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: 

We may have to wait until next week, so I'm only putting half a position on. Could see a Thursday rally idk

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 16, 2025

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

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

$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).   

Short covering rally ahead of Passover. It's as easy as that to read the market. Cycles

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 12, 2025

 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 

From the same pot head who set the snare in cannabis stocks. Recommends gold miners after several gaps up, on a short squeeze Friday. 🤡 pic.twitter.com/h1hRuh7shB

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 12, 2025

 

 

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:

I just found a super bullish trade and it's not in Crypto lol
$250 gets you all the charts you need until summer.
If you don't make at least 4 times that amount back.. I'll even refund your money. https://t.co/ZGWeDhFNlp

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 12, 2025

 

Take Care, AA 

 

 

 

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: 

We're gonna be cool... like Fonzie #NoFear https://t.co/vqlh6gc7D6 via @YouTube

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) February 20, 2020

Notice the hashtag #NoFear 

Yesterday 

Be Cool https://t.co/yW8LonwCFR

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 9, 2025

 

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.  

Trump proposes spending more on defense, taking a page from the Ronald Reagan playbook. Some of us are old enough to remember the star-wars campaign, aka the SDI https://t.co/QC7wZ9cx9n

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 8, 2025

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   

 

 

 

 

 

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.  

Hopefully Trump is going to produce Obama's real birth records from Kenya #Birther #BombShell #CNN #FoxNews #MSNBC pic.twitter.com/ovrRgGHSU2

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) September 16, 2016

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" 

 

The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2025

 

 

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 

If President Trump uses this moment as leverage, that would be a massive victory for the American people.

But there are voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever. There are angels and demons sitting on President Trump’s shoulders. Who does he listen to? I hope he… pic.twitter.com/7IRWUaDUPN

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 7, 2025

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 

 

 

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.  

Never trust wolves in sheep's clothing @ #CNBC or #CNN #Money #401k #StockMarket #Sharks
https://t.co/09kSfVhjet https://t.co/SmgahiTQta

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 5, 2025

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

Check your 401 and make sure you're NOT invested in any funds that contain Chinese or European equities. You actually should have done this a couple weeks ago...
Invest in the USA.

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 7, 2025

 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

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.     

Americans Are Still Paying for the Trump-Biden Tariffs.
New boss same as the old boss. #LiberationDay https://t.co/gB1HfbFJQD

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 1, 2025

 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

Energy stocks trade to new all time highs, with Gold. #StocksToWatch pic.twitter.com/ZD7jfHNfD4

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) March 31, 2025

 

 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  

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

18 years ago

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

 

All That Glitters Is Gold Market Update NASDAQ Chart

Announcements:

1. I'm finally back on Twitter/X after getting booted off for a week. I guess I said the wrong thing, but that's bound to happen once in a while, after tweeting 200k (196.8k posts) times! 

 Funny, back when I was a social media influencer on Yahoo, before there was a Twitter, I never got booted off the site, not even once, and I still rely on yahoo finance, when doing my research! I hope Elon runs DOGE better than he runs Twitter/X.  

2. Be sure to check out all the important blog updates from last week; in case you missed them. 

All That Glitters Is Gold

All That Glitters Is Gold, is a line from the song Stairway to Heaven, which is undeniably one of the best classic rock songs ever written. 

 Gold and the China trade seemed to be the safe haven trades on Thursday, as sectors such as Retail, and Transportation continued to be punished. 

 So is gold a safety trade? 

The biggest Gold bug on Social Media thinks so

Will gold close above $3,000 today?

— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) March 14, 2025

 

I'll let you decide if a 1 day pump to the $3000 level seems like a bullish move, but I've alerted to this obvious Gold target several times before.... 

If WWIII breaks out there's no reason #Gold can't continue to run to my $3000+ target pic.twitter.com/SkO1WFU1sH

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) April 4, 2024

It didn't take WWIII to drive gold to $3000, but greed is a powerful motivator....

Market Update 

Friday, we saw a relief rally as Chuck Schumer, and other rich democrats covered their short positions.  

A government shutdown now seems unlikely. That's giving the stock market a much-needed boost.

RE: The current state of the market

As I posed on Truth Social last week, the recent sell-off doesn't surprise me at all.

  I have been trying to warn investors for over a year that the rally wasn't sustainable. 

Go back and look at the 100's of warnings I put out, in 2024 alone. 

Bitcoin included 

Rally Bitcoin into the New Year, and then crash it on Trump's watch - looks like the plan #TrumpTrade $MAGA pic.twitter.com/k4H8GfBejQ

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) December 19, 2024

Dec, 2024

 

We've been pricing in a Trump win all year long. Fox Business is not where you should be looking for insight.
The market has already been primed to crash on Trump's watch. This is the plan.

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) December 3, 2024

I even put out a final warning on the $VIX levels, before every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the lame stream media started pointing at it. 

