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1:21pm
Market looks a little toppy for today, we do have a H&S formation forming here. I’d like to see 1112 break before i go short, but so far woo has been right on the money. I will be back in full swing starting tomorrow when i get home!


Idan

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188 Responses to “Intraday Commentary ~ 03/01/2010”

  1. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———- TOOK an HOUR to calm down ————

    this is all noise. NYT … some rumour of a bond holder buying the company. SQUEEZE the shorts out. an HOUR LATER the rumour is said to be just that. LMAO. the games

    bought some SRS calls
    bought AIG puts

    the market is doing what i thought so i must stay the course. until the noise becomes a rally i need not change my thinking. looking for a close around 1112. looking for a reversal tomorrow. if i get my head handed to me so be it.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    APRIL …….. AIG
    JULY ……….. SRS

    AL (formerly) Big AL replied:

    Good Luck Richard.

    davecash77 replied:

    Gutsy call i like your style !!!!

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    ——- AIG ——– LOOK AT THE big BLACK candle on the daily.

  2. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———– MARKET PROPPED UP WITH FUTURES ——— TEASED AND TESTED THE BULLS…….. to see if they show up and buy. no buyers so far. propping value may be removed into the close sending us back to 1112. this is what i see so far. if this closes in a rush of buying through 1116………. im off my rocker :)

  3. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———— EARLIER TODAY ——— posted… dont chase the move in COPPER as the news may be overblown… http://www.cnbc.com/id/35649096

  4. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ——– HND.TO ——— im looking to exit this soon. see ST HIGH around $6.80

  5. rob says:

    Does anyone have an opinion on BP?

    Current ratio would pay a 6.3% dividend. Seems cheap, I may be missing something.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    hollow red candle was a signal to buy. looks like a good long. id put a stop below the price level of that red candle if was going to take a position. if i was watching it id be buyer that day.

    good luck!

  6. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———- ONB ———– im done trading this one. just wiggles and squiggles on light volume first supported at $11… now supported at $11.25. had enough. NOW THAT IM OUT …. YOU SHOULD SHORT IT with your life savings :) was a PROFITABLE trade

    ONB is off my list.

  7. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———— SRS ——— i jumped back in for these reasons.

    1. fear of equity raises and supportive action not evident
    2. meeting up with JAN 19 low
    3. 40 SMA is flat and the 20 SMA levelling for a kiss?
    a failed cross will be very powerful.

    very oversold. worth another shot. i’ll shoot myself if after trying so many times trying to catch a big move in this…….. it moves big and im not on board :)

  8. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ————- AN ———— bounces ahead of the AUTO SALES NUMBER TOMORROW yet the volume is looking like it comes in below average. not too convincing.

    im willing to bet …. if the AUTO NUMBERS ARE BAD …. blame it on the snow :)

  9. Mind the Gap says:

    OUCH! I took a beating in AMZN today. Mar 115 puts, down the toilet….flushshshsh!

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    CNBS ran some slide show on STOCKS THAT SHOULD SOAR. they listed a number of stocks with large short interest? it included AMZN

    you have to follow the marketing machine :)
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/35541605

    mind the gap replied:

    BASTARDS! Thanks Rich. I still think this is just a bounce.

  10. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———- CAN ADMIT TO BEING WRONG ———– if this market does not get below the 1112 level tomorrow the probability runs against my call imo. looking more and more bullish.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    the MORNING VOLUME buy ………… came top at 1114. this is now showing as the support level. this 1114 level must be reveresed early tomorrow or the bear case is looking rather ugly. im using the 15 minute chart.

    1116 is a visible topping candle. but no follow through to the downside.

    ID SAY THIS IS A COIN FLIP …. im keeping my calls against any bearish bets.

    LZB…………. ROSE 6.7% TODAY

    Burned Bear replied:

    ..just to recall…on 02/12/09….everybody at this board was bearish, including yourself..

