No doubt, Friday was so full of lies and market manipulation.....at least more than usual, and usual is "a lot."
Someone lied about FNM and FRE getting to use the discount window.
Someone lied about LEH from the day trading started.
IMB was lied about all day.
Israel and Iran were another pack of lies when someone from the "Pentagon," a bastion of truth, said Israel was NOT practicing strike maneauvers in Iraq........bull-sheet.
Had the lies not been told, then Friday could have been the flushout day, which is what we need.
But there was too much money to be made by making up stories.
Guys----There are many in here who have more experience than I, but I have been gambling on the stock market for over 20 years, and from my limited experience, this is the worst economic backdrop I have ever seen, and this is the roughest tape (long or short) that I have ever seen.
In fact, this tape is so brutal, and some are so flustered with all the lies, that on the day we finally do get a flushdown with peeps jumping out of windows, the bargain hunting buying which always follows will be very watered down.
It is treacherous to hold any position (long or short) overnight, let alone over a weekend. The only way to deal with this stuff right now is to preserve and protect capital as best you can, and if you do enter in to a position, hedge it, use stops, and get your ass out with money before you get greedy.
This world is getting ripped a new one.