Mad Hedge Technology Letter
February 27, 2023
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Mad Hedge Technology Letter
February 27, 2023
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE UNBEATABLE PARTNERSHIP)
(EMR), (GRMN), (AMBA), (NVDA), (DXCM), (CSCO), (INTC), (QCOM)
Let me introduce to you one of the hottest trends in tech.
They have been on the tip of everyone's lips for years, and that might be an understatement, but the interaction of the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) offers companies a wide range of advantages.
In order to get the most out of IoT systems and to be able to interpret data, the symbiosis with AI is almost a must.
If the Internet of Things is merged with data analysis based on artificial intelligence, this is referred to as AIoT.
Moving forward, expect this to be the hot new phrase in an industry backdrop where investors love these hot catchphrases and monikers.
What is this used for?
Lower operating costs, shorter response times through automated processes, and helpful insights for business development are just a few of the notable advantages of the Internet of Things.
AI also offers a variety of business benefits: it reduces errors, automates tasks, and supports relevant business decisions. Machine learning as a sub-area of AI also ensures that models – such as neural networks – are adapted to data. Based on the models, predictions and decisions can be made. For example, if sensors deliver new data, they can be integrated into the existing modules.
The Statista research institute assumes that there will be 75 billion networked devices by 2025.
This is exactly where AI comes into play, which generates predictions based on the sensor values received.
However, many companies are still unable to properly benefit from the potential of connecting IoT and AI, or AIoT for short.
They are often skeptical about outsourcing their data - especially in terms of security and communication.
In part because the increased number of networked devices, which requires the connection of IoT and AI, increases the security requirements for infrastructure and communication structure enormously.
It is not surprising that companies are unsettled: Industrial infrastructures have grown historically due to constantly increasing requirements and present companies with completely new challenges, which manifest themselves, for example, in an increasing number of networked devices. With the combination of IoT and AI, many companies are venturing into relatively new territory.
By connecting IoT and AI, a continuous cycle of data collection and analysis is developing.
But companies can no longer deny the advantages of AIoT because this technical combination makes networked devices and objects even more useful.
Based on the insights generated by the models, those responsible can make decisions more easily and reliably predict future events. In this way, a continuous cycle of data collection and analysis develops. With predictive maintenance, for example, production companies can forecast device failures and thus prevent them.
The combination of the two technologies also makes sense from the safety point of view: continuous monitoring and pattern recognition help to identify failure probabilities and possible malfunctions at an early stage – potential gateways can thus be better identified and closed in good time.
The result: companies optimize their processes, avoid costly machine failures, and at the same time reduce maintenance costs and thus increase their operational efficiency.
In this way, IoT and AI represent a profitable fusion: While AI increases the benefit of existing IoT solutions, AI needs IoT data in order to be able to draw any conclusions at all.
AIoT is therefore a real gain for companies of all sizes. They thus optimize processes, are less prone to errors, improve their products and thus ensure their competitiveness in the long term.
Some hardware, software, and semiconductor stocks that will offer exposure into AIoT are Emerson Electric Co. (EMR), Garmin (GRMN), Ambarella (AMBA), Nvidia (NVDA), DexCom (DXCM), Cisco (CSCO), Intel (INTC), and Qualcomm (QCOM).
Global Market Comments
January 20, 2023
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
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Some 50 years ago, when I was a biotechnology student at UCLA, a handful of graduate students speculated about how dangerous our work really was.
It only took us an hour to figure out how to synthesize a microbe that had a 99% fatality rate, was immune to antibiotics and was so simple it could be produced in your home kitchen.
Basically, a bunch of bored students discovered a way to destroy the world.
We voiced our concerns to our professors, who immediately convened a national conference of leaders in the field. Science had outpaced regulation, as it always does. They adopted standards and implemented safeguards to keep this genie from getting out of the bottle.
Four decades later scientists have been successful at preventing a “doomsday” bug from accidentally escaping a lab and wiping out the world’s population.
That is, until now.
In 2010, Dr. Craig Venter created the first completely synthetic life form able to reproduce on its own. Named “Phi X174,” the simple virus was produced from a string of DNA composed entirely on a computer. Thus was invented the field of synthetic biology, better known as “Synbio.”
Venter’s homemade creature was your basic entry-level organism. Its DNA was composed of only 1 million base pairs of nucleic acids (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil), compared to the 3 billion pairs in a human genome. Shortly thereafter, Venter one-upped himself by manufacturing the world’s first synthetic bacteria.
The work was hailed as the beginning of a brave new world that will enable biology to make the same dramatic advances in technology that computer science did in the 20th century. Dr. Drew Endy of Stanford University says that Synbio already accounts for 2% of US GDP and is growing at a breakneck 12% a year. He predicts that Synbio will eventually do more for the economy than the Internet and social media combined.
You may recall Craig Venter as the man who first decoded the human genome in 2003. The effort demanded the labor of thousands of scientists and cost $3 billion. We later learned that the DNA that was decoded was Craig’s own. Some five years later, the late Steve Jobs spent $1 million to decode his own genes in a vain attempt to find a cure for pancreatic cancer.
