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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Stocks Hit New All Time Highs, Netflix $NFLX, Berkshire, Bitcoin, Gold, FOMC, and more


Stocks hit all time highs: 

We're seeing ROW (rest of world) ex-US hitting all time highs. You'd think Bloomberg would be bragging about that historic comeback, but maybe they're too busy reporting 9 day winning steaks...? 

$VEU Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF  - hitting all time highs 

 

EURO STOXX 50 ETF - hitting all time new highs

 

Japan

 $EWJ (MSCI Japan ETF) - testing the top of a range.


You know who is heavily invested in Japan, right? Buffett 


$BRK/A - Berkshire Hathaway - New all time highs followed by a nearly -5% decline on Monday's (sell the news) event, and I think nobody has more to lose in the next stock market crash than Warren Buffet. 

 



You know what else sold off on Monday? 

Netflix $NFLX 

 Gold & Gold miners

Gold miners finally make their run as predicted weeks ago, but what took so long...?  

The chance of nuclear war between India and Pakistan was clearly the catalyst that Gold needed, for a powerful snap-back rally 

Then came the reversal: 

 

Gold prices fall in India amid global trends and geopolitical tensions

Bitcoin 

No sooner than Gold reversed, we saw a sector rotation back into Bitcoin. I believe that in part, this was due to the fact that Bitcoin priced in Euro's had decoupled from the Bitcoin priced in $USD trade, as speculators continues to rotate from one sector into another, and I think this will continue until we see a deflationary spiral take every market lower.

 What Next? 

What next is the FOMC statement, and Chairman Powell's speech 

 Regardless of what the Fed statement says, there is a 90% certainty that markets will rally on the news. 

 

From Saturday's update: 

I suspect the next Fed meeting could provide a near term capitulation point for global markets.   


GL, AA


 



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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Extensive Saturday Market Update $SPX DCS Charts Still Bullish?

Wrapping up week 2 of our post-Easter rally:  

I find it amazing that the same people who helped trash the market during a 4 day market crash in April, by stoking fear over Trump's tariffs, are now seen egging on a "historic winning streak". So disingenuous!

 CNBC  - trying to sell Pro subscriptions to newbie investors



Technically the market may have been up 10 days in a row, but Monday, Tuesday, and Wed., we saw little to no gains.

Wednesday was exciting, as the market dipped at the open - on a negative GDP print.

Here's the Dow rallying off the 20 day moving average. 

 


$SPX Daily Candlestick Chart - See the moving average targets on this chart. As of Friday's close we're getting close to the 200 day moving average, and the NYSE is already there! 

Very orderly buying as I predicted 2 weeks ago

Comparing this rally to the October 2022 rally 

Similar looking shakeout, followed by a similar rebound. The trajectory is basically straight up. Although still nothing "historic". If the $NYSE can rally another 700 points this rally will match the 20% gains we saw back in Oct 2022.      

 



Europe  

European Stocks have seen a historic, meteoric rise! 

The folks at Bloomberg are actually rooting for European markets, and the hedge funds behind the scenes.

Hedge Funds

 

Gains in leveraged ETF's also compound, if you can manage to stick with the winning side of the trade.

 What Next? 

It's going to be interesting to see if markets are going to crash into the next Federal reserve announcement, and May Options Expiration, or will we see a long period of consolidation, once the top is confirmed?

Tops in a bear market tend to reverse violently, while interim tops - between waves A and B - for instance - can consolidate for a long period of time. 

Scenario #1 

Now that the bears are trapped I would expect them to remain trapped, going into the Summer, as talk of a China deal persists. We'll call this the, "buy the rumor", trade. 

We're also seeing the market rally on bad news, and a fear of missing out, although you always see this sentiment in a bear market rally, and especially in wave 2.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Market Update: Bitcoin, $GDX Gold, Earning, Jobs report Friday

 Picking up from where I left off:

Saturday Market Update: Bitcoin, $GDX Gold miners, $VIX, Tesla, and other Bear Traps

We're back to markets that hardly move for days on end, and it's not even Summer yet. 

I'm just going to assume massive short positions are being put on ahead of the next Trump dump. 

Gold broke out a little but we haven't seen a sector rotation out of crypto, yet...  

April (Gold) Contracts expired 4/28/25, yesterday, and that may have been the only thing holding prices up. I just don't want anyone left holding the bag in Gold, on my call for a relief rally.

If Apple and Amazon earnings don't disappoint, then perhaps we get a way stronger than expected Employment number on Friday. 

Take Care, AA


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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Saturday Market Update: Bitcoin, $GDX Gold miners, $VIX, Tesla, and other Bear Traps

Wrapping up last weeks market action:  

We saw a little bull trap set on Easter Monday, followed by markets driven back to around the same levels we were trading at 2 weeks ago, by Friday's close. Not much of a game changer, and not the rally I was expecting... 

From last weeks outlook:  

 "Stocks actually look great here, and the $VIX is 50% off the recent highs, and that means that the manufactured fear - propagated by the mass distraction lame stream media - is drying up. 
The continuing consolidation probably pushes back a continuation of the rally - which started last week - a few more weeks."

I expected the market to consolidate a little longer, before seeing a more sustainable rally, but once the $VIX broke below the 30 level it was all over but the crying for the Trump haters.  

My previous outlook still stands, which means that it looks like this rally is a little premature, and short sighted.

The Catalyst for last week's trade seemed to be more about manipulating the weekly options market, more than anything else....

 I'm not an Options expert, but I see volatility being manipulated (sold) through the use of 0DTE options, and I suspect Dow 40k (round number), 5500 on the $SPX, and even Bitcoin 95k were the main drivers...

 Bullish traders came back from Passover with a skip in their step and said, "hey let's squeeze some short sellers", and a market rally was born! 

Of course the biggest payoff was in driving several heavily shorted stocks & leveraged ETFs...  

$TNA the leveraged (3X small-caps bull) is a good example of this:   

See where the price action was jacked back above the lower pattern line? It's no wonder that the Russell 2000 was able to close basically unchanged.


 Tesla up 10% 

Tesla - why else would Tesla investors wait until Friday to drive the stock up 10%? Weekly Options   

 Tesla Stock Climbs Despite Pulling Guidance, but Is More Downside Ahead? fool.com

The short sellers were further squeeze as the price action was driven back above the 50 day moving average, in order to trigger buying programs.

And of course the leveraged Tesla bear ETF $TSLS was used to that end. 

See where the rug was pulled....


   

This is the new normal manipulation though the 0DTE and leveraged ETF's

What I didn't mention in the above tweet is that leveraged ETF's are being used by the already over leveraged hedge funds to apply additional leverage to which-ever positions they choose, but if you dig a little deeper into the tweet he was responding to: 

Bill Ackman

"I believe that it is much more likely that recent sharp moves in these asset classes is due to highly leveraged market participants being forced out of positions than due to fundamentals."

And he's absolutely right!  

Of course he can complain all he wants; the Hedge funds are not giving up their advantage any time soon!

Gold & Gold Miners 

I think we could see another push in Gold miners, and especially if we're going to see another washout ahead of Memorial Day. 

$GDX - Support is 46.95 and I think we could easily see it pumped to another recent high.   

We may see money rotate out of the wildly overpriced Bitcoin market, help to fuel the rally back into gold? 

It should be an interesting next 2 weeks, as the next Fed meeting approaches. 

Take Care, AA 





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Friday, April 18, 2025

Market Pulls Back ahead of Good Friday as European Bank Stocks Soar. What's Next?

 Good Friday - Since markets are closed today, it's a good time to get caught up on my charting. 

Here was the clue that markets were likely going to pull back this week: 

That wasn't an easy call, because the NASDAQ had already started to break out on a weekly charts view, but  I wasn't too surprised to see stocks close near the April lows on April Options Expiration, since the powers that (shouldn't) be, needed to get paid on their bearish options. This is the main reason the $VIX continues to trade above 30.

I see other markets - including Canada - continue to rally higher,  after last week's monster rally.

 

Canada 

Canada must think they're off the hook, even after Trump said "nobody is off the hook".


'Nobody is getting off the hook,' Trump says 

 

President Donald Trump listens to remarks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room

Isn't that a great picture of Trump? You'll never see the feces heads in the leftist lame stream media, showing such a great image. Instead you get a slideshow of shitty pics.  

