One of my thirteen bearish positions, Wingstop (WING) is doing dandy, having affirmed the failure of its long-term trendline.
Plucked Like a Chicken
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Wine and Roses
Well, folks, here are the predictions for where the S&P will be at the end of 2025.
On two things you can rely: (1) there has never been an analyst in the history of the world that has ever predicted anything but substantial gains (2) every single one of them will be wrong.
So, 7100 on the S&P, eh? Okay!
My AMD Target
The Culprit!
The stock that is solely to blame for today’s rapidly disintegrating rally is Broadcom (with the inexplicable symbol AVGO – – go figure). The stock is up literally 200-fold since the financial crisis because, let’s face it, who can get through their day without consuming some Broadcom products?
A Strange, Delayed Reaction
I simply want to express befuddlement about how United Healthcare reacted when one of its CEOs was shot to death. I’ve tinted the area after the news came out. The stock went up! Why? Because they wouldn’t have to pay snaggle-tooth another $10 million? Because of the publicity? It makes ZERO sense. What’s even weirder is that UNH lost $100,000,000,000 in shareholder value in the following days, once it dawned on investing dummies that United’s reputation was even worse than ever, and any employer who was carrying them as their health care “provider” would be shamed into switching to someone else.
