Turning very bearish on the home builders. Increasing interest rates will increase costs. Delinquencies are rising and creditors are contracting. Most activity in mortgage applications is either refi - due from recent fall in 30-year, or existing home sales. Builders are falling behind and sales goals will not be met.
I have two setups on this one. Stock is gaping up on earnings today. Because of that, I'm not sure if it will pull all the way back to the lower entry @ $20.00 One could consider having both orders open and cancelling the lower entry if we don't get a pullback that far. If we do, there is a good chance the the higher entry idea gets stopped out. Entry 1: 20.40...
Housing SUCKS. This is the SLOW season coming up, to make it worse. New housing apps down to lowest level in forever, everything about housing SUCKS. GREAT SHORT HERE. Update 11/21: I was a little early on this short! I was happy to buy a few cheap $33.5 weekly puts for next week. I typically don't like to buy options at the end of the week to carry into the...
Home prices are falling, less and less applications for homes, and rising interest rates... nothing is going well for the housing hangover...