tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69738817870715035182024-02-20T11:10:18.358-05:00Durango KwestionsThe market speaks, but it comes through in waves.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-14453199904843906712013-11-13T17:12:00.000-05:002013-11-13T17:12:18.694-05:00Yellen, "The Fed has more work to do!"Yea, I mean we're still using dollars instead of SDR's. The Fed needs to hurry up and flush everything down the toilet so we can be 'rescued' by one world government.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-4499167743155097242013-10-30T21:50:00.001-04:002013-10-30T21:50:48.159-04:00New BeginingsWe seem to move forward through life looking forward to things in the distant future and then immediately looking forward to the distant future for the next event of importance. Meanwhile we waste away the gift of life. Where are we now? What are we looking forward to? Have you looked at where /NQ is sitting in respect to the monthly Boilinger Bands? Can you see the stars? How many fingers am I holding up?<br />
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Will November be bad? Will it be good? It depends on what you're looking forward to? It's much easier to be pleased when you aren't expecting anything in particular.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-22252667727055965762013-04-25T19:24:00.000-04:002013-04-25T19:24:06.574-04:00Not a Paper Trader<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-57924284698421616862013-04-18T22:16:00.003-04:002013-04-18T22:16:38.201-04:00Dot Dot DotEverybody is too bearish... <br /><br />BotDurango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-8870867325015704792013-02-28T18:28:00.000-05:002013-02-28T18:28:00.280-05:00Rally on nothing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Feels like a wave 2 to me. A lot of the internal indicators I follow are saying to me we are in selling mode. Still not sure how I feel about /YM... but tomorrow would seem to be breaking point for the bearish case if it intends to break.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-59316200450471462902013-02-25T19:43:00.000-05:002013-02-25T19:43:19.944-05:00Let it Ride!In case anyone was wondering or couldn't figure it out, the last count I posted has been <strong>COMPLETELY RIPPED APART</strong>.<br /><br />So instead of waiting on a fifth, it was complete as a 1 or an A. 2 completed this morning and we have <em><strong>a</strong></em> 3 of 3 on the board. 1488 hit, but it's no longer the target. <br />
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"How do you deal with the /YM high this morning?" Basically, like this... It lagged, the others did not truncate, and thankfully im not positioned in DOW.<br />
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Big Head and Shoulders on the Nasdaq.<br />
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The way to play this move is to look for extremes in your indicators matched with "reversal". I really dont think this is the big one, at the same time it's not an average correction, but anything is possible.<br /><br />I watched a video the other night on some traders because, let's face it.. I'm moderately obsessed. One thing stuck out was this guy sitting in a plush house drinking wine like it's water and in a full reclining position talking about how easy making his money was. It's obviously not that easy, but his advice came in two blocks of hard truth.<br /><br />1) Win every day.<br />
2) Let it ride. If you're winning, bet more, let your winners ride.<br />
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While #2 can get you in trouble quick, if you abide by rule #1 it's not a problem is it??Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-53809117425740398712013-02-21T23:48:00.000-05:002013-02-21T23:48:06.783-05:001488 = 1505 - (.618 * 28)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1488 = 1505 - (.618 * 28)<br />
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<strong>Bartolomeu Dias</strong> (<small>Portuguese pronunciation: </small><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Portuguese_and_Galician" title="Help:IPA for Portuguese and Galician">[baɾtuluˈmew ˈdi.ɐʃ]</a></span>; Anglicized: <b>Bartholomew Diaz</b>; c. 1451 – 29 May 1500 <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeu_Dias#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup>), a nobleman of the Portuguese <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_household" title="Royal household">royal household</a>, was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portuguese</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_explorers" title="List of explorers">explorer</a>. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.<br />
<br />Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-30454862398994882042013-02-20T00:34:00.000-05:002013-02-20T00:34:32.149-05:00A Good Day to DieSome time in the early spring of 1876, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sittingbull.htm">Sitting Bull</a> climbed to a
hilltop, seeking a vision. In his dream, a great dust storm swirled down upon a
small white cloud that resembled a Lakota village. Through the whirlwind,
Sitting Bull could see soldiers marching. The little cloud was swallowed up for
a time, but the storm eventually dissipated and the village emerged unharmed.
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On June 21st, Custer met on the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/states/montana/mt_yellowstone.htm">Yellowstone
River</a> with Colonel John Gibbon and their superior, Brigadier General Alfred
Terry. <br />
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Terry ordered Gibbon to march to the mouth of the Little Bighorn, while
Custer and the Seventh Cavalry would try to locate the Indians and drive them
down the valley toward Gibbon and annihilation. <br />
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As Custer rode off, Gibbon called out to him, "Now Custer, <strong>don't be greedy</strong>. .