I's say investors are pretty complacent here $VIX 15

— Veteran Market Timer (@3Xtraders) January 31, 2025

Winning! 

So what next?

 This may feel like a crash, but that's only because we haven't seen a correction in over 2 years. By comparison, even the Yen/Carry unwind (at $VIX 65) was only a 1 day sell-off, which was met with panic buying (or the plunge protection team...), , but at this point in time this pullback cannot be characterized as a market crash.

I think we could retest the lows again, and I think a final shakeout is likely going to take place in the most (still) overbought sector, Big Tech

NASDAQ - resistance becomes the 200 day moving average.  

 

The bullish channel is broken; In case you didn't already notice that. That is very bearish for the tech heavy Nasdaq, and Mag7 stocks specifically.

 Technically the NASDAQ isn't BIG tech, asd much as the $NDX is, but I'm not here to offer free targets to the public.

This I can tell you; the News Cycle has changed, and until the market can rally again, on bad news, sentiment remains bearish. 

 All Eyes will be on the Fed this week, and I can't tell you, at this moment - on this Saturday - how I intend to trade it, but as long as the $VIX continues to trade above 20, I suggest investors remain cautious. 

No Pain, No Gain? Trump Adopts New Zen-Like Approach to Stock Market Swings

Take Care, and GL AA 

Wall Street Journal Lies In Order To Make Trump Look Bad

 They're back at it again. Who is "they", you ask? I'll reveal that at the end of this blog. 

Wall Street Journal Lies In Order To Make Trump Look Bad

Last Updated: Mar 10, 2025, 7:53 PM EDT

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Trade War With Canada Lifts Natural-Gas Prices

5 year chart view courtesy of the wsj

Look, anyone who has been paying attention knows Natural Gas prices rose on predictions of colder than expected winter weather, and the climate engineers btw have no problem arranging that outcome, if that's what the money printers want. 

If you're unaware of the continuing climate operations, then you should watch 

The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary (GeoengineeringWatch.Org )

 

 And It's not only the US who has been experimenting with weather manipulation, over the past 100 years: 

China to expand weather modification program to cover area larger than India

Getting back to the WSJ's  Natural Gas (false narrative) Story:

Natural gas prices spike on forecasts of colder than expected winter foxbusiness

The author of the WSJ article claims that NatGas prices are rising, because of Trump Tariffs, yet the latest rally in Natural Gas actually started building a base - from an oversold condition - last August. 

What's really astounding it that the WSJ journal ignores the elephant in the room, which is that Natural Gas prices ran to $10 thank in part to the (counterfeit) Biden administration's green energy policy, a proxy war with Russia - that could have been avoided - not to mention a sabotaged Gas pipeline, and the Biden Crime Family's dirty dealing with a Ukrainian Gas company, but I digress!    

What Hunter Biden did on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma

Reuters

It's too bad the WSJ has to pull stunts like this for a perceived political gain, when normal folks are struggling to just heat their house in the winter, and put food on the table. As I understand, the Wall Street Journal used to be a reliable  news source serious investors could rely on, but this is a different era in news making, and now you know the Who, What, When, How & Why briefly drove Natural Gas to a brief 1 year high, on Monday.    

Today:

Oil prices tick lower; IEA warns trade tensions will undercut demand 

That's good news, but Oil prices have actually been declining for years 

Final Note: Today I see Youtubers coming out of the woodwork, claiming that the Dems are driving the false narrative that Donald Trump is to blame for the recent market turmoil in order to help them in the midterm primaries?

 Look, these aren't democrats... they're globalists, and financial terrorists, who's end game is to destroy the free world, so that we have to live in a dystopian (Chinese model) nightmare surveillance society, you already see people having to deal with in places like Canada, Australia, and most European countries.

America is different, and the globalists don't like that! 

Let's try to keep it that way.

Take care, AA   

Positive Things To Say About This Market + Tesla

 Positive Things To Say About This Market

 

Today, I decided to take a break from my usual routine, which is to mercilessly mock the criminal cartel that runs Washington, and the world, and who would like nothing more than to steal investors money. These are the same bankers, lawyers, and such, who like to hold up signs calling the other side crooked.

Crooked Democrats Grandstanding

 

I also needed a break from all the extra charting I've had to do lately, as the bull market continues to fizzle.

Positive Things To Say About This Market 

Fun Fact: The quote, "if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing at all", comes from the Disney movie Bambi, in a way that is supposed to build character, and show empathy, by offering encouraging words to others. 

1. I have yet to hear one person complain that they got caught up in the most recent pump n' dump scam of the century - the Crypto market craze. That could be that they are too embarrassed to admit it, but I'd like to think that most Trump supporters saw it for what it was. Judging by what I'm seeing on Truth Social, folks over there are not as caught up in the daily market moves, as the financial trolls on Twitter/ X would have you believe.  

