Global Market Comments
April 27, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE GREAT LOOK THROUGH)
(INDU), (SPX), (MSFT), (AAPL), (FB), (VXX)
Global Market Comments
April 27, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE GREAT LOOK THROUGH)
(INDU), (SPX), (MSFT), (AAPL), (FB), (VXX)
It was a week when traders and investors alike were confused, befuddled, and gob-smacked.
If you believed that the worst Great Depression in a hundred years was worth more than a 12% pullback in the market you were punished, quite severely so if you were short tech stocks.
April has turned out to be the best month for the stock market since 2011. Warning: it won’t last.
The largest buyers of the market for the past decade, corporations, are now a thing of the past. Worse yet, companies are about to become massive sellers of their own stock to cover burning cash flows. United Airlines has already tapped the market with a $1 billion share offering and there are many more to follow.
This means that the airline industry used its entire profit of the last ten years to buy their own shares, which are now virtually worthless. They are currently selling shares at a decade low. Buy high, sell low, it sounds like a perfect money destruction machine.
There are more than a dozen industries guilty of this practice. A decade’s worth of management value added is a negative number, just like the price of oil.
The only consolation is that it is worse in Europe, as is everything, except for the coffee.
The obvious explanation is that we are witnessing the greatest “Look Through” in history. A Barron’s Big Money poll points the finger this weekend. While only 38% of professional money managers are currently bullish, some 83% are bullish for 2021, and it is just not worth dumping your portfolio to avoid a few months’ worth of carnage.
I believe that we will see substantial new all-time highs in 2021. The pandemic is forcing enormous efficiencies, cost cuts productivity increases on every company just to survive. Look at me. My travel budget has plunged from $100,000 a year to $20,000, ad there will be no travel for the rest of this year. Most big companies have adopted the same policy.
Return to a normal economy and record profits will ensue. Get the uncertainty of the presidential election out of the way and you have another boost, although it is looking less uncertain by the day.
It all perfectly sets up my new “Golden Age” and “Roaring Twenties” scenario for the 2020s, as I have been predicting for years
If the bears have any hope, it is that the big tech stocks, the principal market divers since the bottom, usually peak when they report earnings, which is this week.
None of the long-term trends in the stock market have changed, they have only been accelerated. Growth stocks are beating value by miles, tech is outpacing non-tech, and US shares are vastly overshadowing international, and large companies are outperforming small ones.
The dividend futures market is telling us that a recovery to pre-pandemic conditions will take far longer than anyone expects. It is discounting 10 years to return to 2019 dividend payouts, compared to only three years after the 2008-2009 Great Recession.
The are many structural changes to the economy that are becoming apparent. Many of the people sent home to work are never coming back because they like it, avoiding horrendous commutes in the most crowded cities. That is great for all things digital, where demand is exploding. It is terrible for many REITS, where demand for commercial real estate is in free fall and prices have imploded.
Oil hit negative $37 a barrel in a futures market meltdown with the May contract expiration. This could be the first of several futures expiration meltdowns until the economy recovers. The supply/demand gap is now a staggering 35 million barrels a day. A large swath of the oil industry will go under at these prices. It’s all part of a global three-way oil war which the US lost. Buy (USO) when crude is at negative numbers for a trade.
Don’t expect a rapid recovery. Wuhan China is now free and clear and open for business, but restaurant visits are still down 50%. Same in South Korea, which had the best Corona response where theater attendance is still down 70%. Predictions of a “V” shaped recovery may be optimistic if we get hit with a second wave. Government pressure for a quick reopening guarantees that will happen. The problem is that the stock market doesn’t know this yet.
Leading economic indicators dove 6.7%. No kidding. Expect much worse to come as the economy implodes. The worst data in a century are coming, paling the great depression.
2.9 million homes are now in forbearance and the number is certainly going to rise from here. Laid off renters are defaulted on payments, depriving owners of meeting debt obligations. It’s just a matter of time before this creates a financial crisis. Avoid the banks for now, no matter how cheap they get.
US restaurants to lose $240 billion by yearend. It’s a problem even a government can’t fix. At least one out of four eateries will go under over the next two months. Boy, I’m glad I didn’t open a trophy restaurant as a hobby like so many of my wealthy friends did.
Another $484 billion bailout bill is passed, and the market could care less, plunging 631 points. It includes $310 billion for the troubled Paycheck Protection Plan, $75 billion for hospitals, and $25 billion for Corona testing. Notice how markets are getting less interested in announced rescue plans and more interested in result, so far of which there have been none? The free fall in the economy continues.