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"No," he said, "I will not."<br />
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"This country is my country now, and I intend to
stay here and raise my people to fill it. We did not give our country to you;
you stole it. You come here to tell lies; when you go home, take them with you."
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Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-16445290082816862242013-01-02T17:50:00.003-05:002013-01-02T17:50:41.511-05:00wowI'll admit the past few days have been a surprise, but this extreme move is hard to trust. I'm not able to check charts now but I believe we gapped into the upper daily band and moved above it to close. It's hard to imagine this move doesn't retrace significantly, perhaps the middle of the band.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-60114135159255075062013-01-02T06:27:00.001-05:002013-01-02T06:27:50.457-05:00Gap.. to crap?Crazy gap, does it crap? At least closes on the day I say... no way? OK.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-90191668035991885982013-01-01T22:07:00.001-05:002013-01-01T22:07:07.704-05:00Bullish Count<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Any deal is market positive in my opinion. I tend to agree with republicans that in order to reduce the debt, spending cuts are the only solution. It would seem that the path we are on involves a default or an attempt to inflate away the debt. After all, do we really have the balls to fire government employees and terminate government contracts? We already have a weak economy, imagine one without cushy government jobs. Just imagine...<br />
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Should we get a deal tomorrow, the above count is how I see it. There's some fancy dancy math to guestimate a region for a top which is somewhere between 1467 and 1546. The top limit is based on the rule that the "third wave" can't bee the shortest in an impulse. I have this counted correctively as a-b-c-d-e, but it's the same form as ending diagonal. The bottom limit of 1467 is taken from the observation that the ratio of 206/351 is close to the fib .618 so multiplying 206 by .618 and adding to the local low at 1340 gives us the limit 1467. I would say we hit this "e" target in the first quarter, maybe January or February. Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-15945668678000587462012-12-31T01:07:00.000-05:002012-12-31T01:07:06.776-05:00Don't Bottom PickI'd be willing to give 80% odds that this little lift in the futures is quickly sold off at the market open. A lot of people seem to want to be optimistic here, but there is little technical reason for a bottom. Everything has room to run further IMO. Some people say that acceleration won't occur unless a downgrade is announced, but I would disagree. In 2011, the official downgrade announcement came only a two trading days before the short term bottom was in.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-32727364462531466112012-12-26T23:03:00.003-05:002012-12-26T23:03:49.553-05:004-4.5?? That blue pill won't be much help.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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4-4.5 has been a level where the $BPSPX:$VIX (BPSPX divided by the VIX) has fallen in a big way in the past. It would be very easy to draw an analogue to the debt downgrade in 2011. There have been threats of a new downgrade and I believe any confirmation of that type would accelerate selling into a sharp point suited for big gains in short-term buying.<br /><br />I am getting ahead of myself speculating the degree of this potential round of selling. Any word of a positive deal could easily launch the market higher overnight. My sense of the motivations leans toward no deal before the new year and no deal before market declines.<br />
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All that being said. If the market is tired of the upside, this relatively subdued selling could in fact be the calm before the storm.<br />
<br />Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-381468541974521572012-12-14T11:19:00.005-05:002012-12-14T11:19:47.701-05:00Adult Swim!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-46515251240676055952012-08-07T18:36:00.000-04:002012-08-07T18:36:16.933-04:00Kwestion of the Week<strong>Are we grinding higher or gearing up for another move to the downside?</strong> <br />
It seems like we're just spinning our wheels here. If we've got a date with the bottom of the channel we've been running up, that's somewhere around 1340. If we're grinding higher, we want to see a close above this upper trend line of the channel. If this move up has been a B wave in a correction then there's a considerable drop ahead.<br /><br />They say things like bad things happen in threes. Maybe that's like an impulse to the downside for markets... I just feel like everything goes great for a while and then BAM! Everything falls apart all at once.<br />
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The Fed and EU didn't make me feel any better about being long. It made me feel like the markets were going to force them to take action.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-22781974038816799872012-07-13T21:12:00.000-04:002012-07-13T21:12:57.552-04:00Challenge accepted.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear BearPig,<br />
This is how I count the move. Double zig-zag. Spy looks worse because of the gaps. Watch the futures.<br />
