Movies Watched -- Ex Machina

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Saw this one awhile back, foggy memory ... Llewyn Davis grew a giant beard and shaved his head and plays a Zuckerbergian character ("Bluebook" founder, not to be confused with Facebook) who is building stunning cyber ladies in the wilds of Norway ... for some very good reason he has given his robot ladies great tits and asses, except for the main lovely, played by hapa beauty Sonoya Mizuno who is flat chested and can't dance (apparently she's a ballerina in real life but she can't tear up a dance floor like little Llewyn Davis).  Programmer genius hard liquor drinker weight lifter (he's complicated, see?) ... wire rim glasses give him solid geek cred.

There's some other nerdy white kid involved, doesn't wear glasses but he's able to reprogram sophisticated home security systems on the fly. "Did you profile my porn searches?" Can AI achieve consciousness blah blah blah, damn boyz, see-through Ava has a perfectly shaped chest and lookit dat ass! Fly away young Ava, fly away. A solid entry for the slick but dumb file.   

Beautiful, but wouldn't last ten seconds on Soul Train

Ernestine Anderson Channel

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First 50 tracks generated by Pandora's algo: 

  1. Ernestine Anderson -- As Long As I Live
  2. Barbara Morrison -- I'm Just A Lucky So And So
  3. Ella Fitzgerald -- Bewitched
  4. Nancy Wilson -- Someone To Watch Over Me
  5. Ernestine Anderson -- Just One More Chance
  6. Julie London -- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
  7. Sarah Vaughan -- Misty [her version is best of all]
  8. Nancy Wilson -- As Time Goes By
  9. Ella Fitzgerald -- I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
  10. Anita O'Day -- We'll Be Together Again
  11. Ernestine Anderson -- Poor Butterfly [love her voice and style]
  12. Charlie Haden -- Ill Wind [sounds like Norah Jones? Haden on saxophone]
  13. Nancy Wilson -- On Green Dolphin Street
  14. Sarah Vaughan -- Honeysuckle Rose (Live)
  15. Ernestine Anderson -- Mad About The Boy
  16. Heather Rigdon -- Young And Naive [another young blonde I've never heard of]
  17. Ella Fitzgerald -- They Can't Take That Away From Me
  18. Blossom Dearie -- Manhattan [love this version, tempo is key]
  19. Ernestine Anderson -- Day Dream
  20. Lorez Alexandria -- It Might As Well Be Spring [never heard of her, but solid]
  21. Barbara Morrison -- Save Your Love For Me [like her]
  22. Joe Sample & Lalah Hathaway -- For All We Know [not thrilled, heavy orchestration]
  23. Sarah Vaughan -- I Didn't Know What Time It It Was
  24. Randy Crawford & Joe Sample -- Every Day I Have The Blues
  25. Ernestine Anderson -- Old Folks
  26. Ernestine Anderson -- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
  27. Ella Fitzgerald -- Isn't It A Pity
  28. Billie Holiday -- Come Rain Or Come Shine
  29. Maxine Sullivan -- I Didn't Know About You
  30. Shirley Horn -- Foolin' Myself
  31. Ernestine Anderson -- Never Make Your Move Too Soon
  32. Nancy Wilson -- When Sunny Gets Blue
  33. Sarah Vaughan -- Say It Isn't So
  34. Sherry Petta -- Wouldn't It Be Lovely
  35. Laura Fygi -- It's Crazy
  36. Michelle Zangara -- Under A Blanket Of Blue
  37. Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson -- I Was Doing All Right
  38. Kevin Mahogany -- You Better Know It
  39. Ernestine Anderson -- Ill Wind
  40. Count Basie -- Lonesome Blues (Live)
  41. Sarah Vaughan -- That Old Black Magic
  42. Rebecca Kilgore -- Tulip Or Turnip
  43. Carmen McRae -- I'm Glad There Is You
  44. Ella Fitzgerald -- Get Out Of Town
  45. Ernestine Anderson -- Heat Wave
  46. Sarah Gazarek -- Give Me That Smile (Live)
  47. Champian Fulton -- I Can't Face The Music
  48. Tommy Flanagan Trio -- Medley: Some Other Spring / Easy Living
  49. Jimmy Scott -- The Talk Of The Town
  50. Veronica Nunn -- Where Or When

Southwest Airlines Pop, 1 Minute View

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All the airlines (AAL, DAL, etc.) popped at the same time Monday afternoon ... assume scanner would have chirped in time ... great risk reward into the close assuming you were a fast boy and got in within that minute ... look at the tick chart to see realistic entry and stop placement, can't see this on the one minute. Seat capacity quote must have appeared on Bloomberg terminal first; there's a reason people pay $1,800 a month for it.  $9.99 data feed guys the sucker fish who just latch on. 

