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When Technology Meets Healthcare

Biotech Letter

The decision to invest in FAANG stocks—Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), and Google (GOOGL)—is basically a no-brainer.

These are some of the most highly rated stocks to date, and these companies continue to grow in value.

In fact, they managed to soundly outperform the 16% returns of the S&P 500 in 2020, with the weakest stock in the list, Google’s Alphabet, climbing 31% while Apple rose by an impressive 81%.

Outside of FAANG, those who read my Mad Hedge Technology Letter know of the advantages of Software-as-as-a-Service (SaaS) and the growth of the companies behind it.

I’ve always been a fan of emerging innovations, and this is one of the reasons why I’m excited about the collaboration between technologies like SaaS to bolster age-old industries like the healthcare field.

It’s dubbed healthcare-as-a-service (HaaS).

So far, one promising stock comes to mind when it comes to HaaS: Teladoc Health (TDOC).

Teladoc is one of the companies that benefited massively from the COVID-19 lockdowns.

So far, this healthcare stock is up by over 40% year to date after skyrocketing 139% in 2020. 

During the first nine months of 2020, it recorded a whopping 163% rise on virtual visits compared to the same period in 2019. Meanwhile, its revenue rose by 79%.

The convenient technology it offers, which allows patients to connect with physicians without physically visiting the doctors’ offices, allowed Teladoc to enjoy strong growth amid the pandemic.

However, Teladoc isn’t merely a reasonable investment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company has been quietly gaining traction in the past years.

In its 2015 to 2019 reports, Teladoc reported an impressive growth in its revenues at 78%, 59%, 89%, 79%, and 32%, respectively.

The telehealth market is projected to grow to nearly $560 billion by 2027—an estimate that’s over 9 times the $61.4 billion the industry was worth in 2019. 

Needless to say, the growth in the telehealth industry is just beginning, and Teladoc is well-positioned to take advantage of the momentum.

In 2020, it has strengthened its position with its massive $18.5 billion merger with Livongo Health.

Given Livongo’s more specialized portfolio, which puts a premium on chronic care and diabetes, the newly combined companies can offer a more extensive scope of telehealth services.

By 2023, the combined Teladoc and Livongo is estimated to generate more than $3 billion in sales alone.

As for its 2021 plans, Teladoc welcomed the new year with a partnership with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems manufacturer DexCom.

With this collaboration, the company would be able to offer its users “CGM-powered insights.”

In other words, patients would be able to conveniently see and monitor their own glucose levels.

While Teladoc clearly benefited from its partnerships with Livongo and DexCom, its core business continues to show strong growth.

In its third quarter earnings report, which was released days before its Livongo merger, it more than doubled its $138 million sales in 2019 to $288.8 million in 2020.

Meanwhile, the total number of its telehealth visits increased by a staggering 206% to reach 2.8 million.

With the addition of new services in its roster, Teladoc is presented with a considerable growth opportunity just by simply boosting the usage of its current clients.

To give you a better picture of how big this could get, the company recorded a total of 73 million members by the end of the third quarter last year.

Following the mergers and the new deal last January 2021, Teladoc is anticipating an additional 65 million clients. 

Teladoc is one of the most exciting healthcare stocks out there today. Its move to combine technology and doctor’s visits make it a uniquely innovative and stand-out business in an age-old industry.

More importantly, it has shown that its growth is not solely reliant on the demands brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, it has made key moves to fortify its market share.

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February 8, 2021

Tech Letter

Mad Hedge Technology Letter
February 8, 2021
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(VENTURE CAPITALISTS SHARE THE CLUES TO THE TECH MARKET)
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Venture Capitalists Share Clues to the Tech Market

Tech Letter

To gain a glimpse into the current psyche of tech investing, we need to take a raw snapshot of the state of Softbank’s Vision Fund.

The Vision Fund is the brainchild of the Japanese telecom company’s founder Softbank Masayoshi Son and is the world’s largest technology-centric venture capital fund with over $100 billion in capital.

The torrent of bullish price action of late has meant that SoftBank recorded a record quarterly profit in its Vision Fund as a gangbusters’ stock market lifted the value of its portfolio companies.

