Starting it off.

And right back down... Same old, same old with the chop.

Now they sweep 'em down?

And there's the sweep down, got one whole level. Now they shoot for the entire range since the big pop? Or just snap it up from here and get the shorts?

Yawn. Okay, let's see what it does as this rises back to near those swing highs. Explode through this time? Explode through and snap down? Roll hard right here below them? Which variation of the 1-2-tick area will they do this time? All in the 'after-cash' period, too.

'They' have really turned this market into a farce.

A highly tradeable farce (in fact, much, much more tradeable than if they left it be in 2009), as far as my opinion goes.

But, a farce is still a farce, and no matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it's still an oinker.

Okay, is this the rush now up and over in the last minutes of after-cash?

Give it to me, baby.

Yep.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/wtf-chart-day-wealth-effect-edition

So, this is what recovery looks like in 'exceptional' AmeriKa? 2008 was the 'wave 1' (crisis-wise), and I have less than zero doubt 'Wave 3' is going to be quite an extended wave, not one of those 1.618 multiples of 'Wave 1' (again, in severity of crisis, not stock market values). I've been saying for a long time now "America is gone". Now I see I'm not the only one. The whole planet is gone.

If any written history survives (something I'm not so sure about), they will look back at this period, of when we were in the eye of the storm, a storm that gained a tremendous amount of strength while we were in the eye, and muse about how no population in history has ever deluded themselves this much (not just the U.S, but the world, as I see Europe being a bit worse off than we are (yes, I think, mathematically, that's the case), and Japan and China as complete jokes). They will wonder how we could even do this, pretend we are fine when the world was burning around us (normalcy bias to the umpteenth power), waste the only chance we had to salvage something, and we just sat back, let the power-mongers make it a lot worse, loot us fully and completely.

But, I've come to conclude it just has to play out this way. Something worse then WWII and all that suffering just is in the cards, it has to happen. It has to, because we didn't do anything to stop the groundwork from being laid over the decades. Bye, Bye, AmeriKa, and world. Bye-Bye.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/07/10/shock-report-70-million-people-would-be-starving-in-the-streets-without-government-welfare-programs/