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During the course of this year, I have taken a few stabs at Alcoa (symbol AA), but the danged thing moves so slowly that I have just bailed on it. Long-term, and I’m talking years, I think this thing could be vastly lower than it is now. It’s like an oil painting, though, so it doesn’t hold my interest.
Well, ouch. Here’s a sad little tale for you. It involves this chart and three arrows. Let’s read them from left to right:
WIth all the ups and downs of recent days, one short position (by way of being long puts) that consistently is coming through, slowly but surely, is General Motors. A slow bleed-out to support would complete an absolutely gargantuan pattern. There’s 162 days left on these puts, so…………I wait.
All right, the big data point is behind us! Before the CPI was released, there were all kinds of speculative, often contradictory, stories about the CPI and what it would mean. ZH even had two adjacent articles which said the exact opposite thing.
