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Time to whine. Below are eight charts that I’ve suggested in the past as good shorts. Every single one of them is going great, and I suspect much, much lower prices are ahead. However……….I’m not in a single one of them. I simply look at them, chagrined that I waited so long, and far too hesitant to dive in at these prices. Congratulations to those of you who took the plunge. And, believe me, these are just a FEW of those that got away!
I am madly in love with SlopeCharts, and we’ve got a massive upgrade that I’m going to talk about this afternoon. For the moment, however, I wanted to let you know we added a new chart type – HLC – that one of you asked to be added. This is like the OHLC except without the open. It’s just a new choice on the toolbar, as shown in the inset.
As the SlopeCharts of credit card debt clearly shows, the gluttonous appetite for mass-produced garbage is almost limitless in America. Any chastening from the financial crisis is a distant memory at this point.
Another lovely morning in portfolio-land. Just to pluck one of my zillions of shorts as an example, here is the ever-so-classy, only-meant-for-intellectuals World Wrestling Entertainment:
Over the weekend, in the This is War post, Binkius wrote this important bit:
Rumors from the Trump White House say that the USA is thinking about cancelling trade talks and sanctions if the CCP attacks Hong Kong. This is one of the few brilliant things coming out of the White House. If the trade talks are dead anyways, playing the moral high ground gives Trump some deflection of criticism because he’s defending democracy in Hong Kong.
I would keep that in mind in the days ahead. For the moment, concerns about just such a thing are pushing some red onto the screen:
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