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It’s nice not to care. That’s the first thing I’ll say.
I’ll explain in a moment but take a look at AMD after hours. It came out with earnings and immediately plunged. For some reason, based on the same data, it decided to do a hard U-Turn and went roaring higher. Even as I typed these words, it zipped higher still. You can imagine the emotions pulsing through AMD traders right now, particularly when the stock went from collapsing to exploding to lifetime highs in a matter of minutes.
Let’s start with two related and relevant items.
First, during my tastylive show yesterday, I made two important statements: first, that I’d really appreciate it if the market gods could create a failed bullish breakout with NVDA, and second, that the AI Bubble’s failure would absolutely dwarf what we saw in the so-called great financial crisis. I’ve linked the specific piece of the video where I made the first remark:
The semiconductor mega-rally is over. I’ve bought July $500 puts against SMH and have, in a different account, shorted SMH. This has gone CAR-level of silly.
Here is yet another historic milestone in a market packed with them: for the first time in history, the semiconductor index went up seventeen days in a row. Can you imagine what kind of emergency federal actions would be taking place if it had been DOWN seventeen days in a row? But up? No problem!
Perhaps you heard that last weekend the President signed an executive order to allow for the use of psychedelic drug therapy (I suppose for veterans, but I’m not sure of the particulars). Below are five publicly traded instruments which are in this sector:
