Below is FXI, the main China ETF, which has failed support. This is in stark contrast to nearby countries like South Korea, which have been absolutely insanely bullish lately.
Red China
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Last Gasp
One of the truer sayings in the world of trading is, “If something goes down when it’s supposed to go up, sell it.” With that in mind, I present to you Nvidia this morning:
Zero Sum Game
Well, the market continues to do dick-all.
It seems that it is allergic to being interesting, since Monday was an absolute carnival and now it’s dead as a doornail once more. As I’m typing these words, the /NQ is up a heart-pounding 0.01% on the heels of what was ostensibly one of the most important earnings reports of the year.
Food, Glorious Food
Dripping Wet
In the spring of 1987, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears intern at Apple, I distinctly remember my boss complaining to a colleague. Apple had just announced their earnings, and both sales and profits were way above expectations. The stock, to their astonishment, went down instead of up. “What else do they want from us?” he asked rhetorically. Apple had been an absolute darling of Wall Street for the past few years, moving up hundreds of percent, and to them it just didn’t seem……………fair.
So, too, with Nvidia, which just announced their quarterly results and whose data simply blew everyone’s socks off. Revenue beat. Profits beat. Forward-looking projections were increased. It was just sunshine and unicorn farts as far as anyone could see or smell.
