Yet another chance to short oil at $43.50!
What a great way to start the week and we had 3,500 on the S&P (/ES) and 12,000 on the Nasdaq (/NQ), 28,750 on the Dow (/YM) and 1,585 on the Russell (/RTY) this morning and the best way to short the indexes is to short the laggard. In other words, wait for at least 2 of the indexes to cross below those major lines and then, as soon as the 3rd one crosses below, short that and STOP OUT IF ANY of the indexes goes back above their line. If the 4th one confirms by crossing under – you are probably in great shape. That limits your losses but not your gains – it's a money-management style of playing that can be very effective in the long run as a single win can cancel out many losses.
Tesla (TSLA) split 5:1 and Apple (AAPL) split 4:1 today so Tesla shares went from $2,213 to $442.60 and AAPL went from $499.23 to $124.80 and both are up slightly on that action but they've been bid up so much the past few weeks in anticipation of the split that I don't think there's much gas left in the tank but I did say that at $1,250 on TSLA and again at $1,950 (now $390) and so far, so wrong on that one.
No matter how you split it, TSLA is a one-stock bubble and $450 is a market cap of $415Bn – more than the ENTIRE rest of the auto industry combined and they sell 100M cars per year and TSLA sells 400,000 or 1/250th as many. So, unless those cars cost $10M each with a 15% profit margin – their valuation makes no sense at all. You can't "grow into" that sort of valuation. Even if TSLA were going to be the ONLY car company in the World with the best margins in the World (car companies generally make 10% or less) – how long would that take? They are being priced like that now!
Yet people are paying it. There's a sucker born every minute but now that they've done a stock split, 5 more suckers can afford their stock – that's the dream – the same dream that says Tesla will roll over the entire auto industry, wipe them out without a fight and figure out how to make a profit without government support, which averaged over $5,000 per vehicle last year. If the World governments had to support the entire auto industry to that extent, it would cost $5Tn/year just to subsidize TSLA's World Domination scheme – no wonder Musk is going to Mars – he'll need a antoher planet after he bankrupts this one.…
Yes, the stock market is very silly and we are very much in CASH!!! as this rally is very overdone. It might go up more – that's what bubbles do – but it also might not and, if we can't tell which is which, it's safer to be cautious than not. Just common sense. Common sense that should also be applied to fighting the Corona Virus but we're giving up on that one too as my daughters went back to college this weekend and the little ones go back to school next week (Monday holiday first) and that's going to be a disaster of biblical proportions so yes, we're sitting this week out and waiting for the other shoe to drop as we "spike the curve" because 1,000 American Deaths per day are clearly not enough for the Death Cult that's now in charge of our country.
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game – Smashing Pumpkins
It's not a very exciting data week, we only two scheduled Fed speakers and we'll have the Dallas Fed Report on Monday (10:30), PMI, ISM and Construction Spending (which should be strong) on Tuesday, Factory Orders and the Beige Book Wednesday, Productivity and PMI & ISM Services Thursday and the all-important Non-Farm Payroll Report Friday, which takes us into the holiday weekend.
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It has, so far, taken the average college 2 weeks to change it's mind about having in-person classes as cases began spiking immediately. I think it will take 2 weeks for Team Trump to begin denying there's a problem and they intend to keep ignoring it into the elections, still over 2 months from now.
