Adnan Tipu

Estate Agent, part-time trader, MMA and Liverpool FC fan (not financial advice)

[Adnan Tipu @ATnoir]

@verypopularname @NorthstarCharts this thread is well up your street

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@EnergyCredit1 Jeff if you can, I’d highly recommend you go to Konoba Arsenol restaurant on the north side of the island. The setting is stunning and the fish is extremely fresh, cooked on an open grill

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@Rory_Johnston You will appreciate Nobunaga:

https://t.co/DAG7J9skq1

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. A man. A grill. Four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted, drank, wandered, laughed.
He stood before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable.

I knew him at once.
The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him.
I said nothing.

This is the first rule.
You do not speak first to the man at the grill.

After a long while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes never leaving the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head.

A blade. A tea. A life.
None can be rushed.

I had crossed four thousand miles of ocean to hear my grandfather's words spoken by a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I said.

I have never cooked meat in my life.
But I said it as if I had said it a thousand times before.

He glanced at me.
Something passed between us. A current older than language.

His voice dropped, low, almost ashamed.

"My wife says just use the oven."

He shook his head at the fire.

"She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where the man transformed.

For the first time in years, he had been understood.
He rose to meet it.

His back straightened.
His shoulders set.
His voice fell half an octave.

A teenager reached for the grill.
He lifted one hand without even looking.

"Not yet."

The boy retreated. He did not argue. He could not have argued.

A woman asked when the food would be done.
He told the flames, not her.

"It's ready when it's ready."

Three people approached.
Three were turned away with a single word each.

By the fourth hour, no one questioned him.
The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he turned to me.
He held out the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have stood at the gate of lords with a naked blade in my hand.
Nothing has ever weighed as much as that fork.

I did not move my eyes from the coals.
I did not touch the meat.
I did not know how.
I would not learn.
To learn would be to break the moment.

When he returned, I handed back the fork without a word, as one returns a sword to its rightful master.

He served everyone before himself.
He ate last, standing, still watching the fire.

We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took grilling seriously.
I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will correct the other.
Not now. Not ever.

So I have made a vow.

Every summer of my life, I will return to this country.
I will find a backyard. I will find a man at a grill.
I will stand beside him and say nothing until he speaks.
And when he says "low and slow," I will bow my head as if my grandfather had spoken.

I will die before I tell him I do not know how to cook meat.

"KISS THE COOK," his apron commanded.

I have obeyed.
I will obey again.

[Adnan Tipu @ATnoir]

@Rory_Johnston Highway man vibes

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@rickjeff78 I wonder how many people think the tank bottom sludge counts. Quad witching in 9 days and WTI contract expiry in 13 days. Potentially explosive

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@TheApeOfGoldST Bro, you know how Iranians negotiate:

https://t.co/yoNVMr6Mko

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@profutures2012 And the ‘deal’ is not even a deal, just a memorandum of understanding. But boy is the market seeing and hearing what it wants…

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@Rory_Johnston Never

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@Rory_Johnston @JavierBlas Rory, in your opinion, why does the market continue react. Surely you’d adjust your algo by now

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@GoldnGuitars I nibbled on a short position yesterday. Will add if/once DCH confirmed. Fundies and technicals waaay overstretched. USD is higher for longer, poor seasonality coming up too

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@NorthstarCharts Nope. It’s likely to resolve up but we’re still basing (in a very wide range). Added to that, June is usually very poor seasonality. The upmove was stunning, as far as corrections go, this is very mild thus far

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@JStanleyFX Given the state of their oil inventories and general exposure to energy prices, the MOF/BOJ will have their work cut out to hold this down. Long term charts strongly suggest it’s a matter of when, not if, 160 breaking

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@JStanleyFX I suspect a few shorts are going to be trapped here

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@Tradingchannels B, we’ve got 7 days to contract expiry, physical barrels selling at $140-150 and an unreal amount of headline risk. Fair enough if you don’t want to be long but I really wouldn’t be short here

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@Tradingchannels I’m loving the lack of engagement with this and @badcharts1 coffee post. We are still early. Long term charts looking very good too

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@NorthstarCharts @WOLF_Bitcoin_ Lovely chart. Weekly HCL just hit my reckoning and the strait hasn’t really opened. The physical market and paper market has a huge disconnect too.

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@airlovsky Forking hell, look at those candles. Given the state of the physical market, you can’t rule out ATH on this intermediate cycle. It’s almost a reserve Covid move

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@JStanleyFX Quad witching tomorrow mate, don’t rule out a double flush

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@badcharts1 Agree. After selling off from 120 bucks some seven days ago, we’re still above the 5DMA. On the weekly, we’re still outside the bollinger bands (2 standard deviations).

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