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My experience with bull markets is that by the time investors have been tricked and fooled by second phase shenanigans, nobody is ready to think about the possibility of a third speculative phase. Breakout are bullish, right? We are in the bull market no one believes in - climbing the wall of worry. There's still a huge amount of skepticism about the equity market rally. This remains an extremely hated rally and geesus even the emerging markets are now activated on outperformance. Run to catch the train.
 
oh no, i'm not falling for that rising tide inflation game. of course stocks double and i feel rich, but when lollipops at the store cost twice as much i can spot the sucker.

thanks, but i think i'll just squat here on my rock and wait for deflation to bring the madhatter teacup ride around again.
 
when i logged in to tsptalk the banner ad promised me a shockingly accurate personality test, so i clicked it.

pffffft, totally wrong! it said i was an *******. but it's not true. don't waste your time on that one.
 
burrocrat said:
Jesse's Café Américain: Trustee to Seize and Liquidate Even the Stored Customer Gold and Silver Bullion From MF Global

whatever you do, make sure you get a warehouse receipt. you can always eat warehouse receipts you know.
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That article is from 2011.

And, 'MF Global' was a hedge fund. Those folks were speculating and probably were 'taking advantage' of leverage on the gold. The only reason there were gold bars in some safe at 'MF Global' is because they were caught in a short squeeze and were forced to purchase the asset. Not certain, but that would be the norm. My guess is that the crooks at 'MF Global' did not want to monetize a huge loss in a short bet and got stuck with the assets. My guess is that they leveraged the trade. My guess is that these warehouse receipts are some fraction of their paper assets.
 
well it appears i've reached something of a milestone, 1000 likes recieved vs. 491 likes given. i like to keep that ratio at about 2:1 so if i did the math right that means i got about 9 free likes to give.

so i'm running a like special for the 1st 9 takers, but it has to be something good, not just 'hey where's my free tshirt'.

something witty along the lines of 'you look like a fat pig in that shirt' or 'nice shirt but where are your pants'.

like that.
 
burrocrat said:
well it appears i've reached something of a milestone, 1000 likes recieved vs. 491 likes given. i like to keep that ratio at about 2:1 so if i did the math right that means i got about 9 free likes to give.

so i'm running a like special for the 1st 9 takers, but it has to be something good, not just 'hey where's my free tshirt'.

something witty along the lines of 'you look like a fat pig in that shirt' or 'nice shirt but where are your pants'.

like that.
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Hey, where's my free like? ;)
 
this is my favorite ball cap of all time. until i win or trade for a new ball cap. plus it came with free tsptalk click pens, i hate the kind of pens you have to take the top off of because i always lose the caps.

thanks pennywizer, and thanks tom.

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Hi Burrocrat....you cute little piggy!! I'd love to see you in that hat, but not much else....just that pink hairy skin...fat little nose...and of course to hear you screaming weee...weee....weee....all the way...ahhh... home! :embarrest: Actually that is a very nice hat! :D

So does that qualify me for a:rolleyes: "free" like?? Wondering about the logic behind the 2:1 ratio...hummmm
 
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DreamboatAnnie said:
Hi Burrocrat....you cute little piggy!! I'd love to see you in that hat, but not much else....just that pink hairy skin...fat little nose...and of course to hear you screaming weee...weee....weee....all the way...ahhh... home! :embarrest: Actually that is a very nice hat! :D

So does that qualify me for a:rolleyes: "free" like?? Wondering about the logic behind the 2:1 ratio...hummmm
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at first i caught myself blushing, and that hardly ever happens. but then after i thought about it for a minute well, ugggh, that's just gross.

the 2:1 ratio is just an arbitrary number i picked. at first i was going to go with 1.79:1 or else 0.62:1 but the math kept tripping me up.

i like the like count indicator better than the reputation bars because at least you can see who liked who. the rep indicator is better now that you can see the actual score, but before when it was just the green bars it was pretty meaningless, once you get to about 1,500 and 11 squares with 6 lit it doesn't change after that. and the rep count can be manipulated without the average user being able to see who is repping who or why.

you can't rep the same person twice in a row, but a simple conspiracy of 3 can game the system: A reps B, B reps C, C reps A. A can't rep B again but A can rep C, C reps B, B reps A. rinse and repeat. james, fireweathermet, and khotso have practically made a career out of it.

