QE To Infinity and Beyond

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When in doubt, do what failed in the past, and if it fails again keep doing it forever.... or until we get a collapse the likes the world has never seen before. Yes I am talking about Quantitative Easing a term that my 5 year old daughter is familiar with. Even she knows the bank in Monopoly doesn't have an unlimited amount of money in it. You can imagine how fun it was to play that game with Ben Bernacke when he was growing up. When it was time to put the game away I can picture all the fake bills dangling out of the bottom of box. Now he's doing it with the Worlds Reserve Currency, and the go Directly To Jail space has been replaced with Global Economic Catastrophe. When he hits that space I doubt a $200 fine will set him free.

What's become obvious is that the FED and almost every other Central Bank is going to print and print and print their way into growth. They are creating those Monopoly Dollars and flushing the system with liquidity. They are lending out those Monopoly Dollars to the Banks at zero percent. Here have it for free, and make sure you hike that jobless poor saps credit card to 29.99%. That should help grow the economy. While your at it raise their bank fees and charge them for everything you can, even taking a shit in your bathroom. While your busy doing that, we at the Fed intend to butt fu*K every honest saver. You know.. the ones who lived within their means, saved their money, planned for their retirement. Yes instead of rewarding those people, we will give all the free money to the banks who got us in this mess in the first place, screw the ones who are paying their taxes, saving their money, and living modestly and within their means, and let the irresponsible ones skate free. The retirees who depend on interest income... screw them. Let them find another way to make money. Force them into the broken stock market, that has and will crash 20-50%. Hard working Americans who saved their whole lives to retire are finding themselves in a very bad situation all because of Ben Bernacke.

QE to Infinite and Beyond. There is no way out other than to continue printing money. We can see how well QE gooses stock prices. Right now we are a month into QE3 (ZIRP and impending QE3 just like in August of 2010). Look how smooth the chart is.

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BTFD when stocks fall, but they never rip too much, just enough.... hmmmmmm. A methodical rise in stock prices that has the FEDs finger prints all over it, and makes Obama look great in an election year. For the few that still have a job and a 401k, their feeling a little more wealthy. For the countless without a job.... they are poorer by the day. As the market rips, we get higher commodity prices, which trickles down to higher prices for everything from Milk, Orange Juice, Bread. That certainly isn't helping anyone let alone the poor and middle class.

The bottom line, QE is not ending. It never will. The FED has backed itself into a corner. There is no way out.

As Option Traders a great strategy during QE is to buy calls. Buy calls on every dip. The only puts you want are on the inverse ETF's. (Be aware: They do let stocks fall every so often so its not a perfect science). Take a day like today when it looked like stocks were going to fall 1-2%. Somehow we just rode higher, like on a magic carpet. Don't ask why. Just trade what you see. I see a pile of fake Monopoly Dollars getting thrown into the market on daily basis. With ZIRP, Infinite QE, and a bubble in treasuries, there is no place better than stocks and thats exactly what the FED wants. No sense fighting someone with unlimited firepower.

Known to most as Uranium Pinto Beans, Jason has more than 15 years under his belt of trading stocks, options and currencies. His expertise primarily lies in chart analysis, and he has a strong eye for undervalued stock. Because he’s got the ability to identify great risk/reward trades he usually enjoys taking the path less traveled and reaping the benefits from the adventure.

He is a co-founder of Option Millionaires, and he is best known for his weekly webinars with Scott, as well as his high level training webinars and charts found in the forums.

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13 thoughts on “QE To Infinity and Beyond”

  1. You’ll never see this in an econ class. Brilliant and so simple to understand. Anyone that has been to a grocery store in the last year knows something is wrong. Very wrong. Well put. Thank you.
    But I have to ask a dumb question. Why is everything tied to the performance of SPY?

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