Tweets for August 4, 2016

$SBH getting closer to target zone delineated in my April brog post, Sally Beauty Could Get Ugly: https://t.co/KLEKq4FMnw

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 5, 2016

Seaworld $SEAS at all-time low; the Chairman's classic 2014 brog post/prospectus excerpt: https://t.co/JRZ0ZfyDQm quickly stolen by BizInsdr

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 5, 2016

First door-to-door salesman just came, "Southwestern Advantage," sort of textbooks/encyclopedias ... $104 a book, $20/mo. website, I said NO

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 4, 2016

A dozen new re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | windmills on fire, Swedes in San Francisco, nerd programmer jokes

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 4, 2016

Tweets for August 2, 2016 (Redo)

This week's musical selection, Kat Edmonson singing Who's Counting: https://t.co/4Ok7u0jTqh

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 2, 2016

Updated my popular tweets feed... these are the ones that the kool kids (i.e., not you) are seeing: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 2, 2016

No coincidence that Texas Roadhouse $TXRH down 10% and my dubbing it Texas Salthouse in recent definitive review: https://t.co/OSIB1iDYOv

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 2, 2016

Just had annual car inspection, mechanic told me he's voting for Trump. Still can't find a white, working-class guy who isn't a Trump voter.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 2, 2016

Tweets for August 3, 2016

MT @darrenrovel Nike announces it is ending its golf equipment business, just way too challenging. | Golf dying, no one goes outside anymore

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

Virtu Financial $VIRT all-time low: https://t.co/IXQCsgUnu4 | Modern market making not as easy as they say?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

Over a dozen new re-tweets to my popular stream, all of them fun and delightful: https://t.co/iDTYIeswIV

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

MT @SirSteven Crash of the clones: Range Rover rip-off hits actual Range Rover in China pic.twitter.com/s9oenZ7HTi | Copycat named Land Mine?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

There was plenty of time to short Bitcoin after that "break" bar, assuming there's a way to short it: pic.twitter.com/45Y0W5Vs8f

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

Richard Hanna, a rare House Republican willing to break ranks: https://t.co/mMTNYJqrSU

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

Does Buffett's Drive2Vote only apply to Douglas or Sarpy Counties (NE)? I'm willing to drive in poor PA or OH counties on election day....

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 3, 2016

Tweets for August 1, 2016

"Anna, do you want a bubble bath or not?"

"Not."

(Because:

你要不要泡泡浴？

不要

)

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 2, 2016

Monthly production for July for our solar panels on garage roof: 736.744 kWh (not entirely accurate, missed 2 days b/c WiFi frm inverter out

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 1, 2016

I retweeted another 18 popular tweets to my other stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Lots of interesting things you no doubt missed.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 1, 2016

Valeant $VRX should go down to $20, not in a straight line, but the chicken bones are rarely wrong on targets: pic.twitter.com/H8JRL69Vc7

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 1, 2016

"[Uber selling out to] rather than fighting Didi might not be such a bad idea." https://t.co/dG6ytYBNW9 | Great idea for Uber investors.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) August 1, 2016

Tweets for July 31, 2016

I've retweeted 20+ popular tweets to my other stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | I'd never clutter the original stream in this way, of course

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 31, 2016

One Entire Life of Miscalculations

Love Kat Edmonson's voice and this song, though that shirt is unfortunate and the whirling around and around camera is amateurville ... just close your eyes and listen.

Houston, Texas artist Kat Edmonson performs 'Who's Counting' in TV Studio A at KCPT in Kansas City, Missouri. 90.9 FM The Bridge | bridge909.org | kcpt.org | eightonesixty.com @909TheBridge | @KCPT Live in studios and interviews from local and national music artists: The Bridge, 90.9 FM KTBG, listener supported public music radio in Kansas City, Missouri.

ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- August 1, 2016

No changes this week. Note that the XIV has lost nearly 60% without reversing -- trend trading leveraged ETFs off the weekly chart not for the faint of heart.

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Emerging Markets Run About Done

Here's my view of the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (ticker symbol: VWO). It has had a pretty good run off the January low and is approaching some target reversal zones. It could run all the way up to near $41 without invalidating the sacred idiot wave rules, but I'll be monitoring it closely in coming weeks for a reversal, and you should too!  

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Click to enlarge, get a bigger monitor, dummy

Tweets for July 30, 2016

Maoxian > Emerging Markets Run About Done https://t.co/ZjoMphYnHa | $VWO

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 31, 2016

RT @BarbarianCap Pleased to see Barrons doing a panel on women and minorities in investment management. pic.twitter.com/H1k45i25y0

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 30, 2016

I've retweeted 11 more popular tweets to my other stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Haven't found another person that does this yet.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 30, 2016

Tweets for July 29, 2016

I've made an experimental Twitter stream in which I retweet popular tweets: https://t.co/iDTYIeswIV | Let me know if it interests you.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 29, 2016

RT @Keubiko Welcome to the new New Normal. pic.twitter.com/5rnHsGxZ7t | Robots and Retweets. via @BarbarianCap

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 29, 2016

Tweets for July 28, 2016

When the dentist was stitching up my gum this morning after an apicoectomy, he put the hook through my upper lip. That hurt. A lot.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 29, 2016

MT @vikramreuters Annotated history of latest China stock debacle: Tech-Pro. 1000%, 5 year rally wiped out in a day pic.twitter.com/UdoI1exshD

