Weird one ... not on the RT top 100 list but inexplicably made many top ten lists so I watched it ... low budget ... ridiculous story of some college girls on spring break (lots of sex, drugs & rock and roll, er, hip hop) in St. Petersburg who partner up with a local gangster ... lots of disturbing bits, consistently salacious and occasionally scary ... twist at the end but just absurd. Must have made some ten worst lists as well.
Gold (GLD) Looking Rusty
Candlevolume chart of the GLD (Inception date: 11/18/2004) ... the width of the year shows you how active trading was ... 2014 shaping up to be a "thin" year as price falls and activity drops. 2012 thin, 2013 thinner, 2014 thinnest. You can see that in the early years of the boom, 2004 05 06 07, there was very little trading in the GLD. Everyone who purchased after May 2010 and held is underwater. A lot of latecomers are bagholders now, that's for sure.
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ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- September 22, 2014
Big, big losses in XIV and silver ... when something goes wrong it tends to go very wrong ... that's the trouble with working off weekly charts.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- September 15, 2014
Whipsaw loss in DUG ... didn't suffer same in ERY or SCO, thankfully. Took a big bath in the Yen ...
Movies Watched -- Our Children
They give you the bad news straight away, which makes you dread the next 100+ minutes ... it's 111 minutes so at least 11 minutes too long. The mother's depression, her mental illness, wasn't explored very well ... you don't really understand why she snapped. Andre as inescapable despot or monster? Saint as predator? I don't know if I buy it ... the mother would need to have very weak social ties for them to hold such sway. Anyway, I didn't fast forward at all, yellow rating.
Movies Watched -- Lore
Breaking the rule of never voluntarily watching movies related to the Holocaust ... interesting that it takes the perspective of these kids who are abandoned by their elite Nazi parents, left to fend for themselves at the end of the war. They meet a Jewish boy along the way who helps them. Hannelore ("Lore") is the oldest child ... confused as her world falls apart ... about 10 minutes too long at 109 minutes ... I wasn't super thrilled with it though I didn't fast forward at all, which is a good sign. Wonderful last scene, last sequence, really. Sideways rating, yellow (not green or red).
Movies Watched -- Inside Llewyn Davis
A Coen Brothers movie ... their imagining of the Greenwich Village folk music scene in 1961. Stars a talented singer named Oscar Isaac who plays kind of an awful guy. Full of little jokes that amuse the Coens, typical of their movies, dark jokes ... about a struggling artist looking to make it commercially ... several cast members from "Girls," those guys (Driver, Karpovsky) are getting a lot of work now, and Coen usuals like John Goodman. Wasn't that thrilled with it, but didn't fast forward at all, just over 100 minutes. Yellow, sideways rating.
Alibaba Opening Day (BABA)
3 minute chart ... about a $10 range, not too bad. IPO price was $68, I think... opened at $92.70 it looks like.
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Dragonvale -- Leathery Dragon
Lava + Storm ... got a Sun and a Double Rainbow with this combination before the Leathery finally appeared.
Movies Watched -- War Witch (Rebelle)
Fast forwarded from ten minutes in ... somewhere in Africa ... too grim to watch ... children forced to become soldiers ... she is considered to have some kind of special power ... looks like hell on earth ... no way can I watch this. Under 100 minutes but unwatchable. Red rating (means I couldn't watch it).