Down goes the Dow

Maser wrote:... most “covid fatalities” are people dying with covid rather than dying of covid...

Oh no, you're one of those...

We'll put you in the corner as part of "Team Unkle" with the kooky K5 / Giles Corey / l'oncle / the Unkle / carmine9

:-D

VS-SJW-IR-TS idiot wrote:

Maser wrote:... most “covid fatalities” are people dying with covid rather than dying of covid...

Oh no, you're one of those...

We'll put you in the corner as part of "Team Unkle" with the kooky K5 / Giles Corey / l'oncle / the Unkle / carmine9

:-D

in NYC something like *half* (!) of all those in the hospital *with* covid reported to the hospital for something else.

it's all very fuzzy and changing and "if...then" but this has to be considered as a factor. Shouldn't be discounted is irrelevant.

agip wrote:it's all very fuzzy and changing and "if...then" but this has to be considered as a factor. Shouldn't be discounted is irrelevant.

Well, OK, to be clear what I'm talking about is daily reported COVID fatalities, as reported by any one of the reputable data tracking organizations: Johns Hopkins, Oxford, CDC, pick your poison. The 7-day average daily fatalities over the next few weeks will be higher than at any time prior, is the wager (and my belief / expectation is MUCH higher). Died with, died of.... I leave the cause of death with the reporting physicians and the accounting with these agencies. If somebody - maybe somebody who ate crayons and glue at the yellow table in kindergarten - wants to suggest they're all in on a conspiracy, have at it, but you'll get no traction with me and it won't affect the target of the wager.

I'm not sure why you're arguing with me, agip, you're supposed to be on Team Idiot! :-)

I'll leave it at that now and drop the COVID talk to avoid further diluting discussion of the DOW going down...

heh. I'll argue with anyone.

Just put me in, coach.

I put the bet in my calendar for Feb 15.

See you then.

My hands are still firmly on the steering wheel while we navigate choppy water. I shall be staying the course!

What’s up these days, idiot? You have seemed unusually dismissive, judgmental, and surly, without the facts or authority to back it up.

Of course, it seems that most of is on here have patience for others, notwithstanding the Igy feud.

Hopefully you will emerge from this apparent funk.

Here’s something for your edification:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Meanwhile in the markets, the apparent flight to quality continues—although down, it is the cleanest shirt in the dirty laundry, to use a nauseating cliché.

Maser wrote:You have seemed unusually dismissive, judgmental, and surly, without the facts or authority to back it up.

I'm starting out the year low on patience for BS. Hence the judgmental, surly dismissiveness. I'm thinking about working these things into my DGTD-LRC persona, giving them a test run.

Lol that was me a few years ago, IIRC I targeted agip😂

Speaking of whom, hey agip, why didn’t you buy TLT?

That SPY dip got bought up fast.

Maser wrote:

Lol that was me a few years ago, IIRC I targeted agip😂

Speaking of whom, hey agip, why didn’t you buy TLT?

you were more surly in the past, agreed.

I bought BND because I wanted a fund I could buy and forget about. Just own forever.

BND covers all the bond bases, while TLT is just treasuries and just long term.

investing noob wrote:

That SPY dip got bought up fast.

Yep. I shall stay the course.

Bummbull wrote:

investing noob wrote:

That SPY dip got bought up fast.

Yep. I shall stay the course.

Stocks only go up

Bummbull wrote:

investing noob wrote:

That SPY dip got bought up fast.

Yep. I shall stay the course.

Stocks only go up

tech up 3.2% from its low to high today.

that'll impress some of these AI program traders and bring in some buyers.

VS-SJW-IR-TS idiot wrote:

agip wrote:... It's going to be actual American carnage.

OK, agip is on Team Idiot.

Anyone else want to declare for Team Idiot or Team Racket?

I feel like I've got the inside track on this one. COVID, eastern Europe and volcanoes may be three among less than a handful of topics in the universe I think I likely have a better handle on than any of the other regulars in this thread...

Team Idiot for me. At least in terms of hospitalizations, if not deaths.

What a day, sold a ton all morning, bought a ton of it back on the rebound, Might get around to see if it was a net deficit or add for the day, but there's a lot to be totaled.

I cannot f'g believe balance wise I am flat on the day, after the downturn this morning.

Lol, seemed like it was going to be a blood bath today.

This could very well have been a crisis averted.

VS-SJW-IR-TS idiot wrote:

Maser wrote:... most “covid fatalities” are people dying with covid rather than dying of covid...

Oh no, you're one of those...

We'll put you in the corner as part of "Team Unkle" with the kooky K5 / Giles Corey / l'oncle / the Unkle / carmine9

:-D

And the CDC, FDA, and Fauci -- finally

seattle prattle wrote:

VS-SJW-IR-TS idiot wrote:

OK, agip is on Team Idiot.

Anyone else want to declare for Team Idiot or Team Racket?

I feel like I've got the inside track on this one. COVID, eastern Europe and volcanoes may be three among less than a handful of topics in the universe I think I likely have a better handle on than any of the other regulars in this thread...

Team Idiot for me. At least in terms of hospitalizations, if not deaths.

What a day, sold a ton all morning, bought a ton of it back on the rebound, Might get around to see if it was a net deficit or add for the day, but there's a lot to be totaled.

I cannot f'g believe balance wise I am flat on the day, after the downturn this morning.

I'll remember this betrayal seattle.