Existing Home Sales plunged by 8.5% in March. Realtors expect this figure to drop 40% in the coming months. Open houses are banned, sellers are pulling listings, and buyers low-balling offers. However, price declines in the few deals going through are minimal. When will the zero interest rates come through? Mortgage interest rates are higher now than before the pandemic because 6% of all home loans are now in default.
Weekly Jobless Claims hit a staggering 4.4 million. Total unemployed over the last five weeks has topped 26.4 million, more than seen at the peak of the Great Depression. All job gains since the 2008-09 Great Recession have been lost. Of course, the population back then was only 123 million compared to today’s 335 million. But then employment is still in freefall and we may reach the Fed’s final target of 52 million. Most of the SBA Paycheck Protection Program funding went to large national chains and virtually none to actual small businesses.
US Car Sales dove 50%, and they’re expected to drop 60% in May. Showrooms have gained “essential” exemptions to open, but the newly jobless don’t make great buyers. Why are the shares of traditional carmakers like Ford (F) and General Motors (GM) in free fall, while those of Tesla (TSLA) are soaring?
Gilead Science’s Remdesivir bombed, in a phase 1 trial conducted by the WHO, triggering an immediate 400-point market selloff. It was a small study in China that was leaked. The company says it still might work.
Existing Home Sales collapsed by 15.4%, in March. With open houses closed across the country, it’s no surprise. But with the market closed, no one is selling either. Defaulted mortgages rose by a half million this week. Buy big homebuilders on the next big dip, like (KBH) and (LEN). They will lead the recovery.
When we come out on the other side of this, we will be perfectly poised to launch into my new American Golden Age, or the next Roaring Twenties. With interest rates at zero, oil at $0 a barrel, and many stocks down by three quarters, there will be no reason not to. The Dow Average will rise by 400% or more in the coming decade.
My Global Trading Dispatch performance had a tough week, with me getting squeezed out of a short position in Facebook (FB) and also losing my weekly longs in Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL).
Everyone is expecting the market to roll over, but it’s not just happening. Risk control is the order of the day and that means stopping out of losers fast.
We are now down -2.12% in April, taking my 2020 YTD return down to -10.54%. That compares to a loss for the Dow Average of -12% from the February top. My trailing one-year return returned to 30.54%. My ten-year average annualized profit returned to +33.48%.
This week, Q1 earnings reports continue, and so far, they are coming in much worse than the most dire forecasts. This is the week that big tech reports. The only numbers that count for the market are the number of US Coronavirus cases and deaths, which you can find here at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu
On Monday, April 27 at 9:30 AM, the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index is released.
On Tuesday, April 28 at 8:00 AM, the S&P Case Shiller National Home Price Index is published. Alphabet (GOOGL) reports.
On Wednesday, April 29, at 8:30 AM, an updated read on Q1 GDP is printed and the Cushing Crude Oil Stocks are announced. That one should be a thriller with zero interest rates. Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT) report.
On Thursday, April 30 at 8:30 AM, Weekly Jobless Claims will announce another horrific number. Amazon (AMZN), McDonald’s (MCD), and Visa (V) report.
On Friday, May 1, the Baker Hughes Rig Count follows at 2:00 PM. Expect these figures to crash as well. Chevron (CVX) and Exxon (XOM) report.
As for me, tonight I’ll be attending the first-ever Boy Scout virtual camp out. Every member of the girls’ patrol will be setting up tents in their backyards and connecting up in a giant Zoom meeting. I bet they stay up all night.
Stay healthy.
John Thomas
CEO & Publisher
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader
“The entire market is trading like a biotech stock,” said Steve Weiss, a portfolio manager.
Global Market Comments
April 24, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(APRIL 22 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A),
(SPY), (INDU), (GILD), (NEM), (GOLD), (USO),
(SOYB), (CORN), (SHOP), (PALL), (AMZN)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader April 22 Global Strategy Webinar broadcast from Silicon Valley, CA with my guest and co-host Bill Davis of the Mad Day Trader. Keep those questions coming!
Q: Will Trump louse up the recovery by bringing people back to work too soon?
A: Absolutely, that’s a risk. Georgia is reopening in a couple of days, which is purely a political decision because all of the scientists have advised against it. If that creates a secondary Corona wave, which we will know in a few weeks, then no one else is going to reopen early and the depression instantly goes from a three-month one to a six or nine-month one. Nobody wants tens of thousands of deaths on their hands. If we do reopen early, it could create a secondary spike in cases and deaths that hit around the Fall, right before the election. That is absolutely what the administration does not want to see, but they’re pursuing a course that will almost guarantee that result, so I wouldn’t be traveling to the Midwest anytime soon. Actually, I'm not going to be traveling anywhere because all the planes are grounded. Trump’s strategy is that Corona will magically go away in the summer, and those are his exact words.