However, the significant gains accrued in equity were also substantially offset by painful derivatives losses as Son attempted to parlay his winnings into leverage directional bets in the short-term.

The Vision Fund’s $8 billion profit in the December quarter is a stark change from the prior March when the pandemic was in full gear and the Fund booked major losses amid embarrassing flops like office space sharing company WeWork.

As 2020 came to a close, tech growth firms like Uber (UBER) stock exploded higher and DoorDash (DASH) gave the Vision Fund a nice payday going public at the end of the year in stellar fashion.

On the options trading front, things didn’t go so rosy.

SoftBank posted a 285.3 billion yen or $2.7 billion derivatives loss in the period.

I understand “hedging your bets” but for Son to create this massive loss undeniably has to infuriate deep-pocketed investors from Arab nations that have stuck with him through tumultuous events.  

The staggering option losses was why the asset management arm registered a loss of 113.5 billion yen or $1.08 billion, up from losses of 85.2 billion yen in the previous three-month period.

Experiencing wonderful gains only to have the narrative wiped out because of high stakes option bets is perhaps a sign of the times as phenomena like the Gamestop (GME) have moved to the forefront indicating that players have access to too much liquidity at this point in the market cycle.

Some 15 companies have gone public from the Vision Fund so far, and Son does have a long list of busts and winners.

However, one might assume that he won’t hit on every company as he revealed that his Vision Fund 1 and Vision Fund 2 have invested in a total of 131 companies. In the case of DoorDash, SoftBank invested about $680 million for a stake now worth about $9 billion while its $7.7 billion investment in Uber is worth $11.3 billion.

There are still shining stars on the balance sheet.

Another six more portfolio companies are planning IPOs this year and bringing this volume model to the public markets is logical considering even zombie companies are getting funded out the wazoo at this point.

Tech is also still holding its perch as the darling of the market and Son is simply delivering to market what investors want which is growth tech and more of it.

Other issues on Softbank’s list are to sell off its interests in Alibaba, T-Mobile US Inc., and SoftBank Corp., the Japan telecommunications unit. SoftBank also announced a deal to sell its chip designer Arm to Nvidia (NVDA) for $40 billion.

On top of the risky growth companies, Softbank has also parked its capital in a who’s who of tech firms such as a $7.39 billion investment in Amazon.com (AMZN), $3.28 billion in Facebook (FB). and $1.38 billion in Alphabet or Google (GOOGL). The operation is managed by its asset management subsidiary SB Northstar, where Son personally holds a 33% stake.

Son labeled his options debacle as a “test-drive stage” hoping to play down the fact that he should have made a lot more with the massive ramp-up in tech demand in 2020.

It’s not all smooth for Son with the chaos at Alibaba (BABA), Son’s most exotic investment success to date and SoftBank’s largest asset, tanked 20% last quarter amid a Chinese government clampdown on Alibaba Founder Jack Ma.

This has to worry Son’s future tech investing prospects in China (P.R.C.).

SoftBank’s own sale of Arm to Nvidia (NVDA) is still making the rounds through the EU approval process. The United Kingdom and European Union are both preparing to launch probes into the deal.

All in all, a mixed bag for the Vision Fund where profits should have been higher and most of the damage was self-inflicted.

At some point, throwing massive amounts of capital to juice up tech growth firms will backfire, but the generous access to liquidity that Son has makes this strategy work while even affording him some massive failures.

In short, the Vision Fund should be many times more profitable and it’s a reminder that these leveraged bets aren’t going away which should mean enough liquidity out there to take the markets higher.

We should also be aware that the eventual “market mistake” could give us 10% tech corrections, which are no brainer buying opportunities if the same liquidity volume persists.

Then consider that many tech companies have done well in the recent earnings season and combine that with the eventual reestablishment of buybacks and the neutral observer must think that tech has more room to run in 2021.

 

 

 

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February 5, 2021

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
February 5, 2021
Fiat Lux

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(FEBRUARY 3 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A),
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(AAPL), (TSLA), (FEYE), (PANW), (SWI), (WYNN), (MGM), (LVS)

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February 3 Biweekly Strategy Webinar Q&A

Diary, Newsletter

Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the February 3 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar broadcast from Incline Village, NV.

