Loading ...@Maddog re SOXS
Its up 10% today. Look at the semiconductor list, 90% of them are down. You have to click on the % Change spot to align them up. I’ll probably buy it back.
Paper Paper who wants some nice Paper
Wall Street Mav
@WallStreetMav
After 1971 the USA dropped the Gold standard, there was an effort by all of the central banks to demonetize gold.
They tried to pretend the modern system didn’t need gold to back their paper currencies.
Their inability to control govt debt and spending has proven them wrong.
The Question Is
How big a beating are we going to get today? Gold coming back a bit now …
A positive development
First Loaded LNG Tanker Clears Hormuz; First Crude Supertanker Attempts Exit
Buygold
Oil was up 5 %…..but it just dropped $ 3.5 in 1 minute and then bounced back in the next 5 mins !!!!!!
Tech is down
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?
This week
is the start of a FOMC week, and a typical end-of-the-month marking, so the tree will be shaken again and again.
Chemtrails and health effects by bio- engineer.
https://substack.com/@youcantmakethisstuffup/note/c-245655063?r=28qqrz
Maddog 15:25
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
- 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
@Wuff Wuff
I sold it, I made $168. I’ll watch it and if it starts going back up I’ll buy it back.
This guy is pretty negative regarding the Iran situation….but makes some serious points……
The Strait of Hormuz May Reopen, But the System Has Already Broken
Mr Copper
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…..
Maddog
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
Mr.Copper
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 !!!!!
FYI re Semiconductors
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.
Maddog @ 13:58
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
ipso facto
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.
aufever
re yr 19.57,,,,my tks …that explains why the SM has been moon shooting…mny, mny tks.
Eff Merz! These kind of comments don’t make negotiations any easier.
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.”
Maddog @ 11:43
I’m gonna have to save for a while … 🙂
… maybe I could buy an NFT of one. LOL
ipso…re: poll
No need to bother; I didn’t mean add it literally. “Mental” is good enough 🙂