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Trader, Merc Jerk, Eurodollar/S&P Options/VIX, CME/ NYMEX alum, writer. Technical advisor and content creator at

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@Jimmyjude13
James Jude
3 years
My biggest stock trade I ever made was LULU at $40 and it was because my wifes ass looked amazing in their yoga pants
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James Jude
4 years
If ya got smoked in this shit show life/job/market, take it from an old bitch like me thats had his dick knocked in the dirt on countless occasions, the glory is in the comeback. Failures dont define you, your rise back up will. Keep grinding fuckers
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James Jude
3 years
The truth is trading is a fucking nightmare but it beats working for a living.
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James Jude
3 years
When you're in a nice trade, great entry, solid plan, well thought out target and you're getting that itch to tap out early, remember what the old man told me on the NYMEX floor 'Hey kid, if you want to take the train to California, you don't get off in Chicago'
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James Jude
3 years
The more money you are making the quieter you should be
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James Jude
3 years
Weed is legal in Arizona now, a few years too late for my bro John who was killed for growing small amount of weed by the Tempe AZ Swat team
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James Jude
2 years
I have lost everything before, its sucks but it doesn't define you, the glory is in the comeback.
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James Jude
2 years
Every successful trader I have ever met have shared one trait, confidence in themselves. Fuck everyone else
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James Jude
5 years
I have been trading everything under the sun for 25 years, you will never here me bitch about algos or rigged markets cause the fact is if you want to play in the big leagues you have to be able to hit big league pitching. Figure it out, I still have too everyday
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James Jude
4 years
Before you announce you're taking a step back from twitter remember one important thing, nobody gives a fuck
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James Jude
4 years
When you're in a nice trade, great entry, solid plan, well thought out target and you're getting that itch to tap out early, remember what the old man told me on the NYMEX floor 'Hey kid, if you want to take the train to California, you don't get off in Chicago'
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James Jude
4 years
There's going to be guys that make Bernie Madoff look small time when this whole thing unwinds.
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James Jude
4 years
I have spent years in some of the worst dog shit chop, fuck fest markets, low vol grinders that kill your spirit. If you are going on twitter right now bitching about bubbles or the Fed, you aren’t a trader, you’re a clueless fuck
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James Jude
3 years
The first people they lay off during the next down turn will be the ones who asked if they could keep working remotely.
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James Jude
2 years
Real traders and investors are more passionate talking about what they have done wrong than what they have done right.
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James Jude
9 months
Theres no fucking way the Fed eases 150 bps into ATHs in both equities and RE, so if you are an RIA get ready to switch your bullshit narrative from 'Fed cuts' to 'The market can handle higher rates'. No charge for the advice 😜
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James Jude
3 years
When the tech bubble popped in 2000 I was so ready to jump in on the bloodbath, I bought that QQQ consolidation $45-50 thinkin I was gold on the dip trade, not only did that trade/level suck but it sucked for 10 fucking years. Dont be left holding your dick when the music stops
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James Jude
11 months
My mom just asked to open a twitter account so she can see what I say 😜🍻 #HappyThankgiving
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James Jude
1 year
If you are feeling pressure to buy a house right now just tell your wife to shut the fuck up. 😀🍻
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James Jude
3 years
In the long run Trump was exhausting and divisive but when you see this thing put back in the hands of inept career politicians you realize why movements like Trump were born.
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James Jude
5 years
Markets going to 4300 when everyone realizes Covid19 is nothing more than intense flu + new world forum of over sensationalizing news caused Govs+CBs to panic and throw the kitchen sink at an economy that was already running at a decent clip. Just matter of timing the awakening
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James Jude
4 years
If this market is like the bubble of late 90s you have about 2-3 more years of crying like a bitch about it
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James Jude
3 years
New Covid variant tape bombs are going to be like the terrorist attacks that hit the market after 9-11, each one will have less effect until we are ignoring them altogether, enjoy this one.
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James Jude
3 years
When I was a kid and shit got like this the solution was really quite simple, we stopped buying shit and going places.
