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Upside Bias Is Relentless—For the Moment

Three yards and a cloud of dust.

The market is not very exciting, but it is steady, making small gains most days. After a few months, small gains add up.

Very low volatility hardly merits aggressive short-term trading. When volatility returns, and it must return eventually, it may return with shocking quickness and magnitude. So don’t immitate Rip Van Winkle. Stay awake.

Sure the market is over bought, but at this time I don’t see any catalyst to stop the slow upside grind.

When the catalyst hits, it may not be obvious. Overly leveraged, overly concentrated, overly secretive hedge funds are like giant icebergs of risk, with most of the danger hidden invisibly under the surface.

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About Me:

Almost nothing is known about the Mystery Trader. If there were anything much known, he or she would not be such a mystery, would he or she?

We can say only this: the Mystery Trader has been trading for a long time, has learned a few things, mostly the hard way, has traded all kinds of crazy financial instruments, has made AND LOST an awful lot of money, and has not died broke well, not YET anyhow, but there is still time for that.

The Mystery Trader writes these impressions and thoughts as a kind of an uncensored stream of consciousness journal or diary, largely for his or her own amusement, but also hoping these thoughts might help readers somehow, perhaps occasionally, prevent them from doing something stupid.

The Mystery Trader hopes that his or her thoughts might help YOU keep from losing YOUR shirt in the world's biggest casino. The financial markets are notoriously tricky and have ALWAYS been loaded with disinformation, deception, raw deals, chicanery, and outright criminal theft. Unfortunately, little of this bad behavior is caught and punished because the financial markets are too big and chaotic.

The Mystery Trader certainly and explicitly does NOT recommend that you blindly accept any ideas presented here or take anything expressed here at face value as actual fact. On the contrary, if anything, the Mystery Trader hopes that this blog might encourage you to think entirely for yourself and develop your own UNcommon sense. Be careful, have fun, and good luck!

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