The numbers are out! Much worse then expected!!!
While some of you were partying and hooping it up on Thursday at your turret at the prop trading firm, you forgot about the next batch of reports that was coming out today.
A street cop learns never to take his eye off of traffic. In the same way, a trader learns never to take his eye off of the economic reports. A lot of you guys are about to get run over.
When will I stop shorting Circuit City? When will I stop shorting Sears Holdings? What about that flat tv maker BRLC? Ohhhh, when the reports came out that Eddie Lampert was losing on his trades and the store was not selling anything, oh man, I just love shorting in an up market. Radio Shack, ugh, a disappointing short, I just want to short that store sooooo bad. Then there is Motorola. Oh man, can Motorola ever get it right?
You cannot ignore what is happening! Retail sales are much worse then expected, subprime chaos in the streets and poor unemployed Americans in the street while the Chinese and the Europeans surge ahead.
The market is ripe for a pirate and the SPtripleX will be chainsawed in today's massacre.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awxSspXYRr3s&refer=home
Read this report, read it and wheeppppp.
I have told you my longs. Solar stocks, Amazon and all these 2000 era web/tech growth stocks.
The new economy is here and that is unemployed Americans surfing Amazon and bicycling to work (for those that are employed).