Stocks Market Surge! Is This the Start of a Major Rally?
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TLDRIn this video, the speaker analyzes the current market conditions, emphasizing the importance of understanding both technical indicators and market psychology. They argue against the idea that the market is in a bubble, citing strong earnings and a divergence between expectations and reality. The speaker discusses various technical indicators, such as rate of change and MACD, and highlights the significance of investor sentiment in influencing market behavior. Specific stocks, particularly in the tech sector, are recommended for observation, with a focus on trading strategies that adapt to market movements. Overall, the speaker encourages a balanced approach that considers both technical and fundamental aspects of the market.
Takeaways
- ๐ The market is currently experiencing significant volatility.
- ๐ Understanding technical indicators is crucial for trading.
- ๐ก Investor sentiment can greatly influence market behavior.
- ๐ Earnings reports are key to assessing stock performance.
- โ ๏ธ The idea of a market bubble is debated and may not reflect reality.
- ๐ Divergence between expectations and reality can signal market risks.
- ๐ Tech stocks, especially in the IGV sector, are worth watching.
- ๐ Adjusting trading strategies based on market conditions is essential.
- ๐ The relationship between fundamentals and technicals is important for investors.
- ๐ง Market psychology plays a critical role in trading decisions.
Garis waktu
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The market is experiencing a pivotal week with significant meetings ahead, leading to cautious trading. Despite some viewing the market as a bubble, the speaker argues against this perspective, emphasizing the importance of understanding macroeconomic and technical factors.
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The speaker analyzes the ES weekly chart, highlighting a bullish pattern and divergence between expectations and reality. They stress the importance of historical context in trading decisions and the need to align with market trends.
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The rate of change indicator is discussed, indicating a potential buy signal. The speaker emphasizes the importance of monitoring this indicator on both weekly and daily charts to gauge market direction and avoid false signals.
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The speaker notes the importance of the death cross in technical analysis, advising against impulsive selling and advocating for a more strategic approach to trading around these indicators.
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The speaker discusses market breadth, emphasizing the significance of the NASDAQ 100's performance and the need to adapt trading strategies based on market conditions and internal dynamics.
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The speaker highlights the importance of investor psychology in determining market trends, referencing Howard Marks' insights on bubbles and market sentiment. They stress the need to assess whether current market conditions reflect irrational exuberance.
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The speaker analyzes consumer sentiment data, noting its historical correlation with market bottoms. They argue that current sentiment levels are skewed and do not align with the underlying economic data, suggesting a potential market opportunity.
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The speaker concludes by discussing specific stocks and sectors, emphasizing the importance of monitoring key technical levels and market indicators to inform trading decisions. They highlight the potential for growth in the software sector and the need for careful analysis of market trends.
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Video Tanya Jawab
What is the main focus of the video?
The video focuses on the current state of the market, technical analysis, and market psychology.
What indicators does the speaker use for analysis?
The speaker uses various technical indicators, including rate of change, MACD, and moving averages.
What is the speaker's opinion on the market being in a bubble?
The speaker believes that the notion of being in a bubble is laughable and provides reasoning against it.
What stocks or sectors does the speaker recommend watching?
The speaker recommends watching tech stocks, particularly those in the IGV sector, and mentions specific companies like Tesla and Nvidia.
How does the speaker view investor sentiment?
The speaker emphasizes that investor sentiment plays a crucial role in market behavior and can often diverge from actual market conditions.
What trading strategies does the speaker suggest?
The speaker suggests being cautious with trades, monitoring key levels, and being ready to adjust positions based on market movements.
What is the significance of earnings reports according to the speaker?
Earnings reports are crucial as they can influence market sentiment and expectations, impacting stock prices.
How does the speaker interpret the current market trends?
The speaker interprets current market trends as showing signs of potential bullish behavior, despite some uncertainties.
What does the speaker say about the relationship between technical analysis and fundamentals?
The speaker believes both technical analysis and fundamentals are important for understanding market movements.
What is the speaker's advice for investors?
The speaker advises investors to pay attention to market psychology, technical indicators, and to be prepared for market fluctuations.
Lihat lebih banyak ringkasan video
- 00:00:00This is our big week with all the
- 00:00:02meetings and we can see that the market
- 00:00:03really didn't want to do a lot ahead of
- 00:00:06this. You can obviously see what
- 00:00:07happened on Thursday trying to get
- 00:00:09through this level where we all got
- 00:00:10liberated on the second at the test, the
- 00:00:13pullback, the test, and now we're just
- 00:00:15sitting here and everyone's waiting by
- 00:00:17baited breath to see how this is going
- 00:00:19to go. But yet some huge developments
- 00:00:21out there, not only with stuff like
- 00:00:23smart money, dumb money, but there's a
- 00:00:25lot of people that are looking at this
- 00:00:27market, in my opinion, the wrong way,
- 00:00:28where they're looking at this and
- 00:00:29saying, "Oh, we're in a bubble." I'm
- 00:00:30going to explain in great detail why
- 00:00:32that's not the case. As always, it's my
- 00:00:34opinion, but we're going to get into it
- 00:00:35in some detail today on how to look at
- 00:00:37this macroy, how to look at this on the
- 00:00:39technical side. Um, I I do think you
- 00:00:41have to look at the fundamentals of
- 00:00:42what's going on as well, but let's clean
- 00:00:43all this off for a second and then you
- 00:00:45can just see the simplest of things. So
- 00:00:47here is the ES on the weekly. You have
- 00:00:50this huge down bar and then you have
- 00:00:52this amazing piercing pattern and then
- 00:00:54from there you just engulfed this other
- 00:00:57bar right in there and then you just
- 00:00:58lifted and broke out right over the top
- 00:01:00of the control bar. So if this was
- 00:01:02anything else most people would be
- 00:01:03looking at this and saying, "Oh, we're
- 00:01:05clearly pushing here." But you have this
- 00:01:07massive divergence that I love to talk
- 00:01:09about between expectations and reality
- 00:01:11on what's going on. No one can argue
- 00:01:13that earnings were fantastic. There's no
- 00:01:15one out there that can say we didn't
- 00:01:16have a good earnings quarter. We did. I
- 00:01:18think technically you're wedged in here.
- 00:01:20And I think you have difference between
- 00:01:21outcome and expectations. And we're
- 00:01:23going to talk about why that's really
- 00:01:24dangerous for people and what side of
- 00:01:26that you're going to want to be on. I
- 00:01:27usually want to be on the side of
- 00:01:28history, right? Because they're the ones
- 00:01:30that get to the winners are the ones
- 00:01:31that write it. So, but again, the
- 00:01:33breakout sideways. One could even say
- 00:01:35that you're forming a bull flag here
- 00:01:36above that control bar. But wait,
- 00:01:39there's even more. 27.5% of you that
- 00:01:41watch these videos do not subscribe. I'm
- 00:01:44not talking about even first-time
- 00:01:45subscribers, but people that have
- 00:01:46watched these videos for more than 30
- 00:01:48days. YouTube gives you all these great
- 00:01:50statistics. All these videos are
- 00:01:51connected. They all link together. So,
- 00:01:53when they start on Saturdays, it's like
- 00:01:55following us through the week. I would
- 00:01:56also click all notifications cuz these
- 00:01:58videos, as you are aware, if you are a
- 00:02:01longtime listener, first-time caller,
- 00:02:03you know that they come out at different
- 00:02:04times. All right, let's do it. Now, in
- 00:02:06front of you is rate of change. And I do
- 00:02:08like using this because it's very
- 00:02:10telling to me. All I care about is
- 00:02:12exactly what it says, the rate of
- 00:02:14change. The rate of change right now is
- 00:02:16going up. If you break a zero line on
- 00:02:19rate of change, to me, it is a weekly
- 00:02:21buy signal. If you look when you broke
- 00:02:23the zero line right in here, you can see
- 00:02:24from there you lifted these tests of the
- 00:02:27zero line and then lifting off of it are
- 00:02:29also buy signals. And you can see that
- 00:02:31very clearly here. You test, retest, and
- 00:02:34also breaks of this to the downside.
