Steve Jobs, co-founder of US computer giant Apple, dies aged 56 after suffering from pancreatic cancer

"The conflicted thread"

I like it.

Mostly Cynical, name isn't too important. I have a thread call "The conflicted thread" but almost never use it. Again I'm not looking to post a ton. Email might even be better.

okay, that would be good - either way we can co-manage it, and we're both on a board with less advertising

but then what do we call it?

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wow, I've been away for a while, starting a new board, which button do I press...? :)

I say we make a new board. You can moderate or I can or someone else. Flexible.

I'm thinking that the most painless way for all of us to meet is at SI - the consensus is SI. I haven't posted there since 2005, but my login still works and the preference for there as opposed to here is pretty strong - SD2?

I'll follow and burn the link for here.

ascendancy of Keynesian

Yes, the Keynesian's are just a few months away from a visit from Adam's invisible hand...

BTW - Welcome back. You and me both. I only started posting again more frequently in the past month or so.

My thoughts on today

Everything PM related bounced w/the general market. Market was up today because it was oversold, short covering and BS rumors regarding Dexia (which is only a small part of the EU problem).

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/non-news-dexia-bad-bank-sends-market-soaring

Prior to 3:15 today gold stocks were outpacing gold and the SPX to the downside. Not exactly encouraging action. As I keep repeating there's been no capitulation. Maybe it feels that way, but at least in how I read the market we're not there yet. I expect more ugliness in Oct. Could see broad market rallying back to 1140-1160 range where it would be a gift shorting op ST again. This is a typical bear market rally (thus far).

Even assuming this turns out to be the bottom today which I don't think so, it'll be retested. 51 (GDX) melted like butter today. Not encouraging. Gold pattern (GLD) looks more like a consolidation prior to more downside.

I've been wrong before this is my current swag.

ascendancy of Keynesian

hahaha, their so fucking wrong...!

food for thought:

Ever hear of Turtle Island...?

UNGRIP (Full Length Movie)

yes, I know, I've bookmarked you - and for some strange reason I logged into SI without difficulty and believe you me, short-term memory is NOT one of my greatest strengths. Anyway, please when posting here I prefer "off-topic." This is just a coffee shop, where in the morning while I'm having my tasty brew I can shoot off about what I think is going on, and laugh about it with you all.

hmmmm, ihub did not like the formatting. left out the k

here it is again with spaces

a m a r k $ p

I am over at SI mostly, under amark$p.

Via peoplemarks, I follow certain posters, so post at multiple boards, but have been hanging out at The Ego Forum lately.

Busy with final deadline 2010 tax returns due 10/15/11.

Follow Felix Zulauf and Jim Rickards in regard to your "demise of capitalism" comment, although it is better termed as the ascendancy of Keynesian.

Have been buying physical platinum here lately as S Africa and Zimbabwe (80% of production) are failed states just waiting to happen.

what else can I add... anyway, I'm a bit of an expert in all things, oh I don't know - what's the word?

Spiritual?

yeah, my time out was to find myself.

take care, I'm outta here - abeit temporarily...

I managed to log into SI, incredible... most of the people I used to fight with are gone...?

...and I can imagine the potential explosiveness of posters posting with assumed identities, no one needs the shit, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. It seems the closer Nibiru gets to this planet the crazier the crazies are getting, not just on full moons anymore.

...and before I forget, where are you posting now?

like I'll visit...

My thoughts on today's action - the FED had no choice but to "goose" the markets. My favorite trend indicator "DMI" was just about to show some serious momo to the downside- so I'm not surprised at the intervention...and why do I think it was an intervention? 'cause gold bottomed too.

Unfortunately, they're still in control.

nah, I migrated from the human "race" to being just human ;)

orangekick, appears you have migrated from cycling to Dutch Football...??

they've changed stuff around here, and not for the better - yes, SI hmmm, not sure I can remember my password. Actually I was surprised they even let me in over here since I hadn't logged in in over a couple of years.

so where do you (and IAC and Marks) normally posts, you fellas still chat with each other?

Hey bud..

For the end of capitalism (or renewal :o) I post mostly on http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=51736

but here is OK :O)

The BIG reason for the visit is really to have a few people (who are in the know) to chat about the impending demise of capitalism, or to see if anyone is awake at the mess that's been created by these fucking whores.