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 29, 2016

RT @candicechoi It was glaze from a Krispy Kreme donut https://t.co/CieXBPx69o pic.twitter.com/JEwsUgEvYx | Cop knew it looked familiar anyway.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 28, 2016

I've always preferred bunkum to malarkey.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 28, 2016

Tweets for July 27, 2016

Weekly musical selection, love this song by Ray LaMontagne, "Ojai" https://t.co/bCDwz8UyhT

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 28, 2016

Found another movie from 2015 that I liked and can recommend: Diary of a Teenage Girl https://t.co/vh7OsU0qFa

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 27, 2016

MT @DCDouchbag Paint me like one of your French whores . . . pic.twitter.com/6Kk586BrHv | via @crushspread

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 27, 2016

This Path I've Taken Ain't Goin' Nowhere

No good live version of this song on YouTube so I'm forced to embed a faulty-lyrics version ... love the song, listened a hundred times on repeat since Spotify suggested it via the Weekly Discover algo, bless the algo. (Ojai is an hour east of Santa Barbara.)

Did the lyrics by ear, so hope it's up to everyone's standards.

Movies Watched -- The Diary of a Teenage Girl

I liked this one. It's a story about a teenage girl's sexual life (safely set in 1976 San Francisco), from her perspective ... a "coming of age" tale, though I hate that term ... what's refreshing about this movie is its honesty ... it's not judgmental or moralizing about a lot of the decisions (and mistakes) Minnie makes. And it's funny!

Mainstream audiences will have a big problem with it, the folks in Omaha are not going to be comfortable watching this one.  (For those who have seen it: I would like to point out that Monroe was basically a good guy, and the whole trajectory of Minnie's life would be different if he had been a terrible guy, right? So she was lucky in that sense....) 

Just over 100 minutes so just the right length. Green rating, recommended. 

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Oh Oh Oh Skarsgård

Tweets for July 26, 2016

Twitter $TWTR after-hours chart ... still amazing to me that this stock isn't in the single digits: pic.twitter.com/20QFmVGvPx

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 27, 2016

MT @BrookingsChina Roy: Russia-CN relations best they have been in modern history. pic.twitter.com/GvMy4YlZZu | Li Cheng's suit looks expensive

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 26, 2016

MT @historysquared 170k people took the CFA Level 1.43% passed https://t.co/rINMSLIxPW | Shows why that particular union card has value.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 26, 2016

"We are going to put British Columbians first" by implementing a property transfer tax on foreigners: https://t.co/oaoFlslcBv

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 26, 2016

MT @ReformedBroker I start every morning w/ the Trending ticker page on the @StockTwits app, up to speed in minutes. pic.twitter.com/sXXfv6Sspi

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 26, 2016

Tweets for July 25, 2016

“What’s happening is our information abt what’s wrong in the world is getting better” https://t.co/AhdNoyHTTB | Correct. Via @3747S_14458E

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 26, 2016

Chart showing all of $UVXY's reverse splits ... great trading vehicle, god help those who tried to "invest" in it. pic.twitter.com/0VVdKuI2Ck

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 25, 2016

MT @jackmirkinson 218 MILLION DOLLARS pic.twitter.com/EyVASmvmiS | Honey Badger don’t care https://t.co/D2ySCT8lnq

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 25, 2016

Tweets for July 24, 2016

RT @emilyrauhala China journalism job: @supchina is hiring an editor in chief https://t.co/p5tBGtwK5l

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 24, 2016

510 Ways To Win

This tweet amused me:

If Clinton wins Florida, Trump basically has just one way to win https://t.co/ecQB4SmGHb pic.twitter.com/vvpjbXEll4

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) July 19, 2016

People (and by people, I mean the coastal elites) are fooling themselves into thinking that The Donald will not win key swing states like Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Not only will he win all three of them, he'll do so decisively. Use this handy-dandy tool to see how easily he'll win the general election in November. 

Tweets for July 23, 2016

Refusing to read the poems written by our Brooklyn-born B&B host … he has conveniently placed examples in every room of the house.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 23, 2016

Tweets for July 20, 2016

Hecla Mining unusually active today (crossed my radar) must mean the run in silver is over. https://t.co/NJEpdBNRxE $HL

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 21, 2016

My newest Zippo (#12,571 of 13,000): https://t.co/x6F0VBbOuW

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 21, 2016

MT @nxthompson Am hiring a new business editor. Someone to run @newyorker's Currency blog. | No Art History majors need apply?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 21, 2016

MT @mviser Klarman says Convention, “reinforced my decision neither 2 support GOP candidates who have supported Trump, nor the party itself"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 21, 2016

Pence looks like a pedophile priest.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 21, 2016

"the order starts at the bid and incrementally checks prices from the bid to the ask prices" https://t.co/QgpqVaOwvR | Adaptive IBALGO

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 20, 2016

This week's musical selection, Father John Misty singing Funtimes in Babylon: https://t.co/4sEXeUcSqL

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 20, 2016

MT @caulkthewagon @ZARA keeps stealing indie artist @tuesdaybassen's work. pic.twitter.com/KkXTvEqtzw | "such notifications" also offends.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 20, 2016

You have to assume The Donald will win FL PA OH, then work down from there: https://t.co/WtbfyBgpFH | via @Nate_Cohn

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 20, 2016

RT @BenedictEvans The iPhone is so expensive, only 15% of China Mobile's users have one.

But it has 835m users, so that's 125m people.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 20, 2016