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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3000 on: June 07, 2018, 07:39:33 AM »
Dude, that's "The Mamas & The Papas."

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3001 on: June 07, 2018, 08:54:12 AM »
Dude, that's "The Mamas & The Papas."
Doh!  My brain is definitely a long way off the top today.  Note to self - all songs about California are not the same song.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3002 on: June 07, 2018, 10:02:00 AM »
The mamas and the topas.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3003 on: June 07, 2018, 10:08:51 AM »
Sandwich top is in.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3004 on: June 07, 2018, 05:09:18 PM »
The "Pele" top is not in!


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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3005 on: June 07, 2018, 07:44:23 PM »
Off TOPic, but I wonder how many of our members post count would drop by 50% if mods decided to call the top for this thread and make it vanish =D

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3006 on: June 07, 2018, 10:11:54 PM »
Off TOPic, but I wonder how many of our members post count would drop by 50% if mods decided to call the top for this thread and make it vanish =D

My post rate topped out quite a few years ago, so not a big hit for me

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3007 on: June 07, 2018, 10:44:06 PM »
Off TOPic, but I wonder how many of our members post count would drop by 50% if mods decided to call the top for this thread and make it vanish =D

My post rate topped out quite a few years ago, so not a big hit for me
I'm confused, is your top in or out?

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3008 on: June 08, 2018, 02:29:45 AM »
Off TOPic, but I wonder how many of our members post count would drop by 50% if mods decided to call the top for this thread and make it vanish =D

My post rate topped out quite a few years ago, so not a big hit for me
I'm confused, is your top in or out?
I get the feeling that dragoncar is more of a 'shake it all about' kinda guy...

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3009 on: June 08, 2018, 12:17:33 PM »
@MrDelane


I'm not saying it's not possible, just that for the vast majority (myself included) it is not the best idea.

And I agree with you 100%. Most people will be better off if they stay away from timing the market. Ignore what the market is doing, don't even check, just contribute to their retirement accounts (50% net pay) every two weeks. Repeat this for 20+ years, that's the simplest path to ER.

I did that, then I hit FIRE and had all the time in the world to do w/e I please. As I expended my circle of competence slowly I came to the realization the game is indeed rigged. Not about how the market is manipulated, but the fact that it becomes so much easier to further your knowledge and improve yourself in FIRE.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3010 on: June 08, 2018, 12:49:35 PM »
Off TOPic, but I wonder how many of our members post count would drop by 50% if mods decided to call the top for this thread and make it vanish =D

My post rate topped out quite a few years ago, so not a big hit for me
I'm confused, is your top in or out?
I get the feeling that dragoncar is more of a 'shake it all about' kinda guy...

Top is IN

Hokie pokie is ALL ABOUT

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3011 on: June 08, 2018, 01:01:43 PM »
Did you say you needed a new "Top"?


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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3012 on: June 08, 2018, 01:12:02 PM »


Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand, consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee made by the Tip Top company.... This must be a sign "The Top is In!"
 

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3013 on: June 08, 2018, 01:56:08 PM »
Any thread with its own ice cream flavor must have hit its top.

Except that this one clearly needs some strawberry topping!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3014 on: June 08, 2018, 02:48:48 PM »
You know, there was a time when I thought this whole 'top' thread had run it's course, that there couldn't possibly be anything else top-related that could be posted here. Tip top hokey pokey ice cream from New Zealand. I'm not worthy.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3015 on: June 08, 2018, 03:56:25 PM »
Any thread with its own ice cream flavor must have hit its top.

Except that this one clearly needs some strawberry topping!

Think unlimited toppings

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3016 on: June 08, 2018, 04:57:45 PM »


Everybody knows you Top a Sunday with a Cherry on Top!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3017 on: June 09, 2018, 05:14:51 AM »


Everybody knows you Top a Sunday with a Cherry on Top!

thats what you learn at sundae school!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3018 on: June 09, 2018, 03:33:23 PM »

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3019 on: June 09, 2018, 04:02:12 PM »


Everybody knows you Top a Sunday with a Cherry on Top!

thats what you learn at sundae school!

I graduated from bovine university

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3020 on: June 11, 2018, 07:55:38 AM »


Everybody knows you Top a Sunday with a Cherry on Top!

thats what you learn at sundae school!

I graduated from bovine university
TOP of your class, I hope!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3021 on: June 11, 2018, 09:05:38 AM »


Everybody knows you Top a Sunday with a Cherry on Top!

thats what you learn at sundae school!

I graduated from bovine university

All this time I thought you were a grade-A moron.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3022 on: June 14, 2018, 12:44:08 AM »
Red spy on triple top resistance rejection. Top is in for sure.

(Filling in for thorstach)

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3023 on: June 14, 2018, 08:08:08 AM »
Red spy on triple top resistance rejection. Top is in for sure.

(Filling in for thorstach)

That's funny, I read this on my phone and scrolled down to this comment slightly zoomed-in so that I could read the text better, but it cut off the little column that has the profile of the poster in it, and as I was reading this I was like wait, is thorstach back?, sees "filling in for Thorstach", darn an impersonator!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3024 on: June 14, 2018, 11:11:28 AM »
Red spy on triple top resistance rejection. Top is in for sure.

(Filling in for thorstach)

That's funny, I read this on my phone and scrolled down to this comment slightly zoomed-in so that I could read the text better, but it cut off the little column that has the profile of the poster in it, and as I was reading this I was like wait, is thorstach back?, sees "filling in for Thorstach", darn an impersonator!
Has impersonating Thorstach become like impersonating Elvis?




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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3025 on: June 14, 2018, 11:55:54 AM »


Hokey pokey is a flavour of ice cream in New Zealand, consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee made by the Tip Top company.... This must be a sign "The Top is In!"
 
