I’ve been mentioning recently how retail is one of the last remaining sectors to still look genuinely bullish. WalMart, the king of retail, proved this at the opening bell, vaulting nearly 10% higher (which, for a company this big, is as huge as its customers).
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Retail Breaks to New Lifetime High
I now know something I didn’t know before – – or at least refused to believe. But now I’m a believer. There is no limit to how much crap people will buy in a desperate attempt to fill the void in their souls and desperately pile on credit card debt in a feckless bid for happiness. Keep buying, folks. Consumers will never be satisfied, and they will never stop buying.
Retail’s Strong Base
Retail Strength
I guess there really is no meaningful limit to how much crap people will buy to try to fill that inner void. Just incredible:
The Retail Miracle
One sector that looked ready to falter as recently as last August was retail. As measured by the symbol XRT, however, retail has ascended overall by about 25%. I wanted to show some specific stocks that were bullishly configured and a few which still seem prone. The bullish ones include gargantuan Walmart:
A Long Walk Off a Short Pier
Retail Roster
Here are the dozen stocks in the retail sector which in which I have active short positions; hopefully the simple markups I’ve done will speak for themselves:
Bed Bath and the Bomb
The more recent top is creating a much better fall than the prior one:
Foot —-> Ass
I think a financial blogger somewhere mentioned Foot Locker (FL) as a short idea dozens of times, but I can’t quite………oh, wait. That was me.