Q: Is there a big difference between COVID-19 vaccines?

A: The best vaccine is the one you can get. It’s better than being dead. But there are important differences. The Pfizer (PFE) and Moderna (MRNA) vaccines are RNA vaccines, they’re very safe, and getting similar results. But the evidence shows that about 15% of Moderna recipients are coming down with flu-like symptoms on their second shot. Nobody knows why, as the two are almost biochemically identical. AstraZeneca is a killed virus type vaccine, which means if they have a manufacturing error, you end up giving the disease to people by accident, as with the original polio vaccine. So that's the less safe vaccine. So far, that one has only been used in Europe and Australia, as it is made in England. There isn’t enough data about the John & Johnson (JNJ) single-shot vaccine.

Q: Is Moderna (MRNA) a long term buy?

A: The trouble with all the vaccine plays is that we’re heading for a global vaccine glut in about 4 months when we’ll have something like 12 companies around the world making them. The rush for everyone to get a vaccination as soon as possible is leading to inevitable overproduction and falling stock prices. Moderna is already a 12 bagger for us. I’m not really looking to overstay my welcome, so to speak. Time to cash in and say, “Thank you very much, Mr. Market.” There will be another cycle down the road for (MRNA) as its technology is used to cure cancer, but not yet.

Q: Would you recommend a silver (SLV) LEAP?

A: Yes, silver was run up 35% for a day by the GameStop (GME) crowd and crashed the next day, which was to be expected because there are no short positions in silver. Everything was just hedged to look like there were short positions because the big banks had huge open short options positions that were public and hedges in the futures and silver bars that were private. The (GME) people only saw the public short positions. Long term, I would go for a $30-$32 vertical call spread expiring in 2023. Go out 2 years, and I think you could get silver at $50. So, a good LEAP might get you a 1000% return in two years. Those are the kinds of trades I like to do.

Q: What do you think of Amazon now that Jeff Bezos is retiring?

A: Buy the daylights out of it. That was the great unknown overhanging the stock for years, Jeff’s potential retirement. Now it's no longer unknown, you want to buy (AMZN). Even before the retirement, I was targeting $5,000 a share in two years. Now we have everybody under the sun raising their targets to $5,000 or more— we even had one upgrade today to $5,200. There are at least half a dozen businesses that Amazon can expand into, like healthcare, which will be multibillion-dollar earners. And then if you break it up because of antitrust, it doubles in value again, so that's a screaming buy here. We have flatlined for six months, so this could be a trigger for a long-term breakout.

Q: Is there anything else left after GameStop? Another short play?

A: Well, this was the worst short squeeze in 25 years, and everyone else covered their other shorts because they don't want to get wiped out like the one Melvin Capital. There were only around a dozen potential single-digit heavily shorted stocks out there, and those are mostly gone. So, the GameStop crowd will have to roll up their sleeves and do some hard work finding stocks the old fashion way—by doing research. I’m guessing that GameStop was a one-hit-wonder; we probably won’t be surprised again. At the same time, you should never underestimate the stupidity of other investors.

Q: What do you think of the cloud plays like Cloudera and Snowflake?

A: I love cloud plays and there will be more coming. The entire US economy is moving on to the cloud. But everyone else loves them too. Snowflake (SNOW) doubled on its first day, and Cloudera (CLDR) doubled over the last three months, so they're incredibly expensive and high risk. But you can't argue with their business models going forward—the cloud is here to stay.

Q: Would you buy LEAPS in financials?

A: Absolutely yes; go out two years for your maturity and 30% on your strike prices, you will get a ten bagger on the trade. If I’m wrong, it only goes to zero.

Q: Is US Steel (X) a buy?

A: Yes. They are being dragged up by the global commodity boom triggered by the global synchronized recovery. (X) took a hit today because they just priced a $700 million secondary share issue which the flippers dumped like a hot potato. If given the choice, I’d rather do a copper play with Freeport McMoRan (FCX) which is seeing much more buying from China. I bought it on Monday.

Q: Any chance you can include one-, three-, and five-year price targets?

