Answers: The Invisible Hand Stand!

• While I learned to trade an assimilation off four primary metrics—fundamentals, technicals, structural and psychology—do we need to add a fifth dimension in the form of an invisible hand?
  
  
• Were you really that surprised that a mysterious bid appeared yesterday into close and kick-saved the day?
  
  
• I know, I know, I’m a conspiracy theorist, right?
  
  
• Or... not?
  
  
• If we paint by numbers, would this picture be considered pornography?
  
  
• Just as the tape overshot S&P 950 (and traded to S&P 956 before failing), shouldn't we draw the line at S&P 875 with a crayon rather than a pencil?
  
  
• Is anyone else troubled that the widespread consensus agrees "Armageddon" has been taken off the table?
  
  
• Or is that consistent with our vibes last September when we offered that the government bought the cancer and sold the car crash?
  
  
• Remember long ago when I sensed Google (GOOG) could make a run at the New York Times?
  
  
• And it was probably my worst call of 2008?
  
  
• Will I cement my well-earned reputation of being notoriously early if this marriage comes to pass?
  
  
• Or Disney (DIS) for Yahoo (YHOO), for that matter?
  
  
• Is “early” necessarily bad?
  
  
• The VXO (volatility index) rallied 40% through to peak since last week?
  
  
• Gold (GLD): A bearish double top or (bullish) reverse dandruff?
  
  
• Is the swine flu the quietest pandemic in history?
  
  
• Did you know that five minutes and six seconds after 4:00 on July 8th this year, the time and date was 04:05:06 07/08/09 (and that won't happen again until the year 3009)?
  
  
• Did Def Leppard ever get the snaps they deserved?
  
  
• Can someone please explain to me how it’s possible to wrap a pile of poo and sell it as a gem?
  
  
• Would a rally (back through S&P 956) followed by the mother of all declines qualify as the path of maximum frustration?
  
  
• If the mechanics of your swing outweigh the results of the at-bat, does it really matter?
  
  
• OK fine, it matters, but won't that process keep you in the game fighting the good fight?
  
  
• Zeds dead but where’s Jed?
  
  
• Y'all saw yesterday’s sweaty breadth (nosty for the third session in a row)?
  
  
• Given the 9% two-session drop, did discipline dictate peeling off a slew of my Research in Motion (RIMM) downside try into yesterday’s abyss and riding some stems and seeds for a credit? (yep)
  
  
• Particularly as we FLETCHED S&P 875?
  
  
• Remember when lower commodity prices was considered a positive equity tailwind?
  
  
• So, you’re a philosopher?
  
  
• Are the head & shoulder formations getting too much play in the mainstream press?
  
  
• So, at the end of the day twenty times more people got to feel the pain of American International Group (AIG)?
  
  
• Is anyone else secretly excited for Sunday's season premiere of Entourage?
  
  
• Will East End Minyans join me on August 22nd at The Max Cure Foundation “Roar for a Cure” Carnival?
  
  
• Is the populous position ever the profitable one?

R.P.