Anyone interested in a dialog?

lemme know:
I can be found on twitter as "orangekick" (if I forget to return)

it's really a surprise you people still visit, my bad for losing interest.

take care Dude....!

I quit watching cycling because of the corruption, the institutional corruption that seems to define this plane of existence. (phew)

Why is everything so fucking corrupt...?

FEI? What a bunch of junk!

OK I am still alive and living off my trades..

right now I own:
This is most of it... quite a bit of larger positions in stuff you hear about on these junior boards..

likely missing some stuff... I'm away skiing with only dialup...

ATLANTIC POWER CORP-NEW
ACETO (ACET)
AECON GROUP (ARE)
AFRICA OIL CORP
AGFEED IND (FEED)
AGRIMARINE HOLDINGS (FSH)
AINSWORTH LUMBER CO REG S (ANS)
ALDERSHOT RESOURCES LTD
ALLANA POTASH (AAA)
ALLIANCE GRAIN TRADERS (AGT)
AMAZON MINING HOLDING PLC (AMZ)
ANDERSON ENERGY LTD
ARMTEC INFRASTRUCTURE INC
AURION RESC (AU)
AVENEX ENERGY CORP
BCE INC
CALDERA RESC (CDR)
CANACOL ENERGY (CNE)
CHEMTRADE LOGISTICS T/U
CORONA GOLD CORP NEW (CRG)
CYBERPLEX (CX)
EDLEUN GROUP CL A (EDU)
EXPLORATION ORBITE VSPA CL A (ORT.A)
FORTRESS ENERGY (FEI)
GALLEON ENERGY CL A COM (GO)
GASFRAC ENERGY SVCS INC
GENIVAR INC
GMV MINERALS (GMV)
GRAN TIERRA ENERGY (GTE)
GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP (GWG)
HANFENG EVERGREEN (HF)
IESI BFC (BIN)
LARGO RESOURCES LTD
LGL GROUP INC(THE) (LGL)
LIONS GATE ENERGY (LG)
MAGNUM HUNTER RESC CORP (MHR)
MBAC FERTILIZER (MBC)
MORNEAU SHEPELL INC
NAL ENERGY CORP (NAE)
NEO MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES (NEM)
NEW FLYER IND INC/ULC-IDS
NORTHLAND POWER INC
PACIFIC WILDCAT RESC (PAW)
PALLISER OIL & GAS (PXL)
PARKLAND FUEL CORP
SEAVIEW ENERGY CL A SHS (CVU.A)
SNC LAVALIN GROUP (SNC)
SPROTT RESOURCE CORP
STUDENT TRANSPORTATIO
TRIAUSMIN (TOR)
VECTA ENERGY CORP (VER)
WESTERN POTASH (WPX)
WESTSHORE TERMINALS INVESTMENT (WTE.UN)

http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=27239802

And to you marks..
All the best in the New Year..

Where is that masked man...

Merry Christas and Happy New Year to Kastel & Frank...

Merry Christmas Frank :O)..

What, no posts on the Tour de France...?

BP even got Spongebob!!!!!

So I heard 450,000 iPADs were sold yesterday.

So I guess that means 450,000 previous iPOD owners now are the proud owners of an iPAD.

Bloody joke. (okay, pun intended)

Frank ... Fraaaaank Fraaaaaaank :O)

Peter Grandich on BNN this afternoon recommending ....Anooraq :O)

Hope all is well bud...

Happy new year to this quiet board..., pending the return of that that lover of torque...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No one here but us ghosts I guess. But I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2010!

Also, FWIW, on December 31, Paul Kangas, the great host for the past 30yrs of Nightly Business Report, retired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kangas



I especially enjoyed his Friday Market Monitor segments and had a smile with his nightly sign offs "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!".

Hopefully he will have a wonderful retirement, and that the show will continue to provide a great nightly wrap up as it had done with Paul as co-anchor.

Also in December, the deal for Bloomberg to buy Business Week Magazine from McGraw Hill completed. The editor in chief was changed as well as their tech guy (Steve Wildstrom).

At any rate, cheers to all of us!
iSoB

You still around Frank...?

This bicyling in Edinburg, Scotland should interest you....

Just checking in. How are you positioned currently? What's your read for the next month and then 3, 6 months respectively? Building more sandboxes?

How about on the learning side? TA, EW?