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James Jude
3 years
Jeff Gundlach cited the fact he received poor service form a waiter last weekend as a reason for wage inflation, apparently one of his servers was new and inexperienced. Can you imagine what it must be like to serve a douche bag like that?
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James Jude
2 years
Trading the front of the yield curve back in the day, this is market making actually looks like
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James Jude
5 years
Over a 25 year trading career I have seen 6-8 extremely profitable strategies taken from me for one reason or another, for those of you killin it relying on speed or some mean reversion algo and thinkin your good for life, your not, theres someone planning your demise right now
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James Jude
4 years
The most difficult thing about raising children in Florida is agreeing with them this dude is cool while at the same time asking them not to become that dude.
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James Jude
4 years
If you think today's market reaction was ridiculous, just wait until these macro numbers flip back in a positive way and the FED leaves its foot on the gas. You havent seen stupid yet but its coming
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James Jude
3 years
The market always gives you a second chance to get in a nice/big move, the best traders dont look for the big turn, they look for that second chance.
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James Jude
1 year
@upholdreality @rorotrader What a stupid fucking thing to say
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James Jude
2 years
The most logical market position here is 'sit in cash payin 4% to wait' for the Fed or inflation to chill. Which means the real risk is the market going up 10-20% from here as you sit in cash and feel like a pussy😃
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James Jude
3 years
When I was younger I would get nervous in the presence of traders that talked over my head in mathematical and theoretical terms, then I realized they were doing that cause they didnt actually know how to make money off that knowledge
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James Jude
2 years
This first shit show is usually a great fade, its the second one you have to be careful of.
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James Jude
2 years
Imagine taking a natty gas position through a possible WW3 scenario where super powers are blowing up each others pipelines during winter and this is the move you get. Calgon take me away 😃
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James Jude
4 years
One thing that took me a couple decades to learn is the short game doesn't play by the same rules as the long game, shorts need to be perfectly timed on entries/exits, longs have the luxury to be lazy/stupid. A well timed short will yield a fatter quicker yield, thus the allure
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James Jude
4 years
I wish every time I traded a market in which it made moves that were “mathematically impossible on a fundamental basis’ I could just call time out and be able to recalibrate my position but instead I blew out and lost all my money and was liquidated and fired
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James Jude
3 years
A lot peeps will tell you to be careful in markets like this but the hard truth is unless you can kill it when shit gets crazy you will die on the vine trying to trade chop the remaining 90% of the time, stop sitting on your hands pussy and see if your really cut our for this
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James Jude
1 year
I don't think the market consolidated for the last two months for a small quick pop here, I think it wants to make everyone that said 'I'm comfortable in cash', uncomfortable.😃🍻
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James Jude
3 years
I learned to trade by watching great traders, I learned risk management by watching shitty ones
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James Jude
3 years
The reason I went into trading was so I could look like this and still make more than my mothers friend Iris's son who was a doctor and make everyone mad in the end.
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James Jude
1 year
I make my year trading on a couple big moves, the rest of the time I'm treading water and trying not to fuck myself when its quiet but I need to trade when its quiet or I wont be ready for those big moves. 😀🍻
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James Jude
3 years
Waking up early is overrated in trading, the last thing I need is to be alone with my thoughts for 4 hours before the open.
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James Jude
3 years
Beach flex
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James Jude
3 months
Any trader under 30 that's not doing rails and trading all night tonight should be ashamed of themselves
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James Jude
5 years
All the chicken littles are tweeting this pic out and freaking on Jax. Familys walking together yet giving each other space. Its basically the same thing you fucking morons have been doing in Cosco, Target and Home Depot for the last month only with more space
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James Jude
2 years
I have traded many different set ups over the years but I'm running out of analogs for this one, thank God theres dudes half my age that can explain it to me so confidently.
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James Jude
5 years
As a trader you really shouldn't give a flying fuck about anything other than making money because if you stop making money as a trader your going to learn the harsh lesson that nobody gives a fuck about you
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James Jude
6 years
I have been listening to Elliot Wave analysis for 25 years 'This is probably a 4 and the 5 will be huge unless its truncated but on a larger time frame could just be a 3 but of course might just develop into a zig zag' I still dont know how anybody actually trades on the shit
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James Jude
2 years
This election is going to be a landslide against woke policy and its candidates, nobody voted for this in the past election, they just wanted Trump gone.