- 00:02:37Yep. You put the brakes on and you want
- 00:02:38to see what's going on. Sometimes you
- 00:02:40get false positives on this. Sometimes
- 00:02:42you don't get false positives. Like here
- 00:02:44in August 23 when you broke, you went
- 00:02:47down. When did you come back? When you
- 00:02:49flipped it really in here. And there are
- 00:02:51cleaner signals like when you start
- 00:02:53lifting up through it and making higher
- 00:02:55highs like you did here. You will get
- 00:02:56cleaner signals like you did here. You
- 00:02:58got that higher high signal and then
- 00:03:00you've been lifting ever since. I also
- 00:03:02do look at this on the daily. I think
- 00:03:04that that's super important for people
- 00:03:06to do. When you look at this on the
- 00:03:07daily, from my perspective, I just don't
- 00:03:09want to break the zero because if you
- 00:03:11break the zero, then it means that the
- 00:03:13rate of change that you're about to
- 00:03:14experience is going to be negative. And
- 00:03:16you don't know if you're going to get
- 00:03:18the wonky stuff where you're just going
- 00:03:19to trade sideways and then you have to
- 00:03:20use the control bar as kind of a guide
- 00:03:22or you're going to get these big draw
- 00:03:24downs. You don't know what you're going
- 00:03:26to get. You know, you just have to
- 00:03:27monitor it in my opinion. And for that,
- 00:03:30you could also use different kinds of
- 00:03:31tools to see how this is going to go.
- 00:03:33five. When we look at this on the daily
- 00:03:35as well, we can see what we're doing.
- 00:03:36We're kind of flatlining. I don't mind
- 00:03:38the flat lining. Flatline all you want.
- 00:03:40What we don't want here is on the daily
- 00:03:42to break that zero line. And certainly
- 00:03:44this is really important because I just
- 00:03:46went through it on the ES. You're
- 00:03:48crossing. Well, you're trying to cross
- 00:03:51now between what we have going on with
- 00:03:53the Treasury Secretary over there and
- 00:03:54all the rhetoric coming out here. Are we
- 00:03:57going to break out? Are we not going to
- 00:03:58break out? I I think you have to lean
- 00:04:00towards the fact that yeah, you have a
- 00:04:02shot here, but there's a lot of other
- 00:04:04moving parts to this. Now, if you take a
- 00:04:06look at that wick from there, which is
- 00:04:08the peak VWAP, you're kind of sitting
- 00:04:10there and you didn't really get through
- 00:04:11it. Drop it through the daily and you
- 00:04:14can see that you're sitting right at
- 00:04:15that peak kind of level as well and
- 00:04:17you're unable to get through that. So,
- 00:04:20this is of course an issue. And there's
- 00:04:22some other stuff here that I think is
- 00:04:24worth mentioning before I start getting
- 00:04:25into some other indicators that I think
- 00:04:27are super helpful. Let's take that off
- 00:04:29for a sec. And what I want to do here is
- 00:04:30just drop the 200. Drop it like it's
- 00:04:32hot. The kids still say that, right? So
- 00:04:34when you have this NDX sitting here and
- 00:04:36you bonk and you bonk and you bonk,
- 00:04:38right? Complete matumbo three times. You
- 00:04:40have the dogee. Dogeis are signs of
- 00:04:42uncertainty. This being resistance makes
- 00:04:45a lot of sense. And the reason it makes
- 00:04:47a lot of sense is because you have a
- 00:04:48death cross. As I like to say, and I
- 00:04:50like people to understand, once you
- 00:04:52break the death cross from here, let's
- 00:04:54get rid. Once you break a death cross,
- 00:04:56most people are like, "Oh, I got to
- 00:04:57short the death cross." No, you that's
- 00:04:59not what you do. You wait for it to
- 00:05:01retest this level. When it gets up here,
- 00:05:03that is your resistance and it's acting
- 00:05:05like resistance. So, this death cross is
- 00:05:07doing what it's supposed to do. People
- 00:05:09come out and say, "Oh, you just sell the
- 00:05:10death cross. It's the dumbest thing you
- 00:05:12could do." So, what you do is you wait
- 00:05:13and this gets into reflexivity, outcome
- 00:05:15versus expectation. And then people
- 00:05:17don't understand like why then they're
- 00:05:19they short and then why this happened.
- 00:05:20So, again, here you are. So, you have to
- 00:05:22respect and go, "Hey, I do have a death
- 00:05:24cross. Hey, it did hold here. Am I going
- 00:05:26to flip?" And you could say, "Yeah,
- 00:05:28well, we're going to put a lot of other
- 00:05:29indicators in here. We're going to look
- 00:05:30at this. Maybe the 12 cross and the 22
- 00:05:33screaming up might make you think that,
- 00:05:35yeah, there is that going on." And yeah,
- 00:05:37we are going to flip it and we are
- 00:05:39seeing signs of that. Sure. But you have
- 00:05:41to respect that. And and you also have
- 00:05:43to take a look at it here from my
- 00:05:44perspective on the S&P and realize that
- 00:05:46you have the same thing going on. Now,
- 00:05:48here it is up here and you're not near
- 00:05:50it. Also, we always look at the breath,
- 00:05:52but you can look at the breath too on
- 00:05:53the NASDAQ 100. And that is just NDT.
- 00:05:57And everybody should have this on no
- 00:05:58matter what platform you have. Now, I
- 00:06:01don't really look at moving averages on
- 00:06:03this. What I look for is demarcation
- 00:06:05lines. And what you'll find if you take
- 00:06:07the time is by putting this out here,
- 00:06:09you're going to see real clear that you
- 00:06:11have an issue where if you're under the
- 00:06:1450% line on stocks that are in the
- 00:06:16NASDAQ 100 versus stocks that are above
- 00:06:18it, that's your demarcation line. You
- 00:06:20will note that the day that you broke
- 00:06:22this on March 10th, your life never got
- 00:06:24better if you were a long trader, right?
- 00:06:25I mean, you could have traded around it,
- 00:06:26but if you were one of those guys that,
- 00:06:28you know, spray and pray or buy and
- 00:06:30hold, all of a sudden you weren't as
- 00:06:32smart. It got harder. You actually had
- 00:06:33to learn how to trade. That's a very
- 00:06:35different kind of market versus up here
- 00:06:38and everything's rosy and you know I
- 00:06:40just need to buy dips over and over
- 00:06:41again. That's why those strategies, the
- 00:06:43same strategies that worked in here
- 00:06:45don't work when you've broken things
- 00:06:47like this because why? The internals
- 00:06:49have changed. So people are using the
- 00:06:50wrong tools. You have a trending market
- 00:06:52up here versus a non-trending market. If
- 00:06:54you don't stick with the flips, that's
- 00:06:56when you start running into issues. And
- 00:06:58I cannot stress that enough. I really
- 00:07:01would focus on this and I would watch
- 00:07:02this like a hawk. I tend to focus on the
- 00:07:05breath here. Let's flip to this. Um, and
- 00:07:07for me, the breath is doing what it
- 00:07:09needs to do on the I'm above the 50%
- 00:07:11line, which makes sense. Uh, the we're
- 00:07:13flatlining on the 20 now, which is good.
- 00:07:15And the five is dropping, which is good.
- 00:07:17If the five drops and the 20 flat lines
- 00:07:19and the 50 and the 200 keep doing what
- 00:07:22they're doing, that means we're
- 00:07:23rotation. Rotations are sign of quite
- 00:07:26frankly a bull market, whether or not
- 00:07:27you want to. Um, and we're going to get
- 00:07:28into that some detail here. But what
- 00:07:30you're seeing is you're seeing exactly
- 00:07:32what you want to see. This is perfect.
- 00:07:34When you see this, you need to pay
- 00:07:35attention to it. I cannot stress that
- 00:07:38enough. When you see this, you want to
- 00:07:39pay attention to it. It's doing what it
- 00:07:41needs to do. I'd like to see us flip
- 00:07:43through this 50% as well up here as on
- 00:07:47the
- 00:07:48NDT. But I want to go back to these
- 00:07:50indicators. One of the things I like to
- 00:07:52use a lot is the New York composite and
- 00:07:54then the Mlen summation. Not just the
- 00:07:56oscillator, but the summation. And this
- 00:07:58is telling you pretty much no. Uh, I'm
- 00:08:00just going to point out the obvious and
- 00:08:01then you can tell me why I'm wrong in
- 00:08:03the comments, which people love to do,
- 00:08:04which I do appreciate cuz I want to hear
- 00:08:06other people's opinion. But I'm not
- 00:08:08going to get into what the summation is.
- 00:08:09We've done it too many times at
- 00:08:10Nauseium. You can see right here that
- 00:08:12you already flipped this level, which to
- 00:08:15us is a positive divergence because it's
- 00:08:18already telling you that the breath here
- 00:08:20and how this is expanding is
- 00:08:22significantly better here than it was
- 00:08:25there. But that makes no sense, right?
