Top is in

[Exflyboy]

ATH tomorrow.. whoop whoop!...:)

[aboatguy]

ATH tomorrow.. whoop whoop!...:)

Lies and Heretical Blasphemy

Top is in!

[Exflyboy]

My prediction was 32 points shy..:)

[ATtiny85]

My prediction was 32 points shy..:)

I popped in here knowing you would tell us your error in simple terms. 32 points is not that bad compared to our true leader...

[ChpBstrd]

Let's start listing the reasons why the top is in. Should make good reading a month or year from now.

• Rising unemployment trend
• Falling consumer sentiment
• Stubborn inflation - no rate cuts in sight
• High government deficits

[techwiz]

Let's start listing the reasons why the top is in. Should make good reading a month or year from now.

• Rising unemployment trend
• Falling consumer sentiment
• Stubborn inflation - no rate cuts in sight
• High government deficits

Thorstach said so....Top reason is in!

[Fru-Gal]

The reason is in the top!

[WayDownSouth]

Let's start listing the reasons why the top is in. Should make good reading a month or year from now.

• Rising unemployment trend
• Falling consumer sentiment
• Stubborn inflation - no rate cuts in sight
• High government deficits

Thorstach said so....Top reason is in!

If @thorstach cuts off his 'stache does that automatically mean the top is in? Final and absolute? Would he come here and announce it and then close this thread?

[Wintergreen78]

Let's start listing the reasons why the top is in. Should make good reading a month or year from now.

• Rising unemployment trend
• Falling consumer sentiment
• Stubborn inflation - no rate cuts in sight
• High government deficits

Thorstach said so....Top reason is in!

If @thorstach cuts off his 'stache does that automatically mean the top is in? Final and absolute? Would he come here and announce it and then close this thread?

The top doesn’t happen because of reasons. It just is.

Because there is no reason that the top is, then there is nothing you can do to make the top end.

Thorstach has no control over the top. Thorstach is just the messenger that told us about it.

[aboatguy]

Fear and Greed index is at 48 (Neutral)  52 percent are greedy nonbelievers with hopes that this is a false top.  They are waiting for the return of the One True Top.  However, they are waiting in vain since the TOP is in.

I'm going to grab my metal detector to ensure the coffee can containing my stache is still buried where it was stashed.

[ChpBstrd]

Fear and Greed index is at 48 (Neutral)  52 percent are greedy nonbelievers with hopes that this is a false top.  They are waiting for the return of the One True Top.  However, they are waiting in vain since the TOP is in.

I'm going to grab my metal detector to ensure the coffee can containing my stache is still buried where it was stashed.

You know, it's been several years. Might want to dig it up and replace the coffee can so it doesn't rust out.

[Vindicated]

Once you get it dug up and counted, we look forward to hearing what kind of rate of return you got from the ol' coffee can!

[aboatguy]

Fear and Greed index is at 48 (Neutral)  52 percent are greedy nonbelievers with hopes that this is a false top.  They are waiting for the return of the One True Top.  However, they are waiting in vain since the TOP is in.

I'm going to grab my metal detector to ensure the coffee can containing my stache is still buried where it was stashed.

You know, it's been several years. Might want to dig it up and replace the coffee can so it doesn't rust out.

The can was good!


Now I have to find a new place to stash the stache, and  move the X on the map since X no longer marks the spot.......

[aboatguy]

Fear and Greed index is at 48 (Neutral)  52 percent are greedy nonbelievers with hopes that this is a false top.  They are waiting for the return of the One True Top.  However, they are waiting in vain since the TOP is in.

I'm going to grab my metal detector to ensure the coffee can containing my stache is still buried where it was stashed.

You know, it's been several years. Might want to dig it up and replace the coffee can so it doesn't rust out.

The can was good!

Gains are a bit of black mold and a truckstop bathroom funk,but I experienced no losses!

[WayDownSouth]

Let's start listing the reasons why the top is in. Should make good reading a month or year from now.

• Rising unemployment trend
• Falling consumer sentiment
• Stubborn inflation - no rate cuts in sight
• High government deficits

Thorstach said so....Top reason is in!

If @thorstach cuts off his 'stache does that automatically mean the top is in? Final and absolute? Would he come here and announce it and then close this thread?

The top doesn’t happen because of reasons. It just is.

Because there is no reason that the top is, then there is nothing you can do to make the top end.

Thorstach has no control over the top. Thorstach is just the messenger that told us about it.

So in essence, each and every one of us IS the top. It's something that is not only in us, but something that we as a whole make up. The top lives through us.

[aboatguy]

Greed is Back.  Fear will return after the greedy fools lose those shiny ducats they pour into the market, when the TOP is in.


Meanwhile the stashed Stache will continue to accumulate black mold safely protected underground by its coffee can...


