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Yeah, it's rapidly getting out of control. The daily volume of options contracts is just insane now, which of course forces stocks up via dealer gamma hedging. You wonder what the ultimate endgame is and whether another October '87 style day could come along under the right conditions.

This kind of manipulation is like a modern version of the 1920s stock pools that guys like Joe Kennedy used to pump and dump themselves to riches. At some point the SEC will catch on, but the markets have become a farce. Manipulation and speculative mania are the orders of the day for the time being.

As a former swimmer who raced (and got his ass kicked by) Phelps as an age grouper, I heartily endorse this message. People who don't follow swimming cannot truly fathom what a freak of nature he was. From making the Sydney team at barely fifteen to his unmatched versatility (at one point he held world records in the 100/200 fly, 200/400 IM and 200 free, was within hundredths of the world records in the 100/200 backstroke and 100 free, and was American record holder in the 400m free), to his superhuman ability to recover quickly between races, he was a talent for the ages. Even when he slacked off for a few years before the London Olympics, he still managed to be the most decorated athlete of the games. I wish we could have seen what he was truly capable of. He always swam so many races that many of his world records were set while he was exhausted. I bet if he had been fresh many of his records could last decades.

My recollection is that 2011 winter basically ended at the end of January. So if that's what you mean, I'm with you.

Maybe a coop. We've had enough failed coups already.

I'll be pissed if this cockteases SCT for days then jacks Dendy. Major blue balls.

Did I hear I have to worry about rain all of a sudden? Wouldn't that be fitting this winter.

Serenity now, insanity later.

It'll find a way to bust in Richmond. Remember his melt in the 2016 blizzard when the NAM turned out to be right and he went to sleet? There's still a radioactive exclusion zone down there.

Let's yearn for a return of the days when Teton Gravity Research came to Boston.

224 pages of jack sh*t lol.

It's over, Johnny.

I'll take P11 and P20 for $1,000, Alex.

I'm going to pray for a Jan '16 or March '17 type outcome with modeling latching on to massive latent heat release and a more amped outcome at the last minute. Don't expect the prayers to be answered however.

Yep, with you there. That deal on the 29th especially leaps out as one of those systems that tantalizes for a few runs and then ends up with the deform kissing the south coast of Long Island. Not buying in to this.

This is one of those rare occasions when I'm in one of the most favorable spots in NE and almost would be better served checking into the NYC sub forum. Still think the primary will get a bit further north in Ohio and get solid advisory snows up to NH border.

I would gladly take an advisory event at this point.

For once, I like where I am for this. Of course, it'll probably whiff now and and dump on Long Island just to cosmically spite me.

I can work with that too. after a month of bare ground it'll feel like 30"

Cool, let's keep the low off Wilmington DE so I get the 30" freak deform this go round instead of Dendy.

No dice this morning. Couple stray flakes on the windshield, but that's it.

King of alternative facts lol.

Ten pages of "It looks like a bunny now!" "No, a frog!"

I find as I get older I care less and less about these long boring stretches. They used to eat away at me; it felt like a personal affront to not get snow, but now I can rationalize it. Now it takes a large bust inside 24 hours to send me over the edge. We had two events in 2018 that sent me into towering paroxysms of rage, but that was the last time.

A Ray melt is a good start, but in my opinion we still need Scott to throw a full on DEFCON 1 thermonuclear smiting before this winter can rise reborn from the ashes.