- 00:08:27Say it. He's got to flip. So your breath
- 00:08:29is better here than it was here, but
- 00:08:32you're not higher. So this is going to
- 00:08:34take time. You, everyone knows this. You
- 00:08:35take the window down and you take the
- 00:08:37stairs up. And that's great if you're a
- 00:08:39long-term buyer. It gives you
- 00:08:41opportunity. I do think you need to be
- 00:08:42cognizant of this. And do we get to the
- 00:08:44zero line? Do we flip that? Or do we hit
- 00:08:47the zero line and get matumboed? That
- 00:08:49can happen. I I would say historically
- 00:08:52if you look at this, can it happen? It's
- 00:08:55happened before. It h it's happened back
- 00:08:57here where you were grossly oversold,
- 00:08:58rallied to the zero, rejected before
- 00:09:01flipping it. And it's not like it's a be
- 00:09:02all end all where all of a sudden your
- 00:09:04life is better. But there are things
- 00:09:06here that you want to pay attention to.
- 00:09:08Like it's it's a thing. It's not the
- 00:09:11thing. It's a thing. But yeah, I pay
- 00:09:13attention to that. Like when I when I
- 00:09:15see stuff like this, yeah, when you
- 00:09:17broke here and then you were still going
- 00:09:19up, I definitely pay attention to it. So
- 00:09:21when I break that and then I see it
- 00:09:22coincide with something like this, yeah,
- 00:09:25that's super important to me and it is
- 00:09:27something that I think is worth your
- 00:09:28attention, worth your time. And so
- 00:09:29that's just ml summation, but there's
- 00:09:31more with the index. Now, I like using
- 00:09:34the histogram. If you watch this
- 00:09:36channel, you know that I do look at the
- 00:09:37MACD on certain times, just the lines,
- 00:09:40and I just use it for a confirmation.
- 00:09:42What is really going on out there? So
- 00:09:44you can see the low here on the MACD.
- 00:09:46You can see that you're over the zero
- 00:09:48line on the MACD. Does that mean that
- 00:09:50we're out of the woods? No. You still
- 00:09:51have the 200 up here. And this can
- 00:09:53always roll over again after getting up
- 00:09:55here. But you have flipped it. So you
- 00:09:57are above with the MACD itself and the
- 00:09:59signal line. You can see before how if
- 00:10:02you're under this, it's super important
- 00:10:03to get. What else I really like to do
- 00:10:05with this kind of stuff is just drop a
- 00:10:08pin, which gives me a line, and say,
- 00:10:10"Hey, have we been down here before?"
- 00:10:11The fact that the MACD is this oversold.
- 00:10:14And and I'm going to say this on a lot
- 00:10:15in this video today. The fact that I've
- 00:10:17got worse oversold indicators during
- 00:10:20tariff talks than I do for a global
- 00:10:23pandemic is absolute insanity that I
- 00:10:26have more panic here for tariff talks
- 00:10:28than I had for a global pandemic. And
- 00:10:30this really speaks to where people are
- 00:10:32as far as fear. And you're going to see
- 00:10:34this in other data like Michigan
- 00:10:36consumer sentiment. When you start
- 00:10:37seeing these overlays, it's absolutely
- 00:10:39crazy to me on on how people are looking
- 00:10:41at this stuff, right? And I'm not saying
- 00:10:43that they're wrong. Maybe they're saying
- 00:10:45something. So, you always have to think
- 00:10:46this way. Like maybe they're saying
- 00:10:47something that I'm not saying. So, let
- 00:10:49me just drop that one to the zero line.
- 00:10:51I should just actually highlight the
- 00:10:52zero line, you know, myself, but right
- 00:10:54around there. But the same thing you're
- 00:10:56going to see and look at this. Watch the
- 00:10:58same thing you're going to see here
- 00:10:59where here you are and then here. So,
- 00:11:01why the panic in the NASDAQ versus this?
- 00:11:04And does that mean that you should be
- 00:11:06looking at this and saying, "Oh, that
- 00:11:07means that you should be buying the S&P
- 00:11:09versus the NASDAQ." No. I would say that
- 00:11:11what you what it's really telling you by
- 00:11:14looking at the same thing here as you
- 00:11:15just looked at here. I would argue that
- 00:11:18no, it means that there was a huge
- 00:11:20overreaction in tech that was greater
- 00:11:22than anything that you just saw in the
- 00:11:24S&P. And that would lead me to believe
- 00:11:26that I would rather go out there and buy
- 00:11:29tech cuz there was a gross overreaction
- 00:11:31to it. Now, the reaction is the
- 00:11:33reaction. So people can say, well, how
- 00:11:34can the reaction be over? I would and
- 00:11:36that's that's very true. Now, I want to
- 00:11:39show this on the weekly, too, because
- 00:11:40you got to look at these weekly charts
- 00:11:42right now. And and that's very true.
- 00:11:43See, like you broke here on the weekly.
- 00:11:45You really don't want to do this. But
- 00:11:46again, you have that zero line here, and
- 00:11:47this is going to start driving me nuts.
- 00:11:48Draw my zero line. I'm not really sure
- 00:11:50why I rid of the zero. What we'll do is
- 00:11:52we'll uh do zero lines. Oh, that's there
- 00:11:54we go. Yay. In in my situation here and
- 00:11:56looking at this, I don't really want to
- 00:11:57break that that zero line out at all.
- 00:12:00What I want to do, I just want to make
- 00:12:02sure that I'm above it. There's certain
- 00:12:03things here like I don't really care
- 00:12:04that it's trading and it's not lift.
- 00:12:06That doesn't mean anything. What means
- 00:12:08something to me is when I broke that
- 00:12:09zero line because I know flipping the
- 00:12:10zero line is when everything starts
- 00:12:13getting like groovy again. I do know
- 00:12:14that and that's a sign for me. It does
- 00:12:16take a long time for that to happen. But
- 00:12:18it's definitely important. Now, if you
- 00:12:20go and take a look at the cues, you're
- 00:12:21going to see that you're in the same
- 00:12:22boat. NDX, you're in the same boat.
- 00:12:25That's that's definitely an issue. And I
- 00:12:27just want to point out how on some
- 00:12:29levels how nuts this is where yeah
- 00:12:31here's the weekly NDX and I got to the
- 00:12:34point where I was at a 28 reading which
- 00:12:36got us to these levels down here which
- 00:12:38bottomed before in 22 but the panic here
- 00:12:42and and get don't get me wrong this was
- 00:12:43the slow grind where no one was ever
- 00:12:45going to use a computer again and this
- 00:12:47was really hard to compare because you
- 00:12:48just had itchy jumping like 1.7.8
- 00:12:51trillion dollars on the American people
- 00:12:53um you know when they kept selling the
- 00:12:55Fed balance sheet down. So what you have
- 00:12:57here is you have an a situation which I
- 00:13:00think is much more comparable. I mean we
- 00:13:01don't usually go straight like that but
- 00:13:03that's what happens when the government
- 00:13:04just buys everything. You know JPEGs
- 00:13:05become um NFT NFPS or whatever. Good
- 00:13:08luck with that. Anyway um if you see how
- 00:13:10this is going here April 7th and and the
- 00:13:12bounce that you're getting on this stuff
- 00:13:14I think it's super important to get that
- 00:13:16concept out there. Now if I take a look
- 00:13:18at this on the daily again oh I'm above
- 00:13:21that level which means I'm no longer
- 00:13:23what? I'm no longer oversold and now I'm
- 00:13:25going towards overbought. That's an area
- 00:13:27of interest as well. But you really have
- 00:13:29to focus on this and go, all right,
- 00:13:31well, I get that, but at the same time,
- 00:13:33and here you are in the weekly and you
- 00:13:34can see this and look at the move again
- 00:13:36commensurate with the difference in the
- 00:13:38NDX. It's worse here than it was before,
- 00:13:41which is why I'm leaning there. What I
- 00:13:43would take from this and what I think
- 00:13:44super important for people to get from
- 00:13:46this is that when you see these kinds of
- 00:13:48divergences, you really want to pay
- 00:13:50attention to it. I get looking at this
- 00:13:51stuff and I understand that, you know, I
- 00:13:54started this whole premise with, hey,
- 00:13:56you have to watch these averages up in
- 00:13:58here. Super important. But you also have
- 00:14:00to look at the underlying fundamentals.
- 00:14:01Like why is the dollar all of a sudden
- 00:14:03getting back over that 100? Is that
- 00:14:06something of substance? Why is gold
- 00:14:08doing what it's doing where you're
- 00:14:10clearly starting to form what? I mean,
- 00:14:12it's very clear you're forming a top.
