Screwball

****in A! This is all nuts. Markets at all time high while the world burns and the observers don't know rather to **** or get off the pot.

Day trading was a thing at one time. Almost like a cult. Probably in the run up to the dot-com crash. Wall Street the movie came out in 87. Giddy-up!!! In a way, what they do is pretty clever. The software today still has the capability to do what they did. You can watch order flows to a certain extent. They screen up very short term charts and bet huge money on small moves. Many times around support/resistance levels even during the day. Now they call it "high frequency trading" done by HAL 9000 of Wall Street. It actually goes clear back to Jessie Livermore who used to post the stock prices on the wall in the old bucket shop before he became rich and broke 3 times and killed himself. Trends, moves, there is a pattern. You can see them coming. But very very risky. You need balls of steel, and deep pockets would also be good. One headline at the wrong time and you just got a margin call. And some of these people play the leveraged ETF where you can lose money 2 or 3 times as fast. How about that? Giggle.

Thanks. I didn't know what they were doing, but it looked kind of funny. People are always funny. 🙂

One of my favorites, and I'm old. For me, the final game of 1968. Other than the game that became the first date with the most wonderful woman on the planet. ON EDIT: and we almost got a ball.

Wow, what a game! I'm going to ask a dumb question now that it is over. I was somewhat busy so I didn't catch it all (and I usually watch with the sound off), but what I missed was; what was up with the guy in the green shirt sitting by the wall? They kept showing him but I don't know why.

Back in the late 2000s era, the Najarian brothers sold stuff teaching you how to play the option trades. Pete was on CNBC at 5 each night for the show "Fast Money" I think it was. They were both good football players too. Wild ****. And of course CNBC, also known as Bubblevison, still has - Jim Cramer. I won't say you can't make money being a day trader, but you are probably more lucky than good if you do. I played golf with a guy who worked for a cable company and told me how they ran a T1 line to some guys house just so he could day trade. That's nuts. Might have worked, who knows. I'm sure the T1 line did, not sure about the trades. 🙂

Interesting. There was (don't know if this changes) also a limit on the amount of trades in a certain period of time. So many trades in so many days. There is also the agreement between these traders and their brokers and what they will give you for leverage, no matter what they call the account. Typical margin account stuff. Personally, I think is nuts. The history of day traders going broke is long and wide - and they put up 25k to do so because you needed a margin account with some broker to do the trades. What a deal! This is just suckering in more fish to feed the pigmen of Wall Street and the whores they own.

Neat picture. 5 and 6 were pretty good. 😂

Yes, forgot about Frank. Same thing. That stuff matters. If you play everyday and see all these hard throwing farm boys and all of a sudden this dude's serving up grapefruit sized balls - we get great big eyeballs because we are going to hit it over the roof - but we just screwed ourself into the batters box while missing it by about 10 feet. The speed just dicks you up. That's why on doubleheader days they would put a junk-baller game one, and a flame thrower game two, as the belief was they were more tired the second game. As sadists pitchers (established above :-)), I would think the junk ballers get a bigger kick out of making us look stupid because they are throwing junk at us. OK. That's fine. Think what you want. A good hitter fails 7 of 10 times. It's a humbling game. And the greatest game ever. But they keep trying to **** it up.

Our enemy is us, and has been since Moby **** was a minnow.

I won't waste time on charts, but WTI crude is, as I type, $104.95 the S&P (emini futures) are down a tad over 50. Back into the trading range from October of 25.

Baseball was my life for many years. I was a pitcher so my bias is there. I love to watch guys like Skubal. The battle between the pitcher, catcher, and batter (and how we are approaching this matchup), and of course the neutral party - the ump. Now maybe an electronic one. I'm old. I played in the day when they beaned people and didn't think a thing of it. But the game is still the same, they just don't do that anymore. 🙂 I watch the games with the sound off. Skub, with his unhittable stuff is so fun to watch. And he does some incredible stuff working the batters over the course of the game. Sends a guy to the bench a couple of times on low outside change-ups (and a dandy at that), then last at bat, this dude is looking for that pitch again - and he gets a 98 mph 4-seamer inside on the hands. Go sit down big boy. Someone said somewhere in the baseball stuff that pitchers were sadists. Yes, and we want them that way. Their job is to get you out. Period, end of discussion. Skub is a treat to watch. I used to love watching Kenny Rogers. He was the absolute master of his craft IMHO. IIRR, he pitched a beauty in one of Detroit's playoff runs. ON EDIT: forgot this. Skub and Kenny are two entirely kind of pitchers. Skub is a power pitcher, Kenny was a junk baller. Couldn't bust a window.

Rory got it done. Fun to watch. Incredible golf course. Can you imagine the score us mortals would shoot there? I would need someone to deliver a box of golf balls about hole 7.

You can never have enough pitching. Ever. That is all.

Screwing with the Windows 11 Co-Pilot AI dude on a Saturday night. I do 3D printing projects and like to see what my Aussie AI buddy has to say. To understand, we create a 3D modes then give them to a 3D printing machine that "slices" it into layers so it can print a bunch of really neat stuff. Slicing being the key word here. I wanted to know how many parts I could get out of a spool of filament (looks just like weed whacker line), and of course the cost. Just for fun... WTF?