FUN FACT
Storing money in warehouses doesn't work; Pablo Escobar was losing more than a billion dollars a year to Rats, vermin etc, on his warehoused stache. 

TOP IS IN!

[aboatguy]

ATH tomorrow.. whoop whoop!...:)

Lies and Heretical Blasphemy

Top is in!

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  Your time may be soon!

[GuitarStv]

FUN FACT
Storing money in warehouses doesn't work; Pablo Escobar was losing more than a billion dollars a year to Rats, vermin etc, on his warehoused stache. 

TOP IS IN!

Assuming his cash is all in 100$ bills, that's 10,000,000 100$ bills that he's losing every year.  A dollar bill weighs about a gram (https://greenlight.com/learning-center/fun-facts/how-much-does-a-dollar-weigh), and a 100 dollar bill is the same.  So that's 10,000 kg (22046.23 lbs) being eaten by rats each year.

Now rats eat between 15-25g of food each day (https://www.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/s9fv2g/is_this_enough_food_for_3_rats_i_refill_it_once/), which works out to 5.4 - 9.1kg a year.  That means that (assuming the rats ate only money and nothing else) Escobar had between 1098 and 1851 rats roaming around his money vault.

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

[aboatguy]

ATH tomorrow.. whoop whoop!...:)

Lies and Heretical Blasphemy

Top is in!

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  Your time may be soon!

S&P 500 and NASDAQ rise to all-time highs at open after light consumer inflation report



Top is in!

[aboatguy]

FUN FACT
Storing money in warehouses doesn't work; Pablo Escobar was losing more than a billion dollars a year to Rats, vermin etc, on his warehoused stache. 

TOP IS IN!

Assuming his cash is all in 100$ bills, that's 10,000,000 100$ bills that he's losing every year.  A dollar bill weighs about a gram (https://greenlight.com/learning-center/fun-facts/how-much-does-a-dollar-weigh), and a 100 dollar bill is the same.  So that's 10,000 kg (22046.23 lbs) being eaten by rats each year.

Now rats eat between 15-25g of food each day (https://www.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/s9fv2g/is_this_enough_food_for_3_rats_i_refill_it_once/), which works out to 5.4 - 9.1kg a year.  That means that (assuming the rats ate only money and nothing else) Escobar had between 1098 and 1851 rats roaming around his money vault.

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

Since he spent thousands a month for rubber bands to hold the money and burned two million in cash to keep his daughter warm one night, I beleive he may have used rat poison.    This means the loses may be in spite of slaughtering those dirty rats!

[GuitarStv]

FUN FACT
Storing money in warehouses doesn't work; Pablo Escobar was losing more than a billion dollars a year to Rats, vermin etc, on his warehoused stache. 

TOP IS IN!

Assuming his cash is all in 100$ bills, that's 10,000,000 100$ bills that he's losing every year.  A dollar bill weighs about a gram (https://greenlight.com/learning-center/fun-facts/how-much-does-a-dollar-weigh), and a 100 dollar bill is the same.  So that's 10,000 kg (22046.23 lbs) being eaten by rats each year.

Now rats eat between 15-25g of food each day (https://www.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/s9fv2g/is_this_enough_food_for_3_rats_i_refill_it_once/), which works out to 5.4 - 9.1kg a year.  That means that (assuming the rats ate only money and nothing else) Escobar had between 1098 and 1851 rats roaming around his money vault.

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

Since he spent thousands a month for rubber bands to hold the money and burned two million in cash to keep his daughter warm one night, I beleive he may have used rat poison.    This means the loses may be in spite of slaughtering those dirty rats!

I feel like he could have collected the poisoned rats and made his daughter a coat rather than burning two million in cash.  He doesn't seem like much of a savings optimizer.

[Wintergreen78]

FUN FACT
Storing money in warehouses doesn't work; Pablo Escobar was losing more than a billion dollars a year to Rats, vermin etc, on his warehoused stache. 

TOP IS IN!

Assuming his cash is all in 100$ bills, that's 10,000,000 100$ bills that he's losing every year.  A dollar bill weighs about a gram (https://greenlight.com/learning-center/fun-facts/how-much-does-a-dollar-weigh), and a 100 dollar bill is the same.  So that's 10,000 kg (22046.23 lbs) being eaten by rats each year.

Now rats eat between 15-25g of food each day (https://www.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/s9fv2g/is_this_enough_food_for_3_rats_i_refill_it_once/), which works out to 5.4 - 9.1kg a year.  That means that (assuming the rats ate only money and nothing else) Escobar had between 1098 and 1851 rats roaming around his money vault.

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

Since he spent thousands a month for rubber bands to hold the money and burned two million in cash to keep his daughter warm one night, I beleive he may have used rat poison.    This means the loses may be in spite of slaughtering those dirty rats!

