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Rocket Explosion
This is a tale about risk, hubris, and disaster. I stumbled upon it quite by accident.
Let us begin by taking a look at the chart of a relatively young stock named Rocket Companies (symbol RKT). You may have heard of Rocket Mortgage, but they have a variety of other financial lending products. Anyway, here is the chart, absent a couple weeks of the most recent history:
