ain't no fortunate son

Why I'm Adding More Blackstone Group

There has been very little reason to put up with the immature cetin annoyances, but in and of itself it wasn't the end of the world, and so I have complained to management and then kept on posting.

Recently, however, I've been getting virus and spyware warning messages and actual screens popping up trying to hijack my PC and force it into doing virus scans. They appear randomly when I access different articles on this site. They've been happening off and on for a week or two, no rhyme or reason to when they occur. They do not occur on any other programs of the hundreds I access weekly.

I have no idea whether others are receiving similar stuff but I have no interest in subjecting my system and my records to crap like that.

Hence, I will not be contributing comments to this site anymore - its just not worth it.

I've enjoyed reading and participating in what have usually been serious subjects and discussions that have taken place here, and I've developed respect for a number of authors and commenters, like swashbuckler, john gordon and trader mark, etal.

I wish you all good fortune on your investing and personal lives... and as the sarge used to say in Hill Street Blues, "Be careful out there!" because we are far from home and there are many miles to go before we sleep.

Starting to Position for Correction

Cheerleader Central in the form of Maria Bartiromo, Dennis Kneel, Erin Burnett and Goldilocks Kudlow ALL shook their fingers at us stupid consumers on air in the late winter/early spring of 2008 and accused Americans of "talking ourselves into a recession" - evidently we just needed to keep spending irresponsibly and stay chirpy chirpy happy happy like all their shills (you listening Erin?) and there would be no recession and green money trees would grow to the sky.

You get what you pay for with Cheerleader Central, which equals exactly ZERO.




On Apr 18 08:46 AM basehitz wrote:

> I don't believe the rally is justified either. As another poster
> noted, volume is not encouraging. Unfortunately, I sold too soon.
> But I won't short yet. Seems every couple days, someone gooses the
> market again. Whether it be yet another govt bailout, analyst upgrade,
> financial firm upside surprise, whatever. It seems an orchestrated
> attempt to jawbone the rally higher. Therefore the delay is shorting.
>
>
> On another of your posts Mark you noted the 10 years wated by longterm
> investors that bought the permabull mantra of those types. Fortunately,
> that was not my sad tale. Nevertheless, I was infuriated yesterday
> when Power Lunch (aka cheerleading central) was reminding viewers
> that they were saying all along you need to stay in the market or
> miss the first part of the rally. They (conveniently) failed to mention
> they were cheerleading all the way down from 1500 and now those who
> followed this advise are now 40% underwater even after this impressive
> rally. I almost can't watch CNBC without getting pissed off anymore.
>