A: No chance whatsoever. I’ve never heard of a fund manager that could do that and be right. Stocks are just too imprecise an instrument with all the emotion that’s involved. But for the better stocks, you can with confidence predict at least a double. And by the way, all my predictions for the last 13 years have been way, way on the low side, so I tend to be conservative. Like, remember when Amazon was at $10? I said it would go to $20. Boy was I right!

Q: How can you say the next four years will be good for the stock market?

A: Well, $10 trillion in fiscal stimulus, $10 trillion in QE; stocks tend to like that. Oh, and technology exponentially accelerating on all fronts and far more broadly than what we saw in the 1990s. Also, there is a certain person who is no longer president, so add about 10-20% on top of all stock valuations.  Companies can finally do long term planning again, after being unable to do so for four years because policies were anti-trade, anti-business, and flip-flopping every other day. So yes, I think that's enough to make the next 4 four years good; and actually, I think the next 8 years could be good—I'm predicting Dow 120,000 by 2030, if you recall.

Q: When do you expect the next 5% correction if there is one? February is always very volatile.

A: With an unlimited liquidity market like we have, it is really tough to see negatives of any kind. What kind of negatives are out there? The pandemic doesn’t stop—that's the main one. There’s another one people aren't talking about: the reason we got all these vaccines so fast is they took all regulation and threw it out the window. What if one of these vaccines kill off a million people? That would be pretty negative for the market. Interest rates could rocket faster than expected. But I’m always short there so that would be a moneymaker. But these are pretty out there possibilities, and that is why the market is not backing off, and when it does, it only gives us 5%.

Q: Is the Fed stimulating the economy too much?

A: The bond market says no with a ten-year yield of 1.10%, and the bond market is always the ultimate arbiter of when the stimulus ends. That’s because the Fed can’t directly control bond market interest rates, only overnight rates. But when we get bonds up to, say, a 3% yield (which is probably 2 or 3 years off), that’s when we’re getting too much stimulus, and we’ll probably take our foot off the pedal way before then. I know Janet Yellen and she agrees with me on this point. She’ll be throttling back well before we see a 3% yield in the Treasury market.

Q: Do you manage other people’s money?

A: No, because it costs a million dollars in legal fees to set up even a small fund these days. When I set up my hedge fund 30 years ago, there were no regulatory costs because no one knew what a hedge fund was; they all thought they were doing something illegal, so they didn't have to register for anything. That’s why it’s changed now.

Q: What is your target on NVIDIA (NVDA), and will it split?

A: It’s an easy double, with a global chip shortage running rampant. They make the best graphics cards in the world, bar none. These big tech companies tend not to split until they get share prices into the thousands, which is what Apple (AAPL) and what Tesla (TSLA) did three or four times.

Q: If we get 3.25% in bonds, is that going to hurt gold?

A: Yes, and that’s one of the reasons I bailed on my gold positions a couple of weeks ago. It effectively turned into a bond long. A sharp rise in interest rates is bad for gold because we all know that gold yields to zero.

Q: What about Fireye (FEYE)?

A: Yes, we also love Fireye in addition to Palo Alto Networks (PANW) because there is a near-monopoly—there are only about six players in the entire cybersecurity industry and hacking is getting worse by the day. Look at the Solar Winds (SWI) fiasco and the national Russian hack there.

Q: What about copper as a recovery play?

A: Well, I voted with my feet on Monday when I bought a position in Freeport McMoRan, after it just sold off 15%. I think (FCX) could double at some point in the coming economic recovery. So, copper is an absolute winner, and when having to choose between copper and steel, I’ll pick copper all day long.

Q: What do you recommend for gold (GLD)?

A: Gold is a trading range for the time being. Buy the dips, sell the rallies; you won’t get more than about 10% or 15% range on that. And there are just better fish to fry right now, like financials, which benefit from rising interest rates as opposed to being punished. Bitcoin is stealing gold’s thunder and the markets keep creating more Bitcoins.

Q: Should high-frequency trading be banned?

A: I don’t think it should be. It does create liquidity; the effect on the market is wildly overexaggerated. They’re basically trading for pennies or tenths of pennies, so they do provide buying on selloffs and selling at huge price spikes. They do have a positive effect and they’re probably only taking about $10 or $20 billion in profit a year out of the market.

