Seeing this table over on ZH made my jaw just about drop:
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Idealized Utilities
If someone – – anyone – – were asked what financial instrument sounded more exciting: The Dow Jones Utilities (XLU) or hot Internet app maker Snap (SNAP), I strongly suspect SNAP would win the day. However, SNAP is a dog, trading at about one-third of its peak and just kind of crawling around the sub-teens (much like its demographic). The Utilities, on the other hand, is a daily obsession of mine.
I have a ton of January 2019 puts on this (strike price $54), and after causing a bit of trendline damage earlier this year (red circle), it roared higher and only started weakening a few days ago.
United Parcel Gap Filled
What’s That Smell?
I am tiptoeing my way back into more short positions. I current have 35 positions and am using about 125% of my buying power. Here is one of them – – International Flavors & Fragrances, which I think is a very clean short. I’ve got a stop-loss set at 134.55:
Oil Waves
Judging by the ES and NQ, it seems the world has already moved on from the big political news about Manafort and Cohen. BTFD to infinity!
So let’s turn our attention to crude oil, which is up over 2% this morning alone. This certainly seems to be the bulliest of the bullish:
