Up North

I'm heading out for a two week vacation.

Usually, The Little Wiffer insists on a vacation spent if not at the full 90 mph, a for sure 60.

This time we'll be mostly hanging out at a friends cottage.

I may post a little if I can obtain a consistent connection, but I'm making no promises.

For purposes of score keeping, as of this writing, Serbia is out of the World Cup, and I'm out a hundred.

Spain is still alive as is my other hundred.

The "Head and Shoulders" top in US treasury debt never broke through the neckline and resumed it's climb, putting me upside down on my short there.

I'd give damn near anything to know how to get a good chart out of MetaStock two times in a row.

I'm still holding that trade as it has a very long fuse.

With regards to "The Bradley Model" and "the summer of doom", the jury is still out.

The Dow Jones Industrial average is forming the same Head and Shoulders top pattern that let me down so despicably with the Ten Year Treasuries.

I'm up some on my shorts, but would prefer to be completely wrong on this one as many (most) of my best friends are ignoring my pleas.

I'm short a little, they're long a bunch.

In the interest of full disclosure, if I were short a bunch, I'd probably be demonstrating a far less charitable attitude toward my friend's finances.

I've posted below a very nice vid of my very favorite band of the last 20 years, BR5-49.

Category, "Nothing To Do With Anything" is now the go to archive for all the video that's been posted here.

Enjoy your Fourth of July weekend, and as always, be reminded of the wisdom of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus.