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STOCK MARKET CONSPIRACY

Eric Martindale • Mar 16, 2020

DON’T BE PART OF THE BASE FOR THE BIG INVESTORS

Yes, you heard that right. A conservative blogger is going to unveil a conspiracy in the stock market.  I’ve been dabbling in stocks for the past year or so, mostly losing money as I learn some painful lessons. The realization of how stockbrokers operate has hit me. Basically, it’s a conspiracy to benefit the wealthiest investors and the stock trading companies they work for. It works like this:


1. "They", the wealthiest investors, want a great many investors to be as broadly invested in individual stocks as possible, but not for the reason the stockbrokers say. It's not for you to be safe. You are actually LESS SAFE because you can't quickly and easily divest your holdings in a market downturn.


2. They WANT us to be non-liquid, not able to quickly divest all of our holdings when the market goes down.


3. They need enough people, meaning enough investors, broadly in the market through the peaks and valleys to create STABILITY in the market.


4. Without that stability the market would be much more volatile, peaking and crashing much harder. That would play havoc with the whole economy. And most importantly, that would make THEIR business plan difficult.


5. The real reason they want a stable base of investors out to create general market stability so they can invest in easy-to-liquidate Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's), ETF Shorts, and Futures/Options. They, the top of the top 1%, are doing exactly what they don't want the broad base of investors to be doing. They are quickly buying and selling positions, and often shorting the market as needed.


6. So the rest of us are basically their slaves. Slaves to these greedy bloodsuckers. We are positioned by our stockbrokers to suffer the market downturns so the biggest investors can have the stable market base necessary for their business plan. They are making a killing off our losses. And these “individual investors” aren’t just average middle-class people like myself. Many wealthy people have millions and even hundreds of millions, invested this way. We are all being led by our stockbrokers to have positions that can’t be quickly liquidated and shifted around.

FOLKS, BREAK FREE OF YOUR OPPRESSION. Stop listening to the lies of your stockbrokers and other "market advisors".

You are actually safer and more broadly invested with a single good Exchange Traded Fund like the Russell 2000 (^RUT). The Russell 2000 is the top 2000 companies in America. Owning $100,000 in the Russell 2000 is way broader and safer than having $5,000 invested in 20 companies. 2000 is broader than 20, don’t you think? Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is smart enough to get that.

And if the market is going down, you can sell the Russell 2000 in a few clicks on your computer, and put your money into Short Russell 2000 (RWM).

RWM goes up if the Russell 2000 goes down. So, you make big money in a down market. There's a double-short Russell (TWM) and triple-short Russell (SRTY) as well. These are riskier of course. Russell 2000 is just one example. There are many other ETF's and other "shorts" as well. I haven't even researched 10% of them. I bet there’s one for each country, so if there’s a terrorist attack or big natural disaster somewhere, you can quickly invest in a triple-bear ETF for that country.

"They", the financial community and the big investors, specifically don't want you to be that liquid. And they want you to be completely in the dark on everything I'm posting here.

I am firing my stockbroker today, it’s nothing personal.  I’m just emancipating myself out of their slavery. I already have a TD Ameritrade account, and I'm migrating it all over there. It’ll take a week. Meanwhile my holdings are in cash. I sold my stocks Friday afternoon.

In retrospect, it would have been best to sell my stocks earlier in the afternoon on Friday, and put all my holdings into a triple-leverage ETF on the Dow Jones or a key market segment, and then sell that position at exactly 3:59 PM. And then within that same minute to put all my holdings into SQQQ, a triple-short ETF. Stocks were soaring as President Trump was making a live address to calm investors, so a triple-bull ETF position was a sure thing for the critical 3:45 – 3:59:59 closing pattern. A sure thing is rare in the stock market.

Lesson learned; he’ll be making market close speeches again. And since I believe the market will tank again on Monday, March 16th, the best position is to short the market, knowing that SQQQ will gain in value in after-hours trading. Sure, you can buy SQQQ Monday at 9:30 AM, but it’ll be much higher in cost than it was at the market close on Friday. It’s a risky position to hold more than a few hours, and it might need to be dumped on very short notice as the market is extremely volatile.

THE BACK STORY

Now for the back story on how I came to this realization on the stock market conspiracy. On Friday the 13th, before the market opened, I drove down the Garden State Parkway in a pouring rain to Red Bank, New Jersey, to meet my stockbroker. I have previously only spoken with him by phone. He didn’t know I was coming.

My trust in his advice began to deteriorate a few weeks ago when I asked him to sell all my holdings and put it all into ProShares Short QQQ (PSQ), which is an Exchange Traded Fund that goes up when the stock market goes down. His initial reaction was “We don’t do this, I’ve never done this for a client”. He wants to be bullish and optimistic, no matter what is happening in the market. He went on: “The market is down 12% from its peak, and you think it’s going to go lower. Are you out of your mind”? Note, as of this writing, the market is now down 20%.

We’ve gone back and forth on strategies for two weeks. In retrospect, I had the right call almost every time, but most of the time he persuaded me to do something else. My portfolio is down 30% in 2 weeks. That’s my hard-earned money.

