UPDATE: RETARDS of The PPT: There are many more subscribers than participants in our 3rd annual March Madness contest. This is a head scratcher for me, as I am GIVING away 1k to the winner. I realize some of you couldn’t care less about winning 1k or you are simply too badass to participate in any contests. However, we have a burgeoning 4th bracket pending and none of them will be allowed to play, unless the fucking bracket is completed. So, without further delay, this is YOUR LAST FUCKING CHANCE TO JOIN. Failure to do so with lead to your immediate mustache removal. Yes, new subs can play too, providing you leave a pick from now until tomorrow at midnight.
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Just last week, I was endorsing the full fledged milking of the U.S. farmer, by way of buying Ag stocks. However, late in the week, I ended up selling out of all of them, including AGU, MOS and IPI.
Why?
Well, for one, I had 10%+ gains in the big ones (MOS, AGU). But the more important fact that made me reposition out of them is the hard to spot, but easy to see, rotation out of Ag into precious metals. Do not forget my basic premise behind my current investment thesis is dollar depreciation, which will lead to appreciation of “inflation trades.” The very root of the inflation trade, naturally, is alternative currencies, in this case gold/silver.
So, if you look at things through my scope, it doesn’t matter whether I am long AGU or AG. However, from a swing traders point of view, the divergence of relative strength between the two industries was too much to ignore. Gold and Silver are not just inflation hedges anymore. They are de facto currencies and will be treated as such, particularly during times of duress. As the middle east burns to a cinder, rich fuckers with circles on their heads will plow money into gold/silver.
The second pillar behind my current investment thesis is to be long oil stocks, particularly those who benefit from the premium being placed on crude that needs to be shipped. The WTI landlocked stuff is not bad. But, in my opinion, there is more upside for GOM and western Africa plays. My largest oil positions are APC and ATPG. I booked a 15% profit in KEG and will look to add to a few new names next week.
For those of you who are new to this blog and tend to take things seriously: fuck off. “The Fly” is not about religion, with regards to investment ideas. They are nothing more than letters with digits assigned to them. I am not investing in companies; but, instead, I am using them to further finance the development of the first ever orbital space cannon.
I don’t lose money in the market because I am very flexible and open minded to the fact that I may be wrong. I like to push the envelope because that’s when the big money is made. For the most part, my position size is bigger than yours, both as a percentage of total holdings and monetary size. I am bigger than you and can crush you under a barrage of sell orders, if I chose to go that route. Generally speaking, my positions are 10-15% of total assets, which makes it very easy to go to cash, if I so choose.
As for all of the other shit that makes “The Fly” a superior being, I will leave that for the imagination to decipher.
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