I’ve mentioned Dollar Tree as a short idea a number of times, including in a premium post two weeks ago. It’s finally getting zapped, down about $20 per share right now, based on its earnings report. Huzzah!
Money Growing on Trees
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.
Eat and Run
I bought SMH puts Thursday. I closed them today for a 28% profit. In more sane times, I would have held on to these for many more weeks (they had 49 days left on them) but these are not normal times. These are picking-up-pennies-in-front-of-the-steamroller times.
Tesla Tumbles
My post from just yesterday seems to have been prescient. The stock is down about 22% in a matter of just a few weeks. Remember, they report earnings next week!
Fiscal Follow-Up
A couple of days ago, I mentioned three specific bank stocks as short ideas. So far, so good, across the board:
Most Everyone Missed It
This is quite interesting: it shows, among tastytrade users, what their guesses were for each of the quarters of the S&P 500 in the year 2023. As you can see, the preponderance of guesses were much lower than reality (I count myself among them!)
