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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1 day ago

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

Finally Seeing a Little Pullback

 Can you believe it was only about a month ago, when I sounded the alarm, and here we are already trading back near July 2024 levels!     

Lame stream media reported on Friday, that the Nasdaq has pulled back 10%. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but headlines like that are a dog whistle to savvy investors, who know what to do on a pullback.

Of course every other sentence out of the financial lame stream media of mass distractions mouth blames Donald Trump for this pullback, but the entire Joe Biden rally was build on falsehoods and they even hid the fact that he has been suffering from dementia for some time. 

Speaking of the lying lame stream media - aka the fake news - watch Trump's commerce secretary absolutely destroy Bloomberg's stupid arguments! 

The host of Bloomberg's morning show - who seems to have a bug up his ass - is in fact British, and that figures, since they are more interested in globalism, and making Europe Great again, while betting against the US. 

But Wait There's More! 

The lousy Bloomberg network actually has a show exclusively devoted to making China great again 

 

I think most investors are unaware that the Democrats who control every network have favored the Chinese since even before Clinton was in office. Clinton even "gave" the Chinese rocket/ satellite technology, before he slipped out the back door, and today the Chinese are sending spy balloons overhead. You can't make this shit up!

Red Face Over China

Did a Chinese plot persuade Clinton to let a U.S. company giveChina its rocket science? No. Politics (and policy) did cnn

Shanghai Stock Exchange

Proof is in the pudding. 

Chinese markets soar when Democrats take office.

 

I can't blame the Chinese for wanting to take advantage of the USA, especially when the Dems are so eager to sell out the county, but I have a message for the a-holes who are pushing it

Getting back to this pullback:

This pullback was way overdue, and I've been warning folks not to chase stocks, or Crypto, or much of anything else, for months now. 

You know who I blame for the market sell-off? I blame the globalists, and the money printers, who control everything from the press, to the money supply. 

After all, the Fed didn't have any problem cutting the bank lending rate another half  a point, to help dress the windows going into the end of the 4th quarter, and to help put a spit shine on the Joe Biden legacy, only to immediately do a U-turn, and even to go out of their way to combat Trump.   

Nov 8, 2024 - Politics & Policy axios.com

Powell is already protecting Fed's independence from Trump

 

Since the next Feed meeting is right around the corner,wouldn't it make sense that this is what the market is really scared of?  

 

I tend to get more scared when markets rally, like they did under Joe Biden, than when they finally pull back, but maybe that's just me? 

I'm expecting the usual spring rally, and a dash for trash, and speaking of trash, I leave you with this Chinese Tech chart. 

Chinese Tech - the Investco China $CQQQ  

A Couple notes:

I got booted off of the X platform again last week  - this time for misspeaking - and even though I deleted the offending tweet, I can't get through to customer service. I hope Elon Musk is doing a better job running DOGE than Twitter/ X. 

In the meantime you can find me on Truth Social, AA