Europe

European stocks continue to rally higher after last week's monster rally. Even European Financials which were boosted by last week's cut by the ECB.     

European Bank Stocks Soar 


As you can see on the chart above; markets love lower interest rates

Markets see door wide open for more ECB rate cuts on tariff hit


Isn't it funny that the ECB doesn't seem at all worried about inflation, yet Chairman Powell continues to go out of his way to use "inflation concerns" as an excuse to not cut the lending rate? 

Of course US markets could've continued to rally, If  only the Fed had done it's job, rather than side with the globalists... 

 To refresh your memory: 

The Fed stopped cutting rates while Joe Biden was still in office.

They even spiked the ball with a super sized rate cut, just ahead of Joe Biden window dressing season.

Jerome Powell then became fiscally, and politically combative, defiantly claiming that there's not a damn thing Trump can do about it!

Powell says he won’t resign for Trump, can’t be fired thehill.com 11/07/24

 What next? 

I think what next is the Fed is going to bow to political pressure, and cut rates, as they have in the past.

Of course, it could take some time for that pressure to build, and we may even hear calls to audit the fed.  

Trump Lashes Out at Powell, Says ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough’ wsj 

Markets 

Stocks actually look great here, and the $VIX is 50% off the recent highs, and that means that the manufactured fear - propagated by the mass distraction lame stream media - is drying up.

The continuing consolidation probably pushes back a continuation of the rally - which started last week - a few more weeks. 

Memorial Day is only a month away, and money must be put to work before the summer break. Light summer volume should take care of the rest. 

 Short term I think we could see a rug pull, on Monday, or Technical Tuesday, but markets are typically hard to predict on such light holiday volume. 


Take Care, AA




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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Should you trade leveraged ETFs? NetFlix $NFLX $NFXS

  I think there's a place for leveraged ETFs, but just as if you're trading futures contracts, or Options, your risk is increased exponentially, and especially in today's pump 'n' dump markets. 

But even with proper money management, and discipline you will occasionally get burned. 

Examples of Leveraged ETFs being used to manipulate markets

$NFXS (NetFlix bear fund) - I believe this fund was only created in order to help the Mag 7 bulls create enough leverage to drive NetFlix to their $1000 target.  

This fund is constantly manipulated in order to set the bear trap, and if you watched CNBC Fast Money yesterday, then you know NetFlix (up 5%) is all they talked about for the first half hour of the show.

$NFXS is hammered back below trend, before it's hammered back below the 50 day ma. 

 

 

$NFLX breaks out to a lower recent high - reminiscent of a bear market 


Next Example 

$KOLD (2x leveraged Natural Gas Bear fund)  This one was absolutely destroyed starting around the time Trump was elected, and if you were trapped back in Dec., you will probably never be made whole.

That's the thing about these leveraged funds, once they break, they tend to remain broken, for a very long time.  However, if you have the patience to wait for capitulation, you can get back to even, as we now see see it back-testing the  27.77 level, after 2 months. 


Next Example

 $SBIT (Bitcoin 2X leveraged bear) this is a good example of why you shouldn't trade leveraged ETF's 


If you recognized where the rug was pulled back in November, and you cut your losses, then you lived to trade another day, but if you were trading on hope, you were wiped out. 

I could offer many other example, and just recently we saw the Tech bears destroyed again, as we trade on light holiday volume. 

 Of course they want to blame Trump for manipulating the market, but markets are manipulated - for sport - every day. 

Take Care, AA


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Sunday, April 13, 2025

$USD collapse, Gold & Silver miners continue to break out - Let's go to the Charts $GDX

 Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday, as Passover kicked off on Saturday, and I'm sure many traders have the next 2 weeks off, as good Friday, and Easter approaches. That sets up for an early April Option Expiration (Thursday).   


 Last time I blogged was last week, when Trump flip flopped on sweeping tariffs, after a meeting with Wall Street Banksters.

Trump Capitulates as the Bond Market Threatens to Collapse

Of course, that caused a 10% short squeeze across most sectors, and oh buy was the kleptocracy mad that Trump would encourage people to buy stocks ahead of time pbs.com      

Trump told investors to ‘buy’ on social media hours before his tariff pause rose stocks, raising questions about manipulation

 I believe the reason the teleprompter readers are so upset is because most of their close friends in Congress had large short positions on, when the market flash surged.
 
