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Here’s a fun fact I bet you don’t know: if you bought Tesla in November 2021, almost half a decade ago, and held on tight through today, your net gain would be……….zero.
I don’t trade Tesla, but if I had to take a wild guess at after-hours action, I’d say – – lower.
I’d like to present to you what I consider the most important chart in the world. It isn’t SPY, QQQ, /ES, /NQ, or even DJT. Nope. It’s SMH:
In case you are wondering how devastating the 50% tariffs are there Trump just enacted against Canada, here is the EWC country fund for our northern neighbor:
My annoy-o-meter is pinging this morning, because in spite of a very weak opening, the goddamned market keeps trying to rally past resistance. After its first straight-up attempt, it was beaten back, but as I’m typing these words, it’s trying to pull the same crap on the /ES:
Now that we’re done with the boring part of the earnings season, tonight the good stuff starts. The two biggies are TSLA and GOOGL, but whereas TSLA used to be practically the entire focus of the stock market half a decade ago, these days it’s a bit of a shoulder shrug. Most attention will be on Alphabet, or like most people call it, Google:
