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Get Off the Pot!
No, that’s not a quote from me banging on the door asking to use the bathroom. It’s simply my attitude toward the market, which seems to be struggling with its willingness to plunge itself into oblivion. Not that this has been a bad week. Far from it. Still, it would be nice to simply see this thing go full-blown Imodium A-D.
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.
Nowhere Man
Oh. My. Lord. This market is sooooooo boring right now. This isn’t just a grumpy opinion. Check out the net result of an entire WEEK of market activity on the /ES:
How Big a Bounce?
Good morning, everyone. This has been quite a week! Sadly, with earnings season behind us, I think it’s going to get more boring soon, but let’s enjoy the glow while we can.
Strategy (MSTR) is bouncing hard overnight, up about 17% from its low. You can already hear the high-fives and “We Are SO BACK” shrieks from the crypto crowd. I want to offer congrats once again to Xerxes for nailing this trade (I think he said in comments he was going to take final profits before the earnings call, which was perfect timing).