- 00:14:14anyone that can see this doesn't mean
- 00:14:15that it some news can't hit and affect
- 00:14:17that top, but here's the divergence back
- 00:14:19here and then here it is just getting
- 00:14:21worse and worse as this goes on. I mean,
- 00:14:23you're falling off a cliff up. Super
- 00:14:25important to get and at the same time,
- 00:14:27why are we seeing something like Bitcoin
- 00:14:28just absolutely rip people's heads off
- 00:14:30today? Um, and be setting up these bull
- 00:14:32flags that look like you're going to
- 00:14:33take out all-time highs. We're going to
- 00:14:35get to all that, but the most important
- 00:14:36thing you should be taking from this is,
- 00:14:38you know, this talk of are we in a
- 00:14:40bubble? I I personally just come out
- 00:14:42with my own opinion. you have to make
- 00:14:43your own. I think it's laughable, but
- 00:14:45the I read a lot and I'm going to give
- 00:14:47you some excerpts here of something that
- 00:14:50I read in a shareholder letter that came
- 00:14:52out and I think it would really help
- 00:14:54you. In front of you is an excerpt and
- 00:14:56it is from a letter written by Oak Tree
- 00:14:59Howard Marx. And this was actually in
- 00:15:01February. But what I do is I put all
- 00:15:03these newsletters and everything that I
- 00:15:05get, all my research and I pretty much
- 00:15:07get every piece of research on the
- 00:15:08street. I know it sounds nuts, but I get
- 00:15:10them all and then I put them into
- 00:15:11Dropbox and then I save them and then I
- 00:15:12can sort for them. It helps me a lot to
- 00:15:14keep everything collectively together
- 00:15:17and then I can draw back on it. And this
- 00:15:19was a really good example. A lot of
- 00:15:20people keep using these terms bubble,
- 00:15:22crash, etc. Um, Howard Marx has been
- 00:15:24around for about 50 years at this point
- 00:15:27and seen a lot of things and and he's
- 00:15:29really looks more at the credit markets
- 00:15:30and the income markets, but he's been
- 00:15:32around forever. And what's important
- 00:15:34about this is a lot of people are
- 00:15:35looking at the market right now and
- 00:15:36saying it's a bubble. I think you need
- 00:15:38to really take a step back and look at
- 00:15:41this and say, are we in a bubble? Are we
- 00:15:43not? And what I'm referring to here is
- 00:15:45the AI bubble and is that true? Is the
- 00:15:48stock market currently in a bubble? Is
- 00:15:50the NASDAQ in a bubble? Whatever you
- 00:15:51think's in a bubble, I think this
- 00:15:53criteria when you look at it is very
- 00:15:55helpful. So, there's a couple slides
- 00:15:56here and then I'm going to give you
- 00:15:57examples of where we actually are right
- 00:15:59now and then you can look at the data
- 00:16:01yourself and how I'm viewing it and we
- 00:16:03can go from there. But what he talks
- 00:16:04about here is the investment lingo and
- 00:16:06how it's thrown around and how people
- 00:16:08say bubble and crash whether we're down
- 00:16:0980 basis points or whether we're up two
- 00:16:122%. And I do think they're thrown around
- 00:16:14a little too much. But one of the things
- 00:16:15is the mainstream media uses them
- 00:16:17broadly. I agree with what he's saying
- 00:16:18here. Consider them to be subjective and
- 00:16:20not objective. And I want to tie this
- 00:16:22together to you'll remember Wednesday's
- 00:16:24video when I used the the phrase that I
- 00:16:26use a lot which is reflexivity and
- 00:16:29explaining how I look at things. you
- 00:16:31know, where the outcome is versus the
- 00:16:33expectations, why trading on earnings is
- 00:16:35so profitable. You can go back and look
- 00:16:37at that on Wednesday's video. It's why I
- 00:16:39tell everyone that when you get into
- 00:16:40these videos, you want to make sure that
- 00:16:42you subscribe to the channel, click all
- 00:16:43notifications, because they're all
- 00:16:45linked. They'll stay linked and then
- 00:16:46they just move as time moves. There's
- 00:16:48parts of this that are exactly what I'm
- 00:16:50talking about where when you've been
- 00:16:52doing this forever, and I have been
- 00:16:53doing this for 50 years. I think it's
- 00:16:54going on 26 now. But when you're looking
- 00:16:56at things like this where this is such
- 00:16:58an important line and people are going
- 00:17:00to just go right over it. Today the
- 00:17:02mainstream media uses them broadly.
- 00:17:03People are considering subjective to
- 00:17:05objective. Tell you enough that it's
- 00:17:07state of mind. It's psychology and it's
- 00:17:10where the masses are that makes the
- 00:17:11difference. A bubble or crash is more a
- 00:17:13state of mind than a quantitative
- 00:17:16calculation. End of sentence. Could not
- 00:17:18agree more with what he's saying here.
- 00:17:19In my view, a bubble not only reflects
- 00:17:21the rapid rise in stock prices, but is a
- 00:17:23temporary mania characterized by or
- 00:17:26perhaps better resulting from the
- 00:17:27following. Highly irrational exuberant.
- 00:17:29Uh Greenspan did say this back in the
- 00:17:31day. Back in the day. Uh and the whole
- 00:17:33market panicked for about an hour before
- 00:17:35it went right back up. Outright
- 00:17:36adoration of the subject, companies or
- 00:17:38assets and belief that they can't miss.
- 00:17:40Massive fear of being left behind. And
- 00:17:42if one fails to participate, FOMO
- 00:17:45resulting conviction for these stocks,
- 00:17:46there is no price too high. What I think
- 00:17:49is really good about having these and
- 00:17:50what you might want to do is just
- 00:17:51screenshot these is taking a look at any
- 00:17:54time in history. For example, taking a
- 00:17:55look at right now and do you see any of
- 00:17:57these signs? It doesn't matter what I
- 00:17:59think. I have my opinion. It matters
- 00:18:01what you think. But I would really focus
- 00:18:02on this and look at it and go, do you
- 00:18:04have irrational exuberance? Does
- 00:18:05everyone feel that they have to be in
- 00:18:07the market right now? Does everyone love
- 00:18:08tech right now? Does everyone feel like
- 00:18:10they're missing out? Is everyone willing
- 00:18:12to pay anything to be in these names
- 00:18:14right now? And what I love about when
- 00:18:15these guys write is they give you books
- 00:18:17because all everyone that's been in the
- 00:18:19industry just they they usually are
- 00:18:20pretty avid readers. And so what like
- 00:18:22his one's maniacs, panics, crashes, a
- 00:18:25history of financial crisis. Uh there's
- 00:18:26not there is nothing so disturbing to
- 00:18:28one's well-being and judgment as seeing
- 00:18:30a friend get rich. No price too high
- 00:18:32stands out in particular when you can't
- 00:18:34imagine any flaws in the argument and
- 00:18:36you are terrified that your office mate,
- 00:18:37golf partner, brother-in-law, and
- 00:18:39competitor will own the asset in
- 00:18:41question and you won't. It's hard to
- 00:18:42conclude that there's a price which you
- 00:18:44shouldn't pay or buy. It's kind of
- 00:18:45interesting. So to discern a bubble, you
- 00:18:47can look at the valuation parameters,
- 00:18:49but I've long believed psychological
- 00:18:51diagnosis is more effective. I've said
- 00:18:53this a million times. People look at the
- 00:18:55PE and say the PE is here, the PE is
- 00:18:56there. That's relative to what people
- 00:18:58are willing to pay for. Whenever I hear
- 00:19:00there's no price too high or one of its
- 00:19:01variants, a more disciplined investor
- 00:19:03might say, but of course there's a price
- 00:19:04that's too high, but we're not there
- 00:19:06yet. I consider it a sure sign that a
- 00:19:08bubble is brewing. Obviously, we're not
- 00:19:09hearing that right now. He got this
- 00:19:10advice 50 years ago and he shares it.
- 00:19:12And again, this is why I love reading
- 00:19:14these letters because, you know,
- 00:19:15everything just repeats itself. It's
- 00:19:16just the new thing. Um, it's always the
- 00:19:18new thing. You know, back then it was
- 00:19:19probably a copy machine or a fax, a
- 00:19:21buggy whip. You just go through the the
- 00:19:23the whole thing through time. Anyway,
- 00:19:24I've written about this several memos,
- 00:19:26but in my opinion, I can't do it often
- 00:19:28enough. There are three stages of a bull
- 00:19:30market. The first stage usually comes on
- 00:19:32the hear of a market decline. cough,
- 00:19:34cough, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, or a
- 00:19:36crash and has left the most investors
- 00:19:38licking their wounds and highly
- 00:19:39dispirited. At this point, only a few
- 00:19:41unusually insightful people are capable
- 00:19:43of imagining that there could possibly
- 00:19:45be improvement ahead. The second stage,
- 00:19:47the economy, companies, and markets are
- 00:19:49doing well. Most people accept that
- 00:19:51improvement is actually taking place. In
- 00:19:53the third stage, after a period in which
- 00:19:54the economic news has been great,
- 00:19:56companies have reported soaring
- 00:19:57earnings, and stocks have appreciated
- 00:19:59wildly, everyone concludes that things
- 00:20:01can only get better forever. So if you
- 00:20:03had a list like this and you had to look
- 00:20:05at the market at any given time, you'd
- 00:20:06have to kind of conclude what stage of
- 00:20:08the market you're in right now. Now, the
- 00:20:10document was about 16 pages long, so I
- 00:20:12just took a couple excerpts out of the
- 00:20:14important inferences aren't with regard
- 00:20:16to economic or corporate events. Super
- 00:20:19important. They involve investor
- 00:20:22psychology. It's not a matter of what's
- 00:20:24happening in the macro world. It's how
- 00:20:26people view the development. So, one of
- 00:20:28the things that I always say in the
- 00:20:30community is the following. cuz there's
- 00:20:32this bias. Let's say you have good
- 00:20:33earnings and then all of a sudden that
- 00:20:35stock goes up. Well, you would expect
- 00:20:38that stock to go up on good earnings.
