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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 9, 2020

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 9, 2020
Fiat Lux

SPECIAL EARLY RETIREMENT ISSUE

Featured Trade:
(HOW TO JOIN THE EARLY RETIREMENT STAMPEDE)

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Trade Alert - (GLD) July 8, 2020 - SELL-TAKE PROFITS

Trade Alert

When John identifies a strategic exit point, he will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what security to sell, when to sell it, and at what price. Most often, it will be to TAKE PROFITS, but, on rare occasions, it will be to exercise a STOP LOSS at a predetermined price to adhere to strict risk management discipline. Read more

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July 8, 2020

Tech Letter

Mad Hedge Technology Letter
July 8, 2020
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(THE ONLY RETAIL PLAY YOU WANT TO KNOW)
(OSTK), (W)

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The Only Retail Play You Want to Know

Tech Letter

As U.S. virus cases explode, the shelter-in-home trade is back in full force, meaning investors need to look at Overstock.com, Inc. (OSTK).

We are talking about parabolic action in a stock price with shares up 16% yesterday alone and even doubling in the last 40 days.

The U.S. is now hugging that 50,000 cases per day mark and it is only a matter of time until the health crisis spirals so far out of control that everybody will be back inside online shopping again on their touchpads.

And if it doesn’t get that bad, it certainly will trend in that direction which is why Overstock.com will be back in vogue.

The short-term performance validates my thesis that Overstock.com is going through a renaissance as it goes from the edge of the periphery to a tech darling.

Revenue in April and May were up 120% year-over-year as the company expects to see continued momentum in the near-term, Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson remarked during a Fox Business interview.

Consumers "still aren't ready" to return to furnishing stores to test couches, beds, and other furniture due to the coronavirus pandemic, Johnson said. The online venue clearly remains "the place" to buy home furnishing items.

Overstock.com wholeheartedly believes they will experience "strong" double-digit growth rate through the summer.

The mother of all tailwinds has legs and you might think of Overstock as a smaller e-commerce store in the mold of Amazon.com, but they have really taken the business model up a notch.

Overstock started out as a pure play on online retail operations, based on a low-cost business model that involves the selling of excess inventory from factories and other retailers at discounted prices.

Overstock.com Inc. became a household name as an e-commerce pioneer, but in recent years, excitement in the investment community was focused more on the company’s blockchain efforts.

The pandemic changed the world and the company is dusting off its e-commerce playbook.

Mushrooming sales at Overstock’s retail business have helped transform a timid stock to one of the Covid-era’s best performers, an irony for a division that had long been considered for sale.

Overstock shares have gained nearly 11-fold since closing at a record low on March 16, and this is just the beginning as the administration hopes to convince the population that the virus doesn’t need any managing.

Sweeping the carnage of the virus under the carpet makes no sense, and with the internet disseminating information and disinformation, will Americans be inclined to believe the virus has no teeth?

It’s hard to wrap our heads around the US government’s response to a global health crisis and the bountiful harvest the tech sector is collecting.

They hardly needed it.

Tech was crushing it before the pandemic.

If you strip out the earnings of the Big 6 of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google, there is no earnings growth for the last five years in any sector.

Stocks went up purely based on excess liquidity and a monstrous corporate tax break.

Then the administration’s disregard of the health crisis gifted accelerating revenue to the tech sector while every other sector was cruelly pillaged.

Granted, the U.S. administration had no intention to hammer non-tech businesses, but that is exactly what is playing out.

So now this is what you get – a once sluggish tech stock like Overstock.com turning into an e-commerce pandemic play on steroids overnight.

The stock is frantically gapping up almost every day and it was just a few years ago when the company was really grasping at straws by jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon.

The U-turn by CEO Jonathan Johnson says it all as he has “no interest” in selling the e-commerce business which he was desperate to sell last month.

And just based on the news that Johnson didn’t sell the e-commerce unit last month, the stock doubled.

It’s unfathomable times in the tech sector.

The decor and home improvement market could end up benefiting from a total of $200 billion in an annual tailwind because of the pandemic’s effect on consumers.

If consumers are looking for a similar e-commerce play, then Wayfair (W) should fit the bill.

It’s getting to the point where if the late first wave or early second wave hits harder than the initial wave in March, there might be nowhere else to buy home furnishings and décor but at e-commerce stores.

I am bullish Overstock.com

overstock.com

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July 8, 2020 - Quote of the Day

Tech Letter

“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” – Said English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

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July 8, 2020 - MDT Pro Tips

MDT Alert

While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to a six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Bill Davis, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three-day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points. Read more

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July 8, 2020

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 8, 2020
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(TRADING THE BLUE WAVE STOCK MARKET),
(FB), (AAPL), (MSFT), (AMZN), (ADBE), (SQ), (PYPL), (CRM), (SGEN), (REGN), (ILMN) (FEYE), (PANW), (AMD), (MU), (NVDA), (TSLA), (LEN), (PHM), (KBH), (XOM), (CVX), (XOM), (RTN), (NOC), (LMT), (KOL), (X), (GE)

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Trading the Blue Wave Stock Market

Diary, Newsletter

At this point, it is possible that the president may lose the November election.

