Greetings from Copenhagen. I did a beefier post on the plane, so be sure to check that out if you haven’t already. During this layover, I’ll just observe that, thanks to China saying it isn’t going to be propping up this fake boom with endless Treasury purchases anymore, markets are somewhat weak. Nothing earth-shattering (or even earth-shaking), but at least the color is right. NQ might have even put in a decent short-term top.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Retail Sweet Sixteen
As I make my way to Copenhagen, I wanted to offer up a post with enough charts to allay my blogger’s guilty for a good long while, because Wednesday is going to be largely “shot” for me. I’ve got a ton of short positions, but I decided to hone in on my favorite sector now, which is retail. Here are y sixteen live short positions, courtesy of SlopeCharts:
The Slope of Music
Well, my friends, I’m heading off on an international journey. I will be, Dick Cheney style, in an “undisclosed location”, but generally speaking in and around Austria through Monday. Slope lives on, of course, and I’ll continue to tend the site during my travels, although during radically different hours. I suspect over 90% of you wouldn’t have noticed any difference, since I try so hard to keep things flowing on the site, but I just thought I’d mention it, particularly since some of you have an acutely good feel for the pulse of this place. Good luck to us all!
Regarding President Oprah
A Slope classic:
Smelly FRT
In spite of this stupid market soaring to lifetime highs every day, I’m doing all right. I’m up 1% now in my all-short portfolio, and one of my winners is Arcadia Realty (symbol AKR):
