Monthly Archives: October 2020

Last week before the election. Recent trades and long dated options.

It’s been an eventful week. The new supreme court justice was confirmed, then the Senate decided to recess until after the election with no stimulus bill, then much of Europe started re-imposing lockdowns with soaring Covid-19 cases. It all seems … Continue reading

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Bitcoin Breakout, Pre-election Consolidation & Uranium

Rauol Pal from Realvision just called Bitcoin “The Biggest Trade in the World.” The narrative is that we’re at the beginning of a wave of major acceptance. Large companies, particularly in tech, are beginning to allocate liquid assets to Bitcoin. … Continue reading

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Journey of a post-pandemic Bear

I still remember when the pandemic was called. I was on a 9-day trip through Portugal with a flight back on Friday, March 13th. We had a whole week of limit down in the markets and I had my dream … Continue reading

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Crazy markets, intermediate plans, thoughts on Bitcoin, Oil & Gold

It’s been a crazy week. Lots of news, mainly of the political variety. Trump has covid, takes every experimental treatment available, leaves the hospital, declares himself cured. Is he cured? Is he still taking dexymethasone or other treatments? Is he … Continue reading

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Explaining the Post Covid Outperformance of US Indices

This chart shows the relative performance of various indices this year, with the US NASDAQ as the clear outperformer: Here are the top 10 holdings of the QQQ, the largest exchange-traded fund which follows the NASDAQ ($141 Billion in Assets): … Continue reading

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