I suspect we could see a repeat of that scenario on Monday, as President Trump continues to lift tariffs...
and that might help explain why the lame stream media is being so quiete about the latest development, as not to trigger buying programs, ahead of the market open on Monday. Another group we don't see celebrating Trump's latest move it the hedge funds who constantly spam twitter/ X, with thousands of fake bot accounts. If these globalists were Net long you would see quite the opposite.   

Trump exempts smartphones, laptops, and semiconductors from new tariffs techcrunch.com

Is the $USD really crashing?

 
Since we know all the media streams do is lie about the state of the economy, we have to pull up a chart
 
$USD - trades in a range, and is not falling any harder than it was back in 2023    


Note the broadening patterns are described as "highly emotional", and that fits with what we're seeing in Gold markets. 

The breakouts in Gold, Silver, and even Natural Gas (which I recently covered) are all being fueled by false narratives, identical to the one I recently documented in Natural Gas.   

Wall Street Journal Lies In Order To Make Trump Look Bad  

Have you seen Natural Gas lately? lol 

$BOIL (the 2X leveraged Natural Gas bull) 

Not only does the lame stream media kleptocracy lie about Donald Trump every 5 minutes, but they also lied about the state of the US economy for 5 years! 
 
$TRAN (the Dow Transports) The proof is in the pudding  



You don't hear much about Silver or Copper anymore, for obvious reasons

$SPV - silver - for example 
 

Speaking of Silver

 

At this point you should see a trend developing, where every alert to a breakout, if followed by the smart money selling.

$GDX Gold Miners 

Of course the latest sector to be juiced in a Friday short squeeze is Gold miners - many of which ended up 20% for the week. 
 
CNBC Fast Money Recommends Gold Miners 
 
 




This guy certainly takes the cake for greatest contrarian

Cannabis, I mean Gold miner stocks to watch this week include:

 Top $GDX holding AEM.TO - making new all time highs


I found a great sector specific trade; while charting over the weekend, and it has plenty of room to run. 

PM me if you're interested:

 

Take Care, AA 

 


 

 

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

Trump Capitulates as the Bond Market Threatens to Collapse

 

Yesterday was apparently the 2nd biggest percentage gain for the NASDAQ in trading history (Wikipedia), and l loved every minute of it. Of course those who were heavily leveraged on the short side, had a white knuckle moment and it just goes to show what can happen at $VIX 50+ 

To be honest I think stocks were poised to rally into the Easter holiday, even if Trump hadn't given signal, as I reiterated a couple days ago (my bullish call linked).

Scott Jennings Defends Trump's Advice to 'Buy' Stocks Before Tariff Pause  - Newsweek 

I saw "Be Cool" trending on twitter, and that's a term I've used before to tell traders not to panic, but I missed the context of Trump's tweet. 

Proof Trump's people have been following me for a long time: 

Here I am using the same phrase during a market pullback in 2018, and 2013: 

 


 And here I am again; doing the same thing during the 2020 crash: 

Notice the hashtag #NoFear 

Yesterday 

 

I don't panic at the bottom, I panic after I find myself up over 40% in 1 day, and I can assure you, I sold everything, and even pulled my wife's 401k...

 To give you some idea of the gains we saw in the beaten down stocks, I told you to own only 3 days ago

 


Legendary!


So now what? 

So now we're left with more uncertainty, and the short sellers are trapped going into another long holiday, and I'm in no hurry to put on another trade. 

After the massive moves we've seen recently; stocks need to settle, and that gives me time to get caught up on my charting. I've gone from trying to find a bottom, to pinpointing resistance levels, and today we're trading somewhere in-between, and as usual I'm not giving away any targets. 

I think the market can rally higher, now that the bears are trapped, but I also think we could see these gains quickly disappear, and that's why I panic-sold at the top. 

This I can tell you; Chart patterns that used to work, are broken, support is broken, and I'm afraid of what may happen to global markets over coming weeks/months.

The bond market did finally roll over, but this is nothing to be alarmed by. 

Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate, Even Gold needs to correct, after the ridiculous liquidity bubble that's been inflated over the past several years.    