He is 14 points behind Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the polls. The odds at the London betting polls have him losing by a similar amount. My old employer The Economist magazine in London gives him a 10% chance of winning using a mix of economic and polling data.

And this assumes the election is held today. The fact is that the president is digging himself into a deeper hole every day, taking the wrong side of every issue confronting the country today. He seems to be refighting the Civil War….and taking the Confederate side when even the State of Mississippi is taking its symbol off its flag.

So, what will the post-Trump world look like? Will taxes go through the roof? Will the market crash? Is it time to go 100% cash, change our names, and move to a country with no US extradition treaty?

I don’t think so. In fact, with stocks soaring to meteoric new highs every day, the market expects that a Biden administration will be great news for stocks, perhaps the best ever.

Taxes will certainly go up. Favorable tax treatment of the energy, real estate, and private equity funds will get axed. Carried interest will finally become history. Marginal tax rate on net income over $1 billion could get hiked to the Roosevelt levels of 80-90%.

Biden has already announced an increase in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. That will cut earnings for the S&P 500 by $9 a share. But the stock market is not the economy, with S&P earnings only accounting for 10% of US GDP.

And the $9 companies lose in taxes they will make back and more from new government spending, which isn’t slowing down any time soon. Some 14,000 American bridges need to be rebuilt. The Interstate Highway System is a shambles. High-speed broadband needs to go rural. The electrification of the US needs to accelerate to accommodate the millions of electric cars headed our way.

I believe that eventually, 51 million Americans will lose their jobs as a result of the pandemic. Perhaps a third of those are never coming back because the future has been so accelerated. That will leave the broader U-6 Unemployment rate stuck in double digits for years, maybe for decades.

So, we’re going to need some kind of Roosevelt style programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who built much of the monolithic infrastructure that we all enjoy today.

At least 300,000 educated workers could immediately be put to work in contact tracing. Millions more could be employed in national infrastructure programs. One thing is certain. A new administration won’t stop massive government spending, it will simply redirect it.

And let's face it. A Biden win would bring a big expansion of Obamacare. With the best healthcare technology in the world, private industry has done the world’s worst job controlling the pandemic.

Countries with well-run national healthcare systems like Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Singapore have almost wiped out the disease. This is why I am avoiding the healthcare sector for the foreseeable future.

Who are the big winners of all this? Big tech (FB), (AAPL), (MSFT), (AMZN), medium tech (ADBE), fintech (SQ), (PYPL), the cloud (CRM), and biotech (SGEN), (REGN), and (ILMN).

Cybersecurity will always be in demand (FEYE), (PANW). The global chip shortage will continue to worsen (AMD), (MU), (NVDA).

And Tesla (TSLA)? What can I say? It is already up nearly 100-fold from my initial $16.50 recommendation in 2010, and I’ve bought three Tesla’s (two S’s and an X).

Followers of the Mad Hedge Trade Alert service know that I am already long these names up the wazoo, and is why I am up 26% in 2020. It’s simply a matter of all pre-pandemic trends hyper-accelerating, which we were already tapped into.

If you have to add a purely domestic sector, a gigantic Millennial tailwind will keep homebuilders bubbling for years like (LEN), (PHM), and (KBH).

And while you won’t find me as a player here, retail will recover. The sector has not prospered during the current administration, thanks to a trade war with China and the pandemic.

And the losers? There is a classification of “Trump” stocks you don’t want to be anywhere near. Energy will do terribly (XOM), (CVX), (XOM), with Texas tea possibly revisiting negative numbers. If you take away the tax breaks, energy hasn’t really made money in decades.

Defense stocks (RTN), (NOC), (LMT) will take a big hit from budget cutbacks and fewer wars. Coal (KOL) will finally get shut down for good, probably sold to China in bankruptcy proceedings. Industrials will continue to lag (X), (GE), with no more free handouts from the government and no technology advantage.

So if Biden wins, you don’t need to slit your wrists, hang yourself from the showerhead, or cease investing completely. Just take your stock market winnings and go out and get drunk instead.

 

 

 

 

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Trade Alert - (TLT) July 7, 2020 - SELL-TAKE PROFITS

Trade Alert

When John identifies a strategic exit point, he will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what security to sell, when to sell it, and at what price. Most often, it will be to TAKE PROFITS, but, on rare occasions, it will be to exercise a STOP LOSS at a predetermined price to adhere to strict risk management discipline. Read more

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July 7, 2020

Biotech Letter

Mad Hedge Biotech & Healthcare Letter
July 7, 2020
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(THE BILLIONS IN CROSS-PRESCRIBING FOR COVID-19),
(INCY), (NVS), (REGN), (SNY), (RHHBY), (LLY), (AZN), (GILD)

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