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Tech Letter

Tech growth is a sub-sector that readers really need to stay away from right now.

It’s toxic for the time being.

We are still right in the middle of the Fed Funds rate hike cycle and the pounding has been relentless with former tech darlings breaking records for lower lows.

The poster child for the excesses in tech growth is Cathie Wood who is the CEO of ARK (ARKK) innovation funds.

She has completely ignored “market timing” and has used every brash sell-off to go big without doing much research.

This strategy has proven to be highly unsuccessful, as many of her top holdings like Tesla are again in free fall.

CEO of Tesla Elon Musk just sold $4 billion of stock to divert into his new company Twitter which lost a massive amount of advertising revenue when he took over.

Yesterday, crypto experienced an unbelievable meltdown when the 2nd largest exchange FTX once valued around $35 billion was and still is on the brink of bankruptcy.

The same day Wood bet the ranch on crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) adding 420,949 shares of COIN to the current 7.7 million that ARK Investment Management currently holds.

Bitcoin is down 13% at the time of this writing, representing yet another giant flop for Wood.

Wood is performing highly risky moves at the peak of turmoil in an industry that many think is a Ponzi scheme.

Her exploits are so infamous that it now has an inverse ETF that tracks the opposite of what she decides and performance has been stellar.

That ETF, called AXS Short Innovation Daily ETF (SARK), has soared more than 111% since launching a year ago. That’s the second best performance among the nearly 450 ETFs that launched over the past year.

Wood’s second biggest position is ad tech firm Roku (ROKU) which has gone from $460 to $48 today.

SARK’s first-year performance is among the 20 best of all-time measured against funds that are still trading.

Wood’s poor performance represents the pitfalls of choosing an investment adviser when they are one-dimensional and unable to acknowledge initial mistakes.

Instead of adjusting a flawed strategy, she has used it as the impetus to double down on a bad strategy.

The best hedge fund managers know when they are wrong and quickly reverse course or cut their losses.

Wood’s failures are quickly dealt with by blaming others, routinely saying that others “don’t do their research.”

Wood’s propensity to hype up tech like there is no tomorrow is now directly working against her.

She views any and every selloff as a brilliant entry point while ignoring broader market fundamentals.

In short, the day Cathie Wood is bearish is the day to go big into tech shares, because there are likely no more incremental buyers willing to hold the bag.

Truth be told, the Nasdaq currently sits 35% down from its November 2021 peak a year on.

I would call that pretty good, considering we are deleveraging from the biggest man-made financial bubble that was ever created in financial markets.

The bubble has caused the US Federal government to shoulder more than $31 billion of government debt that needs to be serviced with constant interest payments.

The only reason why tech shares are down 35% is because every investor believes the US Central Bank will kick the can down the road and save corporate America when push comes to shove.

This is precisely why recent bear market rallies have been epic, and any scintilla of interest rate loosening talk is met with thunderous buying.

If investors were more scared of the Fed, tech shares would be down at least 60% by now.

 

 

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