Friday, November 21, 2008

Very Quick

I'll be adding to this later on today, but for nowwwww

I scooped (scoopaloop) wotlk and opted to level my gnome. My rationale is basically that the relative advantage of Human over Gnome racial is probably least significant on a mage when a good deal of CC is half duration on mages. Combine that with the fact that PvP trinkets have a fuckton of resilience and the actual on-use doesn't cost much in item budget and it's hard to really imagine a situation where human racial + random trinket is much better than PvP trinket + EA. Better casting animations and slightly better mini-racials too. (int, arcane resist) REALLY CAN'T DEAL WITH ANOTHER YEAR OF BASKET WEAVING IN MY VIDS.

Leveling will be really slow as I have really no more than 10-12 hours a week to contribute to WoW until 09 and I'll be gone a lot of the remainder of the year. Also, I spend the majority of my time ganking instead of leveling...Sup BaDF.

More WoW later.

So yesterday saw the biggest intraday Bond rally ever. Ever. Four points after the close alone. This is raining fire, four hoursemen of sweet sweet Apocalypse shit. 

There are significant dislocations in prices. Gasoline futures at one dollar per gallon? Hard to imagine global demand sinking that low. Citi June09 5 dollar puts are trading 2.8. THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY. With Citi stock at 4, sell the puts and if citi goes under, you lose 5-2.8 = 2.20. If Citi survives, you keep the 2.8 in premium. The world is saying it is more likely to go under than survive. Fuck, the trade is even way better than that as it is highly unlikely even if Citi fails, that their stock price will actually hit zero. (Might get saved or bought at 1 or 2 bucks)

Bond straddles trading for 12 ticks? Reallly?

Shit is fucking crazy in finance right now. People are certainly blowing up in these conditions. PPPPPARRTTTYYYYYY.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

omg my first FIRST!! ever and its here =0

epic...

The Baskets said...

ky

Anonymous said...

^^ fag

Oppo said...

Raddy.


It is time for you to come of age, and make WoW references and analogies via finance, a-la ming's basketball and naruto fetish.


-Lvl 80 Bernanke

Anonymous said...

weave dem baskets

Anonymous said...

Citi eh, I'll check it out. Still wish there'd be some commercial mortgage lenders that are fairly high.

BTW some people predict that without change in policies DOW can go as low as 3000, which TBH seems a BIT extreme but I can def see low 5000s high 4000s. I guess time will tell.

PS: SHORT SELL EVERYTHING!
PPS: BUY SLW FIRST CHANCE YOU GET! GOGO PURE SILVER PLAYAH!

Anonymous said...

double capacitors imo

Anonymous said...

double capacitors as deep fire with crit gear***

woops came

Anonymous said...

TLC + TC the only reason you need to level your Human.

-pv

Niiva said...

"double capacitors as deep fire with crit gear***

woops came"

Pretty sure frost benefits more since you're critting way more than fire.

Blizzard with double capacitor is teh lulz.

Anonymous said...

I dunno about frost critting more than fire.

I'm pretty down for a 5 mage team though. 15 mirrors, and 5 pets, come out of invis with pet/mirror/pet freeze and nova the other team and blizzard them down at 10% speed with 10x capcitors procing

Raddy said...

oh and ea>slow

Anonymous said...

If you bought Citi two years ago and held, you probably just lost over 90% of your investment. The consistent tanking the stock has been doing has shown no signs of slowing either.

Oppo said...

@ Anon above me:


Beg for bailout gogo.

Anonymous said...

@guy who said that frost crits more than fire:

true, but i spammed level 80 crit gems when i was 70 so that i could level with ~60% crit.

28% base + 3% molten armor + 1% arcane intellect + 10% imp scorch + 6% critical mass + 3% pyromaniac + 6% incinerate/world in flames = BALLER

SICK NASTY.

you lose like 2% per level, but it was worth the investment. arena gold never runs out, anyway.