- 00:20:40That would be the expectation and then
- 00:20:42that would be the outcome. But what if
- 00:20:44the exact opposite happens and the
- 00:20:46earnings come out and the stock well
- 00:20:48that would tell you that the sentiment
- 00:20:50of the market is the issue, not the
- 00:20:52earnings. See, everyone believes just
- 00:20:54because you have good earnings that
- 00:20:55you're going to go up. That's not the
- 00:20:57case. That's an assumption. It's a it's
- 00:20:59a it's a logical assumption. There we go
- 00:21:01again thinking. But it's it's not the
- 00:21:03case. Sometimes companies could be way
- 00:21:05ahead of themselves and actually pull
- 00:21:06back. And the exact opposite could
- 00:21:08happen too. They could have gotten
- 00:21:10absolutely smoked for no reason like we
- 00:21:12just saw recently on a lot of names. And
- 00:21:14what what tends to happen when they just
- 00:21:16even do the simplest of things. The
- 00:21:18stocks on bad earnings actually do what?
- 00:21:20They actually wind up going up. Super
- 00:21:23important concept to get because it's
- 00:21:25not just about the stool which we talk
- 00:21:28about the macro, the fundamental, and
- 00:21:29the technical. It's not just about that
- 00:21:31what part of this we're sitting on. It's
- 00:21:33our perception of it and how it's
- 00:21:35perceived. So it's not just a matter of
- 00:21:37what's happening in the macro world.
- 00:21:39It's how people view that development.
- 00:21:41And I can give you examples of this. I
- 00:21:42can give you really good examples of
- 00:21:44this quite frankly on the macro side
- 00:21:45that will be as someone likes to say
- 00:21:47absolutely glaring. Sometimes some
- 00:21:49things are just glaringly obvious. So
- 00:21:52let's let's look at this thesis a little
- 00:21:53bit and see what we see. So in front of
- 00:21:55us we have Michigan consumer sentiment.
- 00:21:57And what I love about the market is
- 00:21:58they'll take a turn, they'll say
- 00:22:00something, any turn, and they'll try to
- 00:22:02spin it. And then they'll take something
- 00:22:04that we all know what it is, and then
- 00:22:06they'll change the terminology. That's
- 00:22:08the new thing. Soft data, hard data.
- 00:22:10Soft, all right, soft data is sediment.
- 00:22:12Sediment indicators are what people
- 00:22:15think are going to happen. It's not that
- 00:22:17we're calling it soft data, but it's
- 00:22:18sediment data. It's always been, why is
- 00:22:20Michigan consumer sentiment doing XYZ?
- 00:22:22Well, this is how people feel. That's
- 00:22:24why it's doing what it's doing. So up
- 00:22:26top is Michigan consumer sentiment. One
- 00:22:28of the books that I have told people
- 00:22:29that I've read and helped me greatly
- 00:22:31understand this stuff in these cycles
- 00:22:33was reading the hedge fund edge by John
- 00:22:35Bucher. I would strongly suggest that
- 00:22:37you read it. What I have here is just us
- 00:22:39going back through time. And what we'll
- 00:22:41do here is how far back we can go back
- 00:22:43to they'll take us um we'll go back to
- 00:22:4603. Let's go back a little further. Go
- 00:22:47back to 79. See how far they'll get
- 00:22:49because then I have to zoom in and
- 00:22:50everything. We'll take this 90 area here
- 00:22:52and you'll see this little blip right
- 00:22:54down here on your screen. And they won't
- 00:22:55let me blow that up, but you can see the
- 00:22:57blip right here. You'll see the other
- 00:22:58ones as we'll get involved. And really,
- 00:23:00I mean, you can't miss what I'm getting
- 00:23:01at. Hopefully, glaringly obvious. We'll
- 00:23:04just drop a line right there. And we can
- 00:23:05see that this is when people felt the
- 00:23:07worst about the market. And we can see
- 00:23:09this blip down here and then lift. And
- 00:23:11what you're going to see is when you
- 00:23:12mark these off that you're going to find
- 00:23:14those areas that and it doesn't even
- 00:23:16have to be, you know, every single low.
- 00:23:19But when you start seeing these areas
- 00:23:20like here and then you mark them off,
- 00:23:22yeah, you could dip and then you could
- 00:23:24go lower again like you did here. But
- 00:23:27eventually one of those dips like here
- 00:23:29is going to mark that bottom. And you're
- 00:23:31going to see this time and time again
- 00:23:33where these lows that one didn't work.
- 00:23:35It would have been way better if it
- 00:23:36worked. These lows are going to mark us
- 00:23:38in levels. This usually is a leading
- 00:23:41indicator, by the way. This usually
- 00:23:43happens and then it will tell us like,
- 00:23:45hey, a month from now or something. You
- 00:23:47know, this will change, but the market's
- 00:23:48already going to be reflected. And
- 00:23:49hopefully you can see where I'm going
- 00:23:51going with this. But what's important to
- 00:23:53us about this, and I'll clean this off,
- 00:23:55is that it's not once, it's all the
- 00:23:57time. It's not again, it's not once.
- 00:23:59It's what was the lowest reading during
- 00:24:01the great financial crisis? Oh, it was
- 00:24:03down here. Oh, okay. How did that go for
- 00:24:05the market? Oh, it's the bottom of the
- 00:24:06market. And then here comes Michigan
- 00:24:08consumer sentiment hitting another low.
- 00:24:10And at the same time it hits that low.
- 00:24:12The market's actually higher hitting
- 00:24:14another low. Well, what does that tell
- 00:24:15you? Well, now I have a positive
- 00:24:17divergence on the Michigan consumer
- 00:24:19sentiment data because I'm not hitting a
- 00:24:21new low even though this is where I'm
- 00:24:22at. Super important concept there. But
- 00:24:24what this is telling us is, oh, hey, by
- 00:24:26the way, you're at that 55 level and
- 00:24:28that's where the great financial crisis.
- 00:24:30Hey, here's the here's the retest of
- 00:24:31that. Oh, that was the bottom and that's
- 00:24:33as far as we got down. So again, when we
- 00:24:35start going through these levels, you
- 00:24:37can see hopefully where I'm going with
- 00:24:38this where here's 22 and 22 and this is
- 00:24:41where I'm just going to mark it off now
- 00:24:43so you can see it from our perspective.
- 00:24:45This is where we are. If we mark it
- 00:24:46here, okay, great. We dipped right here
- 00:24:49in 22 and we hit and then we went down
- 00:24:51again for a couple weeks and then we
- 00:24:52bottomed and then we ripped everyone's
- 00:24:54face off after hitting this level. And
- 00:24:56then you look at this and just to kind
- 00:24:57of put this in perspective because it's
- 00:24:59quote soft data as we're supposed to
- 00:25:01refer to it or sentiment data. And then
- 00:25:03when we look at this stuff, what's it
- 00:25:05telling you? Oh, by the way, the
- 00:25:07sentiment was better in the market than
- 00:25:09it is right now. Even though we had a
- 00:25:12massive shutdown of everything global,
- 00:25:14everything was better here than it is
- 00:25:16right now. Like that just shows you the
- 00:25:18psychology of what you're looking at
- 00:25:20because there's no way that people could
- 00:25:21feel more certain it like on any
- 00:25:24objective basis. It's impossible that
- 00:25:27people could say that they feel more
- 00:25:28certain during a global pandemic than
- 00:25:30they do right now. It just defies any
- 00:25:32logic. You're welcome to comment on
- 00:25:34that. Maybe I'm missing something, but
- 00:25:36when the entire world is shut down and
- 00:25:38we don't know what's going on versus we
- 00:25:40don't know what the tariffs are going to
- 00:25:41be, you can still go outside. You can
- 00:25:43still walk around. I mean, when you
- 00:25:45really think about it, like how crazy
- 00:25:46that is. And it just goes to show you
- 00:25:48psychology of the market and market
- 00:25:49sentiment. Super important concept. You
- 00:25:52you might want to listen to that part a
- 00:25:54couple times. Really important. But but
- 00:25:56watch how this plays out. Is the
- 00:25:58Michigan 5-year inflation expectations.