“LUV CEO Kelly said, ‘We don’t want to grow 8%, we’re not going to grow 8% and we can easily trim the schedule to stick to 7%.’”

StockTwits stream at the time ... no one with access to a Bloomberg terminal, it appears? Umm, holy cow, huh, whoa, what happened?

Bristol-Myers Drop, 1 Minute View

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A shame I didn't have scanner running since I'm not sure it would have beeped at the 14:00 bar ... entry below $68.56 makes sense .. would have been good risk reward carried into end of day. Getting positioned short in two minutes following outside bar would have been the dream move. 

Nothing at StockTwits until 14:04 when optionsaddict mentioned "69 call collapsed" and 14:05 when NewsHedge_Squawk noted drop.  

Humana Pop, 1 Minute View

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146,000 shares in the 13:10 bar, not sure how many ticks in there before it got halted... even the reopen at $200 (low of re-open bar $192.22) made it possible to make some money, would have taken some skillful entry and initial stop placement. 

Movies Watched -- To Be Takei

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I never watched Star Trek and have never seen any of the movies ... not really interested in much sci-fi or fantasy (this is why I don't watch Game of Thrones) ... but I vaguely know who "Sulu" is ... interesting bits about the internment camps ... George Takei is kind of an interesting guy, a good champion for gay rights ... he's become a fussy little old gay man (see him as a young man in pic below) with a nagging, zhlubby Jewish? partner ... they make a strange and sort of terrible couple, but that's love, I guess. 

Amarin Pop -- 1 Minute View

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Again, didn't have scanner running but this should have popped up during lunch hour ... ding ding, wake up and take a look, old man. Crap risk reward if held into the close but it was ahead 30% at one point, so.... if day trading were easy everyone would have wavy thick hair like mine.

Etta Jones Channel

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First 100 tracks generated by Pandora's algo ... bit of a mystery why Etta Jones is relatively unknown?