Q: What is the Fed's next move?
A: I don't think they will go to negative interest rates. The disruptions to the financial system would be too widespread. Nobody is having a problem borrowing money right now unless they are in the housing market and that is totally gridlocked. Probably, the best thing is to expand QE and keep buying more fixed income instruments. They are essentially buying everything now, including mortgage-backed securities, junk bonds, securitized student loan debt, and everything except stocks. Today, we heard that the FHA is now buying defaulted mortgages which account for 6% of all the home mortgages out there, so that should help a lot in bringing the 30-year mortgage rate back in line with the 10-year, which would put it in the mid twos. So, more QE is the most likely thing there.
Q: What do you think of Remdesivir from Gilead Sciences (GILD)? Is it a buy at current levels?
A: We recommended this six months ago with our Mad Hedge Biotech & Healthcare Letter and got a spectacular result (click here for the link). This is a broad-spectrum antiviral that worked against MERS and SARS. We think it’s one of many possible treatments for the Coronavirus but it is not a vaccine. Buying the stock here is downright scary, up 30% since January. We love biotech for the long term, but this is a terrible entry point for Gilead. If it drops suddenly 10-20% on this selloff, then maybe.
Q: You seem very confident we’re going lower again. I’m reminded of the December selloff of 2018 where we saw a very quick recovery and a lot of people were shut out.
A: The difference then is that we didn’t have a global pandemic which has killed 47,000 Americans and may kill another 47,000 or more before it's all over. And I think it’s going to take a lot longer for the government to reopen the economy than they think. And corporate share buybacks, the main driver of the bull market of the past decade, are now completely absent.
Q: You seem to prefer spreads to LEAPS. Is that the only strategy you use?
A: I’m not putting long term LEAPS (Long Term Equity Participation Securities) in the model portfolio because they have two years to expiration, and I don’t want to tie up our entire trading portfolio in a two-year position. So, we are doing front months in the model trading portfolio, but every week I’m sending out lists of LEAPS for people to buy on the dips. Of course, you should go out to 2022 to minimize your risks and you should only buy them on the down 500 or 800-point days. Put a bid in on the bid side of the market (the low side of the market), and if you get a sudden puke out, a margin call, or an algorithm, you will get hit with these things at really good prices. That is the way to do long term LEAPS.
Q: Why do you think the true vaccine is a year off?
A: If you took Epidemiology 101, which I did in college, you'll learn that when you have a very large number of cases, the mutation rate vastly accelerates. My doctor here in Incline Village tested blood samples he took in northern Nevada in December and found that there were two Coronavirus variants, two different mutations. So, if there are only two, we would be really lucky. The problem is that these diseases mutate very quickly, and by the time you get a vaccine working, the DNA of the virus has moved on and last year’s vaccine doesn’t work anymore. That’s why when you get a flu shot, it includes flu variants from five different outbreaks around the world every year, and I’ve been getting those for 40 years, so I already have the antibodies for 200 different flu variations floating around my system as antibodies. Maybe that’s why I never get sick. They have been trying to get an AIDS vaccine for 40 years, and a cancer vaccine for 100 years, with no success, and it would be a real stretch for us to get a real working vaccine in a year. The best we can hope for is antivirals to treat the symptoms and make the disease more survivable.
Q: Long tail risk for long term portfolios?
A: The time to buy your long-term tail risk hedges, or the ledges of long term extremely unlikely events, was in January. That’s when they were all incredibly cheap and they were being thrown away with the trash. Now you have to pay enormous amounts for any long-term portfolio hedges. It's kind of like closing the barn door after the horses have bolted, so nice idea, but maybe we’ll try it again in another ten years.
Q: Should I buy gold options two months out or through gold LEAPS?
A: I would do both. Buying gold two months out will probably make more money faster, but for LEAPS—let’s say you bought a $2,000-$2,100 LEAPS two years out—the return on that could be 500-1000%, so it just depends on how much risk you were willing to take. I would bet that the LEAPS selling just above the all-time highs at $1,927 are probably going really cheaply because people will assume we won't get to new all-time highs for a while and they’ll sell short against that, so that may be your play. You can get even better returns on buying LEAPS on the individual gold stocks like Newmont Mining (NEM) and Barrick Gold (GOLD).
Q: How soon until we take a profit on a LEAPS spread?
