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Wonderful analysis, Higgenbotham. I regret that I do not make the time to compare past charts as you do. As one of the longtime readers of this site, I appreciate your insight. In our previous communications, you are aware that my trading positions have ironically been similar to yours in timing, bu...

Higgenbothem wrote: Now 100% short on the Osama news. My average entry is 5 S&P points under the current price (that means I'm under water on this trade).Higgenbotham I'm with you. Friday had order in @ 1362 which was filled at the run up at close. Felt pretty good until the Sunday night when the ma...

Here's an interesting view of where we are related to John's contention of reversion to the mean of stock prices.

May 1, 2011

http://dshort.com/

I'll deal with the agricultural things first since they are objective and fact based rather than projective. If it seems we're going too far afield with this discussion, I apologize. I think all of this stuff, though, is intimately related to the best manner of surviving after a financial meltdown,...

Here's a link to an article explaining the credit/petroleum relationship, along with analysis/impact of the current Libyian crisis.

http://economic-undertow.blogspot.com/

In response to OLD1053's calculation of calories of grain, the vast majority of coarse grain is "feed corn". There is a significant difference in feed corn and "sweet corn", which is the type of corn people eat. A hungry person would certainly eat feed corn, but its not nearly as palatable as sweet ...

One of the latest doom indicators for the stock market is a "Hindenburg Omen". Look it up through Wikipedia; found this in ZeroHedge. "Easily the most feared technical pattern in all of chartism (for the bullishly inclined) is the dreaded Hindenburg Omen. Those who know what it is, tend to have an a...

higgenbotham wrote: I'm guessing it could be over as early as next week, maybe sometime in the middle of next week. Anybody else? Any of you still short and thinking the end is nigh? As I wrote to you about a month ago, I started selling mini SP scaling up, of course, its eating me alive. When it to...

John, I've begun reading several survivalist blogs and trying to reconcile the role of the different generations with the survivalist mantra. Generally, I equate the survivalist mentality with Boomers that were involved in Vietnam and military personnel. I've also read some of the preparedness infor...

Higgy, I'm with you, I'm still short the S&P futures, trying to attain that seemingly inescapable maximum ruin. It has been a slow, torturous climb since mid October. Although I don't watch the market trade during the day except briefly, occasionally, almost every day I must talk myself out of addin...