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Remember match.com? (Symbol MTCH)? I’ve written about it many times, and I highlighted it six months ago in a post called Favorite Featured Three in which I shared my three favorite charts for short positions. Every single one of these three isn’t just down, but has been blown completely to smithereens. Here are the percentage changes for the time since my post:
Those of you who follow my Twitter feed might recall that early on June 17th, I called the market bottom. See, YOU might recall, but I certainly didn’t. I was only reminded of this when widely-followed @jedimarkus77 was kind enough to remind the world that I nailed the bottom within a couple of hours. Now I can combine my charting prowess with an ability to actually listen to myself, I’d be all set.
That’s it, ladies and gentlemen. The first half of the year is in the bag, and I stand at a 80.3% return thus far.
How delightful it is that the charlatans, hucksters, and carnival barkers of 2020 and 2021 are dead and buried. Well, that’s not entirely true. They did manage to dump hundreds of billions of dollars of their now-nearly-worthless equities onto simple-minded retail investors afflicted by FOMO. But seeing the likes of the loud-mouthed, crass, stocks-are-easy blowhard pictured below and knowing that his time has absolutely passed gives me a warm, soft glow.
I think TNRev and I were the only two people on the planet Earth who were bearish on energy as of June 8th. I did GREAT with my puts except for one thing. I sold most of them! God damn me! My CPE and COP puts are triple-digit percentage winners now, and I look wistfully at MRO, MUR, DVN, and other beauties. Suffice it to say that in about a year that dolt Cramer will notice it’s a bear market in energy. We were first.
The entire world was in LOVE with energy up through June 8th. A mere two days later, I did a premium post which stated that, as strong as energy had been, the mere fact that Jim Cramer was a fan was enough for me to commit substantial capital resources to shorting it.