2. If you are worried about the market, I can assure you that the bullish trend is not yet broken, no matter how hard the sad clowns who read the teleprompters at the financial networks, would have you to believe. That's not an opinion, but an observation, from someone who knows how to read a chart. 

3. A good technical development in this market, is that those who thought they could simply short the short sellers - by short selling the multitude of bear ETF funds - are finding that strategy can backfire in a big way; whether it be shorting the 2X $VIX bull, or even a Crypto bear fund!

Yesterday, I offered a good example, using the inverse Tesla $TSLS chart, which was shorted in order to help drive that particular Mag7 stock to the moon. The whole reason Tesla has been cut in half, is that it traded to obscene levels, in the first place.

$TSLA TESLA I can't show you any good chart views of Tesla, because I don't want to give away any targets, but the one below is a good example of the ol' pump and dump. Stocks don't always go up, and breakouts to new highs are more often, than not, bull traps. Buyer beware! 

 

Google was Pumped and Dumped the same way, though the false reporting of a "new chip", and you don't see them doing a victory lap as Google crashes to 4 month lows lol  

 4. More good news is that the left - being emotional as they typically are - can't seem to hide their TDS for even 1 day, and that means they are constantly showing their hand, and that makes them an easy mark. 

One of my trading rules is "don't show your hand", because loose lips sink ships, and I suspect that these same folks who have been crying about the market going down, will soon be buying this market hand over fist, in a massive short squeeze! Stocks tend to rally in the spring, and I see no reason at all why this year will be any different. Money must be put to work... and as long as the economy is strong, passive investing will drive the market higher. 

And that ties in nicely with yesterday's blog: 

Is It Going To Be Different This Time?  

Take Care, AA 

 

Is It Going To Be Different This Time?

 I had NOT planned to blog today, but yesterday was absolutely nuts as we saw traders come in and trash stocks again, on the heels of a totally scripted Lame Stream Media (false) narrative: 

And which stocks did they decide to trash? Tesla. Crypto. Pretty much all anything with the MAGA moniker attached to it. 

Didn't I tell you they were out to get Trump supporters? 

Here they are celebrating, and declaring victory 

The Financial Fake News Cycle goes full retard:

The financial fake news was well prepared with a script designed to stoke fear... pointing to Tesla as the worst performing stock of the Mag7, and predicting a global "recession", of all things LOL 

 From the Globalists at the Guardian

Growth fears grip markets as US recession worries hurt the dollar 

Remember - not too long ago - when these same vermin in the media bent over backwards to not call the Joe Biden recession, "a recession"? Fact Check July 2022: Did The White House 'Change Definition of Recession'? 

CNBC

Fast money mouthpiece for CNBC Guy Adami picked up the ball after the closing bell, claiming we haven't seen capitulation, and that the $VIX is going higher.

 🤡 Dan Nathan even called Elon Musk, "Doge Boy". 

These goons are unable to hide their hatred for Nationalism.

Below is the hastily edited clip of last nights show CNBC decided to upload to YouTube 

 Everybody in the media nowadays seems to be an expert on predicting what the $VIX is going to do, but I'm just looking at yesterday as a typical Monday morning surprise, and I even added to my long positions. 

These spooks (counter intelligence operatives) in the media don't rattle me. 

 Bloomberg mouthpiece Romaine Bostick was recently seen predicting a higher $VIX 

 

This all looks highly orchestrated, because it is... 

 Guy Adami is right about one thing, we haven't seen capitulation, but we never see capitulation anymore, and that brings me to the question -

Is It Going To Be Different This Time?

If the $VIX is going to continue to breakout that would be quite astonishing, but Monday morning surprises have become the new normal, even going all the way back to Black Monday October 19th, 1987. 

 I  saw this coming over the weekend, my plan is to give the market 2 weeks to get back on track. It can take that long for money managers to load the truck after spooking investors out of their shares, and I don't think this time will be any different.    

 $SPX target over the weekend:

If you're not following me over at Truth social, you're missing a lot. 

Is It Going To Be Different This Time?

Is Mag 7 no longer going to be used to manipulate the entire market, now that Joe Biden is convalescing at home... or is the Mag7 going to be the Mag 6 now? I think you already know the answer to that question.

We saw a nice whoosh on Tesla there but that was only enough to fill a little gap target, on the Tesla Bear Fund 

$TSLS 1X Inverse Tesla  

Looks like it's setting up for another bear trap!

I knew the globalists who control Wall Street wouldn't be able to contain their rage for long, but a new administration typically gets a honeymoon period. I did NOT expect the sharks to try to crash the market as soon as Trump was sworn in. 

 We were certainly overdue for a correction, and the powers that be wanted to wait until the new year to take profits - due to the short term capital gains tax - but this just looks like more of the same to me.

No doubt there will come a time in the near future where global markets will be trashed, and the signs are everywhere. 

Take Care, AA