Both Trump and Biden own this bubble; each trying to outspend the other; in fact after the last blog, in which I questioned if we could trust Trump's judgement, I came to the conclusion that he did indeed crash the market in order to force the Fed to lower the borrowing rate, so that he can pile on massive amounts of debt, just as Ronald Reagan did during his presidency.  


I believed Trump was going to make some historic trade deals, and that the bubble could continue, but now the chart patterns have changed, I'm left with a lot of uncertainty, and many broken charts.     

Take care, AA   

 

 

 

 

 



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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Can Trump & his Administration be Trusted?

 1. Can The Trump Administration be Trusted? 

 2. Even if you Trust Trump's judgment, can his inner circle be trusted? 

I was planning to blog on today's market bounce, which may be setting up for a sustainable rally in Japan, at least, but then I ended up taking a deep dive down the Trump rabbit hole of the day

Firstly

As a long time Trump supporter; before most folks knew he was going to be a serious contender for the presidency in 2017... back when he started trolling Obama over his birth records.  

I was right there with him, egging him on. 

In 2016 I went to Cleveland to help Roger Stone and Friends "Stop The Steal" rally in Cleveland, even as the internet trolls warned me that we would be greeted by violent leftist thugs.

It was billed as the "America First Rally", but make no mistake about it, we were there to stop the steal, and it wasn't left we feared, but the GOP, and Ted Cruz, who were set to steal the nomination, just as Hillary did when she threw Bernie Sanders under the bus.... 

Isn't democracy a wonderful thing to behold?! 

I was there for the rally, and the GOP convention, and the rest is history! 

So here we are in 2025, and a lot has happened since Trump 1.0, and I'll be the first to admit Trump made a lot of mistakes during his first term, and wasted a lot of time fighting battles that ultimately turned out to be orchestrated by both parties. 

Can Trump and his administration be trusted 

If there's one thing I've learned after a decade and a half of trading and keeping a close eye on politics my entire life, it's that nothing is your friend in this market, and no one is to be Trusted.  

One needs to look no further than the crypto market as proof of what can happen to investors, who blindly trusted Trump....  

1.3t Crypto meltdown Hits Bitcoin, Ethereum. XRP, Solana, and Dogecoin forbes.com


You could say, "that wasn't Trump's fault", but it happened on his watch, and he egged on investors. just as his lame ass stargate investment strategy was hyped....

If you want to bet on Trump slogans with a blind eye, that's entirely up to you, but I will do my own due diligence. 

 Trade Wars & Tariff Tantrums 

First

Trump Shares Claim He’s Crashing Stock Market ‘On Purpose’ As He Lobbies For Emergency Rate Cuts

 The U.S. stock market is in a freefall after President Donald Trump announced his all encompassing tariffs earlier this week, and Trump is trying to crash the stock market on purpose—at least according to a video he reposted to social media Friday riddled with inaccuracies. Forbes



Then 

Trump denies engineering market sell-off, says you have to "take medicine"

Trump denies engineering a market sell-off - many sources


 Then Trump trolls the panic sellers labeling them "Panicans" 

 



 


 
knowyourmeme.com

It's bad enough being trolled by the radical left; I don't appreciate being trolled by a president I've helped support over the past decade! 

This from Ted Cruz 


I don't trust Ted Cruz either btw

Ted Cruz is owned by the corporate interests, who have a death grip on the entire world.

Fear of Trump 

 

‘Everyone is terrified’: Business and government officials are afraid to cross Trump on tariffs - politico

So fear and uncertainty rule the day, and the $VIX still trading above 40 confirms that fear. 

Only trust the charts, which at this point are broken! 

Check my twitter feed for my take on the market, and where I think it's headed in the short term. 

Final note: 

Socialist Bernie Sanders is set to do a CNN town hall PsyOp tomorrow night. 

CNN to host town hall with Bernie Sanders on April 9

You may want to DVR that, so you know what the counter revolution is going to look like.

I suspect we're going to see a walkout, and a government shutdown, before this is all over! 

Take care, AA 

 

 

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Monday, April 7, 2025

The Trump Trade War Officially Kicks Off with a BOOM! Stocks NOT to own!

