Long the Sour Patch Kids

MaxPower November 2nd, 2006

That’s right friends, go long the Sour Patch kids, Long or Short Capital has instituted a Candy Asset Exchange, based on actual trading of left-over Halloween candy.

Market values of popular candies, serving size is “fun size” unless noted otherwise, based on actual market trading.* Does not include any candy broker fees or other transaction costs.

SKITTLES : 2.9 MILKY WAYS
SNICKERS : 15 units of CANDY CORN
CHARLESTON CHEW : 0.46 SNICKERS
ROLO’s : 0.8 SKITTLES
APPLE : 1/40 of a SNICKERS
TOBLERONE : 3 APPLES

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Another way to play this would be to long the Apple as the inevitable Halloween candy hang-over hits, the demand for Apple will rally and you’ll be able to do a switch into Snickers bars at a better valuation.

That or you could play the Snickers/Apple/Toblerone spread and start going long the apple to arb the snickers/toblerone gap, which is way out of wack right now.

I think Sour Patch Kids is the palladium of the candy world: THREE MUSKETEERS : 0.25 SOURPATCH KIDS

2 Responses to “Long the Sour Patch Kids”

  1. D4V: November 3rd, 2006 at 8:18 pm

    I’d long Mojo’s for sure.. If you can find’em. :)

  2. Grfxguy: November 7th, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    Mojo’s are a penny each at the Fallis General Store :D

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