Gregmal

And FYI, the treasury is now back to where it was….in like 2016….oh the horrors. What happens at 3%!!!! Where it was in ‘14! What a giant waste of time worrying about such shit.

Much of the supply and demand imbalances and thus insane pricing is easy fixable and will be resolved shortly. On the other hand, it’s gotten so amusing now every 1% market pullback we all seem to be “ready and waiting” for the bear to emerge. WTF plenty of ways to make money right now, if you’re having trouble perhaps just change the focus

Well at least we can hope the dum dums keep selling stocks that do well with inflation like they did all of January.

Beauty. There are few better stocks to play with options on than CLF

Inflation is only a problem if you don’t have assets. Keep it comin, I say.

They should take their bonuses and buy some Florida real estate!

AIV and JOE

Yea I mean guessing at what I can deduce, I’d gander you’re a bit more risk averse than I…but I never really think it’s a bad idea to pick at stuff in small size. Ever really. You like something a small position pretty much never hurts you. But in terms of taking size in these, I just think it pays to let some of this stuff play out a little further. I’ve never in my investing life really been one to say sit on your hands. But after the way COVID played out, and then the year 2021 was, I just get the feeling there’s potentially some hazard ahead in 2022. Lot of different stuff that can play out in a lot of different ways. The worst type of losses don’t occur for fundamental reasons but simple multiple contraction. And multiple contraction you don’t really recognize til it’s too late because it’s just a market thing where people keep the same fundamentals but just get a lower price on the dollars/growth. I could be wrong but I don’t see any of the big tech stocks doing any better than a lot of other stuff out there with easier return profiles over the NTM so my inclination is to just wait and see. Can always buy it later. They’re not going away anytime soon. The preference is always for 1 ft hurdles.

So I haven’t been doing a whole lot and while on vacation am not inspired to be doing much more than small trades/swings but if the product of Fed liquidity was snuffing out volatility, is the new trade to be long volatility? Of course the calls and in general VIX futures are a tough long trade. Is the winning formula to short VIX puts? Seems pretty much a given volatility should remain elevated as “whatever” people expect to play out continues to do so or not do so over the coming months.

Ya I dont really think its wise to ever go in too heavy on a market timing call, but if I were to place some bear chips at the table..... tech is really kinda low reward/ high risk right now IMO. Housing, Land, Entertainment, and Energy for this old geezer. EDIT: Actually bought a starter in MCW today

Now AMZN beats and the QQQs and related cos go up. A day after FB sent them all down. A day after GOOG sent them up. People have officially lost their minds. Or maybe it just happened slowly over a 10 year stretch. I find it amusing.

Even the ones that just posted awesome earnings are for some reason trading lower after these couple duds. Too many retards in the market and too many know nothing participants and index/etf products. It’s gonna drag down everything.

Search, Android, Youtube, self driving and AI units, cash. Google is a total monster. Apple is probably overvalued but its excellent as well. MSFT I dont see a weakness to not even regulatory. The rest, rightfully having issues.

All I know is that if things keep playing out that way they are, theres gonna be an ugly divorce. The romance that basically the entire market has with the FANGs won't last forever. Its perfectly normal in the course of history for good companies to trade at 15x if theres question marks or headwinds. We're still seemingly at the "every dip is buyable because theyre beautiful" phase.

GOOG and MSFT are diversified behemoths. Basically high quality tech ETF. The one dimensional one trick ponies are getting walloped.

What’s more is Sahm is actually one of the better ones. There’s so much malaise and complacency with folks and the bar for investments just seems lower than I can ever recall. We ve come around to the baseline being “if they hit numbers and you give it a 35x”….. just another data point and red flag to take notice of

You can clone Kerrisdale, who's lazy VIC pitch just went full public. If you assume a ridiculous multiple on 23 estimates you can get 25% upside from $185 LOL. Yea, thats hedge fund investing these days. 2/20 baby!

I feel like a geezer remembering the days of pre split GOOG(no GOOGL) going nowhere at $500 a share because everyone was obsessed with clicks and all that dumb shit. Now it’s roses and rainbows and that’s nice but certainly the cycle of in favor/out of favor is skewed at the moment. And has been for a few years. Whereas I still don’t see anyone pounding their chests about XOM, FCX, PXD, etc lol. One day we ll see that again too.

Yea that’s why I’ve been open to swapping out some of the big tech stuff I have. You can very easily see the next decade being kind to the best of breed companies in the energy/commodity sector. Tech? Not so much. Even the FANGs, great companies and all, but I can easily envision environments that are challenging for them. The baton always gets passed when rallies occur sector wide over multiple year periods.

Now imagine if XOM got even a fraction of the rerating benefit those others got over the next decade?

July and September NFLX puts

It’s easy to see why this service is valued on the institutional level. The feckless suites who have to allocate OPM largely care about one thing and that’s self preservation/enrichment and CYA. They’d sign up all day for 3% returns and no volatility as long as they got their salaries and bonus in perpetuity. So there’s that. On an individual level though, idk but I’ve always thought that once your life quality was cemented, the rest just kind of isn’t as important. So like, if $2m covers your shit for the foreseeable future, why in the world would you be such a baby with respect to dealing with volatility on the rest? If you don’t need the money tomorrow why do you care what it does tomorrow? It’s so dumb logically.

He has done very well. The big mistake most people make is using that basis and also assuming that most of his investors have also done well.

Eh I think they’re all valid criticisms and things that contribute to the performance of these guys. But we can agree to disagree and revisit the next time the next letter comes out and he still wants to blame the same things as for his poor performance even though he s not expected to perform.

Yea I mean my main thing is like yo stop making excuses. Start being accountable to your investors. Klarman and Einhorn and all these guys have enough capital to go activist. Or make bids. To do SOMETHING. Yet they’re lazy and sit on their asses and put up horrible numbers insisting on doing it their way. I don’t think there’s anything admirable about a one dimensional investor. That’s what makes Buffett so amazing. Tepper too. Ackman as well. Look at how they evolve constantly.