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Bookkeeping: I added NVDA, MSFT, and Adobe to my Volatility Portfolio on March 24

Bookkeeping: I added NVDA, MSFT, and Adobe to my Volatility Portfolio on March 24

In Step #3 of my Special Report: 5 Moves for the Next 5 Months, on March 24 I added three Big Tech stocks–Microsoft (MSFT), Adobe (ADBE), and Nvidia (NVDA) to my Volatility Portfolio ahead of earnings season. My theory, explained in that post was that we were facing a tough earnings season for most stocks and that reliable earnings growth from Big Tech would make those stocks look like a safe haven in a period when the Standard & Poor’s 500 as a whole was projected to show a drop in earnings. (I also owned up to my mistake in selling Nvidia back on February 16. That was just wrong. More on why I was wrong and why I’ve changed my mind on that in a post tomorrow or so.)

Special Report: 7 AI Stocks to Own Now–with a couple of speculative picks to come on Thursday

Special Report: 7 AI Stocks to Own Now–with a couple of speculative picks to come on Thursday

You can understand the gold rush: One AI stock is up 105% (and 78% in the last month) in 2023 as of the February 17 close.

But are shares of that company, the software artificial company C3A (AI), the stock you want to own, or is this stock simply a beneficiary of hot money jumping on anything that sounds like artificial intelligence? As one market observer put it on Seeking Alpha recently, “The ticker is more valuable than the company.” This doesn’t mean that the current revolution in artificial intelligence isn’t real. And here I give you my 7 picks for investing in the latest AI revolution

Wednesday’s rally in the market’s most speculative stocks is the last straw for me: I said I’d be a seller into any post-Fed rally–but what specifically would I be selling? Here are the 12 stocks I’d sell now

Wednesday’s rally in the market’s most speculative stocks is the last straw for me: I said I’d be a seller into any post-Fed rally–but what specifically would I be selling? Here are the 12 stocks I’d sell now

The rally on February 15 sure looked like a speculative blowout of the kind that often signals a market top. For me, it was the last straw and I’m selling into the rally. This post tells you what I’m selling and how I arrived at these decisions. But first, a few words on Wednesday’s move.

What’s next for this stock market? How about more earnings estimate cuts? Nvidia is a good example of why stocks aren’t as cheap as they seem

What’s next for this stock market? How about more earnings estimate cuts? Nvidia is a good example of why stocks aren’t as cheap as they seem

Wall Street analysts had begun to cut earnings estimates for 2023 even before this week’s Federal Reserve meeting. The Fed’s signal that it would raise interest rates higher and for longer than anticipated–and Fed chair Jerome Powell’s very tepid support for the belief that there wouldn’t be a recession in 2023, is leading Wall Street analysts to cut forecasts again. I mean how great will revenue and earnings growth be in 2023 if the economy grows at the Fed’s projected 0.5%? And a big chunk of that thinking on Wall Street is asking now if that projection isn’t the optimistic end of a range that on the downside would put the U.S. economy into an actual recession. Which puts downward pressure on stock prices and makes it very difficult right now to put a fair value on any stock. The Standard & Poor’s 500 closed down another 1.11% today, December 16. The Dow Jone Industrial Average was off 0.85%. The NASDAQ Composite closed lower by 0.97%. And the NASDAQ 100 ended down 0.63%. Take a look at how this works for a stock such as Nvidia (NVDA).

It’s a new trade war with China and this one is really, really serious

It’s a new trade war with China and this one is really, really serious

If you liked the Trump administration’s trade war with China, you’ll love the Biden administration’s new, more dangerous, escalated version. Rather than slapping tariffs on Chinese goods, and inviting retaliatory tariffs by China on American products, the Biden administration war limits the same of advanced semiconductors and chip-making equipment to Chines companies. The action is aimed straight at the heart of China’s efforts to build its own chip industry. And it plays right into a belief, stoked by China’s President Xi Jinping, that China is the victim of a Western plot to prevent the country’s rise to its rightful place in the global order. And the opening blows in this trade war come just as President Xi aims to be installed as China’s newest preeminent leader with a status near that of Mao. I don’t know what the retaliation from China will be, but it is unlikely to stop with a few restrictions on how U.S. companies, such as Tesla (TSLA) and Apple (AAPL) operate in China. The situation is so dangerous because it is so uncertain and so open-ended.

Please Watch My YouTube Video: Quick Pick Nvidia

Please Watch My YouTube Video: Quick Pick Nvidia

My one-hundred-and-ninetieth YouTube video: “Quick Pick Nvidia” went up today. This week’s Quick Pick: Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). I believe Nvidia will be the dominant chip stock for the next decade–but the stock is struggling during this bear market and the shares were down 58% year-to-date as of September 26. The company has come out with a new line of chips, the GeForce RTX 4000 Series, which offers a 2-4x performance boost over the last generation chip. But in order to get that boost, early reviews indicate, a computer game has to use Nvidia’s DLSS software. Currently, almost no games use DLSS. So Nvidia finds itself in a build it and they will come situation. (“Build it, and they will come,” as James Earl Jones said in Field of Dreams.) Nvidia now awaits the uptake from companies that will be using this chip of the future. Because this product doesn’t “do anything” right now, Nvidia’s upcoming earnings on November 16 won’t reflect this new product. In the short-term, I look for the stock o sell off further on the earnings report. In other words, a better buying opportunity still awaits those who can be patient.

Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…

I’m selling my Nvidia Put options today on the stock’s two-day drop

It’s hard making a profit on volatility trades in a market that’s as volatile as this one.

You’ve got to get the direction right, the timing, and the price. Miss one and get the other two and you can still wind up in the red. Which is where I find myself on the Nvidia Put Options (NVDA220819P00165000) I bought in my Volatility Portfolio on July 22 with a strike of $165 and an expiration date of August 19.

It’s a new trade war with China and this one is really, really serious

Time to take some chip money off the table–in the short run

We’ve had a great one-week rally/bounce/whatever in chip stocks. Nvidia, for example, was up 17.42% for the week that ended on Thursday, July 21. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) was up 8.71% in that same period. But I think there are good reasons for thinking that this move was just a very short-term gain in a long-term Bear Market that remains in place. So today, I’m taking some chip money off the table.

Saturday Night Quarterback (on a Sunday) says, For the week ahead expect…

Nvidia beats on earnings , lowers guidance, falls 6.6% in after-hours trading

Nvidia (NVDA) reported fiscal first quarter 2022 earnings after the after the bell close today, Wednesday, May 25, of $1.36 a share against Wall Street projections of $1.30. Revenue of $8.29 billion beat projections of $8.10 billion. Revenue fromm the data center unit was $3.75 billion, topping estimates of $3.63 billion. Game revenue of $3.62 billion beat expectations for $3.53 billion.

But the company guided lower for the fiscal second quarter with revenue of just $8.1 billion against Wall Street projection of $8.4 billings. The war in Ukraine and COVID lockdowns in Chia will cost the company $500 million in revenue, the company said.

In after-hours trading Nvidia shares were down 6.62% as of 5 p.m. today, May 25.