A: Usually if you have 80% of the maximum potential profit, that’s a good idea. You typically have to hang out for a whole year to capture the last 20% and you’re better off buying something else unless you have an idea on how to spend the money first—then you can sell it whenever you have a profit that you are happy with. I know a lot of you who bought the 2-year LEAPS in March on our advice already have enormous profits where you’ve made 500% or more in four weeks. If you bought the 2021 LEAPS, I would roll out of those here and then buy the two-year LEAPs on the next selloff to protect yourself against a second Corona wave. Take some good profits, roll that money into longer two-year LEAPS.
Q: There seems to be a real consensus we will retest the lows. Is it possible that the low we recently had was actually a retest of the 2018 lows?
A: We actually got well below the 2018 lows, and with all of the stimulus out there now, I don’t see us going back to 18,000 in the Dow (INDU), 2,200 in the SPY, unless things get worse— dramatically worse, like a sudden spike in cases coming out of the Midwest (that’s almost a certainty) and the south. They opened their beaches and essentially created a breeding ground for the virus to then return to all the states from the visiting beachgoers. So, everyone’s got their eyes on this combined $14 trillion of QE and stimulus and they don’t want to sell their stocks now, so I don’t see a retest of the lows in that situation. I would love it if we did, then that would be like LEAPS heaven, loading up on tech LEAPS at the bottom. But even if we go retest the lows, the tech stocks aren’t going back to the lows—too many buyers are under the market.
Q: Are you using the 200-day moving average as a top?
A: That’s just one of several indicators; it’s almost a coincidence that the 200-day is right around 300 in the (SPY)’s, but also we have earnings multiples at 100-year highs—that’s another good one. And margin requirements have been greatly increasing. Any kind of leverage has been stripped out of the system, you can’t get leverage (even if you’re a well-known hedge fund) because all lenders are gun-shy after the meltdown last month, so you’re not going to be able to get that kind of leverage for a long time. And you can also bet all the money in the world that companies are not buying their stocks back, and that was essentially the largest net buyer of stocks for the last decade in the market, some $7 trillion worth. So, without companies buying back stocks, especially in the airlines, $300 in the (SPY) could be our top for the next month, or for the next six months.
Q: With Goldman Sachs forecasting four times the worst case of the 2008 great recession, will stocks not retest the market?
A: No. Remember, the total stimulus in 2009 was only $787 billion. We’re already at $6 trillion and $8 trillion in QE so we have more than ten times the stimulus that we had in 2009; so that should offset Goldman’s worst-case scenario. And they’re probably right.
Q: Why are you not shorting oil here?
A: The (USO) was at $50 three months ago, it’s now at $2. I don’t short things that have just gone from $50 to $2. And even though there’s no storage at this price, you want to be building storage like crazy, and it doesn’t take very long to build a big oil storage tank. Another outlier out there is that the US government could step in and buy 20 million barrels to top up the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR). Buying it for free is probably not a bad idea and then sell it next time we go to $20, $30, or $40 a barrel. The other big thing is that the government is mad not to impose punitive import duties on all foreign oil. Any other administration would have already done that long ago because oil prices are destroying the oil industry. But a certain president seems to have an interest in building hotels in the Middle East, and I think that’s why we don’t have import duties on Saudi oil—pure conflict of interest.
Q: Will Coronaviruses be weaker or stronger?
A: We just don’t know. This is a virus that has been in existence for less than a year; most diseases have been around for hundreds of years and we’ve been researching them forever, this one we know essentially nothing. Best case is that it goes the route of the Spanish Flu, which mutated into a less virulent form and just went away. The Black Plague from the Middle Ages did the same thing.
Q: Thoughts on food inflation going forward?
A: Food prices are collapsing and that’s because all of the distribution chains for food are broken. Farmers are having to plow food under in the field, like corn (CORN), soybeans (SOYB), and fruit, because there is no way to get it to the end-user or to the food bank. Food banks are struggling to get a hold of some of this food before it’s destroyed. I know the one in Alameda County, CA is calling farmers all over the west, trying to get truckloads of just raw food sent into the food banks. But those food banks are very poorly funded operations and don't have a lot of money to spend. In California, we have the national guard handing out food at the food banks but there is not enough—they are running out of food. Long term, agriculture is a big user of energy. They should benefit from low oil prices, but it doesn’t do any good if they can’t get their product to the market. Look at any food price and you can see it’s in free fall right now caused by the global deflation and the depression. By the way, the same thing happened in the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Q: Would you short Shopify (SHOP)?