Gold - If I was looking at just gold by itself I'd be fairly bullish here (w/a stop under 910 or so). However, I really don't like the general market and gold rallying together under the premise of (recovery and/or hyper-inflation). There's no way we go from this much deflation to massive inflation that fast. Most of the money is still stuck in the system vs being lent out. It's just a paper transaction for the banks to show that they're not totally insolvent. I have a bit under 10% PMs in my main trading account (two small cap gold plays where it's more trouble getting in/out). I also have some physical gold/silver, but not enough if gold cracks 1K. Going to continue to watch for now. No shorts either, just sitting on some cash and working on the golf game. The wild card is if confidence evaporates in the US Dollar ST, but it seems to me that if Ben wants to force money back into Treasuries they merely have let the market fall (ST of course). Action in markets seems more and more surreal by the day.

Starting to relax a bit as it's a first time in while that my account has stayed w/in the same 1% range for a whole 2 weeks. Don't mind as I'm on track to repeat last years gains, but so far w/less volatility.

Probably northern exposure if need be. I'd rather live in nice country and pay higher taxes than take my chances in the 3rd world. I hope you're right regarding deflation. My mood stems from two factors: keeping what I earned over the years (don't want to do anything but trading again), and just how F*#ing blind/ignorant everyone is here in the states regarding anything of substance. If the people are this blind how can we expect the politicians to be much different? I don't think these concepts are that difficult, but I've been doing this a while so perhaps I'm too biased.

On a side note, we're thinking about gov health care when the population is a tub of lard? Gee, maybe we should just change our diets and exercise more and save the money. I'm for national healthcare IF...it's run right and the population is doing something about their own health. There's been no debate about where do you draw the line either in terms of spending. About 90% of the $$$ spent here I believe in during the last 6 months of life. Again no real debate. It's depressing watching all of this happen in slow motion.

On a lighter note my golf swing is really starting to come together. I was told my over the top move is complete gone. Free at last.

I think I am more upbeat than you but I am here not there ... still hoping for my preferred outcome of draining the crap out of the system ie.. deflation after deflation :O) and lots of saving.. .. reduced expectations.. with no collapse..

Consumer sentiment down... so folks are saving more still.. that's bad ? ... according to 'experts on the tube' :O) Imagine folks keeping their horns pulled in and getting responsible... madness I say... LOL

So are you planning on Northern exposure .. or southern ?

Getting the same way. I'm tired of trying to help/warn people about what's coming. There's little point in trying to change things as everyone here is obsessed w/BS issues. Just need to make sure I have a better exit strategy. Going to finalize the passports for the whole family hopefully in the next 1-2 months. Need to do more though beyond that.

It feels weird working on the golf swing knowing what's coming, but gotta keep it light too.

Hello... hello... hello
Is there anybody in there
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home
Come on... come on now
I hear you're feeling down
Well I can ease the pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax... relax... relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Now can you show me where it hurts

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb

I have become comfortably numb

Okay... okay... okay
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more aaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick
Now can you stand up... stand up... stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
And I have become
Comfortably numb

I have a feeling that gold stocks are being set up for a sell the news event post FED. Need to have at least one more washout day for gold where gold stocks decline than the underlying physical. Not a strong feeling, but think it's the most likely scenario. Thus far looks like an oversold rally, but the last rally I mostly caught in the middle and still did very well so I'm more inclined to be patient if I miss the ST/IT bottom.

Frank, wake up. We're almost there. If not we have a lot longer to fall. HUI 300 area (need to relook at chart to be sure), needs to hold.

Yep. I stayed away prior to FED. Too many games. Money to be made, but too much risk relative the reward.

Striking a better balance of late between fun, friends, family and work. Still working hard, but also working harder at playing. I think overall it's helping my trading. Still too early to say decisively.

Big surprise they gamed the jobs numbers. Question now is when to buy back PMs.

It'll happen as soon as they stop manipulating the market higher or when the lemmings have been spent. These are certainly tricky times and doubly so if 77 area on the US Dollar index gets taken out. I could see general markets rallying initially and then having a violent selloff with gold getting his as well. Better for gold that we have a gradual decline in the general markets - a slow bleed sooner than later.

I've gotten creamed on USD exchange... (one reason for selling TBT... profit gets eaten away)... I have 800 share of SO (Southern Company) down .80 on my purchase but more than double due to exchange.. Need a USD rally please :O(

I've made some and lost some this year so far. I think I'm still a little ahead on SDS, but lost appox 3% PF value on SRS mostly because I didn't mind the stops (over the course of 2009).