I'll kick it off, since Marcin isn't back yet. Here's an article for those that think all this stuff I post won't have any effect (eventually) on the market, or our trading. I've been saying for years and years the EU will break up, the Euro will go into the dustbin of history, and that they are in worse shape than the U.S. I strongly stand by all that. It is just taking longer than I assumed for all the things I expected to happen to unfold. I underestimated just how much they would do to prevent it, how many people they would throw under the bus (essentially all of us), and how they would be able to justify, in their own minds, sacrificing every last one of us so they can keep their power and position. They are all sociopaths, so in that regard I missed that factor, which is now all so clear. In one way or another we are all cannon fodder to them, all disposable.

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/09/21/french-farmers-set-tax-office-on-fire-demise-of-europe/

See? Pretty amazing, huh?

I don't know, I sometimes feel like I'm not very accomplished, like I didn't achieve much in life. A few people think what I've come up with it pretty cool, but when I read about this trader here, I feel like I've done nothing. I was also reading about this guy (who I stumbled upon doing some research related to something I did in another lifetime, race motocross), and it reads the same as the trader guy, so I'll include that link for readers to skim.

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-25/mystery-man-moving-japan-made-more-than-1-million-trades.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Pastrana

Here's a couple of interesting charts:









I can't get over how the market follows the Fed balance sheet i.e. how the money really does flow right into the market, not the economy.


Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-26/high-yield-credits-worst-week-15-months-sends-stocks-sliding