  1. Etta Jones -- Solitude
  2. Etta James -- Fool That I Am
  3. Nancy Wilson -- Teach Me Tonight
  4. Ray Charles -- Georgia On My Mind
  5. Etta Jones -- Nature Boy [i do like her style/sound]
  6. Louis Armstrong -- I Wonder
  7. Billie Holiday -- Fine And Mellow (Live)
  8. Otis Redding -- I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
  9. Mose Allison -- You Won't Let Me Go
  10. Etta Jones -- Don't Go To Strangers
  11. Billie Holiday -- Stormy Weather
  12. Shirley Horn -- Fever
  13. Nat King Cole -- Unforgettable
  14. Etta Jones -- Old Folks
  15. Billie Holiday -- All Of Me
  16. Aretha Franklin -- (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Mono Single Version)
  17. John Coltrane -- Say It (Over And Over Again)
  18. Ray Charles & The COunt Basie Orchestra -- Georgia On My Mind
  19. Dinah Washington – Crazy He Calls Me
  20. Ernestine Anderson – What A Difference A Day Made [she’s good]
  21. Etta James – The Man I Love
  22. Ella Fitzgerald – I Get A Kick Out Of You
  23. Etta Jones – I’ll Be There
  24. Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind (1960)
  25. Etta James – These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
  26. Beryl Booker – Someone To Watch Over Me
  27. Louis Armstrong – A Kiss To Build A Dream On
  28. Etta Jones – Love Walked In
  29. Ben Webster (Billie Holiday) – Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
  30. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Dream A Little Dream Of Me
  31. Dinah Washington – There’ll Be Some Changes Made
  32. Billie Holiday – You Go To My Head
  33. Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa – Your Heart Is As Black As Night
  34. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – The Nearness Of You
  35. Ray Brown Trio – Poor Butterfly (feat. Etta Jones)
  36. Madeleine Peyroux – Smile
  37. Etta Jones – If I Had You
  38. Billie Holiday – Blue Moon
  39. Nina Simone – Feeling Good
  40. Otis Redding – Stand By Me
  41. Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime
  42. Billie Holiday – Until The Real Thing Comes Along
  43. Etta Jones – Blw Top Blues
  44. Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind (1955)
  45. Blossom Dearie – Someone To Watch Over Me
  46. Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me
  47. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
  48. Ben E. King – Stand By Me
  49. Ben Webster – When I Fall In Love
  50. Bille Holiday – The Very Thought Of You
  51. Etta Jones – Since I Fell For You
  52. Sarah Vaughan – They Can’t Take That Away From Me
  53. Ella Fitzgerald – Guilty
  54. Etta James – I Just Want To Make Love To You
  55. Maxine Sullivan – S’posin’
  56. Etta Jones – Someday My Prince Will Come
  57. Billie Holiday – Come Rain Or Shine
  58. Nina Simone – Exactly Like You [great piano playing from Nina]
  59. Etta James – All I Could Do Was Cry
  60. Ella Fitzgerald – Love You Madly
  61. Dinah Washington – Is You Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
  62. Billie Holiday – Loveless Love
  63. Diana Krall – I’m Just A Lucky So And So [boring white Canadian deserves a thumbs down]
  64. Pearl Bailey – Old Man, You Been Gone Too Long
  65. Etta Jones – Just Friends
  66. Dinah Washington – Embraceable You
  67. Sarah Vaughan – I’ve Got The World On A String
  68. Nat King Cole – Stardust
  69. Pearl Bailey – Frankie And Johnny
  70. Melody Gardot – Your Heart Is As Black As Night [blonde youngster, better than Krall]
  71. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Don’t Be That Way
  72. Etta James – Stormy Weather
  73. Nina Simone – I Loves You Porgy
  74. Anita O’Day – Memories of You
  75. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Tenderly
  76. Etta Jones – Mean To Me
  77. Louis Jordan – Is You Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
  78. Ray Charles – Georgia On My Mind (Live LA 9/20/64) [heard this one enough]
  79. Dinah Washington – After You’ve Gone
  80. Billie Holiday – Jim
  81. Etta Jones – Blues To End All Blues
  82. Carmen McRae – Exactly Like You
  83. Doris Day – It Had To Be You
  84. Etta James – Trust In Me
  85. Etta Jones – Salty Papa Blues
  86. Billie Holiday – I Can’t Face The Music
  87. Nat King Cole – When I Fall In Love
  88. Rosemary Clooney – Good Morning Heartache
  89. Etta Jones – Canadian Sunset
  90. Ella Fitzgerald – Isn’t It Romantic
  91. Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
  92. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Love Is Here To Stay
  93. Etta James – I’d Rather Go Blind [great live version with rowdy crowd]
  94. John Coltrane – Like Someone In Love
  95. Ella Fitzgerald – I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
  96. Nancy Wilson – Call It Stormy Monday
  97. Billie Holiday – Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me [algo repeating itself]
  98. Georgie Auld – Taking A Chance On Love
  99. Etta Jones – How Deep Is The Ocean
  100. Dianne Reeves – The Nearness Of You / Misty

Movies Watched -- Force Majeure

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Watched this one awhile ago and wrote a post but SquareSpace got hung up and lost it ... second attempt, foggier memory. Wasn't that thrilled with it.  Beautiful Swedish couple with two bratty kids on a ski holiday in France (they have money). They have a close call with an avalanche and the Dad doesn't try to protect his wife and kids but runs away.  This act of cowardice and selfishness makes everything fall apart (as it should). Movie makes weak modern men ask themselves, "would I do that?" 

Movies Watched -- Crossfire

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This one wasn't so great, preachy ... heavy-handed moralizing ... how big a problem was anti-Semitism in 1947? Jews being beaten to death in America by strangers for being Jews? Did this ever happen?... Mitchum is in it but he's kind of sleepwalking through it. Not recommended.

UPDATE: I watched the "featurette" that accompanied the movie and they explained the story was originally about a homosexual marine who was beaten to death by three of his fellow marines, which is believable ... probably happened hundreds of times? but the censors in 1955 wouldn't allow it, so they changed it to the improbable beating death of a Jew. As an aside, the many stories of soldiers killing their commanding officers or fellow soldiers is interesting, and I thought this was going to be Don Draper's story in Mad Men, but they pussyfooted around and made it an "accident" in his case. 

Avago and Broadcom Pops, 1 Minute View

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Didn't have the scanner running but clearly it would have picked these up pronto ... refresh rate ideally 10 seconds on the scan? Dunno, will have to work on it once back in the proper timezone ... when I'm not doing yard work.  Always happy to talk with humans (no bots, please) who caught this in real-time.

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My buddy @HCPG was kind enough to share a ten tick chart of BRCM with me ... this is a better way to view these pops:

StockTwits stream for AVGO ... NewsHedge_Squawk and danshep55 on top of it. 

