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SwitcherX

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Re: Dow 10570-11800
« Reply #150 on: September 18, 2008, 04:20:30 PM »
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Or worse... a walk-off.

   



as long as people don't start breakdance fighting, everything will be ok.
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Re: Dow 10570-11800
« Reply #151 on: September 19, 2008, 01:46:36 PM »
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I notice a slight irony to this.  One of the favorite McCain TV ads flashes pictures of various Democratic Congressmen, seeming to fairly count on fuzzy public recollection of them -- but not only are Dodd and Reid clearly visible, but so is Schumer -- and Schumer is one of the pols who's been offering a plan which sounds pleasing to the market's ear.  If Schumer's suggestion is sound and useful, that'll put a whole other spin on the ad ...  



I suppose it's not a good idea to think much during a campaign, but those commercials are really disturbing. A lot of people think the McCain of 2008 is the same McCain who ran in 2000. He's not. In 2000 the Rove Slime Machine defeated him. Somewhere between 2000 and now, he gave up what little integrity he had (SNL thinks it was 2004--Remember the cartoon they made of his "endorsement" of Bush in 2004?) and became as polarizing as Bush. Too bad.
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Re: Dow 10570-11800
« Reply #152 on: September 20, 2008, 05:30:08 AM »
   Feh..........
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mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #153 on: September 29, 2008, 03:25:41 PM »
Here's an interesting fact: take 6/26, turn the sixes upside down, and you have today, 9/29 -- and it is exactly the topsy-turvy world of today that has led mastert's suggestion of Dow 9999 way back on 6/26 to begin to win out over my 10570-11800, which has just today cracked asunder on the low end, landing at 10365.45 after plummeting more than 777 points. (!!!)

I'm almost proud.  The bracket lasted a whopping 68 days, in spite of intra-day spikes beyond it (I always based it on daily closes), and no way no how could I have predicted that back in July 22 that all this new havoc would have come to pass in the manner it did.  If any bets had to be invalidated, this was a day for it.

Over these past eight years, we've seen it sag under 8000 ... but do we really want to return there ... ?
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #154 on: September 29, 2008, 05:19:33 PM »
At least the government hasn't destroyed the notion of "private" property...

Bye, bye Bailout!

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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #155 on: September 29, 2008, 05:36:46 PM »
Yeah, well, you'd better have an icon handy when the bailout boomerangs right back ...
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #156 on: September 29, 2008, 05:55:45 PM »
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Over these past eight years, we've seen it sag under 8000 ... but do we really want to return there ... ?



Druul, one thing I've noticed is that the freaking market doesn't really care what I want. Maybe you'll have more luck.
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #157 on: September 29, 2008, 06:00:17 PM »
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Yeah, well, you'd better have an icon handy when the bailout boomerangs right back ...



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« Reply #158 on: September 30, 2008, 02:28:22 AM »
The Dow closed 777.68 points down (6.98%), the largest one-day drop ever.

The Dow closed at 10365.45, lower than the level at the start of the Bush presidency.
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #159 on: September 30, 2008, 07:31:07 AM »
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Yeah, well, you'd better have an icon handy when the bailout boomerangs right back ...



And after it boomerangs right back, maybe get ready to do some short selling...
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #160 on: September 30, 2008, 08:14:51 AM »
Since I am not rich during the Bush era, I have no investments, so I....really don't care what happens to the Dow.  

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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #161 on: September 30, 2008, 05:49:13 PM »
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Yeah, well, you'd better have an icon handy when the bailout boomerangs right back ...



And after it boomerangs right back, maybe get ready to do some short selling...



They changed the shorting rules.
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #162 on: September 30, 2008, 07:08:48 PM »
Well, except for that yesterday's anomaly, your range still seems to be holding, Druul.

I expect it to remain this volatile until energy sources come from a more secure area of the world than the Middle East.

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PS. Yes or No: The "War on Terror" will last longer than the "Cold War". Explain your response.

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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #163 on: September 30, 2008, 07:22:11 PM »
Q, thanks -- if I had made it, say, 10305-11805 (a 1,500 point range), it might have stood a better chance ...
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Re: mastert's Dow 9999?
« Reply #164 on: September 30, 2008, 07:23:57 PM »
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They changed the shorting rules.



I know. I laughed very hard when I heard that. It is for me the perfect description of "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic".
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