It’s an exceptionally quiet week, and the only economic data points both come out tomorrow morning: the Core PCE (ceaselessly called the Fed’s favorite inflation indicator) and the preliminary GDP.

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Harken back, if you will, to a time some hazy years ago that I sold Nvidia too soon and neglected to buy it back on its long journey upward, leading the Semiconductor bubble to come by a country mile. I since traded it a couple times, but the real money had been made by others.
(more…)We are very much in the off season for earnings, but there are three decently sized stocks announcing their quarterly reports after today’s close. I don’t have positions in any of these, although they’re all interesting charts:

Well, they are seriously starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. There’s a company called Momentus (MNTS) which is somehow related to space exploration, which instantly makes it relevant in these days of SpaceX fever. Until recent, the stock had lost – – and I’m not making this up – – had lost all but 1/100,000th of its value. Yes, if you invested $100,000 in this thing at its peak, you would have wound up with a dollar.
