A tip o’ the law to our mutual friend The Director who sent me this interesting chart this morning illustrating just how deeply dependent “investors” are that stocks move higher from here in order to make all their margin debt worthwhile.

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A tip o’ the law to our mutual friend The Director who sent me this interesting chart this morning illustrating just how deeply dependent “investors” are that stocks move higher from here in order to make all their margin debt worthwhile.

NFTRH 846 went much further off the normal path than this excerpt, as its writer was almost unconsciously caught up in the process of properly defining the current Macro, which by extension will help us properly set strategies for 2025 and beyond.
It takes a lot of deep and ongoing work, not guessing or bias-promoting. We do this work in order to end up right on the big swings when the time is right, and to be right along the way in the interim. Charting and stock picking are fun, but only after the real work is done.
(more…)I would like to gently suggest your consideration of United Healthcare (UNH), one of the most despised organizations in our failing country, as a short-sale candidate. It is sporting a clean mass of overhead supply and, at present, a cool little shooting star pattern. Plus, earnings are out of the way.

There won’t be a victory lap. We can start with that fact. I’ve done this long enough to know what a multi-dimensional error that is.
Don’t get me wrong. The mini meltdown taking place in crypto and tech stocks is a delight to my soul and made it very hard for me to sleep in anticipation of Monday’s opening bell. I mean, honestly, there’s one particular meme coin I’ve been watching carefully as it lost 66% of its value in just a week, and seriously, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.

In the Slope mobile app, beneath any post, it shows other related stories. By sheer chance, I happened to notice this post from eleven months ago:
