Cutting losses in the bonds and silver ... the beauty of being a guru based in his parents' basement is that he can call a "generational low" in the bonds, and then two weeks later reverse himself.
Youku Tudou At All-time Low
YOKU put out this press release on Thursday evening and held a conference call at 9 PM (eastern time). There was a chance to get short above $15 after hours, but there was next to no liquidity and I don't know how easy it is to locate shares to short. I'm interested to talk with people who traded this one on Friday (or Thursday night).
Reuters Dot Com Now Blocked In China
It's true, I turned off my VPN and this is what I get:
Turn the VPN back on and we're in business:
Amicus Coronado, 1 Minute View
Two biotech stocks (surprise!) unusually active today ... would have been hard to make money in Amicus (FOLD) if you weren't in there pre-open ... Coronado (CNDO) gave back a lot into end of day, but probably still a profitable play for alert traders.
Gold Miners Pop, 1 Minute View
Fed day, everything moves, Gold Miners moved the most ... NUGT is the triple leveraged long play (its opposite is the more cleverly named DUST). Would like to see all the trading between 14:00:00 and 14:01:00 but can't do that with a $9.99 data feed. Even paying $9.45 would have made sense carrying into end of day.
General Cable Pop, 1 Minute View
I don't have the scanner results from yesterday since I was busy streaming TV shows (bandwidth priorities!), but I assume it would have caught BGC ... rumored buyout.
Click to enlarge, as always (helps if you have big monitor, not a phone or tablet)
Himax Downgrade, Delayed Reaction
Didn't notice this one at the time but went back and checked the scanner from 3/16 and sure enough it was there.
Renren At New All-time Low
Went back to look at my time-stamped tweets on RENN. Here they are:
TV I've Watched Recently
Going to list all the TV I've (recently) watched (alphabetically) with my brief comments. I need recommendations from people who agree with both my likes and dislikes.
- Breaking Bad (loved it, watched from start to finish)
- Boardwalk Empire (liked this one, watched it all)
- Borgen (liked the first couple seasons, refused to start third as I feared would jump shark)
- Bosch (wasn't too thrilled with first (and only?) season)
- Broadchurch (not bad, final episode was a cop-out)
- Broen/Bron (the Danish/Swedish show ... liked it)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (funny but cruel, Larry David the poster boy for anti-Semitism)
- Dexter (watched a couple seasons and liked it then quit when it had no clear arc)
- Game Of Thrones (quit after a few episodes, not into the fantasy thing)
- Girls (I think I've seen every episode, no matter how much pain inflicted)
- Happy Valley (kind of liked it)
- House of Cards (it's slick, still watching, though dreading inevitable shark jump)
- Lilyhammer (loved the first season, haven't tackled the later one)
- Louis (love this show, seen every one, very painful in parts)
- Mad Men (liked it, have seen every episode)
- Orange Is The New Black (watched one or two episode and quit)
- Orphan Black (watched one episode, didn't like it)
- Please Like Me (from Down Under, only one season, that's all the juice it had)
- Rectify (really liked season one, I guess there's a season two now?)
- Scandal (tried to watch it, bouncy cam, quit after a few minutes)
- Shameless (quit after two episodes)
- The Americans (watched season one, didn't hook me for some reason)
- The Fall (Scully with British accent, ultimately disappointing)
- The Good Wife (watched quite a few episodes, though I'm not sure why, Margulies of course)
- The Sopranos (loved it, watched from start to finish)
- The Walking Dead (only watched part of one episode, didn't like it)
- The Wire (liked it, even the season everyone else hated)
- Top of the Lake (watched one episode, didn't like it)
- Transparent (liked this one, looking forward to second season)
- True Detective (had some good episodes, neat vibe, but ultimately disappointing)
- Veep (funny, but often cruel humor)
Shameless -- Season One
I've only watched the pilot so far, but wanted to put this up as a placeholder. Initially not thrilled with it. The story of an alcoholic father and his brood of children who have to fend for themselves on the (white) south side of Chicago. Everyone is attractive, except for William Macy, and generally cheerful despite the poverty ... I find that offensive. If you want to see real poor whites, tune into Cops.
I'll soldier on and try to watch the rest of season one.
OK, I watched episode two and decided to stop. Yes, there are some funny lines, some amusing situations, but the root of the story is poverty and alcoholism and dysfunction ... and if you're playing that for laughs, it doesn't work for me ... it's unseemly. In addition to everyone being above-average attractive, they're also fairly articulate. Poor white families don't talk like these people do. Also how the show handles sex (and homosexuality) and race (his youngest baby boy is half-black), it kind of grosses me out. Not sure who the target audience is, I guess Millennials ... probably squarely aimed at Millennials. Not my bag.