    ..I took a week off and set 02 order bullish & bearish. However I was very intrigued because EW was bearish and all sentiment indicators were bullish. Well it seems that I was right

    ..currently we have only noise. I am so confortable with my position, bearish, that I did not set any stop order yet. Things will change very soon to the other side…

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    IM POSITIONED ………… bearish ………. and added at 1116

    im just saying thier is no follow through from the topping candle and the support remais at 1114 …………. we have to be cautious.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    ——- AIG ———- looks so sickly. this is not good for the market. ive bet against it but i hope it can turn things around. not often do you see a $26 stock trading at -$480 per share earnings. the chart is poop.

    uszly replied:

    “looking more and more bullish”

    Thats what I like to hear.
    I scan many boards, most seem to be bearish boards such as here.

    When bearish boards start talking bullish comments, time to go short.

    Uszly

  11. Jimbho says:

    Richard, what is your feel for energy and PM’s? Scary. Market was shown up this exact
    +60 in the futures at 2AM in asia? I bet that’s where we close. Rock steady, no selling, no
    intraday weakness, why?

    I heard Maria Pumpiromo calming markets and managing expectations about a bad jobs number
    this thursday and friday. Number could be skewed by 2-300K on downside by snow-
    storm?

    Why not blame the olympics? Everyone watching TV so no jobs created, china used
    that in 2008. March Madness kills jobs too?

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    its because of the world wide TRIDENT GUM shortage that everyone is stressed out. also, we have a problem with McNuggets and people that are hungry cant find the energy to look for work.

    SNOW, GUM, MCNUGGETS ………. its that easy bebe.

    nightrider replied:

    Doesn’t make any difference what the job loss is, whelther good or bad this manipulated low volume market shruggs it off as no big deal. The TV presidents’ train to paradise will continue to chug chug chug up the mountain. Just wait till all the unemployment money is gone

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    MAYBE WE DO GET …. an ALA JAPAN rally to 1400 … then to 400. this chart currently matches JAPAN perfectly … same result ?

  12. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———— CLOSE THE MARKETS ———– lol. the volume is horrible.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    ———— DRE ———- it tried to fluff it up today. now all my key averages are flat. the trend is your friend with flat averages like this ?

  13. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———- THE MARKETING MACHINE GETTING DESPERATE ——— what else to blame for the lack of a visible recovery. i watched some local gurus on TV today. man ive never seen these stock pumpers look more nervous. do they even have any money in the machine?

    Jimbho replied:

    How much did you pay for your SRS puts? Which month?

    Hope your right and it finally does something. GL Rich, have never seen
    someone as determined as you and you deserve to cash in large as the
    rest of us switch and swatch.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    JULY 7 ………… CALLS ……….. $1.05

  14. nightrider says:

    Wow F is rocking like a bitch! Another crp shoot trap with AIG. This market stinks.

    AL (formerly) Big AL replied:

    Green shoots, ha ha ha

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    CNBS ran some slide show on STOCKS THAT SHOULD SOAR. they listed a number of stocks with large short interest? it included F and AMZN

    you have to follow the marketing machine
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/35541605

  15. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———— AIG ———— another way to look at things. help to understand the price action. take these two days and put them together. the bad news + good news has resulted in a move from the $28.50 close to a current price of $25.95 on HUGE VOLUME… you cant consider this bullis for AIG. bought my puts just above the 40SMA

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    somone hit the RESET button on AIG price ……. in the AH :)

  16. woo says:

    RIGHT on the monthly trend line…

    i’m leaning towards 1122 tomorrow.

    Jimbho replied:

    Woo, what do you make of the calm and lack of intraday volatility? I know
    the first 2-4 days of month tend to be up loaded but we are not seeing
    the opening dip any longer.
    That type of complacency signaled prior 8% corrections or am i reading too much into
    the rock steady rises? Or is it a sign of bear capitulation?

    woo replied:

    rises like this allow for relatively high RSI, that don’t go too overbought, so that it can do consistent rises over a period of days. can’t look for too much bearishness until it actually happens. i would not go bearish on this until it is confirmed.

    i won’t even consider a short position till a strong drop, or 1122 hits.

