Movies Watched -- We Are Still Here

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83 minute running time, so the right length, but I quit after 20 minutes since it was no good, even in fast forward mode, anyone can see that it's no good. It's a horror movie but relies too much on the scary music cues to shock, the story is badly laid out, badly paced. Better if it had starred the dirt-floor cellar in the old house in which I grew up.  This is a W.D. By movie, and a bad one. 

Why this was on the Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 list with a 95% rating is a mystery -- actually, I know why, 43 reviews with only nine "top critics" weighing in, which means idiot bloggers and other kids have skewed the data once again.  This idiot blogger is doing you a favor by issuing a red rating, avoid, do not waste your time.

Resident of dirt-floor cellar

Resident of dirt-floor cellar

Tesaro No Dummy

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Just a view of "unusual suspect" Tesaro, regular hours open at $68.78, some notes only comprehensible to me and my trading buddies.

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Cigar Report -- H. Upmann The Banker: Currency

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H. Upmann has a series of cigars they call "The Banker," which I thought was kind of a cynical marketing ploy -- an attempt to appeal to idiots who work in finance. They have different names for the different sizes: Arbitrage (7 x 56), Basis Point (6 1/8 X 54), Annuity (6 x 52), and Currency (5 1/2 x 48). I got the Robusto since that's the size smoke I prefer. 

Smelled like honey, which was promising! Lit it in a lot of wind with a dying lighter but it was very forgiving. The draw was good and burn even. It took about an inch to mellow which is typical of good-but-not-great cigars, and I spent 50 minutes on it start to finish, which is exactly the amount of time I like to spend.  So despite the gimmicky name, it's not a bad cigar at all, it was quite pleasant, I'd smoke it again, unlike the Juan Lopez, which I am slowly but steadily giving away to the lawn guys. 

Tweets for June 27, 2016

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Movies Watched -- Theeb

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In Arabic. 100 minutes long, so just the right length. About a Bedouin boy in Hejaz Province (the western part of the Arabian peninsula), 1916. He gets stranded in the desert and has to save himself. "If the wolves offer friendship, do not count on success. They will not stand beside you when you are facing death." A story of survival, self-reliance, strategic alliances, and honor. "The strong eat the weak." I didn't fast forward so it gets at least a yellow rating. After watching the other 90+ movies from 2015 on my list, I'll decide if it should be upgraded to green.   

Taught by big brother

Nobody Sweeter Than You

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Discovered via the Spotify algo, bless the algo. 

http://KEXP.ORG presents Grace Love & the True Loves performing "Nobody Sweeter" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded February 17, 2016. Host: Kevin Cole Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Luke Knecht & Justin Wilmore Editor: Scott Holpainen http://kexp.org

Cigar Report -- CAO Flathead V660 Carb

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This is a bigger boy (6 x 60), "Gordo," box pressed though less aggressively box pressed than this AVO -- the 60 ring gauge makes the rectangle feel less funny in the mouth (the AVO is only 54). Harder draw than I'm used to with these super premium cigars, but it had an even burn and very quickly mellowed. It took me 75 minutes to smoke it and was very pleasant, despite the hard draw. 

MidCap Short Still Valid

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I wrote a post on April 30th titled, MidCaps Set Up Short After Perfect Q1 Long. That set-up failed four weeks later, which is typical of my public plays. But the short set up again just a week after being stopped out, and triggered two weeks later below $272.62 (protective stop above $278.33). The minimum idiot wave move for MDY from here is $222.50 down to a "typical wave C" drop at $210 - $205. In a real crash-crash scenario, it could drop below $180. 

I don't know anything about "Brexit," but I do understand that the dissolution of the EU would be a real mess and markets could be foretelling this with the projected down moves I've detailed above (and below on the chart).

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