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James Jude
3 years
I think Powell comes in on the dovish side of the wildly hawkish speculation. Why? Because he’s never said any of that shit, you did.
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James Jude
2 years
S&P settled just above the 200 day moving average and just below the down trend line, technically its the perfect spot for every douche bag on Fintwit to attack each others position this weekend 😃🍻
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James Jude
4 years
I saw a balding middle aged man loading his beach chairs, boogie boards and three kids into a mini van today with the tattoo 'Player' written in old English across his chest. Life can be fucking brutal
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James Jude
1 year
@kevinolearytv Short the next company that I see you as their spokesman.
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James Jude
4 years
Immediately saying Trump is fucked and the virus news is crazy bearish is the same type of reaction as saying we are headed into WWIII after the Iraqi general was taken out. Eventually if you trade long enough you will stop thinking like a such a cunt and think logically.
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James Jude
4 years
Things that are going to fuck you up as a trader are getting married, buying a house and having kids but if you want those things and avoid them to be a better trader you will end up with a pile of money crying cause you are all alone and no one to share your conquests with
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James Jude
3 years
As a young market maker in the Eurodollar Options pit, I remember going into my first shit show like this and my boss advising me. "Eat like a bird and shit like an elephant today'
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James Jude
4 years
I will retweet this every fucking year
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James Jude
5 years
As we invest in Weed companies and get rich off getting high lets not forget dudes like my friend John who was killed by a swat team for growing small amount of weed in his back yard before it was deemed legal and taxable.
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James Jude
7 months
“If you need a friend get a dog” Introducing Winston 🍻
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James Jude
3 years
One thing experience has taught me is if you don’t try to catch every little move in the market you have a better chance at catching the big ones.
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James Jude
2 years
If you feel like you missed the move or had some dry powder you were saving, chill and wait for the dog fight down here.
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James Jude
11 months
Dumping your AUM into 7 stocks at bad levels to save your job into year end 😃🍻
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James Jude
4 years
I think the biggest inflationary force might be the wealth transferred from a predominantly elderly populace of Covid deaths who saved and pinched their entire lives, passed to a generation that pisses money down the toilet to impress their neighbors
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James Jude
2 years
If you're worried about the toxic atmosphere on Twitter after Elon takes over, you're probably a pussy.
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James Jude
4 years
If either side really gave a shit about you they would have passed a stimulus agreement to help those in need weeks ago rather than using your pain for their political advancement
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James Jude
3 years
Your personal day trading stories are only entertaining to you and pure torture for others to endure, unless you lost a shit load of money, then everybody wants to hear them
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James Jude
5 years
Just to be clear, if you think real estate is going to escape this fuck fest because you live in a 'hot area' you're either a realtor with motives or stupid and if your're telling people other wise you are fucking them
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James Jude
4 years
I’ve seen new traders that couldn’t find their ass with two hands all of a sudden get it and kill it. I have also seen 20 mil in the bank traders completely lose it cause the way they made their 20 mil changed and they didn’t. There’s no time frame in this game, it’s ups or downs
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James Jude
4 years
I have had the incredible experience to take a few of my loved ones to their end game. They all say the same thing before they die “it went by so fast”.
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James Jude
3 years
@BillAckman Dude really, you think anyone is falling for this twice? Fuck off
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James Jude
3 years
Latest build with my son, 100 mpg and fun
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James Jude
3 years
If you would had bought Apple stock at $15 pre spit in 2004, you would be sleeping with someone you have no right being with and less suicidal right now.
