Ahoy Ahoy

It's been a hot 5 years since the last post. In that post I said I was on my way out, implying I'm leaving the finance industry. Alas, still here.

I'm going to be posting more in the future (because I can't post in the past yet). It's not like I used to per-se but I do plan to just jot down fast thoughts throughout the day. I have no intention of influencing you or you selling you a mother fucking thing. 

My assumption is that I would be suited as just a single data input such as "this is what this guy sees/thinks from his view with his double digit IQ. Fair enough." Nothing more.

Stay wise out there guys. Curious who, if anyone, even sees this or gets an update. The world is nuts, all living things die (the people you dont like....they die. The people you do like...they die too.) 

Until a future date, here's a cool paper I read on going 100% equity in retirement accounts. It's worth reading. Was out July 10, 2025 - BEYOND THE STATUS QUO: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF LIFECYCLE INVESTMENT ADVICE

 

This Industry Is Entirely Full of Sh!t

The FED is full of shit. Everything they are getting away with happens because the population is ignorant.

You all deserve what happens from here on in.

An Open Letter To The Financial Media

In what will likely be a vain attempt at reminding readers of the ridiculousness of television media, here is a posting from ZeroHedge.blogspot.com from 2009 that will leave you breathless (something the old Zero Hedge was known and loved for, especially when it came to posting on Flash Trading and derivatives). The posting has been reformatted to make consumption a bit easier.

Snapchat Is Shit

You Should Never Put Your Money Into The US Equity Market

$TWTR rebuffs hostile takeover offer from Jeff Skilling

— CalConfidence (@CalConfidence) December 29, 2016

VLCC Rates Continue To Climb Alongside Sell-Side Crude Estimates

As noted previously, shipping rates continue to climb. Oddly, anchored ships remain about 8% of the fleet with four more being added to the bay I monitor, which helps to raise spot prices and thereby generating beneficial economics to shippers who choose to anchor these bad boys on the water for weeks if not months at a time because fools like CNBC enjoy looking at onshore inventories and asking "is it priced in?" which in this case, yes, it's pricing in but that is no surprise given the fraud and manipulation that takes place in the oil market. By the way, did you really believe OPEC and Non-OPEC would work out a fully fledged production freeze?

Insider Trading: Friday December 16

Hey CNBC, BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS!

Following the FOMC minutes release on Oct 12 of the September 21-22 meeting we can see TSY Ex. TIPS net positions bombing out for securities between 6- & 7-years maturity. Now we see the sprint into the 2-year paper from Primary dealers. The short term focus is the highest demand. 

When Ships Fly

Tanker rates for VLCCs are flying higher as China imports of crude swell by 900Kbpd YTD to 7.6Mbpd. This year, the rate for VLCCs has climbed from a low of $14,400/Day to $52,600/Day. 

Insider Trading: Wednesday December 14

I'm going for a drive in the Dubai desert so the reading is thin this morning for me.