Here's What It's Like To Be A Bear In A Rigged Market
(Op-Ed)
Central bankers and media handlers must be laughing at how easy it is to slaughter the Bears and doubters with another fake-news round of trade-deal rumors and another Fed parrot being prompted to repeat some dovish mumbo-jumbo.
It's not just tough being a Bear in a market rigged by trade deal rumors, Federal Reserve dovishness, a tsunami of Chinese liquidity and $270 billion in stock buy-backs in the first quarter–it's impossible. Even "smarter than the average Bear" Yogi couldn't beat the market, and so he ended up taking one for the Jellystone team so other Bears might live to fight another day.
Perhaps the best way to describe the impossibility of being a Bear in a rigged market is to employ an analogy. (Not that a rigged market is actually a market; it's been transformed into a simulacrum "market" that's the one signifier of economic well-being: if the "market" continues lofting higher, all is well with the economy and indeed, the entire status quo.)
Let's start with a sports analogy.
Imagine you're on a basketball court.
You're being guarded by Myles Turner, the NBA's leader in blocked shots.
You make it to the half court line and find a chain-link fence blocks the court a few feet from the line, meaning your only shot is from half court.
When you manage to release a Hail Mary shot, a steel plate slams down on top of the rim, blocking any ball that might have lucked into the net.
That's what being a Bear in a rigged market is like.
Here's another analog, courtesy of my friend and colleague Adam T.:
You are David, armed only with a sling and a projectile, entering the arena to face the fearsome Goliath.
Instead of a rock, you're given a foam ball.
Meanwhile Goliath has a bazooka.
Let the contest begin!
You get the idea. Bears don't have a prayer in a market this rigged.
Now by all rights, declaring the Death of Bears should top-tick the rally and trigger a reversal, much like the infamous magazine cover curse or the hubris of constructing the tallest-building-in-the-world ushers in a massive global reversal of fortune.
But even black magic and portents appear powerless against a market completely rigged to melt up regardless of external realities, especially economic-financial data that isn't itself fully rigged.
Pretty much the only factors that could give Bears a tiny sliver of hope that the rigged market might collapse under its own weight are:
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an invasion organized by the Central Bank of Mars to take control of Earth's resources and assets, or
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Goldman Sachs has built a massive short position and is poised to flush the market lower to reap some quick profits from the panic-stricken decline.
Absent a miracle, the steel plate will block any Bear's lucky half-court shot, just as David's foam projectile will bounce right off Goliath's forehead.
Central bankers and media handlers must be laughing at how easy it is to slaughter the Bears and doubters with another fake-news round of trade-deal rumors and another Fed parrot being prompted to squawk some dovish mumbo-jumbo.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-06/heres-what-its-be-bear-rigged-market
See here for the news of the fake headline's referenced in article:
Stocks & Bond Yields Jump As Algos Misread US-China Trade Headlines
http://stocktalkjournal.com/stocks-bond-yields-jump-as-algos-misread-us-china-trade-headlines/
(just remember it's not 1815 again)
Napoleon Escapes and Rothschild Makes a Killing
Napoleon escapes from his banishment in Elba, an Island off the coast of Italy, and returned to Paris. By March Napoleon had equipped an army with the help of borrowed money from the Eubard Banking House of Paris.
On June 18th, 74,000 French troops led by Napoleon, sizing up to meet 67,000 British and other European Troops 200 miles NE of Paris.
Nathan Rothschild knowing that information is power stationed his trusted agent named Rothworth near the battlefield. As soon as the battle was over Rothworth quickly returned to London, delivering the news to Rothschild 24 hours ahead of Wellington's courier. A victory by Napoleon would have devastated Britain's financial system. Nathan stationed himself in his usual place next to an ancient pillar in the stock market. Knowing he would be observed he hung his head and began openly to sell huge numbers of British Government Bonds. Believing this to mean that Napoleon must have won, everyone started to sell their British Bonds as well. The bottom fell out of the market. Rothschild had his agents buying up all the hugely devalued bonds.
https://www.mindcontagion.org/banking/hb1815.html
over the last 10 plus year's yes. Was a time when it was not as bad. And the article about the rothy's doing it back then sort of proves the point-always fucking with it.