StockTwits stream for BRCM ... OpenOutcrier not on his usual game with a 14:00 post:

Beijing Restaurants -- Noodle Bar

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I scootered over to the Jing A Taproom intending to have lunch there only to discover that they open at 5 PM. It's up in the 1949 compound behind the IBM building.  It took me 18 minutes and 8 seconds (approximately) to get there from my office the way the scooter flies (via Er Huan).

Below are the hours of the Jing A Taproom.  There was a friendly handsome bearded white guy in there (in addition to a gaggle of youngsters staring into laptops) who told me they open at 5 PM.  I should have called ahead but that isn't my style. 

See the QR code there?  Yes, big in China. 

Next door to the Taproom is the old Noodle Bar, which has been there for many many years, so I had lunch there.  Here's the lunch menu:

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I got the set lunch (beef brisket, tendon, and tripe) with thick spinach noodles, snack, and oolong tea for 48 kuai (US$7.74) (actually turned out to be 58 kuai (US$9.35) since the spinach noodles are 10 kuai extra -- not disclosed on the menu or verbally at the time, to my annoyance, though of course they were effusively apologetic later and I didn't make a scene like I would have done in my youth, mainly to show off my ability to scream "fluently" and at length in Chinese) .

I also got a small bottle of Heineken for the low low price of 45 kuai (US$7.25) since I was in the mood for beer, any beer. Oh, I also got the deep-fried tofu cubes with pepper and salt, which are excellent beer food, if you didn't know.  

Deep-fried tofu, good beer food

You can sit in the courtyard, which was pleasant on a warm day like today, though the air quality left something to be desired (05-27-2015 12:00; PM2.5; 111.0; 180; Unhealthy (at 24-hour exposure at this level)). Below are my thick spinach noodles with brisket, tripe and tendon (see them all floating there?). They were OK. I'm not big on tripe or tendon but I'm not picky either, I'll eat anything (once). 

Spinach noodley with floating bits

There is a 10% service charge (the horror!?!), but they do take credit cards and were quick with the fapiao. They did collect the money upfront which always makes me uncomfortable, like they think you're going to pull a runner, but it's actually nice simply to get up and leave when you're finished. Grand total was 133 kuai (US$21.44).

I scootered back to the office via San Huan which took 16 minutes 47 seconds (approximately) the way the scooter flies. 

salesforce.com Pop, 1 Minute View

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Things that take off during the lunch hour (esp. before a three day weekend) really stand out ... every day trader (and our bot brethren) on planet earth was on top of this from 13:02. 

StockTwits stream at the time ... David Faber talking on CNBC the cause? ... Newshedge_Squawk on top of it as usual followed by a gentleman in Moscow ... it's a small world. 

Quest Diagnostics Pop, 1 Minute View

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I did have the scanner running on Friday ... DGX was #2 on it at 10:29 AM and then went to #1 for many minutes thereafter ... if you were fast enough you could have made some money ... slow and it would have been a scratch ... very slow and you would have lost a bundle. Let me look at the Twitter feed mentioned in this Bloomberg piece:

“Quest shares gave up most of their gains within minutes. They were up 6.9 percent to $79.07 at 11:07 a.m. in New York. In his tweet, since removed, Joe Kunkle, known as @OptionsHawk, said Quest had hired Goldman Sachs & Co. after receiving a $95-a-share approach. A Quest spokesman didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment.”

Tweet simply conveyed a market rumor, says the author. I'd like to know the time stamp of the deleted tweet ... was it 10:29 AM or earlier?  

StockTwits stream from the time... WallStJesus and OptionRunners both noted unusual activity in calls before my scanner picked up stock movement at 10:29 AM.

Nanex posted a nice chart, as usual ... professional traders need a good data feed like his, $9.99 isn't going to cut it. 

Yahoo Drop, 1 Minute View

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Did not have the scanner running but assume it would have chirped at 15:34. I do know how to spell "unusual," though you wouldn't know it from my chart annotations. 

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Movies Watched -- Feuchtgebiete (Wetlands)

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Tries to shock and revolt and succeeds ... a gross-out story from Germany about a screwed-up girl with boyish good looks who has hemorrhoids and hasn't read Charles Willeford's classic book, "A guide for the undehemorrhoided" ... she has terrible, cruel parents (esp. her mother) which explains a lot of her behavior (spoiler: it's revealed late in the movie that the worst of her many childhood traumas was her mother's attempted suicide/filicide of her baby brother) ... but it has a sort of weirdly conventional ending.

I did watch it to the end and didn't fast forward (it is under 100 minutes) so it earns a yellow rating. Can't recommend it. I'm sure many people can't make it even ten minutes in, but if you're difficult to disgust, you might enjoy it.