Quite a day in Augusta. Rory... Dude... Not that I'm a fan or not. Just watching. Pissed away a 6 shot lead. He's going back to the hotel thinking WTF did I just do. Tomorrow should be interesting. I think there was an old saying about the back 9 on the final day. I would love to walk around that course. I would never have enough money to play it, and the waiting list for Master's tickets are probably longer than I will be alive. What a beautiful place.

I found this really interesting, and close to home. Whirlpool Announces $60M Investment, Up To 150 Jobs For New Ohio Facility - press release from WHR Up front I will disclose I worked for them, directly, then indirectly. This is about a new facility and investment in Perrysburg, Ohio. Previously a solar company. (FSLR maybe?). The WHR mothership is in St. Joe/Benton Harbor, but they have a washing machine plant in Clyde, Ohio, a dishwasher plant in Findlay, Ohio, and a clothes dryer plant in Marion, Ohio. Two of which are along I75. Clyde's another hour away. The news release is new and best I can tell they didn't disclose what they were going to do. But there are a few clues, maybe... FTA: That's some all-star corporate bull**** right there. But they did give us this, which is the important part trying to figure out what they are doing; Bold mine. Remember a few pages ago we were talking about the place around here going belly up that made parts for the car companies. I wonder... Are companies like WHR having the same problems with their supply chains and decide to invest in their own? There is no reason they can't build their own machines to build some of their parts instead of outsourcing. Within reason of course. Maybe that's what they want to do here. Relying on stable and good suppliers is not easy in my experience. I'm guessing it's not much better today, especially when the bean counters want the cheapest first and always. If this is their intent, I salute that decision. We can do it better ourselves - if we do it right. We'll see.

I was partially kidding. I don't have much faith in any of the useless ****s who run anything. I don't believe 10 percent of what I read from the MSM. Less than that from any political dip**** that holds office. They are all a bunch of lying sacks of **** who only care about themselves, or are getting blackmailed into destroying the entire world for a bunch of sick ****s who want to continue to rape and pillage it. Great theater for those with their head up their ass playing the blame game, while the media covers up for them. The Big Club is kind of like the banksters, but worse. I think the banksters have a little more credibility than the scum in the Big Club. Not much, but a little. Not a good bunch to count on, but they might be all we have. They have the goods on the Big Club - they banked them, and laundered their money. They know and have the records. A global depression benefits nobody. The banksters, even if behind the scenes, may be able to stop or slow down the madness. The criminal CEO of JPM just recently had some things to say. CEO of nation's largest bank says Iran war raises risk of 'bad economic outcomes'

Inflation Has Been Above the Fed’s Target for 5 Straight Years They will get it right - eventually...

It's kind of funny. Given what is going on in the world today, and so many that are freaked the **** out, which I understand; I have faith in the most swine pieces of **** on the planet - our bankster pigmen of Wall Street. They are still the smartest guys in the room and control the entire financial system. You don't have to like them. They are like AJ Pierzynski. You hate the prick but in this case you are glad he's on your side. If we go to war with the world, militarily or financially, (maybe we are doing that already?) I'm betting on our very own wizards of Wall Street. The pigmen also have to live here (most of them) and don't want to get strung up. I'm hoping they are that smart.

A little chart porn in order. I'm sure the frontrunning stuff will immediately start, if it hasn't already, but there are some who also got their face ripped off as well. Hit $117 ish around 11:30, then went downward from there, especially late in the day. Once the day change at 6 it took a ****. Ouchie! Looking at that chart, there is a gap right smack the 6pm time change. Why? Just another tick in the timeline of the open market. Funny to how it bounced around the $93.46, then tested it again, and now back above. Still, from $117 to $91 in the same day is quite a move.

Everything is so ****ed up even the stock market doesn't know what to do.

This day in history for the music lovers. Probably not on history dot com. 🙂 I remember this. I'll use Wiki as the source. California Jam - this day in 1974

That guy made one of the greatest plays I have ever watched. I was sitting along the 3rd base line down around 3rd. The batter hit a ball right in front of the plate and it bounced so high it looked like a pop-up. Right down the line toward 3rd. I watched Aurelio. He turned his back to the plate looking over his right shoulder, the ball landed right beside him, which he short-hopped, turned and fired a bullet to 1st base. Out. One of the most incredible plays I have ever seen. It gets even better. We were heading home going back to Ohio and sitting at a streetlight somewhere by the park. Hot, windows down. He pulls up right beside us. I'm the passenger. I look over there and tell my buddy - hey, look - that's Aurelio. Yep, sure was. I yelled - hey, great play on that high hopper - never seen anything like that. Thanks, glad you guys had a good time. Light changed, he was off. Off the charts cool.

Neat and interesting conversation about gloves. At the end of the day I think it boils down to a personal preference. Gloves matter. It is one of our tools. Speaking of tools, back in the day they rated people on the 5 tools. Fielding, throwing (arm strength), hit, hit for power, and run. The glove is only part of one of those tools, but you want what you want. What is comfortable for you, what do you like, and also what position. That matters, without a doubt. The pitchers glove is bigger to help hide the ball while he's deciding what to throw and moves the ball in his glove to get the grip he wants. That is something they watch - tipping pitches. A big clunker of a glove doesn't work so well with a 100 mph shot at 3rd base. But only part of one tool. Nothing game changing. Unlike hollow bats (in the old days), roids, and baseballs that should have Titleist printed on them. 🙂