I kinda agree but seems we might have to watch for a little while.
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Ok, I'll tell you what I REALLY think of oil. This is my own opinion and it makes no difference because I'm all long and can't spend any more money, even if I wanted to.
Every time I see a sector or stock pump on some kind of national news, I think... pump and dump. For the next few weeks, sometimes month, it will go up, rally rally rally. Then, the dumping begins suddenly overnight, so people can get their stops trashed thru or don't catch it.
So when I see ARTICLES saying: BUY THIS, I start looking for an exit position, or I run out and buy a covering put, locking in gains either way (while I too have some stops, I don't trust in stops for more reasons than I can get into here).
If I buy under those conditions, I buy with a married put (which still means you lose $1-$3 of upside, so it really depends how close to the top you were).
I'm VERY bullish on this market. I and only 1 other person were a week ago here, where the other person was getting slammed day in and day out for being bullish.
What I'm not bullish on is what mass media is bullish on... because I never trust their motives.
This goes back to my lesson learned on MCI. As it was in free fall, Maria Bartiroma interviewed this fund manager, who said she was buying MCI, because it was so cheap, and everyone knows that MCI was too big to fall. I held that stock down til it went to $.05 a share from $45. Did that fund actually BUY MCI? No, they were pumping and dumping.
By the time any article or 'advisor' comes out with info, THEY have bought. They want you to buy, so they can get OUT at an even better price. Not immediately, but soon. If it keeps going up, all the better for them... but THEY are wishy washy, thus the pump.
My MCI lesson has served me now for the better part of 7 years, and I make more and more money because of it.
So what do I see in the news? BUY OIL! Hrm.
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So what do I see in the news? BUY OIL! Hrm.

Quote from hels02:
Ok, I'll tell you what I REALLY think of oil. This is my own opinion and it makes no difference because I'm all long and can't spend any more money, even if I wanted to.
Every time I see a sector or stock pump on some kind of national news, I think... pump and dump. For the next few weeks, sometimes month, it will go up, rally rally rally. Then, the dumping begins suddenly overnight, so people can get their stops trashed thru or don't catch it.
So when I see ARTICLES saying: BUY THIS, I start looking for an exit position, or I run out and buy a covering put, locking in gains either way (while I too have some stops, I don't trust in stops for more reasons than I can get into here).
If I buy under those conditions, I buy with a married put (which still means you lose $1-$3 of upside, so it really depends how close to the top you were).
I'm VERY bullish on this market. I and only 1 other person were a week ago here, where the other person was getting slammed day in and day out for being bullish.
What I'm not bullish on is what mass media is bullish on... because I never trust their motives.
This goes back to my lesson learned on MCI. As it was in free fall, Maria Bartiroma interviewed this fund manager, who said she was buying MCI, because it was so cheap, and everyone knows that MCI was too big to fall. I held that stock down til it went to $.05 a share from $45. Did that fund actually BUY MCI? No, they were pumping and dumping.
By the time any article or 'advisor' comes out with info, THEY have bought. They want you to buy, so they can get OUT at an even better price. Not immediately, but soon. If it keeps going up, all the better for them... but THEY are wishy washy, thus the pump.
My MCI lesson has served me now for the better part of 7 years, and I make more and more money because of it.
So what do I see in the news? BUY OIL! Hrm.