Last week the Trump Tariff wars kicked off with a boom, and I believe this is just the beginning of the end for global markets, BUT this is spring, and Passover is only a week away, and that means volatility is going to sink like a stone... and you should know what that is going to mean for stocks! 

Money must be put to work, and now that many investors have been shaken out, that is what I'm expecting to see over the next several weeks, as I predicted in my recent blog, is it going to be different this time.

I still say we're going to see the same dash for trash (stock) we see every spring, and I have my shopping list ready. You'll have to do your own due diligence.

Don't miss the boat as the fools at CNBC would like you to remain on the sidelines. 

It infuriates me to see the  same people who encouraged you to buy stocks at a double top several weeks ago, tell you to stay on the sidelines when stocks are on sale. The teleprompter readers are not your friends.  


Are we in a "bear market"?     

 I don't know if we're in a bear market or not; I suspect we are... but counter--trend rallies can be explosive, and earnings season is just about to kick off! 

Stocks to steer clear of

 In my previous blog I pointed out which stocks were pumped and dumped ahead of the Tariff tantrums. Stocks such as Tesla - driven to the moon and back, purely for headline effect. These are the high fliers; the so-called Mag7 stocks.I believe we're going to see the same leadership, because there is no other bullish story than the AI story. 

We could also see Energy lead, if investors believe we're headed for a recession. 

Rest of World

European Equities and Asia were pumped to new recent highs, before being dumped, and I believe the pain is far from over.  

China & Europe

 I wouldn't even bank at HSBC, let alone invest in it. 

China is down -13% overnight, and that is a market crash. 

 

 These are the same US traded Chinese equities, CNBC fast money traders have been encouraging retail investors to pile into for the past several months. 

Thankfully US markets have "Circuit Breakers" (curbs) in place to prevent such market crashes, and a plunge protection team, who is called into repair broken markets on a regular basis, not to mention a Federal Reserve who constantly steps in to bail out Wall Street. 

Wars including trade wars can be great for stocks. Just look at how Israel - after the initial sell-off - has rallied to new highs, over the past year, even after an S&P downgrade. 

Chart the $TA125 (Tel Aviv) for yourself

"How is this possible, you may ask? There's a lot you have not been told about the Israel Gaza war, just as there is a lot you're not being told about tariff wars.  

Tariff Tantrums are likely about to come to an abrupt end, as more countries capitulate. 

 

Vietnam Offers to Drop U.S. Tariffs to Zero. Will That Be Enough for Trump?

 

Take Care, AA


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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

What's Wall Street really think, about these Trump tariffs?

 First off, the so-called "Trump tariffs", continued under Joe Biden, so in the bigger scope of things, we seem to be trying to become less reliant on China. This policy started with what was sold as the Pivot to Asia, under the Obama administration. New boss, same as the old boss.     


 If you believe the Marxist left wing media, then you might think Trump is hell bent on destroying the global economy. Every other story that's been published recently is about how "on edge" Wall Street investors are over Trump tariffs, but is there really any truth to this? 

Let's go directly to the charts, because the charts don't lie like the globalists who control every lame stream media narrative.

$TSX Canada - if investors were really concerned with the Trump tariffs, surely we would see it being priced in here, but for the past 2 years, leading up to the election, the only fear we saw was the fear of missing out on the next rally (FOMO).

 Today the $TSX continues to trade above the 200 day moving average, and that's a universally bullish signal. 


How about the financial system, surely Trump is putting that at risk. A picture says a thousand words. 


How bout' China, and Europe still trading near record recent highs? Nope.

We do see folks hiding in defensive sectors such as Utilities, Gold, REITs, and even Energy stocks. 

A word about energy stocks

Energy is where you are apparently supposed to hide when you believe a recession is coming, and we have seen the fast money piling into Energy for the past 2 years. Every time tech sells off, investors flee into energy. 

 You don't hear much about the stealth bull market, in Energy

 

 Recession?  


 

10 Best Recession Stocks Of 2025

I don't believe the recession narrative. I don't worry about it. I worry about the investors hiding in these so-called "safe havens" the most. In fact, I believe those sectors are in a full blown bubble. 

 Gold?