A: No. Shopify is essentially the mini Amazon (AMZN) and has a great future; they are basically having a Black Friday every day. It’s also too late to buy it unless we have a big dip.
Q: Would you include Palladium (PALL) in your precious metals call?
A: No. Palladium especially went into this very expensive, and they are dependent on the car industry for catalytic converters, which has just fallen from a 16 million unit per month to 5 million on the way to zero. Don’t go with the alternative white metals at this time.
Q: What’s your favorite 10 times return stock?
A: Tesla, if you can get it at $500. It’s already delivered me two ten-time returns, and I’m going to go for another tenfold return on a five-year view.
Good Luck and Stay Healthy
John Thomas
CEO & Publisher
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader
Global Market Comments
April 23, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(HOW TO FIND A GREAT OPTIONS TRADE)
Global Market Comments
April 22, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE MAD HEDGE DICTIONARY OF TRADING SLANG)
Global Market Comments
April 21, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(OIL CATACLYSM)
(USO), (XLE)
I spent the day trying to charter a 500,000-tonne oil tanker.
No luck.
If I had found one, I could have bought oil at the close of the market today at negative -$37.78 a barrel and then immediately resold it for June delivery for $21, generating an instant $57.78 a barrel profit. At 7.33 barrels a metric ton that gives me a $211 million profit. All I have to do is keep the oil for a month. Big hedge funds are doing this right now.
When I toured Australia in February, I warned investors that crude would fall from $80 to $10 by 2030, which many called extreme. I warned them to get out of all energy investments immediately, as I have done with you for the past several years. It is an industry that is going the way of the buggy whip maker.
Instead, we saw a move from $80 to negative -$37 in two months. They must think I’m some kind of idiot, clueless about the functioning of this important commodity market, despite having invested and worked in the industry for five years.
Of course, the wild prices are a product of the futures market, where financial derivatives outnumber the underlying physical market by 100 to one. Anyone who buys here today has to take delivery by 2:30 EST on Tuesday. With all the world’s storage and shipping already committed that is impossible. You literally can’t give oil away right now.
All transportation use of oil has virtually ceased. Most airlines are grounded, no ships are sailing, and nobody is driving anymore. Of the world’s potential daily oil supply, we have crashed from 100 million b/d to 65 b/d in two months. It is a move unprecedented in history.
Throwing gasoline on the fire are 16 supertankers which sailed from Saudi Arabia but for which there are no buyers.
This panic is happening in the face of Cushing, Oklahoma’s storage capacity which is now at 61 million barrels and could be at its limit of 78 million barrels in a couple of weeks. Then where does the Texas tea go?
Since June futures are still trading at $21, I believe this carnage is due to the future expiration and should pass in a few days. But unless more storage shows up out of the blue, or the industry shuts in production of 35 million b/d, the Armageddon in the futures market will become a monthly affair.
All eyes are now on the United States Oil Fund (USO), which liquidated all its May oil contracts two weeks ago to avoid precisely this kind of debacle. All longs were rolled forward to June contracts, which expire on May 19, and into July.
(USO) now owns one-third of all June oil contracts. Some $1.5 billion poured into the (USO) last week, which then immediately dropped in value by half.
I know this sounds insane, but if you bought the (USO) at the Monday close of $3.75 and it returns to the $5.00 where it was trading last Thursday and oil was trading at $25 you should be able to make a quick 33% on your money in a few days.
I wouldn’t let this trade grow hair on it. I’ll be selling on the first rally. That’s why I’m only going with a 5% position instead of the usual 10%. Now is not the time to get greedy in the oil market.
Eventually, supply and demand will come into balance from a combination of production cuts and demand increases from a recovering global economy. Best guess is that happens in July or August at the earliest. OPEC has already cut production by 10 million barrels a day for two months and 8 million b/d for the rest of the year. After that, oil could trade back as high as $40 a barrel.
If oil stays this low for too long, the geopolitical implications are immense. There will be a second Russian Revolution, which depends on crude sales for 70% of total government revenues.
Saudi Arabia will go up in flames and the royal family will flee to Geneva, Switzerland where their money is, leaving 34 million citizens to perish. What population did the country support before the post-war oil industry took off in 1950? About 4 million. I remember Saudi Arabia in the 1960s and it was not a pleasant place. People walked barefoot on 150-degree sands.
But I diverge.
At some point, another trade of the century on the long side of oil is out there. But the price of being early is high.
Global Market Comments
April 20, 2020
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or WHAT’S A FED PUT WORTH?),
(INDU), (SPX), (TLT), (ZM), (TDOC),
(NFLX), (UAL), (WYNN), (CCL)
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