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Wisdom of the Crowd

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Since I think the market is going to be annoying until the Quad OpEx finishes tomorrow, I’ll do a post about something un-chart-related.

Here in the Bay Area, at long last the Sunny Balwani trial is finally starting. Sunny is, of course, the co-conspirator with the whole Theranos mess. Now that his former decades-younger girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes has been convicted of multiple felonies (and, like all wrongdoers, is whiling away her days on a huge estate enjoying time with her family), the court is ready to deal with Mr. Balwani.

What prompted this post is the following………….

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Linger

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Good morning everyone. My examination of charts this morning was briefly interrupted by the repulsion of an invading army of fish-eating racoons by one of my intrepid canines, but I’m back at my desk.

After yesterday’s horrendous and inexplicable explosion in equity prices, it’s nice to wake up to pure red, although it doesn’t mean much. We’ve simply spent the night burning off the “hey, bears, screw YOU” final thrust yesterday (rounded rectangle below). It’s just froth at the top of the beer.

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