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Oil was up 5 %…..but it just dropped $ 3.5 in 1 minute and then bounced back in the next 5 mins !!!!!!

Oil up 5%, dollar up (but mostly recovering from yesterday’s pull back), rates up 3 bips.

I guess that’s a good enough reason to trash pm’s.

As deer79 mentions, they’ll trash it before during and after if they can, because that’s always been the game.

Looks like shares go back and test the lows yet again. I love pm’s. Even in a parabolic move they go down half the time. In corrections like this they go down 98% of the time. Not a lot of joy to be had here.

The silver market is tight you say?

is the start of a FOMC week, and a typical end-of-the-month marking, so the tree will be shaken again and again.

https://substack.com/@youcantmakethisstuffup/note/c-245655063?r=28qqrz

Daylight Runner
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/895579/

Shape of US Economy

Yep it is changing and some of that oil buying is going to move to the US in US dinero. Heads up Texas and Alaska.

+5

As of April 2026, Japan is actively importing U.S. crude oil and planning increased purchases to secure energy supplies as Middle East alternatives become necessary due to Strait of Hormuz disruptions. This shift involves rising imports from Texas, a major $36B investment in U.S. oil/gas projects, and potential Alaskan production to bypass high-risk maritime routes. 

朝日新聞 +4

Key Details on Japan-US Oil Relations:

• Arrival of Supplies: The first shipment of alternative U.S. crude arrived in Japan on April 26, 2026, intended for refineries.
• Increased Volume: Japan’s crude oil imports from the U.S. are expected to quadruple year-on-year in May 2026, as reported by News On Japan.
• Strategic Shift: This move reduces reliance on the Middle East, with plans to secure 60% of May’s required oil from alternative sources including the U.S..
• Investments: Japan has committed to significant, long-term energy investment in the U.S., including projects in Alaska.
• Emergency Measures: Due to tightening supply, Japan is utilizing national reserves and increasing imports from the U.S. to ensure stability. 
  Reuters +4

I sold it, I made $168. I’ll watch it and if it starts going back up I’ll buy it back.

The Strait of Hormuz May Reopen, But the System Has Already Broken

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Strait-of-Hormuz-May-Reopen-But-the-System-Has-Already-Broken.html

they both are very over extended,,,as is the the Mkt….so trading against the move looks tempting…..but when you read Aufevers post about how strong the real economy is, I would not fight the economy……

Has any economy ever had so many smart self made people running it, as opposed to amateur fools, which most countries get…..

Semi long, https://schrts.co/DTsjHyNx

Semi short, https://schrts.co/HqXpakxz

What would you do?

To me the long looks like momentum like when Gold hit $5500

Don’t forget the double/triple ETF’s don’t give you overnight gaps…only what is made that day…so if a stock closes at 10, opens next day at 15 and closes at 20, you only get 5 pts not 10 !!!!!

Out of a list of about 68 of them, only a few of them are up today. Friday I bought 200 shares of the short times three semi etf, SOXS, and its up 6.21% now. I’m wondering if I should sell it or double up on the shares.

You need to click on the percent change t top to get them in order.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/industry/semiconductors/

re: AFD They can’t take over soon enough! Will it be too late?

Yeah I agree. Big pharma must hate Trump, he’s cutting into their profits. RFKjr is a breath of fresh air. Many of the vaccines are totally worthless if not harmful.

No autism amongst the Amish who don’t take any!

Many is his base feel betrayed by Trump admin rulings that allow Glyphosate to still be sprayed on crops.

MAHA Advocates To Converge In Washington For ‘People Vs. Poison’ Rally

Re Mertz

He’s such a winner…the AfD will eat his lunch.

Talking of Trump hate…I wonder if it is not being stirred by Big Pharma, as well…Trump put in RFK Jr and he is making their life hell, to the extent they will never recover…Big Pharma is the largest advertiser in the US MSM, so can pull v big strings……that is of course along with the Dems etc…..but the criticism is relentless, even when he is doing something that no person should object to, like stopping Child Trafficking.

re yr 19.57,,,,my tks …that explains why the SM has been moon shooting…mny, mny tks.

Germany’s Merz Says US ‘Humiliated’ By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a rare moment torched US foreign policy and the Trump administration’s Iran war gambit. There’s been plenty of criticism out of Europe since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28, but Merz’s Monday words are especially direct and scathing.

He proclaimed that Iran’s leadership was embarrassing the US, claiming it was prompting US officials to travel to Pakistan and then return without achieving any outcome. “The Iranians are obviously very skilled ⁠at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel to Islamabad and then leave again without any result,” he said.

The top German official made the remarks before students in the town of Marsberg. His sharpest attack came in the following: “An entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards. And so I hope that this ends as quickly as possible.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germanys-merz-says-us-humiliated-iranians-trump-lacks-strategy-exit-plan

I’m gonna have to save for a while … 🙂

… maybe I could buy an NFT of one. LOL

No need to bother; I didn’t mean add it literally. “Mental” is good enough 🙂

Sounds good! I’m out pricing Porsches. 🙂

They have just announced a soft top GT 3……a mere $ 273,000….they say it has $ 40,000 of what would normally be extra’s, so it is relatively cheap….gulp !!!!!

Don’t you love the way the news media pretends it can’t figure out the motive of Cole Tomas Allen, who tried to shoot-up Saturday’s White House correspondents’ gala. He was a creation of the very White House correspondents who ducked under their tables at the sound of his shots. Cole Tomas Allen had digested and internalized the “narrative” spewage of the Democratic Party’s propaganda department. MSNOW occupied his brain like a glistening parasite.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-feral-and-savage-party

Sheesh

Chamath Palihapitiya

@chamath
The Billionaire Tax is actually an Everyone Tax.

The Billionaire Tax is a new tax proposal written by four professors who don’t believe in the American dream. Some of them aren’t even American…go figure.

Despite its name, it applies to every California resident who currently has assets or ever will.

The creators named it the Billionaire Tax so you would get into a froth andwouldn’t look closely at what it actually does to you.

On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.

They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.

Here’s how the tax would work: As a voter, you’re being asked to approve a tax that would require you to:

1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board.

2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each.

3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion.

4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing.

This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself.

If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages.

It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.

https://x.com/chamath/status/2048114115001143679

I told my sister in law to tell the children when anyone ask them what they want to be when they grow up tell them to say a brain surgeon because everyone is nuts.

I don’t know how to do that, or if it’s possible.

It’ll have to be a mental addition. 🙂

I guess I could just edit my post.