I used to hardly pay SOCL, the social media fund, hardly any notice, but it’s actually a pretty interesting way to view that space as a whole for good set-ups. As my Slope+ readers know, I offered some very specific suggestions with respect to taking advantage of a bullish setup in FB and LNKD (yes, me, Tim Knight, buying calls; can you believe it?) Suffice it to say, they worked out nicely; a 79% profit in two days: (more…)
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.
Adding Downside Protection To Biogen
Biotech stocks took a beating on Friday, with the ETF that tracks them, iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (IBB), down 4.74% on the day. One of the harder hit biotechs was Biogen (BIIB), which was down 8.22% on the day. Despite the drop, Biogen had one of the 10 highest expected returns of the securities in Portfolio Armor’s universe as of Friday’s close. In case its actual return over the next several months ends up being in the opposite direction, here are a couple of ways to hedge it. (more…)
Watch Semiconductors’ Market Leadership
In January of 2013 NFTRH used the Semiconductor sector as a ‘canary in a coal mine’ to a potential coming phase of US manufacturing strength and an economic bounce. This had negative implications for gold but normally would have had positive implications for commodities positively correlated to the economy. (more…)
3D Printing – No Barrier to Future Losses
Note from author: Immediately after contributing this post I noticed DDD down nearly 6% this morning due to a downgrade by Merrill Lynch.
Valuation – Tech, 1999?
At a current price to sales ratio of 17.99 and a forward PE ratio of 93.88 (according to Yahoo Finance), we’ll let the individual reader decide what represents value when talking about 3D Systems (DDD). Similar lofty valuations are present in competitors like Stratasys (SSYS) and ExOne (XONE). But we will make a case that these companies should be valued closer to traditional automated manufacturing equipment makers than some sort of first mover in a transformative and disruptive technology. Or at least that this is going to be their eventual destiny. (more…)
Anti-Social
The insanely-valued social media stocks are having some of the air taken out of their tires. Facebook reports on Wednesday afternoon. That’ll be good for lulz. (Note: I did this post yesterday, but I had so many posts, I didn’t publish it until today; still the message is the same).
