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Professional Trader/Investor, 25yrs experience. Real Estate Developer. Entrepreneur. Business, Finance,Tech, Econ & Politics. Not financial advice.💛🍌🍌🍌
May 11, 2024 4 tweets 11 min read
$SPY $QQQ

An open letter to the FED: ( 🧵 1/4)

YOU ARE THE INFLATION

Joeseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winning economist, has recently said that some of the inflation we are seeing is being caused by the FED which in turn is causing distortion.

Distortion is not normal behavior. Not normal behavior will cause more unintended consequences. Unfortunately many PHD economists, pundits, and plain ol’ talking heads will start to debate me and we even have the people in charge of all this monetary policy disagreeing with each other where one FED head says they still see a rate cut & then you have the opposite spectrum of Neil Kashkari saying there not even tight on policy yet 🤦‍♂️ (btw - a mathematical fact; we have had the longest inverted yield curve in recorded HISTORY, an inverted yield curve is the literal mathematical expression of being too tight 🤦‍♂️, but I digress)

Here’s the distortion. We have all been taught to have the wrong conversation and reaction function. We see “hotter” inflation report and like monkeys go “higher for longer, higher for longer 🙉”. What if we have had the wrong medicine for the wrong diagnosis? 🤯

I can prove it all factually. First of all, you can chose to believe this part or not I still will prove my case. My background is that I have forced myself from severe trauma in my life to read a library full of books on economic policy. My personal desire and fire under if not 100 times more for sure 10 times more was my inspiring dedication to out work any college student with their college lives. I barely slept for two decades & while everyone enjoyed themselves I worked and then studied and then worked and studied some more.

So I promise you I know this info like Good Will Hunting knows math. We had a supply side shock while throwing helicopter money on it, the end, period, not debatable thats was caused our inflation then we had the movie “The Perfect Storm” with George Clooney where a rare a event of already each individual messed up terrible storm, but when all three come together it forms a monster of a storm -the perfect storm

Well, we got “The Perfect Inflation” where everything I mentioned above from COVID supply side shock, & the money given around that, combined itself with an Invasion of Ukraine by Russia - where one of the largest oil producers invaded the country that’s the largest grain producer. Those storms added to our oil problems and agriculture globally

The 3rd storm that came that is making our inflation “Sticky” is the fire department we called in to save us themselves. It sounds ironic but much of life works in a way where often rushing to solve a problem can often make it worse

Let’s unpack this simply. I owned and operated many restaurants, catering businesses, and nightclubs. I tell you from factual experience low oil = low gas ( we do have a refining problem on this country where we could have cheaper gas even with the actual barrel of oil higher - but there’s political reasons there unfortunately), that low gas immediately is noticed in EVERY good from your tamotos, to plates and cups, to uniforms, etc etc…then that establishment fluctuates its prices basically from the vendors. I worked with SYSCO which is publicly traded & basically does 60% of all the establishments in this country and they would have a line item simply called: “transportation cost” and that would feed into every single thing we did. You see, not the FED, but the government could solve a lot of the inflation just with ENERGY

So two things were causing all the INFLATION most people are crying about in those instagram videos. The reason groceries are high is because for a long period we shut the entire country down from the pandemic, so we had little to no workers at “ABC corporation” not making all the “widgets” our society needed all while given money to buy said “widgets”. That’s the main 1

The 2nd one is; we (our current government) simply decided that giving more…. (🧵2/4)

$SPY

….money to everyone and even more while those balances are not met would help them to simply have more money of things cost more. Ironically stupid right, it what’s more stupid is actually something could have been done to offset this which is energy as just explained it’s in everyyyyyyyyyy single thing we do. When the FED talks about inflsrion ex food and energy this is those school books they were taught in the entire real, of the Phillips Curve and that’s the terrible danger here when u have a doctor whom u trust misdiagnosing you which comes with a terrible danger of prescribing the WRONG MEDICATION which has all sorts of unintended consequences.

