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Mar 24, 2021 | 07:50 AM EDT DOUG KASS
You Done Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
"You keep on stompin'
And my heart is on the floor..."
- Lewis Gizzard, You Done Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
In yesterday's opening missive, "The Market Is a Hard Dog to Keep Under the Porch," I argued that the U.S. stock market remained materially overpriced and that investors and traders should consider using market rallies to reduce equity exposure and to raise cash:
* Value is stretched now (financial and energy) while growth valuations are vulnerable to higher interest rates.
* The current cash price of the S&P Index exceeds my calculus of "fair market value" by a wide 20%.
* The rapid increase in supply in SPACs poses a market threat.
* The economy is not the market.
* We may now be at the polar opposite of March, 2020 - when fear was omnipresent and values abundant.
* Rising interest rates and inflation (and expectations) are moving higher.
* Individual and corporate tax rates will also be climbing in
the months ahead.
* Nearly every traditional valuation metric is stretched.
* Monetary and fiscal largesse has grown more undisciplined and dangerous.
* After the stimulus package is distributed we will likely move back towards subpar domestic economic growth.
@realmoney Mar 25, 2021 | 09:55 AM EDT DOUG KASS
The Unfortunate Aftermath of Speculation
* Novice traders will likely now flee the markets
For months I have argued - with fellow contributors and with the Twitter community - that the wanton speculation in worthless gewgaws
would have profoundly negative consequences for the markets.
I argued that the rapidly rising supply (of SPACs, et al) would overcome demand which would be soon sated.
I opined that many, especially of a retail-kind, would lose a lot of money while only a few traders will
retain their trading profits.
But, most importantly, as a consequence of the senseless/obscene speculative wave, we will once again - as we did in late 2007 and in early 2000 - lose legions of new investors who thought trading was a "game" that involved simply buying stocks
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Mar 25, 2021 | 11:00 AM EDT DOUG KASS
My Comment of the Day in Our Comments Section
dougie kass
The reason I hit on the Fin media, Fin TV people should now be obvious:
* They are first level thinkers who only see the last sale, what is front of them.
* They follow
the gewgaws, encouraging others to as well.
* They fail to engage contrary thinkers who are skeptical of the flavors of the month.
* They express no understanding of risk adjusted returns or reward v risk ratios.
* They fail to outline the risks in the speculative portions of the
markets - preferring to air superficial coverage without any deep dives.
* Their focus on leading speculative parts of the market (cannabis, SPACs etc.) fail to recognize that the primrose paths to higher prices inevitably detour - and we end up losing legions of retail
average up and start small (recognizing the volatility delivered by Redditt types)- but you already know my methodology of "funnelling in" (both longs and short).
I posted on Twitter and @realmoney averaging up....
A week ago I predicted a large secondary offering.
That occurred this week. Check!
Do your homework better and be more accurate. I am happy to accept criticism and take ownership of my mistakes. Something I never see you or many others do on Twitter. With comments like this you lose your credibility.
But $VIAC has been a
@realmoney
The Unfortunate Aftermath of Speculation
* Novice traders will likely now flee the markets
For months I have argued (with fellow contributors and with the Twitter community) that the wanton speculation in worthless gewgaws would have profoundly negative consequences
for the markets.
I argued that the rapidly rising supply (of SPACs et al) would overcome demand (which would be soon sated).
I opined that many (especially of a retail-kind) would lose alot of money (while only a few traders will retain their trading profits).
But, most importantly, as a consequence of the senseless/obscene speculative wave, we will once again (as we did in late 2007 and in early 2000) lose legions of new investors who thought trading was a "game" that involved simply buying stocks based solely that their charts
Mar 25, 2021 | 08:35 AM EDT DOUG KASS
ARK Invest's 'Vicious Cycle' Comes Into Closer Focus
* I remain negative on the overall market outlook and on the prospects for shares of many speculative tech disruptors
* ARKK may be viewed as a leveraged way to short the markets
* In bull markets, buyers begets buying - such was the case for ARKK in 2020
* But in bear markets, sellers beget selling - such might be the case for ARKK in 2021
* In its extreme, a vicious cycle could result in ARK ETFs having liquidity problems
* An ARKK ETF "flash crash" is not inconceivable if redemptions rise rapidly and if forced sales of increasingly illiquid investment positions occur
Mar 23, 2021 | 08:12 AM EDT DOUG KASS
The Market Is a Hard Dog to Keep Under the Porch
* The U.S. stock market remains materially overpriced
* I would use market rallies to reduce equity exposure
* Value is stretched now (financials and energy)
while growth valuations are vulnerable to higher interest rates
* I am looking towards some SPACtacular failures in 2021-23
* Too many are forgetting the lessons of 2020 - that while the vaccine rollout is great news, many times we have seen that the economy is not the markets
* And the markets are not the economy
* In March, 2020 we bought the panic, as the S&P sold at more than a 20% discount to intrinsic value, and we ignored fear
* In March, 2021 we should consider selling the optimism, as the S&P is selling at more than a 20% premium to