I had a pleasant meeting with my stockbroker. He’s a good guy, I like him. He gave me 10 minutes of critical time on the morning of one of the busiest trading days ever. I told him that I expect the Dow Jones to sink to 16,000 within weeks, and that I need to make some well-timed bear plays.

The key question I asked was “OK, the Dow Futures are really strong this morning, the market is going to rebound today, even if it’s just today. We both know that. Where’s the one place I can put my money now, so that I can recover some of the loss on the trades we did over the past week?”. Implicit in this question is that he would sell my two holdings, buy something else, and then sell that before the 4:00 PM close. Ugggh, his managers strongly don’t want him to do that.

His answer surprised me, but it should have been predictable: “I don’t know, just keep the stocks you have. Their fundamentals are strong, these companies will rebound in a big way, and you’ll be ahead. Just tough it out through this market turmoil”.

I own (owned) Akebia (AKBA) and Digital Turbine (APPS). These are both companies that I had picked after he presented several options.

The key problem is I don’t want to wait for these stocks to pop. I wanted to make money in the stock market that day, and then again the coming week with a short move on the market or a key market segment. And then at some point, within weeks, at the time I wanted to put my money back into Akebia and Digital Turbine, because I do believe they will bounce back strong.

Well, the answer he should have given me was “sure let’s sell your two stock holdings, and put your money into a bank stock”. By the end of the day, JP Morgan Chase was up 18.01%, and Bank of America was up 17.8%. A few days before we even had a discussion about Bank of America, and he brought it up as a possible purchase right before it tanked, of course. But that morning, he KNEW that the banking sector sunk unrealistically low due to the CoronaVirus news, and that it would rebound strong that day. He, or more likely his manager, didn’t want me moving my stocks around. I’ve been doing it a lot, and they are damn tired of it. He could have told me to put my money into Bank of America, or even better into the triple-leveraged Financial ETF (FINU). Oh no, I’m not supposed to know about those double and triple leveraged ETF’s. 

Well, I’m getting smart about the whole industry, and I feel I’ve crossed the intellectual threshold needed to succeed as an investor. I’m not going to focus on Akebia or Digital Turbine or any other individual company, because that puts me at a competitive disadvantage. ETF’s are the way to go, and I don’t need to spend any time investigating the fundamentals of individual companies, or looking at charts and data sets that I don’t have access to.

A close friend in the financial industry told me that 19 out of 20 individual investors lose money and fail, and only 1 out of 20 succeed. Well that 1 out of 20 is going to be me. I’m 55 years old, I have reasonable age and experience, I am a small business owner, I follow the news intensely, I’m a speed reader, I have a high IQ, and I can see patterns and trends. I’ve already made most of the stock market mistakes with my small holdings, and they are not to be repeated. Yes, I am that 1 out of 20. I have everything I need, and I’ve already pledged to God to give 10% of my earnings to my church and faith-related non-profits like the Pacific Justice Institute. Soon I’ll have the money to promote this website far and wide, and do other good things in my community.

