One day I’ll emerge from total tard-land and actually charge for amazing ideas. But anyway, two weeks ago, literally at the MINUTE that was precisely the right time to short the hell out of retail, I wrote a post with an incredibly cryptic and hard-to-understand title AGAIN, SHORT RETAIL. At the time I shared the chart of this drop-dead gorgeous channel.
![slopechart XRT](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/slopechart_XRT-2-640x343.jpg)
And then, as if by divine providence, XRT fell until it perfectly and precisely tagged the channel on Wednesday.
![slopechart XRT](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/slopechart_XRT-640x330.jpg)
This is Charting Hall-of-Fame stuff, people. So when I get pissy and scoff at non-paying visitors and all the value they get without even having to be troubled by seeing ads splattered on my site, this helps explain why. At least ship me a bottle of bourbon, for Christ’s sake, you cheap bastards.
![](https://benjaminherman.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/the-young-ones-vyvyan.jpg)