things that make you go hmmmmm.
 
burrocrat said:
at first i caught myself blushing, and that hardly ever happens. but then after i thought about it for a minute well, ugggh, that's just gross.

the 2:1 ratio is just an arbitrary number i picked. at first i was going to go with 1.79:1 or else 0.62:1 but the math kept tripping me up.

i like the like count indicator better than the reputation bars because at least you can see who liked who. the rep indicator is better now that you can see the actual score, but before when it was just the green bars it was pretty meaningless, once you get to about 1,500 and 11 squares with 6 lit it doesn't change after that. and the rep count can be manipulated without the average user being able to see who is repping who or why.

you can't rep the same person twice in a row, but a simple conspiracy of 3 can game the system: A reps B, B reps C, C reps A. A can't rep B again but A can rep C, C reps B, B reps A. rinse and repeat. james, fireweathermet, and khotso have practically made a career out of it.

things that make you go hmmmmm.
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With all you've said over the past year, your blushing or grossing out at this point is hilarious ...just killing myself laughing:laugh:

Now, I never noticed the little game....very interesting. Oh and I don't get to give reps yet...not really sure how that works or what level you must reach to be enabled to do that.

As for the ratio, I don't know...yes good that' it is even but why not 1:2? Or 2/4? :toung:
 
DreamboatAnnie said:
With all you've said over the past year, your blushing or grossing out at this point is hilarious ...just killing myself laughing:laugh:

Now, I never noticed the little game....very interesting. Oh and I don't get to give reps yet...not really sure how that works or what level you must reach to be enabled to do that.

As for the ratio, I don't know...yes good that' it is even but why not 1:2? Or 2/4? :toung:
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because if i gave away 2 of my likes for every 1 i received i'm afraid folks would think i'm promiscuous.

anyone can give reps, you just click the little star/sheriff's badge icon at the bottom left of their post. you cqn check your reps and associated comments by clicking 'settings' up by your username and scrolling down. your rep 'power' changes depending on how often you spread it around so don't go getting too happy with it, quality not quantity is key. i like saying quantity because 1/2 of it rhymes with 2 of my favorite things. there's that 2:1 ratio again, it just keeps popping up, maybe because it's cold out, like magic or something, i'm still trying to figure that part out.

one time i tried to game the rep system, but i got burned. i recruited 4 'friends' to do the rotating reputation conspiracy game and i repped all of them. they all repped each and their counts went way up. but nobody repped me back. one said she had computer problems, one said she didn't understand the system, one coincedentally had a fire in her kitchen right about the time she was supposed to rep me, and the other one stole the reps and laughed at me while i was exposed so that made my pee pee feel small and hurt my feelings. i felt used and dirty.

here's how the scam works: you are at 1127 rep points and 9 green squares (5 dull, 4 lit), i'll click your star and let's see what happens.
 
there dba, now you're at 1248 rep points. you can see your own rep power but not somebody else's. but if you watch close and can do basic arithmetic it's easy to figure out. 1127 + ? = 1248. that's like algebra or something. which 1/2 of that word is one of my favorite things too. i'm a simple man.
 
burrocrat said:
there dba, now you're at 1248 rep points. you can see your own rep power but not somebody else's. but if you watch close and can do basic arithmetic it's easy to figure out. 1127 + ? = 1248. that's like algebra or something. which 1/2 of that word is one of my favorite things too. i'm a simple man.
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Yes ...I can appreciate the simplicity!! So glad you like algae...me too! :rolleyes:

And thank you much for the points....glad I could do the math. So you clicked my star once and I got 21 points!! I feel elated...like I hit it at the blackjack table!! :toung:

I wanted to click you back but I looked for the star/sheriff and couldn't find em...so sorry...I tried...I guess I'm still too new......you'll just have to add me to the list of disappointments. But look at the bright side, at least I really tried ! :)
 
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no joke, for real? oh man, i got to lay off the CBIS and MJNA for a while.
 
ok, i switched the avatar back to the pig.

one, i was worried about copyright infringement and had no intentions of buying a fan (fans either like you or they don't, there's no sense paying them).

and two, the donkey one made my ass look big.
 
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