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Not even with the Muslims that plundered and invaded the Mediterranean and southern Europe for hundreds of years, leading to the counterassault known as the Crusades in the Middle East, and as the Reconquista in Spain and Portugal. No, the evils of the world go back thousands of years, far before the founding of Christianity and Western Civilization. The glass of history isn’t half empty, it is half full. What really matters is the advances that we have today in engineering and technology, in medicine, in computers and electronics, in the arts and sciences, and in economics, literature, government, and democracy. These advances have occurred because Western Civilization and the social structure of Christian society allowed these advances to occur. Yes, there were bumps in the road like what happened to that Copernicus guy, but progress still occurred. 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Here’s one of many sources on this connection https://thegr8wall.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/similarities-between-the-hindu-the-maya-culture/ There are hundreds of Muslim place names in America, from Allamunchy in New Jersey to Tallahassee in Florida. There are Medina’s and Mecca’s in multiple states, and even American towns with exact place names for small towns in Turkey. Almost all of them have the same story, which is “the place name was Native American in origin.” Native Americans in the Eastern United States and the maritime provinces of Canada fear taking ancestry DNA tests, and they bitterly resent the findings showing substantial DNA from the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. They call it the curse of the Middle Eastern DNA. Rather than accept these DNA results at face value, modern geneticists have come up with a twisted theory called The Founder Effect to try and justify the findings. 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Another drawing shows a baby mammoth, perhaps from Labrador? Airplanes may have flown the skies of ancient India as well. The Muslim World was very advanced around the year 1000. They also experimented with electricity and had batteries. They made spectacular advances in science and mathematics, and they founded the world’s first true universities. Timbuktu in Mali had a university before any in the Christian world. The ancient Chinese used natural gas for lighting and heating, and possibly manufacturing. They had thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo. Their naval armada sailed all around the Indian Ocean, and contained huge wooden ships called junks that were far larger than those of any European power. Well, what became of these civilizations and their advances? The answer is about the same as what became of the explorers and settlers that reached America before Columbus. That answer is very little. Those civilizations reached their glory days, and then faded. That’s why they deserve to be little more than historical footnotes. It’s the history of the Christian West that really counted. What succeeded was the work of Columbus, and all the advances in Europe that happened only because the European powers extracted so much wealth from the New World, and benefitted from trade. In the 1700’s something happened in England and the American colonies that never happened any time in the history of the world. We experienced the Industrial Revolution. All of the world has benefitted. The Industrial Revolution happened within the context of Christianity and Christian civilization. It didn’t happen in ancient Egypt, Baghdad, or China. There is something about our Western value system, our views, and our perspective on the world that lends itself to social and economic development, and to democracies replacing monarchies. A key series of events occurred. First, the Renaissance led to the invention of the printing press in Germany by Johannes Guttenberg. Second, the mass printing of The Bible made the Protestant reformation inevitable. Third, the Protestant reformation set the stage for capitalism, the industrial revolution, and the rise of democracy. Thus, all of our great advances are rooted in our Christian value system, and in the rise of modern Christianity. I certainly don’t bash the Catholics, but we’d probably still be sailing in wooden ships with cannons, and living in monarchies, if Martin Luther didn’t post his 95 theses. Other religions and other value systems don’t generate societies as successful as that of the Christian West. Christopher Columbus and his voyages were a key step in the entire development of Western Civilization, and led to the rise of Europe. That’s not only our history, it’s the most relevant history of the world. Ours is the system and the culture that has conquered the world in so many ways, not just militarily. All major aspects of society from religion and democracy to education, medicine, science, engineering, technology, and the arts has largely derived from that of Western Christian civilization. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. You created our world. Yes, you deserve to be celebrated, warts and all. If some great revolution covering all aspects of society had happened in Japan, Nigeria, or Iran instead of in Europe, surely the world’s history, technology, and culture would be focused on their past instead. Our homes and businesses, and our public infrastructure, would be modeled after some other part of the world. But no, that didn’t happen. We don’t have natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo, do we? Modern western cities, even places like Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Brazilia, and Nairobi, don’t look like Jericho. The rest of the world is modeled after us. This is the ultimate legacy of Christopher Columbus. This matters way more than him spreading slavery or being responsible for diseases, oppression, and murder that claimed the lives of the Taino natives on Hispaniola. Equal and greater evils had been happening for thousands of years, and WITHOUT any advance of civilization to show for it. Yes, the glass of history is half full, not half empty. The misery wrought by Columbus has born fruit and created the modern world. 
We know there has been oppression associated with Western Civilization. We know there have been wars, and there will be more. We know there are great injustices still unresolved. We know that our history wasn’t perfect, and the motives of whole nations and empires were selfish and insincere. But we also know that progress occurs in phases. For instance, our Founding Fathers simply could not have established a system of democracy covering women and racial minorities. They just weren’t ready. They were the most progressive and advanced people in power anywhere in the world at the time, but the best they could implement was democracy and equality for all White men. They weren’t ready. Society wasn’t ready. Should we mock and blame them for the great steps that they took, and demand that their names be removed from public buildings? No, that’s just plain ignorant. The Founding Fathers took the first steps. Nobody else took them, did they? No other society in the world was on a path towards the full equality of all men in their society, no less to include women and other racial groups. In time, other people took the necessary further steps, and the social structure of our Christian-based society allowed it to happen. That’s how progress unfolds, that’s how history moves forwards. What about good ole’ Chris? Didn’t he bring misery and oppression wherever he visited. Well, he wasn’t ready to establish a just and fair society either. He was only ready to expand the empire of Spain, and the fortunes of businessmen there. The nations of Europe were ready to advance themselves, and to spread Christianity to other lands. That was about it, at that time. Are the indigenous peoples of the America’s, Africa, and Asia better off as Christians, and for adopting Western Civilization? Absolutely. Not a doubt about it. The Christian value system is the best value system, and the best proof of this claim is the development of the modern world. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. The real reason some people hate Columbus and our Founding Fathers is their desire for historical revisionism not just for Columbus, but for all of history. They want to portray the whole world as groups of people in conflict with other groups, and as exploiting and oppressing other groups. This is their message, this is their venom, and this is their politics. They are an unholy alliance of socialist, anarchists, atheists, and artists. They hate religion, especially Christianity. They want no limits on sexual morality or substance abuse. They are advancing a culture war, and they have largely conquered academia, the media, the fashion and entertainment industries, and the tech sector. Their intellectual development is that of a rebellious teenager. Yet collectively, they have more power than our political leaders, and they have the full determination to use it to dominate our society. That’s what Columbus bashing is all about, and it’s time for everyone to choose sides on this issue. It’s not about analyzing history and respecting the progress that humanity has made. Nor is it about building on that progress, and planning the next steps. Nope, Columbus bashing is all about spreading hate and political mischief, and upending our entire society. And the tip of the pitchfork is pointing squarely at the neck of Christopher Columbus. Our best defense is to educate the public on the role of Christopher Columbus in the advancement of Western Civilization. I have no problem with cities and towns having an Indigenous People’s Day. There’s about 350 days not designated as any kind of holiday in this country. Pick one of them. The second Monday in October is already taken. For more information, and to review all of our blog postings, see www.thewelcomemovement.com 

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