  17. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ———- CRAMER ——– watch him for a good laugh. he is going on and on about those who say sell having an agenda because they are positioned short. no shit sherlock. and you pumpers position long in companies that cant earn a dime and say buy. you also one time said ‘close your eyes and buy even though you know stocks are overvalued because everyone else is and prices are going higher’ ………. this was around OCT 2007.

    if we hit 1122 ………… woo gets a pat on the back and SRS makes a double bottom.

    Jeff Graubart replied:

    I hate to be rude, but when you said you were leaving this market and BB a few days ago if it closed above 108.5 or something close to that, I actually thought you were capitulating or at least pretending to. But you are back in with the same bears**t and that can only mean the market is heading to new highs. If you are legit and don’t want to be selling pencils on street corners, then you’ll cut the bear crap. I am not paranoid. Just study the comments of you and goingtoretireoneday. You two are almost perfect 100% contrarian indicators.

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    when we hit 1085 i went long a few things including LZB and now im shorting stuff up here. if im wrong this time you will see me gone.

    turn date for me is mid day the 8th.

    Anjali replied:

    Wow – that was rude !!!

    Jeff – pls do share your posts as well – on what you are buying and selling …. that will help us determine your calls and their validity….

    Richard does share what he is going long and when he does and also when he sells for a profit OR a LOSS ….. would appreciate the same from you.

    Burned bear replied:

    …I never pretend to always have the truth….to trade is…have a door opened to leave if something goes wrong…

    ..anyway I don´t care about this bullishnes…..do you know why?…because I already followed my indicators over and over and they “look” very reliable…

    ..I don´t want to prove anything…only make money….

    ..please ..if have you have “cujones” ..go ahead and hold your long positions….you will see this week what will happen…..

    ..by the way I am VERY confortable with my short positions….

    Burned bear replied:

    ..SPY is is stll holding at 161.8% extension…

    ..PPO (daily, 60 min and 15 min are bearish)….sentiment indicators (Zweig, McClellan, CPCE, VIX, Advance/Decline and TICK are bearish)

    ..Just tell me something to support your bullishness….PLEASE…..

    http://www.freestockcharts.com?emailChartID=72e71dfc-e82f-465f-a321-8f1f69d11c43

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    Anjali,

    thanks! i posted if we dont hit my target of 1085. by the time this roller coaster ride got to the 20SMA it was 1086. close enough. got what i wanted did what i wanted and now im up in some down in others. in and out of some as this market shakes me up.

    im as frustrated as the next person here. anyone who was trading well has not been doing so hot lately. where is Morris?

    one thing im pretty certain here is the market is near an area where it should pull back. the exact price is never certain. if you go long here im thinking you only get a few points out of it.

    Jeff Graubart replied:

    My calls are very similar to Richards and I’ve lost so much money, it makes me ill. I am short – the financials – which makes it even worse. I am a bear and every time the people on this board start talking bearish the market shoots up. I am rude not because I disagree with Richard but because I really do believe that flooding the BB with bearish calls is being watched by the “big boy” computers and AI is advanced enough to see what we are talking about, so every time a bear pontificates, the likelyhood of a down market decreases. ANd I am not talking Yahoo boards. They focus in on StockTock because of all the technical expertise. This is a microcosm of the world of real traders. My brother in law trades at CBOT and he tells me there have been many trader suicides this year.

    Here is my basic position. I will not get more specific, but a human being who reads this can probably figure it out. This month I have sold call spreads. Come OPEX I will let you know whether I was wiped out, made my money or made enough money to roll over the whole friggen mess to April and let hell repeat for another month. As for the money that will see me through retirement without panhandling, 85% is in 2% TIPS and will stay there even if I am wiped out in my high risk trades. Inflation or deflation, I’ll never lose 1 minute of sleep from TIPS.

    I wish somebody was really rude to me about 8 months ago. I wish they slapped me across the face and said “wake up you idiot.” I would be 100K richer if I took their advice.