I feel like he could have collected the poisoned rats and made his daughter a coat rather than burning two million in cash.  He doesn't seem like much of a savings optimizer.

I just want to applaud you for citing your sources. I’m very suspicious of discussions where people whip out numbers for the weight of dollar bills and how much rats can eat in a day without any way to back them up. It happens all the time…

[ChpBstrd]

FUN FACT
Storing money in warehouses doesn't work; Pablo Escobar was losing more than a billion dollars a year to Rats, vermin etc, on his warehoused stache. 

TOP IS IN!

Assuming his cash is all in 100$ bills, that's 10,000,000 100$ bills that he's losing every year.  A dollar bill weighs about a gram (https://greenlight.com/learning-center/fun-facts/how-much-does-a-dollar-weigh), and a 100 dollar bill is the same.  So that's 10,000 kg (22046.23 lbs) being eaten by rats each year.

Now rats eat between 15-25g of food each day (https://www.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/s9fv2g/is_this_enough_food_for_3_rats_i_refill_it_once/), which works out to 5.4 - 9.1kg a year.  That means that (assuming the rats ate only money and nothing else) Escobar had between 1098 and 1851 rats roaming around his money vault.

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

Since he spent thousands a month for rubber bands to hold the money and burned two million in cash to keep his daughter warm one night, I beleive he may have used rat poison.    This means the loses may be in spite of slaughtering those dirty rats!

I feel like he could have collected the poisoned rats and made his daughter a coat rather than burning two million in cash.  He doesn't seem like much of a savings optimizer.

I just want to applaud you for citing your sources. I’m very suspicious of discussions where people whip out numbers for the weight of dollar bills and how much rats can eat in a day without any way to back them up. It happens all the time…

IDK about a Reddit post as a source. If that one person (or bot) is wrong, all our extrapolations from those data are wrong. If rats can eat more dollar bills than we think, then the supply of money will go down faster than we expect and the top will be in.

[maizefolk]

I want to the voice speaking up and saying the rats don't have to eat an entire $100 bill to render it value-less. My guess is this isn't a person who can send his rat-chewed bills into the treasury's mutated currency office to request replacements: https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption

[GuitarStv]

What's the minimum amount of bill that can remain before it can't be used?  Do you need 51% of the bill, or more than that?

[SwordGuy]

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

Yeah, but if you were him, would you trust your employees with rat poison?   Or anything, really?

[GuitarStv]

I feel like for a billion dollars he could afford to get some rat poison.

Yeah, but if you were him, would you trust your employees with rat poison?   Or anything, really?

Not sure I'd have employees.  Once you get to 'warehouse of money being eaten by rats' levels of cash I think that you're probably ready to retire.

[aboatguy]

Did the Rats ruin the money by eating it or by other means like shredding it to use as nest material?  Or will Rat urine render the bill to a level of people won't accept it.   I believe the phrase is Plata y Plomo, not Urine or Feces.



Top is in...

[aboatguy]

I just googled and found a story about an ATM in India ...."Rat Chews Up Nearly $18,000 and Dies in ATM"





When I was a young Boatguy the old Boatguys would alway talk about things being Rat-Fu@@@d, now I understand Rat-Fu@@@d ..

[Exflyboy]

Welcome to the ATH top!

[EliteZags]

anyone ever seen this?

[solon]

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea the top would be in today.

[Exflyboy]

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea the top would be in today.

Well you do now!

[Tyson]

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea the top would be in today.

Woke up this mornin', got myself a gun...

[ChpBstrd]

anyone ever seen this?

I had not? Source?

Explains a lot about The Top.

[EliteZags]

just saw here

https://twitter.com/SethCL/status/1790799072980312501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1790799072980312501%7Ctwgr%5Ef63bd08c0d05b5f7a8a3a7bb6ee7d1ccdce572a9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftexags.com%2Fforums%2F57%2Ftopics%2F2721405%2F6445

[Heckler]

I had not? Source?

Explains a lot about The Top.
[/quote]

GME is also trending due to Twitter, currently known as X.  Explains a lot about society.

[Wolfpack Mustachian]

I have to say, all this questioning about sources really makes me sad. If you can't trust people's information about the top being in, who can you trust?

[ATtiny85]

I have to say, all this questioning about sources really makes me sad. If you can't trust people's information about the top being in, who can you trust?

Yeah, I thought it was universally understood the only source that actually matters around here is our true Top is in leader.

[aboatguy]

GREED IS BACK                   3 ATH TOP IS IN!
Dow                S&P 500           NASDAQ
40,014.34       5,320.42           16,777.38

[MrGreen]

DOW 40k! BOOYAH!

[dividendman]

The DJIA was about 20500 when this thread started... this 100% return doesn't include dividends.... this can only mean that it will crash over 50% tomorrow.

