Tip of the hat to Baby Bear for this video:
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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The VIX is at 12
Same Old Same Old
Jesus H. Christ on a pita biscuit, this is ceaseless. I don’t have any position in NVDA (or SMH, for that matter), but until this goddamned thing stops making lifetime highs every single day of the year, this insipid bull market is going to keep at it.
We Built This Kitty
Blunder of the YEAR
Oh. My. God.
Look, I know nothing is more boring than the trades that got away, but I have got to share this. See, yesterday, I decided to enter a tiny position on SMH puts just for the hell of it. That’s the arrow on the left. At the opening bell, things weren’t looking so sharp, and since the puts expire literally today, I dumped them. That’s the second arrow. I got that sense of relief we all feel when we’re no longer scared. That feeling would instantly be supplanted by self-recrimination.
