Speaking of inflating prices…………for this upcoming Sunday:
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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.
Her Name Was Geo
Perhaps my most successful completely wild guess has been with the Geo Group, the private prison maker which investors embraced the moment Trump won, since they figured he’d dump billions of dollars of sweet government revenue onto private prison owners since, well, these people who pick strawberries aren’t going to detain themselves, ya know. I bought puts immediately following the inauguration, and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.
Maintaining the EFA ETF
The one and only “time-aggressive” position I have is on EFA, which are March $80 puts. I’m up 22% on them, but I will ditch ’em if EFA crossed above the dashed line. This line represents the resistance expressed by the tag of the broken trendline.
I still think the (sloppy) diamond pattern could turn out to be a big winner, but, yeah, we need to get some selling going on here!
The Monday Gap
So far, it looks like the massive counter-attack this week has achieved merely what I suspected it would achieve, which is to claw its way back to the trade war price gap (which already feels like it happened a month ago).
