One stock I’ve consistently mention as being a great LONG position and delightful BORING is Cal-Maine Foods. They don’t do AI. They don’t make semiconductors. Nope. They sell freakin’ eggs. And the pattern is just gorgeous!

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One stock I’ve consistently mention as being a great LONG position and delightful BORING is Cal-Maine Foods. They don’t do AI. They don’t make semiconductors. Nope. They sell freakin’ eggs. And the pattern is just gorgeous!

Gold and Silver are kind of like Elon Musk and Kimball Musk. They’re related, but one of them gets almost all the attention. Let’s give Kimball, I mean silver, a bit of screen time.
Here is the Dow Industrials divided by silver futures. Pretty toppy, wouldn’t you say? It this completes, it means lower stocks, higher silver, or both. I’m thinking “both.”

It was pointed out to me that my post about the astonishing LLY chart was incorrect, since the image of Ozempic within the chart incorrectly suggested they made the stuff. Sorry about that! I didn’t realize NVO is actually the lucky duck that sells this thing, which evidently 1 out of every 8 Americans have jabbed into their puffy flesh. Here, as I stand corrected, is the actual maker (this time with a less dramatic log scale chart).

Let’s get back to the financial markets. Permanently, I think.
I’ve been a bit obsessed with gold, but I wanted to see data beyond just the past couple of decades, so I dug a lot deeper. I have constructed for you some charts from Excel that present over a century’s worth of gold prices. The first one is daily data back to 1968, updated through this week, on a standard arithmetic scale.
