off and I want to help it. Tue Jan 26 19:25:56 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8247177072 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> IWM This is not a short-term call of course, but I'd say $AAPL is about due for a spectacular misstep. Bold Prediction: it's coming Wednesday. Mon Jan 25 05:56:15 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8181662079 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL Like I say, I like $AAPL, but there's a bubble perception that it's engineers reinventing hardware, rather than re-engineers re-engineering. Mon Jan 25 05:48:18 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8181462753 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL One last thought: I like $AAPL--not as a user, as I use computers--but not the tablet, not yet. iPod, yup, iPhone, yup, iCantNameit? Newton. Mon Jan 25 05:40:40 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8181264580 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL The revulsion the average dude/tte feels at the financial sector has yet to begin to express itself in the markets. Just sayin'. $$ Sat Jan 23 02:45:08 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8095780733 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> If you missed @daytrader_anna in action this week, you missed serious grace in (topticking, mind you) action. $$ Sat Jan 23 02:41:43 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8095654011 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> Oh shut up, as if a correction isn't overdue (and unbegun). Be thankful you caught a piece of the nonsense thus far. $$ Fri Jan 22 00:59:08 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8049306315 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> 1. Lend to any jackass for a buck 2. Blame jackasses when said loans fail 3. Slurp up govt handouts. 4. Pretend you stayed capitalist. $$ Thu Jan 21 17:03:04 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8033896607 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> It was just a hopeful inventory restocking. Look at $STX vs, say, $IBM consulting numbers. Getting ready for business that won't be done. Thu Jan 21 16:33:03 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 8032899907 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> IBM STX I know, "math" doesn't matter any more, but didn't $BAC issue 34 jillion shares to let shareholders pay back TARP? So how'd they lose on it? Wed Jan 20 15:08:36 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7988422725 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> BAC I find the number of traders rooting Brown on humorous, considering how hard they've been sucking Dem-rally teat these last 9 months. $$ Wed Jan 20 01:42:10 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7968760605 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> Don't know about you, but I feel that gettting the one down day out of the way early in the month just really opens up my greed pores. $$ Tue Jan 19 18:36:38 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7954950470 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> Another @howardlindzon smash hit: $BARE and $GS shenanigans (or, more accurately put, "crimes") http://j.mp/8yGjbv Tue Jan 19 07:18:11 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7937383996 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> BARE GS I would point out that $PALM is going to be a nice short, if it hadn't been already multiple times, and if it weren't so damn obvious Mon Jan 18 05:12:07 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7892902316 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> PALM Cench 21 is s'posedt'be COOL, which is why $AAPL "beats" $MSFT, whose fail was: "oh, this ___ works, if you can do ___. Oh, ___? Who cares?" Sun Jan 17 06:25:24 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7855549786 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL MSFT From pure tech perspective, btw, this is $AAPL's fail: "oh, our ___ is so badass, they'll get over the ___." The fanboys a joke b/c they DO! Sun Jan 17 06:16:40 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7855328386 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> AAPL In the unheard-tree-fall zone of night, from a dead blog, echoeth a rant, a screed, A Major Realization: http://j.mp/5TK5J3 [self-pimp] $$ Fri Jan 15 07:21:12 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7779864567 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> Sweet $GS, the Haitian poor eat your cake: $1mil to Haiti http://j.mp/5Wpm8G vs. $19bil in bonuses http://j.mp/4H2YGE - 0.00005% generosity Fri Jan 15 06:02:38 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7778156921 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> GS When crap like $RNWK (a future sumptuous short) starts running, you know the 8-ball will be gone soon. Not to worry, the next 8's on $INTC. Thu Jan 14 23:13:34 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7765420193 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> INTC RNWK Yet another month of max pain slipping by pain-free. $$ Thu Jan 14 14:52:53 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7750007767 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> The mkt story of $twentyten won't be bear persistence (a figment), but bull-addicts: gone at the 1st sign of a raid, but back to re-up ASAP. Wed Jan 13 17:17:38 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7715066184 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> TWENTYTEN And on $IWM and $SPY for that matter Tue Jan 12 20:12:27 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7680933904 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> IWM SPY Wouldn't trust a bear flag much in this market, but that is one on the $QQQQ 30-min. Failed once at resistance - 12/31 low 45.75 Tue Jan 12 20:11:23 +0000 2010 MrUnexpectedly http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/77715748/150px-Henry_Potter_normal.jpg 7680901543 20712992 <a href="http://www.seesmic.com/" rel="nofollow">Seesmic</a> QQQQ