OMG, I discovered this cold, creamy deliciousness on a trip to NZ. I could not sTOP eating it! So good!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3026 on: June 14, 2018, 01:46:03 PM »
mmmmm looks delicious

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3027 on: June 14, 2018, 01:58:01 PM »
New top in for NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3028 on: June 14, 2018, 01:59:50 PM »
New top in for NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

So Thorstach was right!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3029 on: June 14, 2018, 02:04:43 PM »
New top in for NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

So Thorstach was right!

Thorstach is ALWAYS right (eventually!)

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3030 on: June 14, 2018, 11:18:33 PM »
New top in for NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

So Thorstach was right!

Thorstach is ALWAYS right (eventually!)

Yeah, but even a broken clock is still right twice a day; far more regularly and predictably.  ;)
« Last Edit: June 14, 2018, 11:20:05 PM by ILikeDividends »

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3031 on: June 15, 2018, 08:17:54 AM »
I've seen this analogy floating around on the internet:  index investing is still gambling, but we are the house. 

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3032 on: June 17, 2018, 01:03:38 PM »
New top in for NASDAQ and Russell 2000.

So Thorstach was right!

Thorstach is ALWAYS right (eventually!)

Yeah, but even a broken clock is still right twice a day; far more regularly and predictably.  ;)

And a broken clock is right more often than a working clock that's set wrong.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3033 on: June 20, 2018, 02:17:53 PM »
Uh, new NASDAQ top ya'll.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3034 on: June 20, 2018, 02:37:12 PM »
Thanks be to Zeus, I was afraid the Top wasn't in!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3035 on: June 20, 2018, 06:00:26 PM »
This thread.....

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3036 on: June 20, 2018, 07:25:03 PM »
Uh, new NASDAQ top ya'll.

Thorstach has come to me in a vision. The letters "Nasdaq" towered over me, graven in stone, larger than Stonehenge.  Above them, like a dark and stormy cloud, were words of wisdom from Thorstach.  Something about VIX and ratios and inverted (something obscured by billowing smoke), and that this is the last and highest top that will ever exist.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3037 on: June 21, 2018, 07:07:39 AM »
GOAT MOAT still in.

The S&P 500 has been higher at every point of every trading day since May 29th, btw.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3039 on: June 21, 2018, 07:10:15 AM »
The VIX, TLT, DXY, SPY, QQQ and the Dow are showing the greatest of all time mother of all tops (GOAT MOAT) is in.

The S&P 500 is up 4.7% since the GOAT MOAT was in.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3040 on: June 21, 2018, 07:36:38 AM »
The VIX, TLT, DXY, SPY, QQQ and the Dow are showing the greatest of all time mother of all tops (GOAT MOAT) is in.

The S&P 500 is up 4.7% since the GOAT MOAT was in.

You've been fooled.  It's a classic dead possum slingshot pattern. 

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3041 on: June 21, 2018, 07:45:07 AM »
Uh, new NASDAQ top ya'll.

Thorstach has come to me in a vision. The letters "Nasdaq" towered over me, graven in stone, larger than Stonehenge.  Above them, like a dark and stormy cloud, were words of wisdom from Thorstach.  Something about VIX and ratios and inverted (something obscured by billowing smoke), and that this is the last and highest top that will ever exist.

Was you vision something like this?

Maybe it not all bad news after the storm there could be a rainbow!
« Last Edit: June 21, 2018, 07:56:03 AM by techwiz »

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3042 on: June 21, 2018, 07:46:33 AM »
If the top isn't clear to you, you just don't want to see it.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3043 on: June 21, 2018, 08:17:20 AM »
Uh, new NASDAQ top ya'll.

Thorstach has come to me in a vision. The letters "Nasdaq" towered over me, graven in stone, larger than Stonehenge.  Above them, like a dark and stormy cloud, were words of wisdom from Thorstach.  Something about VIX and ratios and inverted (something obscured by billowing smoke), and that this is the last and highest top that will ever exist.

Was you vision something like this?


Yes, @techwiz. That is a frighteningly accurate depiction. Thank you for your ominous assistance.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2018, 08:26:54 AM by Bicycle_B »

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3044 on: June 21, 2018, 10:38:15 AM »
Fear is back, VIX above 15, XIV breaking down. SPY to follow, earnings will be a reality check.

For reference, here is my net worth (80% S&P 500), since this thread started:



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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3045 on: June 21, 2018, 10:43:12 AM »
Uh, new NASDAQ top ya'll.

Thorstach has come to me in a vision. The letters "Nasdaq" towered over me, graven in stone, larger than Stonehenge.  Above them, like a dark and stormy cloud, were words of wisdom from Thorstach.  Something about VIX and ratios and inverted (something obscured by billowing smoke), and that this is the last and highest top that will ever exist.

Was you vision something like this?

Maybe it not all bad news after the storm there could be a rainbow!


A rainbow would be very appropriate since they go up, hit a top, and then come right back down and hit the ground. 

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3046 on: June 21, 2018, 10:50:03 AM »
For reference, here is my net worth (80% S&P 500), since this thread started:




I looked at my VTI holdings for that period...no new additions...just reinvested dividends and I am up ~21%.

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3047 on: June 21, 2018, 02:18:44 PM »
Saw this flash across my screen on the CNN website:

"Dow sinks 196 points, falling for 8th day in a row. Longest losing streak since March 2017. Nasdaq drops nearly 1%."

OMG!!!   We're doomed!   Doomed, I tell you!   Doomed!



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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3048 on: June 21, 2018, 02:26:00 PM »
S&P is up 2.7% and Nasdaq up 11.6% YTD. TOP is still in!

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Re: Top is in
« Reply #3049 on: June 25, 2018, 11:29:12 AM »
Numbers are up, things are happening, fear is so retro, top is in.