Gold retreats from record highs, holds above $3,100 ahead April's tariff "shock"

 

The market is made up of several markets, and as a trader it's your job to sift though the bs you see being reported by the legacy media every day, and find a few grains of truth, and trade accordingly. 

GL, AA  




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Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Great Trump Pump 'n' dump (slump) continues with Tesla

 Just as I've been predicting for the past 2+ years, stocks which were driven up on Biden's watch, are being crashed on Trump's watch. I put out the final warning back in January, but I'm afraid few listened.... 

See:

More Killer Swing Trading Opportinities in Crypto - NASDAQ alert - $VIX Alert, and a Lame Stream Media PsyOp - dated Jan. 14th, 2025

Bitcoin which was also run up on Trump hype crashed right on schedule, and is currently trading -$25k off it's all time high.

Tesla

Tesla gets a lot of attention from lame stream media, because it is a target of the Marxists, but there is an entire basket of stocks which have nothing to do with Elon Musk, which have been simply Pumped 'n' Dumped for sport, because this is what meme traders do.  

I suspect these aren't meme traders, but clever hedge funds employing the same methodology that meme traders used to drive stocks such as Gamestop, and AMC, into historic short squeezes. 

What Are Meme Stocks, and Are They Real Investments?


 I'm proud to say, I pointed to this trend early on when I started noticing the chatter on social media, centered around so-called "trading Apes".

See:

Market Update 6/21/22 - What Is #FinTwit? Exposing The Scam Of The Century

 

Exposing the FinTwit community for what it truly is, a network packed with scammers, bots, and sharks.

 

 I think meme trades are not being run by a handful of traders on Reddit, but by the same hedge funds who have been pulling these same pump and dump schemes for decades.  

See: 

CNBC's Jim Cramer draws fire over Stock Market manipulation comments


NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Stock market commentator and CNBC television host Jim Cramer has raised eyebrows after describing illegal activities used by hedge fund managers to manipulate stock prices.
In a December video interview on TheStreet.com Web site, a financial news company he co-founded, Cramer described how he could push stocks higher or lower, depending on if he was long or short, at his previous job running a hedge fund.

 Funny, the same people who have been charged with manipulating the stock market, are seen manipulating public perception every day. Last I checked, CNBC is still on the air, and selling memberships!   

Ever hear of something called App Loving $APP?

 Driven to the moon and back. AppLovin Corporation (APP): “Tech Must Bounce!” – Jim Cramer Eyes AppLovin as a Key Market Signal 

 The Short List

 My short list of  stocks which are routinely pumped and dumped, not to mention the entire crypto space, also includes household names like Costco, Starbucks, and even Goldman Sachs. 

$IBKR, $COST, $HOOD, we also see MEME stocks such as $MSTR, & $SMCI routinely pumped and dumped, not to mention the entire crypto space. 

$COST  - loses 10% of it's value in 1 week 


$SAN Banco Santander - it seems the more worthless the stock, the better short squeeze potential


 $SOUN - Soundhound

$SMCI - Super Micro - this is one of the better known meme trades

 $NOW - Service Now - pumped to $1100...

 $MRVL Marvel Technology

$TTD Trade Desk 

$PLTR Palantir 

$HIMS 



There are many many more stocks I could add to the above list  

Of course the AI boom story was used as the catalyst to spur "animal instincts", and now we see the same lame stream media gleefully reporting that, "all seven Mag 7 stocks were lower (on Friday)", as they question if AI is in a "bubble". lol 

As I mentioned earlier in the year, entire countries - such as China & India - are being run up in the same way, and for the same purpose.    

Trading has become an extreme sport, and not one for the inexperienced, or faint of heart. 

Just look at how the media lied about a broad market rally, being led by small caps? 

I personally saw Jim Cramer pumping Airline stocks the same way, and today you see Trump cost cutting measures being blamed for the continuing bear market in that dismal sector.

Airlines - never recovered after Covid 



How did we get to this point of extreme pump n dump mania? I think it has to do with extreme greed, and lack of accountability, but also due to the lack of an IPO market that's worth investing in.
 
If hedge funds can't make the same money they used to pumping and dumping new IPO's, then they're going to go with plan B. 

CoreWeave Misfire Extends IPO Malaise Instead of Ending It

Take care, AA






 



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