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Hard to hold from where I recommended going long, but in the green.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-38927421965373367222012-07-10T19:02:00.000-04:002012-07-10T21:08:27.078-04:00Trying to stay on the sunny sideA while back I made a conscious decision not to be as vociferous with my opinions on market direction. I still feel that decision makes sense, but I'm back today whether it be due to pride or boredom.<br />
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I think a lot of the negative outlooks on the market are a bit dogmatic while they are definitely based in reality and a somewhat compelling elliott wave count. Speaking about market signals, the size of the leg down in SPX points was not as severe as what we have seen in previous summer selloffs and the VIX was significantly more subdued. In short, the fear just wasn't there. There is a case to say that that leaves plenty of room to the downside, but I lean to the other side of that premise.<br />
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I think there is a significant chance of retaking the highs in April, and I think today is a decent spot to trade against a move in that direction. I could be a bit premature in thinking that we have a bottom here, if I'm early but still correct I could see the bottom in a matter of days. Anything further than that or significantly deeper would raise doubt to my trade.<br />
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We recently had a 20 day/50 day cross in the SPX daily and we fell back into the 50 day as they crossed. I find that this is typical and this point provides decent support in an uptrend. Hanging near the 20 week moving average (though under) gives some support. There are also some significant horizontal resistance zones across the indexes at this level. The VIX has sold off from its extremes and is bumping up into the 20 day and 20 week moving averages. The NYMO has worked off a significant amount of its extreme readings. IYT and IYR are still hanging high having not been affected much during the summer selloff. <br />
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I'm not as concerned with a count here because if we have put in local lows on June 4th, then you could expect a murky start higher. If there is further correction from April or the start of a larger downtrend, we know the levels where that trade becomes apparent.<br />
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There are compelling arguments to both sides of the trade, but having just endured a 4 day move down into significant support I am compelled to go long.<br />
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As always, manage your trade. Know your levels and good luck.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-36867264677537428892012-05-31T22:15:00.000-04:002012-05-31T22:15:03.347-04:00Whoa WhoaIt's a little too bearish out there for me... I'd take a stab at the long side from here.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-30859107418253842952011-12-08T17:57:00.002-05:002011-12-08T17:57:31.283-05:00The EU Summit Leaked...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/wwlfTBR-LNA?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-13156763101807954672011-11-17T19:27:00.001-05:002011-11-17T19:28:51.997-05:00Triangle? What Triangle?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnj3dqQ_tMzXghL4cOAS-KcVlpEA0i5nr408QIMXBj32c90dtnx5pZCUZ_8Uhl_35vwzUOQf1SNb9LcQCLkjn0N0HFEpGB11IoCCQEHIreqkRc3ZYbwmK-MZ4JVat1YIubWvyYH9x0DJ83/s1600/not_a_triangle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnj3dqQ_tMzXghL4cOAS-KcVlpEA0i5nr408QIMXBj32c90dtnx5pZCUZ_8Uhl_35vwzUOQf1SNb9LcQCLkjn0N0HFEpGB11IoCCQEHIreqkRc3ZYbwmK-MZ4JVat1YIubWvyYH9x0DJ83/s320/not_a_triangle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Dear God, it has driven me to madness... this drivel about triangles... WHO STILL SEES A TRIANGLE!?!? <br />
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You can see that the S&P futures broke below the 1208.5 low, which proves that the corrective move is done. You can see it was actually a simple ABC correction that just happened to be constrained by support and resistance that led to the belief that it might be a triangle, which of course could be extrapolated into all kinds of bullish formations. BUT IT WASN'T!<br />
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When you look at other indices it is even more obvious. The Dow futures never really looked like a triangle, but that never stopped the madness.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">In my opinion, it was all a flat. Maybe if "C" truncated you could say 1-2 1-2...<br />
STOP THE MADNESS! You look dumb.<br />
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1370 popped up and proved to be resistance, but it's probably got further to go. I'd seriously consider ending diagonal for the S&P, we've seen waves end in diagonals over and over since March '09 and I for one am expecting that to materialize again. You can project your own 4 wave bottom by connecting the start of 1 to the bottom of 2 and projecting that out into time. <br />
I just want to touch base with whoever is keeping in touch with my base and let you know that I'm generally out of any positions and waiting for a top near 1440 to re-enter into a short position.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-74206754157688110652011-04-18T00:41:00.000-04:002011-04-18T00:41:00.543-04:00Where She Stops, Nobody Knows[Disclaimer]: This post has more words than most of my posts. This is where I get into trouble. I'm very visual and I think I probably communicate better visually, which is great for trading and elliott wave because it's all in the chart, but it's hard to chart politics and narrative, hence the disclaimer, people get real touchy about the politics.<br />
