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October 25, 2019
Published by Kuppy at October 25, 2019
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Let me cut to the chase; I won a few along the way, but Elon Musk clearly won this most recent battle. Earlier this week, Musk stared at revenue comping negative, collapsing ASPs, and abysmal margins. He had his Draghi moment where he determined that he’d do “whatever it takes.” The alternative was to let investors blast Tesla (TSLA – USA) and face a Read More
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Positions Mentioned: TSLAQ
October 13, 2019
Published by Kuppy at October 13, 2019
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Nine months ago, I began writing quite regularly about shipping (first article, second article, third article, fourth article). The thesis was simple; there was a dearth of new orders, IMO2020 would likely lead to further supply disruption and shipping is a leveraged play on geopolitical volatility (it was pretty obvious that Trump was going to keep causing chaos), hence you wanted to be long Read More
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Positions Mentioned: STNG
September 24, 2019
Published by Kuppy at September 24, 2019
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I pride myself in being a contrarian. When someone tells me that something positively cannot happen, I immediately wonder what security is mispriced if there’s even a 1% chance it could happen. Often, the securities I’m long are unloved, unpopular and downright hated. When I speak at idea dinners, I’m quite used to people showing a visceral sense of revulsion, followed by pity on Read More
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Positions Mentioned: AR
August 29, 2019
Published by Kuppy at August 29, 2019
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Last night, I had drinks with my good buddy Mike “Mr. Uranium” Alkin. As you can guess, we talked a lot about Mike’s favorite topic; uranium. Let me preface this discussion by saying that uranium will always be special to me. I was a very early uranium bull in 2003 and had an oversized basket of uranium junior miners (there were like 8 publicly Read More
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Positions Mentioned: U CN
August 20, 2019
Published by Kuppy at August 20, 2019
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Last month, I wrote an article about the cannabis sector, pointing out that supply growth is massively overshooting limited legal demand growth in Canada. Since then, Q2 earnings proved out this point. You know it’s bad when industry leader Canopy Growth (CGC – USA) grows net revenue by 249% but sees gross margin shrink from 43% to 15% (yea, I know, there’s some moving Read More
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Positions Mentioned: MJ
August 19, 2019
Published by Kuppy at August 19, 2019
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I have now written a number of bullish pieces on the shipping sector (article 1, article 2, article 3). My previous articles speculated that a confluence of factors would mark a bottom and lead to a rather impressive recovery in the sector. Those articles were all theoretical, speculating on a recover. Now, we’re finally starting to see dramatically increased charter rates. At the same Read More
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Positions Mentioned: STNG
August 12, 2019
Published by Kuppy at August 12, 2019
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A few weeks back, I wrote about “long-shorts.” These are companies that see their businesses improve when the overall economy deteriorates. I’m increasingly convinced that we’re about to see a real doozy of a recession here in America. It will likely be exaggerated by whatever happens in Asia. While shorting gets all the attention, I would much rather own businesses that do well when Read More
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Positions Mentioned: ASPS
August 5, 2019
Published by Kuppy at August 5, 2019
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About a year ago, I was watching Real Vision (highly recommend subscribing if you aren’t already subscribed) and saw an interview with Kyle Bass where he made a very prescient observation. Eventually, President Trump will discover that the President has the power to wield tariffs against any country as he wishes. Then all hell will break loose. It really was one of those “aha Read More
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Positions Mentioned: DXY
July 15, 2019
Published by Kuppy at July 15, 2019
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I have watched the publicly traded Canadian cannabis sector in stunned awe for the past few years. I really cannot think of a worse place to be invested. You have the basic economics of growing celery, with all the government regulation of an HMO, complete with the regulatory risk of manufacturing pharmaceuticals, with a two-tier system of legal and illegal producers—where legal prices are Read More
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Positions Mentioned: MJ