And yet another occasional winner: this one, a 60% drop in a stock in six months: here is my suggestion to short Ocwen Financial (marked below with an arrow) when it was about $37. It is now trading at about $14. Huzzah!
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.
Drug Bomb
Another occasional winner, folks! And this one is a doozy.
In my video to everyone from Sunday, Santa Claws Part 3, one of my short ideas was IMGN (by chance, it happens to be the thumbnail image of the video). It lost half its value this morning, even though, as the geniuses at CNBC might say, it is “off the lows”. Still, this is the kind of short position that is oh-so-sweet when it works:
Thank You. Thank You Very Much.
The Endless Slide
Enough time has passed that I wanted to mention an idea I gave my Slope Plus subscribers back on November 21st. I wrote, in part, “USO did a perfect gap-fill at 29.08. I shorted some crude oil right here, since this is an extremely clean stop.” My stop was too tight (by a few pennies), but my readers have been warned of that many times, so I re-entered the short afterward. In any case, the gap is noted with the green arrow, and the post was written at the red arrow.
Even I remain stunned how far, and how fast, crude oil is collapsing. The prospect of oil heading to, say, $35 per barrel seems totally plausible to me. At least we have one unmanipulated market that illustrates that, under the fake surface, the world economy isn’t doing so hot.