There’s a domino effect here where the decisions by this administration to pour money on people when essentially we initially didn’t have enough “widgets” being made of everything so more supply would bring costs down, but we doubled down by not doing dozens of things that can bring oil, gas, energy down……….alllllll the while we have a hot war with one of the major oil producers in the country. Nowwww, there’s a lot of balls to keep track of in the air, so one other one is that when the current administration finally (which isn’t the best tool) did something - acted - is when they released the SPR (strategic petroleum reserve) cause they knew the following conundrum - they are the “environment party” so supporting oil, or pumping more oil, anything around that is very taboo for them. But they’re obviously conflicted cause someone with a brain there is telling them everything I’m telling you. So the mathematical fact is when they do the release of the SPR or forced oil to come down to $65 bucks a barrel. Ironically all the inflation reports were coming in good 🤔. When oil ticked back up those inflation readings got poor again 🤔

Ok ok, so going back again to the 2nd cause of inflation now that we have a firm grip on energy, and human bodies making enough widgets for the first cause. This main 2nd cause is the FED’s wrong medicine to the wrong diagnosis; I will prove it all.
So we have

So again the 2nd main cause of inflation that YOUUUUU ALLL are experiencing is this wrong medicine for the wrong diagnosis. It all ties into each other. So as Oil rose again and PPI and CPI stayed elevated and sticky the FED started using their actual MAIN tool which is their MOUTH known as “jaw boning”. You see they got worried that financial conditions “loosened” because we as traders and investors started bidding up stocks thinking inflation was coming down and priced in all these rate cuts. Then our administration stopped the SPR and does nothing to change the dynamics of the energy market where they too could jaw bone to get oil down but don’t. So a few things happened, we got excited that inflsrion was coming down and I remind you it came down because workers went back to the factories and made more “widgets” again and because Oil finally cooled off after the initial shocks from the war of Russia and Ukraine - NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FED. Now this is the dangerous part, because Oil ticked back up, and the governments relentless spending on everything and things like California which is the the 3rd largest economy in the world not the country the world 🌎👀, gave everyone money for inflation 🤦‍♂️, raises the minimum wage everywhere, we had what’s called stickiness in services and wages, and actual elevation and stickiness in Mortgages/Rents, car payments which feeds into auto insurance, and those two components of rents and cars is TWO THIRDS of all our inflation

Sooooooo, let’s see if you get it as I try to put the connective tissue together. All the stuff a regular person complained about at the grocery store which primarily is from transportation costs and enough human beings making the products, was then followed up to the same regular Joe with medicine to fix his/hers tears at the grocery store with making your mortgage/rent, car payment, credit card payments, and…
Jun 16, 2023 19 tweets 8 min read
Want me to do a 🧵on how I’m gonna take 500k to 24million?

200 retweets 400 likes I’ll do it👇

Took 30k -700k today but completely ruined the top, closed the account at 580k. In less than 2 mo’s but very upset I broke my rules & paid for it today

Might be a good opportunity… Ok, let’s begin…

99 bottles of beer 🍺 on the wall…99 bottles of beer…

Take ONE DOWN, pass it around…

98 bottles of beer on the wall!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 9, 2023 61 tweets 26 min read
$AMZN $LULU $NVDA $SHOP $BA

Do you want another presentation like $TSLA?

For Lululemon, Amazon, Nvidia, Shopify and Boeing???

100 retweets and 200 likes and I’ll do it this weekend!!!👇 Ok let’s get started…

When it comes to markets, if it was easy, everyone would be a billionaire.

There’s some tricky stuff this week and the best thing I can say to everyone, is “I DONT KNOW!!!!!!!!”

So here’s what I see, I see “tricky” things in $SPY, let’s discuss…
Jun 6, 2023 17 tweets 8 min read
$QQQ $TSLA

Let’s get started in this thread 🧵… $TSLA $QQQ

Ok so let’s get started, first to know where Tesla “Might” be going we need to figure out a simple concept at first…

Where’s the rollercoaster 🎢 going?…

Whose in front 🎢?…

And whose about to catch up?…

So let’s quickly look at my bar napkin sketch ✍️ >> Image
Jun 3, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
$DIS

Would u pay, especially as a family with children …

$35 per month, it includes:

Disney +
All ESPN and ESPN+
Hulu
ABD FREE ADMISSION for a family of three, any additional kids or people pay a standard admission AT ALL DISNEY THEME PARKS

?????

(Continued) …let’s say some family takes advantage and goes 7 times per year, another family wants to take advantage but time and ability they can only go once or twice, and some will have something come up and not come even one time even though they paid each monthly fee

On average…
Mar 18, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
$BA

Goin 2have some amazing research in next HOUR from 👨‍✈️ who flew 4 Southwest & very familiar 737
On twitter=@Banana3Stocks

Part 1> @Banana3Stocks Part 2> (remember these r just opinions, good sources for me in aviation, please do ur own research, just happy 2share mine)