- 00:26:00How do people think of inflation
- 00:26:02year-over-year going forward? This is
- 00:26:04what's happening right in this area
- 00:26:06since 2013. You could see this rise and
- 00:26:08people are like, "No, inflation's not
- 00:26:09going anywhere. We're fine. Inflation's
- 00:26:11ripping their faces off." And they're
- 00:26:12like, "Oh, we're fine." Inflation is
- 00:26:14dropping throughout here. And what's
- 00:26:16happening? No, things are good.
- 00:26:18Inflation comes in negative on the month
- 00:26:20overmonth data. So on the CPI, month
- 00:26:22over month, four and a half up here. So
- 00:26:24the idea that in the perception of where
- 00:26:27you're at versus where you truly are at
- 00:26:30are so skewed right now that somebody
- 00:26:32might want to go back and listen to
- 00:26:33those things to look at to to determine
- 00:26:36where we might actually be and which one
- 00:26:38of those stages we're in because
- 00:26:40sentiment has shifted so far negative
- 00:26:42that in my opinion it it's very
- 00:26:44difficult to look at this on the
- 00:26:45earnings you just had and say that we're
- 00:26:47going into some kind of recession. I
- 00:26:49understand the levels of uncertainty and
- 00:26:51economic uncertainty, but where
- 00:26:52sentiment is versus where we are is so
- 00:26:55skewed, it's crazy. And and I can give
- 00:26:57you an example of this on hard data as
- 00:26:59well. If we look at the S&P and we look
- 00:27:02at hard data, right here was the single
- 00:27:04highest CPI we ever had in well over 5
- 00:27:07years. It was right at this level. This
- 00:27:09one in October was right near it. It was
- 00:27:11like 9%. This was the bottom of the
- 00:27:12market. Now, if I go back in time and I
- 00:27:16show you the tweet that I put out that
- 00:27:18no one's going to ring a bell, this is
- 00:27:19what a bottom looks like. And what I did
- 00:27:21was I showed this chart. I just put this
- 00:27:23out on Twitter and you can see the lower
- 00:27:25low and then you can see the right here
- 00:27:27the higher lows. And I said, "No one's
- 00:27:30going to ring a bell. We undercut it. We
- 00:27:32couldn't hold it." And it looks to me
- 00:27:33like we're putting in that bottom. the
- 00:27:35amount of rhetoric and the amount of
- 00:27:37psychology in people's minds that were
- 00:27:39so used to just getting torn apart, I I
- 00:27:41couldn't possibly be right. You couldn't
- 00:27:43possibly bounce at this. So, no matter
- 00:27:46where your head is or what you're
- 00:27:47thinking or this time it's different,
- 00:27:49right? I mean, remember, every time it's
- 00:27:51definitely different. And that's how
- 00:27:52people view these, they keep doing the
- 00:27:54same cycle. We repeat pattern. So, when
- 00:27:56you start to see this thing and
- 00:27:57everyone's like, "Oh, no. We're
- 00:27:58definitely this is going to roll over
- 00:28:00and the tariffs are going to be, you
- 00:28:01know, 4,000 and this is going to happen
- 00:28:03and that's going to happen." You have no
- 00:28:04idea what's going to happen because
- 00:28:05here's where they told us we were going
- 00:28:07to have 4% GDP. Here's where they told
- 00:28:09us we were going to have negative 4 GDP.
- 00:28:10Remember the Atlanta Fed? They kept
- 00:28:12wheeling that sucker out. You don't hear
- 00:28:13about that anymore, do you? So, when you
- 00:28:15start to see this stuff, you have to
- 00:28:16understand that it's the psychology on
- 00:28:18where you think we are versus where we
- 00:28:20really are. That's that's the game in a
- 00:28:22nutshell. So, I've been getting requests
- 00:28:24to show more trades. Uh, this was a
- 00:28:26super simple one to show at super easy
- 00:28:29trade actually, but there were some real
- 00:28:32interesting develop and I'm going to
- 00:28:33show it live in a second, but we saw the
- 00:28:35volume coming in off the open on this
- 00:28:37one and we were focused on a couple
- 00:28:39other names. You might hear me mention
- 00:28:40it in the editing of of this, but
- 00:28:43essentially what we're doing is buying
- 00:28:44in here on the break and then we got the
- 00:28:47retest. We actually were buying in here
- 00:28:49and then as soon as I broke I I cut
- 00:28:51half, saw something that showed me how
- 00:28:53to get in here. It was the amount of
- 00:28:55volume that came in after this right
- 00:28:58here. See how like see how much that is.
- 00:29:01See how fast you bounced on that little
- 00:29:03volume? Sometimes these low volume bars
- 00:29:06will tell you more about the the price
- 00:29:08action than the high volume bar. See
- 00:29:10like how the high volume bar broke you
- 00:29:11out and you came down. You'll see me
- 00:29:13actually trim into those until you'll
- 00:29:14see like the final, you know, the final
- 00:29:15reason we got out. But I actually
- 00:29:17trimmed. And this is something that
- 00:29:19people are lost on and and I think it's
- 00:29:21really like I think it's a really
- 00:29:22important concept that people have to
- 00:29:23remember. You can always get back in a
- 00:29:25trade. Always. Pardon the slurping. It's
- 00:29:27early at the time recording this. But um
- 00:29:29you can always get in a trade. You can't
- 00:29:31always get out at the same price. So
- 00:29:32when it does something that it shouldn't
- 00:29:34do, you just get out of the way. And
- 00:29:36this did something it shouldn't have
- 00:29:37done. That dogee, the undercut. So I
- 00:29:39just moved on and then we just got back
- 00:29:41in when we saw it hold exactly where it
- 00:29:43should have. And that's super important
- 00:29:45to get. But let let's watch this play
- 00:29:46out live. But I do think that that's
- 00:29:48going to absolutely rip here. You can
- 00:29:50see a three handle here today. If you
- 00:29:52look at how this is setting up your
- 00:29:54wicks right here, but there's more to it
- 00:29:56there as well. There's this close over
- 00:29:58that area right here. I'll get to it
- 00:30:01later, but this can go you you can go
- 00:30:03here. You should be able to see the cup,
- 00:30:05the wonky cup and the handle yourself.
- 00:30:07You see the handle right here? See the
- 00:30:08cup? You can get up here pretty quickly.
- 00:30:11If you flip this level, pardon me,
- 00:30:12allergies today are brutal for some
- 00:30:14reason. Weird. But 301, you get through
- 00:30:16that. There's nothing here. You can get
- 00:30:18right up here like fast. So, just keep
- 00:30:20that in mind and let it do its thing.
- 00:30:23Nothing for me to do with this. I'm just
- 00:30:24sitting with it and I already have it.
- 00:30:26I'd be looking for pullbacks and ways to
- 00:30:27flip that level. 301's pretty much a
- 00:30:29lock. It's actually a little lower. You
- 00:30:31probably already flipped it. You already
- 00:30:32did. So, 301's probably like a layup,
- 00:30:35guys, to get to here, which is like
- 00:30:36three points if you want it. You have to
- 00:30:38use this low. You could drop to a three
- 00:30:40minute. See if you can find something
- 00:30:41else like that 294 level to get there.
- 00:30:44You know, I'd rather go off the five.
- 00:30:46But you haven't had one bar yet. I don't
- 00:30:47think you're you're gone, man. I'd like
- 00:30:49a pullback, but I'd like a lot of
- 00:30:50things. I don't think I'm going to get
- 00:30:52it. You over to come on down. Find a way
- 00:30:55in to buy more Tesla today. I think
- 00:30:56that's going to be a fun one today. I
- 00:30:58don't know that I have to do it right
- 00:30:59now. So, I'm just going to wait and hold
- 00:31:01what I have. That is your first
- 00:31:03pullback. What's the low? They're going
- 00:31:05to fight the 300. They're going to lose.