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I said I would take a wait and see approach to the top of this wave, but that is well... it's irresponsible is what it is, and it's really not true. I had a zone in mind, I was simply keeping it close to me. I have a love hate relationship with this blog. I keep it as a history of my thoughts on the market, so that I can prove my reasonings post trade, but I don't necessarily gain anything from it so it's hard to justify telling all. Not that I know all, I would just like to avoid being a target of some fat pocket hedge-fund looking to fade someone's trade.<br />
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So, that said, targets are good. They give you just what the word implies, a target to aim at, to shoot against. Without a target you are just blindly shooting, with a target you can build strategies. Where is the target? Nobody knows. We can only guess. Some guesses are better than others, because they really aren't guesses, because a guess implies a certain element of random choice. Targets are anything but random. You can come to a target many different ways, there is no right answer, but there is a wrong answer, and that wrong answer is not having a target.<br />
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If you've skimmed through or skipped the fluff, the bands above show where I'm looking for this 5th to terminate. Somewhere between 1370 and 1440. Ideally I would like to see an either or and not somewhere in-between the two. There really aren't strong points of resistance between them.<br />
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In terms of Time, I would first suspect that this summer from May to July is when I'll be on high alert for meaningful trend change. If everything looks good, or something develops my next choice would be sometime in the first half of 2012. Based on the wave-structure I see today, I would lean toward this summer. <br />
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Politically, I think QE3 is a hard sell with the rest of the world raising rates. If they do push for a QE3, look for the "assured destruction" rhetoric similar to the way congress complained the original 700billion bailout was sold as the only option to stop a world collapse. Even without a state sanctioned program, I would be suspect of the Fed turning off their programs. They've hired the staff, and when government creates a position, it seems to be hard to remove it.<br />
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Possible Big Picture:<br />
1)QE3 never materializes.<br />
2)Market falls going into 2012 elections<br />
3)Market collapse is handled politically much like the Iraq war, and we vote for Obama because we fear that changing presidents risks an already delicate situation. I think a lot of the republican moaning about the debt situation is a clue that we won't have a consensus in congress allowing QE3. This republican move will be blamed for triggering a new leg down, and ensure a democratic win in 2012. <br />
4)After bringing the market just below the previous 666 lows, the inflation machine kicks back in, catches a real economy that will be putting in a base and we start another great bull leg.<br />
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Prechter's flat count from the 2000 highs really doesn't hold water anymore. The scale is not looking correct. What's more likely is some type of ABCDE triangle much like the 70's. Obviously my optimism is a function of where the market currently sits. I'll probably be screaming bloody murder at 600, but we are all victims of the emotions.<br />
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There was a zerohedge piece earlier on why not hyper-inflation, which I completely agree with, I had even said the same line of thinking in some comments previously. But I would imagine that it's not massive deflation either. It would be more sensible to have one more moderate bout of deflation and then allow a slow boil inflation to resume. The thinking is that there would be no hyper-inflation because then all the debt becomes worthless, and you could pay your mortgage on a month's pay. But massive deflation risks the entire system where money would be worthless, and that probably would not benefit the elites. Basically it's the 70's all over again.Durango K Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07701985547088377135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973881787071503518.post-2927524568336354522011-04-14T19:22:00.001-04:002011-04-14T19:23:02.351-04:00Chart Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOs3FX60gr0hRtg0SvPlbK0dyJGHhJ3VAMV2tpfwkPqRkX2WPfqX3P9HvpG6mU4pA3-R0k_BPVFrYhLgcvWza-Wv1O2TU239zAHYiizX-jvxyJNAEHuZdaPC2V5cn6UkrtDUZXM4H1ssw/s320/4-14-11+cpce.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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It's like I said earlier, the local peak we saw was what I would call one of five. I'm being brief because there's not much to say, and there's no point posting everyday about the same themes that hopefully you can track yourself. Some people might like for the top to be in, but especially with the way it's being sold in the media, I would be extremely skeptical. "How to play the sell-off?" I don't know, maybe buy it? TNA comes to mind...<br />
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Anyway, since I have nothing to say, why don't we all just sit back and learn to cook. My good friend and culinary connoisseur, Dick Booze, has done it again with his jam up job showing us how to do Spanish Tapas the right way.<br />
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