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James Jude
2 years
@Breaking911 Chicago is fucked
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James Jude
3 years
Deep pockets will always hit the options market before they hit the underlying/futures market on those longer term/bigger pic plays. Thats why astute options traders will always have edge over futures traders, they see that flow first. If you want to last you need to learn both
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James Jude
4 years
Name one billionare investor thats bullish, zero. Thats because theyr'e pissed they raised cash to pick the carcass and the market came back to quick to do so. Next few months will be their last attempt to bring you to your knees so they can buy your pukes to throw on their pile
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James Jude
3 years
Same reason the owner of the Raiders walks around with this hair cut is the same reason you should question any billionaire's call on the markets. The wealthier people get, the less inclined their inner circle is to question there thoughts and actions, leads to bad calls/hairdoos
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James Jude
4 years
In 96-97 the two top S&P traders in my office started to build big short positions at 650-700, their thesis made so much sense, 20 year run, triple off 87 crash low, blow off top. Market then doubled, they got shit canned and it never traded under their 'crash level' area of 650
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James Jude
4 years
If you're pissed about the rally from the lows and posting shit blaming The FED and rigged markets, your doing it wrong.
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James Jude
3 years
I have had the fortune to work with some of the greatest traders of the last 30 years, besides their obvious superior intellect they all shared one trait, they had balls.
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James Jude
3 years
Trading is never personal to me, I don't give a fuck about who's money I'm taking
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James Jude
3 years
Beach parking lot winner tonight
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James Jude
2 years
The most surprising part of this move is that its happening while people were looking for it to happen.
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James Jude
10 months
This will be the unspoken excuse for hot inflation prints going forward and very well could be the excuse for the early pivot.
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3% inflation is a small price to pay if we can avoid Trump 2.0. Very small.
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James Jude
3 years
Passing a trillion dollar infrastructure bill with the market stretched at ATH’s is a waisted opportunity. This could have been used to put out a fire
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James Jude
3 years
I watched the market double from 97-00 after the Fed declared the market irrational and began raising rates in an environment that already had short rates over 4%, it isn't a no brainer from here but that doesnt mean you have to panic like a twat the first time is gets bumpy
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James Jude
3 years
Florida officially blew up the lock down narrative, if your state or country is still peddling that shit or tries to this winter I suggest moving... to Texas
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James Jude
2 years
I think most of these disgruntled Twitter employees are going to find out they had it easy compared to hustling blow jobs in Washington Square Park next year.
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James Jude
3 years
When I'm trading poorly I like to read the NYT obituaries, find out who's having a worse day than me.
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James Jude
2 years
I think the gov should go after peeps that took PPP loans that didn't deserve them and collect every fucking dime like they would if you or me owed taxes, pardon the DailyMail reference but I'm no less a twat as you
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James Jude
1 year
Faber trying to wrap his mind around someone actually saying what they think as opposed to the bullshit he peddles everyday😀🍻
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1 year
Elon Musk is asked about his Tweet saying George Soros reminds him of Magneto 🤣
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James Jude
3 years
Crypto is exactly like the Dot Com bubble had the Dot Com bubble crashed 11 times.
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James Jude
3 years
The neanderthal trader at the prop firm trading the two big lines, already has a nice lead over your quant and research teams. 😀
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James Jude
1 year
Todays Fed reminds of when my parents were going out of town and heard I was planning a party, so they lied to me and said they cancelled their plans. I didn’t believe them either🍻
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James Jude
5 years
21 years ago I cruised into Dec up big, shored up position, spread off with historically stable vol spreads, tame position according to any vol model. Got caught in an anomaly with no liquidity to puke into. Lost 5 mil in a week and turned a a life changing bonus into a pink.
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James Jude
4 years
Next time ya puke the lows in a trade and are torturing yourself mentally for it, remember what Buffet did with his airline stocks. Shit can happen to the most seasoned of vets with the deepest pockets on the planet.
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James Jude
2 years
When you are in a technical move and the macro boys join you.
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James Jude
3 years
The fear/greed gauge has got to be the most worthless peice of shit I see tweeted out in a regular basis, shut the fuck up and try to be less annoying
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James Jude
5 years
As a trader, realities like bailouts, printing money, stimulus packages, stock buybacks, socialism, inequality, should merely be data points to determine if the market you are trading is going up or down. Your're the furthest thing from an activist or a Priest, act accordingly
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James Jude
3 years
Remember, markets that start the day down big don’t usually end the day down big
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James Jude
4 years
For those you still arguing against a V shape recovery, it already happened, you were wrong.
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