Goldman Sachs: Breakout or Fakeout?

By Jeff Macke Jul 20, 2009 1:30 pm

Resistance could become support.



After both watching Tom Watson's soul-crushing loss in the Open over the weekend -- and indulging young Superfly's passion for superheroes (Superfly, named in a viewer contest, is my funky son; he turns 4 on Saturday).

Macke's Purple Crayon has been restructured in a way both disturbingly familiar and much darker: He's ditched the crayon for a permanent marker. To stay in touch with his roots, he's still wearing footie PJs; indeed, the same footies he had when he was a wee French lad drawing moons and balloons.

Think of him as a less hygienic Hulk who's permanently angry and doesn't mind it, and is stronger than Todd-O but not of Super Strength (unless he picks his foes very carefully).

The Purple One cares less for justice than good trading, which at times means simply recognizing an injustice he can profit from (e.g. "Goldman Sachs (GS) controls the world; as a general rule, it's best to own them and seldom logical to short them).

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Enough of the back story; where does the Hulking Purple One think the market stands after last week's rally, and what's he watching for his tells? Read on for these and other musings from a fetid pajama-clad guy with a fetish for purple.

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