Castanza

We'll see what happens with earnings tomorrow MT had a decent print today (ran up a lot the past two weeks) EPS forecast: $3.39 Revenue forecast: $20.57 B EPS BEAT @ $3.93 REVENUE BEAT @ $20.806 B

Trimmed some more 2/11 $22 strike $0.11 calls at $0.48 this morning

*US Jan Consumer Prices +0.6%; Consensus +0.4% *US Jan CPI Ex-Food & Energy +0.6%; Consensus +0.4% *US Jan Consumer Prices Increase 7.5% From Year Earlier; Core CPI Up 6% Over Year *US Jan CPI Energy Prices +0.9%; Food Prices +0.9%

Closed a third my CLF call options for 68% gain

BABA

BABA

I couldn't find it when searching "ZIM", but I also do not understand how the search function works on this site anymore..... Sitting on 1b cash right now and the CEO seems pretty motivated to secure long-term contracts which would really put a damper on the bear case. Guess we will find out soon enough.

Some speculative CLF 2/11 Calls @ $0.10 Strike 22

Tracker in ZIM Has anyone looked at this? Basically a spot price dependent shipping company. Risk is they are subjected to spot prices but it seems they are well after securing longer term contracts. 15% dividend...CEO talking about buybacks, securing LNG ships, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(shipping_company) Obviously a huge risk buying this, but with Supply Chain issues going on the next year could be worth a small speculative position. CEO in a recent podcast https://seekingalpha.com/article/4480682-zim-integrated-shipping-market-updates-for-2022-podcast-transcript Attached a doc with current financials ZIM Financials.docx

F%ck it.....Starting a small position in BABA

Adding to NTDOY Starter ATUS

INTC

Short term probably. But long term I think this sector will outperform. I'm picking up some here as well.

INTC

T

Nice, been holding for some time now as well. Probably maxed out on position size personally but the future looks bright.

Is this still your top holding?

Take a page out of @thepupil's book and getting a some more exposure to tech. Nibbling at some new positions NVDA, INTC, TSM Adding to BX, MMM, VZ

BX

It must just depend where you are because my wife has worked at three hospitals in two different states over the last four years and every single one of them has had gobs of travel nurses. She works in the NICU and travel nurses are definitely not just sent to Covid wards. Just off hand I know two who work at CHOP in Philly (pediatrics unit), 2 who work at UPMC Pitt in standard adult care, two who work at Hershey in NICU, and One who works at University Maryland NICU. The girl at Maryland is headed to San Diego next month and will be getting 6k "crisis pay" even though she is going to be in a NICU. I can only speak to assignments in the NICU, but my wife said at all three places she has been the last few years, Travel nurses are excluded from mandatory overtime and typically get the "feeder" assignments in the NICU. basically a baby almost ready to go home. Probably has to do with liability, not sure about skillset and the hospital reputation for care quality. There are shortages everywhere and it seems like it's accelerating. If you're young and single and like to travel a bit, why would you not quit and take a travel position? This is why her hospital implemented a no-rehire policy because people were quitting, traveling just far enough to get "travel status", staying in hotels and cashing in on the big payments. They have also been upping their contracts with nurses they do hire. Incentive is 25-35k forgivable loan with a 3.5 year (was 2 year) commit. What incentive is there to be a normal nurse in a specific location? I'd be willing to bet the turnover is higher than software engineering. People just accept signing bonus after signing bonus and follow the money. https://www.travelnursing.org/the-truth-about-travel-nursing-do-travel-nurses-get-the-worst-assignments/

The whole travel nursing situation is quite the catch 22. Hospitals are required to keep certain ratios of nurses to patients. Nurses quit their jobs and take travel positions. In turn they get more pay, easier assignments and in general less forced overtime compared to hospital specific employees. My wife’s hospital has issued a “no rehire list for nurses who quit and join travel agencies.” It’s a real problem right now. My wife’s unit is 60% travel nurses and growing. It’s a trend they can’t seem to stop. My question is where does all the money come from?! How do these travel agencies afford to pay these nurses the wages they get? Average nurses are making right around $40/hr and bring home around 2k bi weekly. I know multiple travel nurses in the same state who are bringing home 6k a week. Some percentage of this is tax free. The lowest I’ve seen is 4K weekly. Who the heck is paying this? Travel nursing trend was also growing pre covid.

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