Sep

12

Neo is looking at a bank of computer screens. Figures scroll down the screen in columns. To the casual observer it is just gibberish. Neo is watching the matrix and a world full of life with action. I imagine being Neo watching my bank of computer screens. Figures scroll down time and sales. Its not gibberish or undecipherable numbers. The stories unfold, there is action. The 1 lot gang is always busy with random action. The 20 or the 50 lotters have certain habits. The 100-400 lot players have certain characteristics. Different groups play at different times. The 800 lot and 1000 lot guys like to chase momentum and have times they like to show up. Players have habits. I can just see the bank traders chasing the ask to fill their orders for the day. Its almost funny, but after a while staring at the screen you get to know the players. You can see them buying up surges or breakouts. You can see the shorts getting squeezed like today up at the 12-14 area or above the round on the index. When the market tanks, you can see the people panicking. You can see who is in trouble. You can see packs attacking the bid and breaking down the price until it crumbles. You can see the bottoms break and the dams breaking. You can see bridges being built. You see ephemeral ideas take hold like yesterday's 9/11 dip. It is imaginary stuff making people do silly things. Then you see the order flow move to the ask and the market changes direction. Its so fascinating, except when you become the hunted. Then its no fun…until the table turns again. What a world! The Matrix.

Some quotations from the movie that may be relevant to speculating …

Trinity: The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Agent Smith: Never send a human to do a machine's job.

Morpheus: Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.


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