Q: Should I buy Wynn Resorts (WYNN) here?

A: Buy the dips for sure; this is a major recovery play. We here in Nevada are expecting an absolute tidal wave of people to hit the casinos once the pandemic ends, and (WYNN), (MGM), and (LVS) would be a great play in those areas.

Good Luck and Stay Healthy.

John Thomas
CEO & Publisher
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader

 

 

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

February 3, 2021

Tech Letter

Mad Hedge Technology Letter
February 3, 2021
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

($4,000 A DONE DEAL FOR AMAZON IN 2021)
(AMZN)

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$4,000 a Done Deal for Amazon for 2021

Tech Letter

Amazon is highly likely to surge past $4,000 this year.

Like many other tech stocks, last March was a kick in the teeth that served up a quick correction.

But unlike a handful of sectors, investors saw their faith in Amazon rewarded when the stock reversed and roared to $3,500.

After a sharp spiral down off the March lows, as investors saw Amazon as a beneficiary of lockdown measures, the stock had been consolidating within a narrowing range over the past several months.

Traders have solid support levels at $3,100 and any trader should be buying AMZN at anything close to that.

The price action suggests that AMZN has a favorable chance to break up to the upside some point after what was a blowout fourth quarter results of net income of decisively more than the predicted $6.3 billion and revenue approaching $120 billion.

They outdid themselves and reported earnings of $14.09 per share on record revenue of $125.56 billion.

The e-commerce and technology titan went into its important holiday quarter report on a strong note and 2021 will be no different as features if the pandemic persists.

Just a quick rewind to the third quarter, revenue and earnings also easily beat consensus estimates, and Amazon perennially guides up. This is becoming a constant pattern with the stock boding well for the future stock price.

Investors like companies who constantly over-deliver on earnings metrics.

The biggest bombshell of yesterday’s report was clearly that Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO, would leave from his role in the third quarter of 2021.

I thought it was interesting that after-hour trading was largely indifferent as investors were digesting the founder leaving his creation.

Next on deck is Andy Jassy, who currently leads Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will take over Bezos’ job.

Bezos will stick around in an “executive chairman” role and I envision this as Bezos not really leaving and still handling all the “big vision” stuff.

Inside the company, Jassy is the highest profile candidate and part of the most profitable part of the company giving him major clout.

This is out of the same mold of Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella who was also promoted to the top via the cloud division.

Bezos will now have more time to spend on Day 1 Fund which is a non-profit organization that will launch and operate a network of high-quality, full-scholarship Montessori-inspired preschools in underserved communities.

Along with that, he will spend time with the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post while Jassy handles the daily grind of the operation.

Don’t forget that Bezos is the largest shareholder, but because Amazon has become quite heralded for grooming top-level management, the company won’t miss a beat with Jassy.

Just look at what Jassy did in the fourth quarter.

Amazon Web Service (AWS) grew revenue 28% to $12.74 billion. That year-over-year growth rate held roughly steady compared to the third quarter and is the U.S. market share leader in cloud web hosting.

AWS operating income grew even more strongly, jumping 37% to nearly $3.6 billion.

Awarding the best performing manager at a company is something good companies do.

The pandemic, in itself, was a major catalyst to take revenue growth higher and sales got a boost from the company's annual Prime Day event, which was pushed back to the fourth quarter this year from its usual place in the third quarter due to the global crisis.

This year could be a similar repeat of 2020 with consumers crazy for e-commerce services and Amazon, best of breed service.

This should be a buy on every small dip stock and simply the best company in the world right now whether examining tech or anything else.

 

 

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February 2, 2021

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
February 2, 2021
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:

(MY NEWLY UPDATED LONG-TERM PORTFOLIO),
(PFE), (BMY), (AMGN), (CELG), (CRSP), (FB), (PYPL), (GOOGL), (AAPL), (AMZN), (SQ), (JPM), (BAC), (MS), (GS), (BABA), (EEM), (FXA), (FCX), (GLD), (SLV), (TLT)

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My Newly Updated Long-Term Portfolio

Diary, Newsletter

I am really happy with the performance of the Mad Hedge Long Term Portfolio since the last update on July 21, 2020.  In fact, not only did we nail the best sectors to go heavily overweight, we also completely dodged the bullets in the worst-performing ones.