- 00:31:08They're going to lose. But you're going
- 00:31:09to lose. They're going to fight it. I
- 00:31:11I'm I It's only going to cost me a
- 00:31:13dollar. I'll know in like a minute or
- 00:31:14two. They can't get through. But I got
- 00:31:16to use that low. So, it might be a super
- 00:31:18super quick trade here because if it
- 00:31:20doesn't do what I want, then that means
- 00:31:21they're going to apply a lot of
- 00:31:22pressure. Yeah, I don't normally have
- 00:31:23that 50% there, but do what they do
- 00:31:25here. I'm just trying to scalp, but I
- 00:31:27have more on. But like once that happens
- 00:31:29and it pushes through what you're
- 00:31:31looking for, you couldn't get over half
- 00:31:33of it, it was kind of telling. You see
- 00:31:35like the LPI here, the HPI here. So,
- 00:31:37what's the low of that bar? So, right
- 00:31:39there when it did that, I just printed
- 00:31:40more of it because it held. And then I
- 00:31:42just used the same stop at 41 just cuz
- 00:31:44it was just sitting I'm like, well, it's
- 00:31:46not going to cost me much. Like, what's
- 00:31:47it really going to cost if it doesn't
- 00:31:48break? Right? The little loss I took up
- 00:31:50here, I bought that that position back.
- 00:31:52Now, if it flips and goes, right?
- 00:31:54Because now I could trim more of that.
- 00:31:56Why would I do it now? Because now if it
- 00:31:57holds, now I got something. Come on.
- 00:32:00There it is. Boom. Trimmed. See, you
- 00:32:02want to be in here for it. So, when it
- 00:32:04does it, you're trimming. Trimmed. I'm
- 00:32:06just trimming that day trade I did. I'll
- 00:32:08talk about this in a class like why I
- 00:32:10did that here. Why I bought back. I have
- 00:32:12half of the day trade left. if you're
- 00:32:13trying to figure it out. See, I'm not
- 00:32:15telling like when I'm looking at the
- 00:32:16stock, I'm not telling the stock what
- 00:32:18it's going to do. I'm just allowing it
- 00:32:19to act. Your first down bar, first bar
- 00:32:21really under that cloud. Day trades over
- 00:32:23100%. Now, I hope you found that
- 00:32:26helpful. I find it I find the comments I
- 00:32:28read a lot of the comments. Um, I don't
- 00:32:31mind sharing those things. I don't want
- 00:32:33to do it all the time, but I do think
- 00:32:34it's helpful. If you want me to get into
- 00:32:37like greater detail on that trade, I can
- 00:32:39do an entire video on it. I don't mind
- 00:32:42doing it. I do find them I do understand
- 00:32:44why people want to see it and I do think
- 00:32:46that it's helpful to an extent. Uh
- 00:32:48especially when you're doing the live
- 00:32:49and then you can see that and when I
- 00:32:52show that trade that's from one account
- 00:32:54there's an there's accounts where I just
- 00:32:57I compartmentalize my trades. So I have
- 00:32:58accounts where I will have my long-term
- 00:33:00holds or um you know conservative
- 00:33:03accounts and then aggressive accounts. I
- 00:33:05find compartmentalization to be key for
- 00:33:08me because what would happen with
- 00:33:09someone like myself and everybody's
- 00:33:11different. You have to do what works for
- 00:33:13you. You'll hear me say that a lot is if
- 00:33:15I had like my swing trade in the day
- 00:33:17trade account, I'm going to think I'm
- 00:33:18super smart. I'm going to get out the
- 00:33:20top and then I'm going to buy it back.
- 00:33:22No. No. It for me that would not work.
- 00:33:26So there will be days, for example,
- 00:33:29where I'll take MSTR and I'll whack it
- 00:33:31around, but I've had a trade in MSTR
- 00:33:34since like 3:10 or 317, I think, that if
- 00:33:37I was in the same account and I'm
- 00:33:39watching days like this when I'm day
- 00:33:41trading it from 430 to 406 and, you
- 00:33:44know, it becomes it becomes an issue.
- 00:33:47So, I think that's super uh super
- 00:33:49important for people to get. But anyway,
- 00:33:51I do think there's some things here that
- 00:33:52are definitely worth us going over. Uh,
- 00:33:55I do want to go back to the Tesla and
- 00:33:56there are some names here that I think
- 00:33:58that I could add uh, real value to that
- 00:34:00would help you this weekend going
- 00:34:01forward. And I think there's some things
- 00:34:02that we really have to cover that
- 00:34:04happened on the earnings front that
- 00:34:05could really add value as well. But if
- 00:34:07we take a look at something like a
- 00:34:09Tesla, for me, the break was everything.
- 00:34:12So here's your flag. Here's your break.
- 00:34:14And of course, you have the China talks
- 00:34:16and everyone's going to be like, well,
- 00:34:17we don't know what's going to happen.
- 00:34:18No, we don't have a clue. We don't. We
- 00:34:20can say that we do. you know, we all
- 00:34:21have become experts on China. Um, again,
- 00:34:25here's your death cross and everybody's
- 00:34:27like, I got to sell because I got a
- 00:34:29death cross. All right, so from that
- 00:34:31death cross, if you bought the death
- 00:34:32cross, you're up about 70 points right
- 00:34:34now. And now it's telling you for the
- 00:34:37first time, and I would pay attention to
- 00:34:39it, that you are above the 200 day
- 00:34:40moving average. And you are above the
- 00:34:42200 day moving average on Tesla for the
- 00:34:46first time since it broke here. You kind
- 00:34:48of got got above it a little bit there,
- 00:34:50but you're really above it now. And you
- 00:34:52and you had some decent volume. It could
- 00:34:53have been better. But that's a lot of
- 00:34:55volume on Friday from a lot of people
- 00:34:57that either don't want to be short it or
- 00:34:59realizing like, hey, if you're having
- 00:35:02talks, things are going to get better.
- 00:35:04Now, maybe, you know, you you hear all
- 00:35:06over Twitter, oh, this guy's going to
- 00:35:08walk out, that guy's going to walk out.
- 00:35:09Letic, in my opinion, at this point, he
- 00:35:12needs to shut up. I don't know how else
- 00:35:14to say it nicely, but like when you have
- 00:35:16a point person, the other person
- 00:35:17shouldn't be saying a whole heck of a
- 00:35:19lot. But, you know, I guess we could do
- 00:35:21a video on that. Uh, but they shouldn't
- 00:35:24be contradicting one another. Um, it's
- 00:35:27definitely counterproductive. And that
- 00:35:28that kind of stuff can add to the
- 00:35:29volatility. But if you look at the
- 00:35:31forest through the trees, what I was
- 00:35:32trying to explain to everybody was
- 00:35:33that's your neckline. Everyone sees the
- 00:35:35left head, right? Right. In that
- 00:35:37development, the bigger the right
- 00:35:39shoulder, the more pain. And that's why
- 00:35:41this was so painful, right? The less
- 00:35:43developed the right shoulder, the less
- 00:35:45pain. But if you if you look at
- 00:35:48something like this, like to get to 320
- 00:35:49is not a big deal. Again, what I would
- 00:35:52do is focus on the fact that you know
- 00:35:54that you're in a non-trending market.
- 00:35:57So, you have to watch the top of the
- 00:35:59VWAP and go, "Oh, okay. Well, I could
- 00:36:01see why that peak right there could be
- 00:36:04an issue, and that stopped us at 307."
- 00:36:07So, you're going to want to watch that,
- 00:36:08of course. But there's other stuff here
- 00:36:11that I think super important with Tesla
- 00:36:14and I would be paying attention to. Make
- 00:36:17sure that you do get the trading uh free
- 00:36:19newsletter because there's going to be a
- 00:36:21lot of like tips and stuff in there. Um
- 00:36:24I would focus on the fact that from this
- 00:36:27peak and this to me is more important
- 00:36:29than the VWAP. VWAP secondary to volume
- 00:36:32profile for me. Um I'm above point of
- 00:36:34control. Point of control to me, like if
- 00:36:37someone's in rank them, point of control
- 00:36:39is greater to me than VWAP because VWAP
- 00:36:43is telling me that all these people are
- 00:36:45in from here. Point of control is
- 00:36:46telling me this is the price point where
- 00:36:48everybody owns the most. That's why
- 00:36:50point of control is more important to
- 00:36:52me. What's more important to you is
- 00:36:54what's more important to you. To me,
- 00:36:57looking at this and saying the majority
- 00:36:58of people own here versus this is the
- 00:37:01average price all these people own.
- 00:37:03They're both important. Don't get me
- 00:37:05wrong, and I watch both, but if someone
- 00:37:07said, "Hey, what's most important?"
- 00:37:09Also, closing above like a B like this
- 00:37:11value high area, you kind of might want
- 00:37:13to pay attention to it. I know people
- 00:37:14don't like when they have like no volume
- 00:37:16in here, like it's no man's land to
- 00:37:18them. I like no volume. I'm an optimist.
- 00:37:20So, I will look at that and think, oh, I
- 00:37:23can get up to that 325, 330 level,
- 00:37:25that's the top of this bar, and go from
- 00:37:27there. But, you still have some issues
- 00:37:29here. I do like what you're seeing here.
