The options on this one aren’t liquid enough to lure me in, but I wanted to share Bunge (BG) with you, since it seems like a very appealing long-term short setup.
Bunge Jump
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.
Bank Earnings in Hours!
From my colleagues at tastytrade:
Jello Molds and BLM Yardsigns
My brain isn’t good at much. I don’t have a knack for math. I’m lousy at remembering names of human beings. And I bet if I tried to be an actor, I’d forget my lines. I am, however, very good at analogs and metaphors, and they’re always creeping into my head, uninvited.
The latest one involves something in which I have a weird fascination, which is the peculiar and frankly gross recipes that seemed so popular from the early 1950s until the early 1980s. I run across these on a daily basis. Here’s just a small sampling, with a particular emphasis on what seems to have been a fetish in the United States: Jello-O based molds. Shield your eyes, Frank.
(more…)Straight Down!
One would think this morning’s ice-cold PPI numbers would send bonds rocketing higher. Nope, the five-year bear market in bonds (I say again – -why can’t we have a world in which I can type those words about the EQUITY market??) continues apace, as vividly illustrated by the fund TMF, which is the leveraged bullish fund.
Edison
The biggest story these days is, of course, the hellscape of southern California, which looks like a post-nuclear warzone. This is what is left of Ryan O’Neal’s house.