For new subscribers, the Mad Hedge Long Term Portfolio is a “buy and forget” portfolio of stocks and ETFs. If trading is not your thing, these are the investments you can make, and then not touch until you start drawing down your retirement funds at age 72.

For some of you, that is not for another 50 years. For others, it was yesterday.

There is only one thing you need to do now and that is to rebalance. Buy or sell what you need to reweight every position to its appropriate 5% or 10% weighting. Rebalancing is one of the only free lunches out there and always adds performance over time. You should follow the rules assiduously.

Despite the seismic changes that have taken place in the global economy over the past nine months, I only need to make minor changes to the portfolio, which I have highlighted below.

To download the entire new portfolio in an excel spreadsheet, please go to www.madhedgefundtrader.com, log in, go “My Account”, then “Global Trading Dispatch”, then click on the “Long Term Portfolio” button.

Changes

I am cutting back my weighting in biotech from 25% to 20% because Celgene (CELG) was taken over by Bristol Myers (BMY) at a 110% profit compared to our original cost. We also earned a spectacular 145% gain on Crisper Therapeutics (CRSP). I’m keeping it because I believe it has more to run.

My 30% weighting in technology also gets pared back to 20% because virtually all of my names have doubled or more. These have been in a sideways correction for the past six months but are still an important part of any barbell portfolio. So, take out Facebook (FB) and PayPal (PYPL) and keep the rest.

I am increasing my weighting in banks from 10% to 20%. Interest rates are finally starting to rise, setting up a perfect storm in favor of bank earnings. Loan default rates are falling. Banks are overcapitalized, thanks to Dodd-Frank. And because of the trillions in government stimulus loans they are disbursing, they are now the most subsidized sector of the economy. So, add in Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs (GS), which will profit enormously from a continuing bull market in stocks.

Along the same vein, I am committing 10% of my portfolio to a short position in the United States Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) as I think bonds are about to go to hell in a handbasket. I rant on this sector on an almost daily basis, so go read Global Trading Dispatch.

I am keeping my 10% international exposure in Chinese Internet giant Alibaba (BABA) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Market ETF (EEM). The Biden administration will most likely dial back the recent vociferous anti-Chinese stance, setting these names on fire.

I am also keeping my foreign currency exposure unchanged, maintaining a double long in the Australian dollar (FXA). The Aussie has been the best performing currency against the US dollar and that should continue.

Australia will be a leveraged beneficiary of the synchronized global economic recovery, both through strong commodity prices and gold which has already started to rise, and the post-pandemic return of Chinese tourism and investment. I argue that the Aussie will eventually make it to parity with the US dollar, or 1:1.

As for precious metals, I’m baling on my 10% holding in gold (GLD), which delivered a nice 20% gain in 2020. From here, it is having trouble keeping up with other alternative assets, like Bitcoin, and there are better fish to fry.

Yes, in this liquidity-driven global bull market, a 20% return is just not enough to keep my interest. Instead, I add a 5% weighting in the higher beta and more volatile iShares Silver Trust (SLV), which has far wider industrial uses in solar panels and electric vehicles.

As for energy, I will keep my weighting at zero. Never confuse “gone down a lot” with “cheap”. I think the bankruptcies have only just started and will stretch on for a decade. Thanks to hyper-accelerating technology, the adoption of electric cars, and less movement overall in the new economy, energy is about to become free. You are looking at the next buggy whip industry.

My ten-year assumption for the US and the global economy remains the same. I’m looking at 3%-5% a year growth for the next decade.

When we come out the other side of this, we will be perfectly poised to launch into my new American Golden Age, or the next Roaring Twenties. With interest rates still at zero, oil cheap, there will be no reason not to. The Dow Average will rise by 400% or more in the coming decade. The America coming out the other side of the pandemic will be far more efficient, productive, and profitable than the old.

You won’t believe what’s coming your way!

I hope you find this useful and I’ll be sending out another update in six months so you can rebalance once again.

Stay healthy.

John Thomas
CEO & Publisher
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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