- 00:37:32I would not really sleep on this. Um, I
- 00:37:35personally think one of the things that
- 00:37:37you're going to hear about with this
- 00:37:38open market and China is that because
- 00:37:42that's where Trump was going with it.
- 00:37:44What he's saying about the open market,
- 00:37:46I'll give you my opinion with Nvidia. If
- 00:37:48you want access to everything that we
- 00:37:50have access to, then you have to allow
- 00:37:52your people to have access to everything
- 00:37:53that they want access to. And you can't
- 00:37:56have these subsidized car deals on your
- 00:37:58own on your own cars in your own country
- 00:38:01uh versus everybody's cars. And if
- 00:38:03you're going to do that, then we're
- 00:38:04going to do it here. I I think that
- 00:38:06that's where that's going. And I think
- 00:38:07it could help places like Tesla or help
- 00:38:10Nvidia if they have an open market. If
- 00:38:13you start breaking down some of these
- 00:38:15barriers, I think that that's where this
- 00:38:18could go. And I think that you could see
- 00:38:20this move. In my opinion, from what
- 00:38:22we're seeing, China needs this to happen
- 00:38:24more than the US does. I don't know that
- 00:38:27you're going to see more deals. I don't
- 00:38:29know how that's going to go. But when we
- 00:38:32look at something like Nvidia in here,
- 00:38:34we have some really core issues to focus
- 00:38:36on. And I could do the simple things
- 00:38:38like drop in the moving averages and we
- 00:38:41could talk about them and go oo. But I
- 00:38:44really like that you are back above the
- 00:38:4750 here, the 55. I use a 12 to 2255. I
- 00:38:50love this cross here where I have a 1222
- 00:38:53cross. I have a whole trade that I do
- 00:38:55just when this happens alone. Uh, we do
- 00:38:57have to drop the 200 in. We do have to
- 00:39:00recognize that you do have a death cross
- 00:39:01here. And we do have to recognize that
- 00:39:03that does make that 125 level pretty
- 00:39:06hard to break on Nvidia up here. I do
- 00:39:09think that the time that we utilize
- 00:39:11everything here that we should spend on
- 00:39:13some of these earnings because a lot of
- 00:39:15people looked at these earnings and just
- 00:39:16felt like, oh, there's not really, you
- 00:39:19know, there's not really a lot here or a
- 00:39:20lot to focus on. I would take the other
- 00:39:23side of that with some of these names
- 00:39:25like you know KAC is is the one that
- 00:39:28came out that had earnings. When you
- 00:39:29when these guys start coming out like
- 00:39:31this these semiconductor capital
- 00:39:32equipment manufacturers I want to pay
- 00:39:34attention to them. Um this is super
- 00:39:36important. I would watch AAT because AAT
- 00:39:39is I think Wednesday or Thursday this
- 00:39:41week. You want to watch this and you
- 00:39:43definitely want to watch this because of
- 00:39:44this Taiwan semi. This is Taiwan Semi
- 00:39:48when they came out with earnings.
- 00:39:49Couldn't get anywhere. Here's your death
- 00:39:51cross. Here's your 200 day moving
- 00:39:52average. You want you want to watch AAT.
- 00:39:55And I I'll tell you why. Because I think
- 00:39:56they're ramping up production. I don't
- 00:39:59think they're cutting back production.
- 00:40:00And that ties us back in again to the
- 00:40:02ASMLs of the world and people going,
- 00:40:05"Well, I don't know what to do with
- 00:40:06this." And you could see your break
- 00:40:07right here and how you're acting. From
- 00:40:10that break, you've done nothing but
- 00:40:11rally. What I thought was super
- 00:40:13interesting about this week is a lot of
- 00:40:15the color that we got. And what I mean
- 00:40:18by that is DD Dog. Take a look at this.
- 00:40:21You beat. And then you go TTD and we
- 00:40:24take a look at how that's going and you
- 00:40:27beat. If you go through these names like
- 00:40:30Net and
- 00:40:31Cloudfare, this to me was okay. It
- 00:40:34wasn't great, but it was okay. And you
- 00:40:36rallied on okay. So then I start looking
- 00:40:39at things like the cloud and you start
- 00:40:41seeing that you're doing the same thing.
- 00:40:43Here's your death cross. But what are
- 00:40:44you fighting that 200 day moving
- 00:40:46average? I do think we're getting a
- 00:40:49leader. I think our leader is IGV, which
- 00:40:53is expanded or expanded so tech
- 00:40:56software. Now, we're going to need more
- 00:40:57coffee today. Um, but what I want to
- 00:41:00focus on is there's my death cross. Say
- 00:41:02it with
- 00:41:03me. But what happened? You flipped it.
- 00:41:06We need a leading sector. IGV used to
- 00:41:10lead the socks. And I know a lot of
- 00:41:12people don't get this, but back in the
- 00:41:14day, we knew this. So, if I go IGV here
- 00:41:18and then I tie this into the socks,
- 00:41:21you'll see this pretty clearly right
- 00:41:23here. And we'll just flip to it for a
- 00:41:26second. Now, let's do it on the weekly
- 00:41:29and go from there. And you'll see from
- 00:41:31like that 2000 on that this was just an
- 00:41:34absolute battle with these things
- 00:41:36flipping over and over again. But once
- 00:41:39you got through this level back here,
- 00:41:41and then we'll slide this over. Once you
- 00:41:43got through the great financial crisis,
- 00:41:47everything was restored. And then what
- 00:41:50happens was we go through this period.
- 00:41:53And once we go through it, you can see
- 00:41:55how that played out. Now, watch this.
- 00:41:58But wait, there's more. Watch what's
- 00:42:00going on in the hourly here and how this
- 00:42:03is starting to set up from the 25 on.
- 00:42:07Well, what's happening here? You're
- 00:42:08getting a leading sector. The leading
- 00:42:10sector is IGV. IGV is leading the socks
- 00:42:15and when you go back throughout history
- 00:42:18it's really important to get let's go
- 00:42:20back to this that that's always been the
- 00:42:23case. It's it just has been because IGV
- 00:42:27you know this is the the the entire
- 00:42:29sector versus just one component of it.
- 00:42:31But you had this period in time where
- 00:42:34you didn't have that and you can see
- 00:42:37this that like if we go back we'll do it
- 00:42:38on a 4 hour real quick. uh where you had
- 00:42:41these periods where just you had this
- 00:42:43outperformance and then that
- 00:42:44outperformance of the socks is flipping.
- 00:42:47super important concept to get guys
- 00:42:48because when you see stuff like this
- 00:42:50like here's from the pandem from the
- 00:42:52pandemic pandemic I don't know where I'm
- 00:42:55from um but here's from the pandemic
- 00:42:58then if you go back so everything like
- 00:43:02let's look at it this way like nature's
- 00:43:03healing right so this is really what you
- 00:43:05want to focus on I do have a leading
- 00:43:07sector and then you would kind of go
- 00:43:09through those and go well what names are
- 00:43:11in there I'm glad you asked I think that
- 00:43:13you have to focus on stuff like Oracle
- 00:43:15let's clean all this stuff off for a
- 00:43:17moment. Um, but I think you have to
- 00:43:19focus on things like Oracle now. I think
- 00:43:22you have to pay attention to this and
- 00:43:23what you might want to do is watch these
- 00:43:25moving averages on things like Oracle.
- 00:43:27But software names overall were great.
- 00:43:30And I always look at like the big short
- 00:43:32names. A you broke out on this. Yeah,
- 00:43:36that they're they're leaning on that
- 00:43:38sucker a little bit. I'm a little
- 00:43:40surprised by that. But yeah, they're
- 00:43:41leaning on that guy a little bit. um
- 00:43:43they're selling it down and they're able
- 00:43:45to to do that. I was watching CVNA as
- 00:43:48well go, man, they're going to rally
- 00:43:49that one and they're leaning on it. So,
- 00:43:52what this is telling me is that I am at
- 00:43:54this crossroads and I really want to I I
- 00:43:56there's so much in this video and I I
- 00:43:59spent a lot of time editing this one and
- 00:44:00I don't know if that was right or wrong,
- 00:44:02but trying to cut down the time and and
- 00:44:05the one thing I want to take from all
- 00:44:06this is I do think the IGV space is
- 00:44:09something. But when I see the most
- 00:44:11shorted names getting to the highs like
- 00:44:13this and then they're rolling over, it
- 00:44:16does mean that you you want to pay
- 00:44:18attention. You you really want to pay
- 00:44:20attention and you really want to have
- 00:44:21your levels marked accurately. That is
- 00:44:24it.
- market analysis
- technical indicators
- investor sentiment
- trading strategies
- earnings reports
- bubble theory
- tech stocks
- market psychology
- rate of change
- MACD