  18. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ——— WRLD ——— this stock is on my sell list. did not even watch it today. look at this chart……….. and look at thier amazing earnings growth. what is up ? they do check cashing loans etc. what percent of thier booked assets are not collectable? that is the big Q

  19. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ————— NATURAL GAS ——– Golman see that im wanting to exit my HND.to @ $6.80? that is another 5% higher from the close. so AH Goldman is done upgrading stocks. they go ahead and UPGRADE NG ……… do they own shares in IOC ??

    MAYBE I AM A CONTRARIAN INDICATOR …….. moments after i buy NYT PUTS after watching the stock trade for weeks. one of the main stake holders is rumoured to buy the company. it is later refuted and he comes out and talks up NYT like it will be the epicenter of profits due to its overwhelming value to the USA as a source of news… not a printer of papers.

    AL (formerly) Big AL replied:

    Think ETF’s.

  20. Sam says:

    One thing I would love to see big boys do is a drop on VIX to a new low tomorrow and then we can load some April/May puts. I recently learned not to play with options when VIX is up and when VIX is in a new low then that is the perfect opportunity that big boys sometimes make for us to load front month puts. Lets all thank big boys for all these opportunity they make for us. Thank big boys. Please drop the VIX tomorrow so we all can load puts. We will follow you all the time and we love you.

    Sam replied:

    Mine daily video for my action tomorrow can see here now.
    Big boys action blog site is http://www.redtube.com/34231

    Join me with the Biggies!!!

    shady replied:

    Mature

    Anjali replied:

    Looks like there is another adult website being posted here – IP Zapping Uner / Woo ?

  21. Anjali says:

    I am noticing a few posters who just seem to come out and bash some of the people posting and hide away like children ….. its really wierd to see this

    This is a blog to share opinions, thoughts and ideas. If you don’t agree, its OK …. but please do share why you don’t agree and what you are seeing to refute it

    This hit and run approach does not help …. if the blog is not helping you – then pls don’t read it …. bashing some of the people like Richard and Sam or Fritz is not the answer .

    Where there were concerns (like posting later or vague entries), we are asking for more clarification, and seeing the responses …. pls understand a lot of us bloggers are also new to this …. give some time for improvement, before you bash a person out of the site ….

    I know the mkt is frustating everyone, but this is a time to put our heads together and come up with better plans vs bickering just like the MM want us to and lose focus ….

    I hope we can continue to have an adult conversation here ….

  22. AL (formerly) Big AL says:

    This is great Stock Tock “after hours”

    Sam replied:

    My guide for etf’s and big boys actioning.
    http://www.redtube.com/34231

    retard replied:

    i don’t understand how this has to do with stock trading but i am not that smart though,

    smartypants replied:

    when i’m watching this i forget all about stock trading.

  23. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    ——– EW ——— I KNOW SOME HERE FOLLOW IT. i bumped into some information that showed a decent sale from inside the company. investigated further ::

    http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/insider/trans.asp?symbol=ew

  24. Richard (FRBFN) says:

    HERES ANOTHER INTERESTING THING ——— BUFFY’S BABY

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/35647669 and look who will happily sell you some shares:

    http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/insider/trans.asp?symbol=brk.b

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    GATES FOUNDATION was a big buyer of AN shares @ $17.91

  25. sylvart 17 says:

    Richard(FRBFN) -was the purchase of the AN shares by the Gates Foundation executed today?

    Richard (FRBFN) replied:

    no… this was done in OCTOBER
    http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/insider/trans.asp?symbol=AN

    this rally is sponsored by the FED once again. now they announce they want out of BAC warrants and to convert to AIG common and sell it on the market. they will do anything to keep this market afloat so they can unload these positions at a profit and announce to the USA that they did a good thing. this will stop the pitchforks and fire sticks and airplanes flying into government buildings. one problem is :: IRS has been attacked twice recently so they need to hurry.

    Jimbho replied:

    IBD changed market status from ‘correction’ to advance tonite.

    These rich bastards like the gates and buffett foundations are supposed to
    be liquidating and giving money to poor and needy. Instead they are
    buying into the next lifetime.

  26. Jimbho says:

    Was gonna say just ignore the wanker. . . but not funny.

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