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I’m in “clean up Slope” mode right now, so although I may seem lazy since I’m not cranking out posts, trust me, I’m hard at work. So I’ll leave you with this to wrap my Thursday up: here is XLI, which wants oh-so-badly to break down…………it just needs to get below the lows we’ve seen this week:
Tomorrow morning’s big economic report is Consumer Sentiment. Given the mood of the world as a whole, I’m guessing it’s going to be slump-tastic.
Look how dramatically the wealth of Russian billionaires has dropped in just a few weeks – – about a 30% slice, which, amazingly, is over 6% of Russia’s entire GDP.
Just catching up on some companies which, were it not for the insanity of the past thirteen years, would never have gone public in the FIRST place. I strongly suspect most of these won’t exist at all in a few years.
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On February 23rd, I posted a bear call spread on the S&P 500 (SPY). At the time SPY was trading for 429.57. Now SPY is trading under 422, and our bear call spread is worth far-less than half of our original premium. As a result, our profit target was met.
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