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Apple’s $124 Billion Cult of Personality, PLUG-ing Back in & An EV Road Trip
January 28, 2022 Great Stuff
Friday Feedback: The “$124 Billion Question” Edition Great Ones, I don’t cover Apple (Nasdaq: ) much at all. And there’s a reason for that… I don’t like Apple. I don’t like its walled garden App Store. I don’t like how Apple software and devices don’t play nice with my Windows-based laptops and PCs. I don’t […] The Fed Kills the Momentum Trade
January 28, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Economy, Investing
In June 2020, Barstool Sports founder and wannabe investor Dave Portnoy infamously said that “stocks only go up.” In 2022? Sorry Dave. In today's video, Ted Bauman walks us through the consequences of the Fed's recent hawkish turn. Even after big declines since the beginning of the year, there's plenty of overvaluation in the market still. Ted reviews the history of stock performance in Fed tightening cycles, which is better than you might imagine. But there's one big fear hovering over the market … what if the Fed is tightening into a downturn? That would be bad and not just for momentum stocks. Lithium’s Lift-Off; Or, Tesla Tests Its Cyber-Luck
January 27, 2022 Great Stuff
Lithium Slips Into Ludicrous Speed You say you want an energy revolution, yeah? Well, we all want to charge the world. You say it’s just EV-lution, yeah? Well, you know … electric vehicle (EV) sales have pushed global lithium prices into the stratosphere this past year. Sir, the Beatles did not sing that… No, and […] Microsoft’s Boundless Bounty, Dreamliner Nightmares & Disney’s Mattel Cartel
January 26, 2022 Great Stuff
Microsoft’s Sweet Sales Soliloquy But Microsoft (Nasdaq: )! What light through yonder Windows breaks? It is quarterly earnings, and Azure is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious cloud computing competitors who are already sick and pale with grief that thou, the OG tech company, art far more fair than they. Oh, Great […] A Very Mean Reversion
January 26, 2022 Big Picture. Big Profits., Trading Strategies, U.S. Economy
Many people believe stock market prices are usually “correct. ”The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) says that, since everybody has access to the same information about a company’s performance, its stock price shouldn’t remain over- or underpriced for long. Try telling that to someone who bought a high momentum stock in late January last year.