Warn Me … in the Comments Section

If I get self absorbed or overly confident, please make me aware of it in the Comments Section.

Apropos, META ($META) shares are -$15 this morning:

Positions: None.

SPY Moves

With S&P cash +43 handles I am adding back to what I covered much lower last night – and moving from very small sized to small sized:

*SPY ($SPY) $749.82

Positions: Short SPY S 

Another Subscriber Question (And My Response)

This question was regarding my private equity buys on Friday:

tomjrosen
49m ago

Hi Doug,

Thanks for all the useful information and education day in and day out. I would love to know based on your recent investment starter in private credit, what do you think about the growing number of redemption requests/denials that have been going on in the sector-is it not a reason to be concerned about for the quarters to come? Thanks🙏

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Dougie Kass
31m ago

the redemptions reflect sentiment/emotion more than portfolio deterioration

those redemptions have brought down the stocks to reasonable entry points

i am taking a starter position then i will monitor their portfolios’s progress

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Positions: Long APO, BX, KKR

Subscriber Question (And My Response)

Jaw4860
17m ago

Maxim #1 Why don’t you like annual targets ?RE : yesterday post .

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Dougie Kass
1m ago

the end of year is a made up point of time

to guess on price on a date in an increasingly volatile backdrop and setting of rapid rotations is a fool’s errand that implies a sense of precision impossible to achieve

it is a question, not surprisingly,  asked on fin tv in which a complicated mosaic is reduced to a overly simplistic condition.- to appeal to viewers.

price targets should be in ranges and presented based on pessimistic, base case and optimistic assumptions – and to then attach probabilities associated to each scenario

Positions: None

This comment has been updated.

All Systems Go on Cannabis

The hearings are moving ahead in line with a bullish expectation that national adult recreational use will be moved to Schedule III (with attendant positive tax ramifications).

Meanwhile, Virginia has legalized recreational cannabis.  

And custodian issues are slowly being resolved.

I am using pullbacks like yesterday to expand my cannabis exposure on the long side. I even reestablished a MSOS position at $4.81 (which I will use as a trading sardine) and I steadily increased my individual  cannabis company positions (which I will hopefully use as an eating sardine — subject to prices).

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Position: Long Cannabis