[aboatguy]

ATH, is gone  Dow  40,014.34  gone.                S&P 500  5,320.42 gone.          NASDAQ 16,777.38 gone.   And now we are all poorer with their passing!
               
Now
DOW                S&P 500              NASDAQ
39,869.38        5,297.10             16,698.32


Markets were  soaring and got too hot,  like Icarus too close to the sun and now they plunged downward.    Hopefully, Rats don't shred my stashed stache. 


TOP IS IN.   

[Alternatepriorities]

The DJIA was about 20500 when this thread started... this 100% return doesn't include dividends.... this can only mean that it will crash over 50% tomorrow.

It's already started! The top was nice while it lasted.

[solon]

ATH, is gone  Dow  40,014.34  gone.                S&P 500  5,320.42 gone.          NASDAQ 16,777.38 gone.   And now we are all poorer with their passing!
               
Now
DOW                S&P 500              NASDAQ
39,869.38        5,297.10             16,698.32


Markets were  soaring and got too hot,  like Icarus too close to the sun and now they plunged downward.    Hopefully, Rats don't shred my stashed stache. 


TOP IS IN.

This feels like poetry.

[markpst]

Here is my other favorite 'top is in' thread - it is on a message board of a site frequented by runners, but many of the threads are 'off topic'. This thread is up to over 60k of posts. (It looks like the link takes you to the most recent posting, not page #1). You don't even have to click the link - I just enjoy the message below, especially when we touched 40k today.

Topic: 'Down Goes the Dow'
Post #1, 8/27/2013

"Down to 14,850 from a peak of 15,700 I believe.

Maybe 5%

What's the bottom?

I am betting sub 13,000"


https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5369837

[aboatguy]

40,051.05 I miss you.  5,325.49 your time on earth was to short RIP 16,797.83!

Greed is still driving the market.  (63 on the fear greed index)  Looks like many non-believers will learn a life lesson, TOP IS IN.


Yesterday for a fleeting moment I forgot the Word of Thorstach and I thought the markets were boundless, then the ever TOP appeared and by the end of the day I was poorer than the day before.

May Rats never shred your stach.

TOP is in

[ATtiny85]

The DJIA was about 20500 when this thread started... this 100% return doesn't include dividends.... this can only mean that it will crash over 50% tomorrow.

It's already started! The top was nice while it lasted.

I think it's even worse. I was making a grocery run this morning and drove by a Starbucks. I glanced over and there was not a single vehicle in the drive-through. Talk about a sign of the apocalypse, it made me shudder and want to get home and bury my jars of bitcoins next to the creek out back.

[Alternatepriorities]

The DJIA was about 20500 when this thread started... this 100% return doesn't include dividends.... this can only mean that it will crash over 50% tomorrow.

It's already started! The top was nice while it lasted.

I think it's even worse. I was making a grocery run this morning and drove by a Starbucks. I glanced over and there was not a single vehicle in the drive-through. Talk about a sign of the apocalypse, it made me shudder and want to get home and bury my jars of bitcoins next to the creek out back.

The horror! I'm starting to suspect we've hit peak coffee! Last week I went on a work trip with DW and while the hotel coffee claimed to be made with quality locally roasted  beans it was so thin I had to go out and BUY coffee for DW. I realized after a few cups that it tasted a lot like my own "second run" coffee. I realize it's totally absurd now that I'm FI, but sometimes I make a free cup of coffee about noon by reusing the grounds from the morning coffee. I refer to this abomination as cof-tea as it tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee...

ETA: Sipping a cup now. mmm it's not quite coffee but it's also close to free.

[Wintergreen78]

The DJIA was about 20500 when this thread started... this 100% return doesn't include dividends.... this can only mean that it will crash over 50% tomorrow.

It's already started! The top was nice while it lasted.

I think it's even worse. I was making a grocery run this morning and drove by a Starbucks. I glanced over and there was not a single vehicle in the drive-through. Talk about a sign of the apocalypse, it made me shudder and want to get home and bury my jars of bitcoins next to the creek out back.

The horror! I'm starting to suspect we've hit peak coffee! Last week I went on a work trip with DW and while the hotel coffee claimed to be made with quality locally roasted  beans it was so thin I had to go out and BUY coffee for DW. I realized after a few cups that it tasted a lot like my own "second run" coffee. I realize it's totally absurd now that I'm FI, but sometimes I make a free cup of coffee about noon by reusing the grounds from the morning coffee. I refer to this abomination as cof-tea as it tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee...

ETA: Sipping a cup now. mmm it's not quite coffee but it's also close to free.

About 10% of my FI budget is dedicated to good coffee. Have you considered going back to work so you can afford to use fresh grounds for every cup?