Today, you can get the job done for $1,000 in less than 24 hours. That’s what movie star Angelina Jolie did, who endured a voluntary double mastectomy when she learned her genes guaranteed a future case of terminal breast cancer.
The decoding industry is now moving to low-cost China, where giant warehouses have been built to decode the DNA of a substantial part of humanity. That should soon drop the price to $100. It’s all about full automation and economies of scale.
This technology is already spreading far faster than most realize. In 2004, MIT started the International Genetically Engineered Machine Contest where college students competed to construct new life forms. Recently, a high school division was opened, attracting 194 entries from kids in 34 countries. Gee, when I went to wood shop in high school, it was a big deal when I finished my table lamp.
This will make possible “big data” approaches to medical research that will lead to cures of every major human disease, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and more within our lifetimes. This is why the healthcare (XLV), biotechnology (XBI), and pharmaceutical (XPH) sectors have been top performers in the stock market for the past two years. It’s not just about Obamacare.
The implications spread far beyond healthcare. IBM (IBM) is experimenting with using DNA-based computer code to replace the present simple but hugely inefficient binary system of 0’s and 1’s. “DNA-based computation” is prompting computer scientists to become biochemists and biochemists to evolve into computer scientists to create “living circuit boards.” Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), and Cisco (CSCO) have all taken notice.
We are probably only a couple of years away from enterprising hobbyists downloading DNA sequences from the Internet and building new bugs at home with a 3D printer. Simple organisms, like viruses, would need a file size no larger than one needed for a high-definition photo taken with your iPhone. They can then download other genes from the net, creating their own customized microbes at will.
This is all great news for investors of every stripe, and will no doubt accelerate America’s economic growth. But it is also causing governments and scientists around the world to wring their hands, seeing the opening of a potential Pandora’s box. What if other scientists lack Venter’s ethics, who went straight to President Obama for security clearance before he made his findings public?
If we can’t trust our kids to drink, drive, or vote, then how responsibly will they behave when they get their hands on potential bioterror weapons? How many are familiar with Bio Safety Level 4 (BSL) standards? None, I hope.
In fact, the race is already on to weaponize synbio. In 2002, scientists at SUNY Stonybrook synthesized a poliovirus for the first time. In 2005, another group managed to recreate the notorious H1N1 virus that caused the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. Some 50-100 million died in that pandemic within 2 years.
Then in 2011, Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center in Holland announced that he had found a way to convert the H5N1 bird flu virus, which in nature is only transmitted from birds to people, into a human to human virus. Of the 565 who have come down with bird flu so far, which originates in China, 59% have died.
It didn’t take long for the Chinese to get involved. They have taken Fouchier’s work several steps further, creating over 127 H5N1 flu varieties, five of which can be transmitted through the air, such as from a sneeze. The attributes of one of these just showed up in the latest natural strain of bird flu, the H7N9.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia are charged with protecting us from outbreaks like this. But getting the WHO, a giant global bureaucracy, to agree on anything is almost impossible unless there is already a major outbreak underway. The CDC has seen its budget cut by 25% since 2010 and has lost another 5% due to the US government sequester.
The problem is that the international organizations charged with monitoring all of this are still stuck in the Stone Age. Current regulations revolve around known pathogens, like smallpox and the Ebola virus, that date back to the 1960s when the concern was about moving lethal pathogens across borders via test tubes.
That is, oh so 20th century. Thanks to the Internet, controlling information flow is impossible. Just ask Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar Al Assad. Al Qaida has used messages embedded in online porn to send orders to terrorists.
Getting international cooperation isn’t that easy. Only 35 countries are currently complying with the safety, surveillance, and research standards laid out by the WHO. Indonesia refused to part with H5N1 virus samples spreading there because it did want to make rich the western pharmaceutical companies that would develop a vaccine. African countries say they are too poor to participate, even they are the most likely victims of future epidemics.
Scientists have proposed a number of safeguards to keep these new superbugs under control. One would be a dedicated sequence of nucleic acid base pairs inserted into the genes that would identify its origin, much like a bar code at the supermarket. This is already being used by Monsanto (MON) with its genetically modified seeds. Another would be a “suicide sequence” that would cause the germ to self-destruct if it ever got out of a lab.
One can expect the National Security Agency to get involved, if they haven’t done so already. If they can screen our phone calls for metadata, why not high-risk DNA sequences sent by email?
But this assumes that the creators want to be found. The bioweapon labs of some countries are thought to be creating new pathogens so they can stockpile vaccines and antigens in advance of any future conflict.
There are also the real terrorists to consider. When the Mubarak regime in Egypt was overthrown in 2011, demonstrators sacked the country’s public health labs that had been storing H5N1 virus. Egypt has one of the world’s worst bird flu problems, due to the population’s widespread contact with chickens.
It is hoped that the looters were only in search of valuable electronics they could resell, and tossed the problem test tubes. But that is only just a hope.
I have done a lot of research on this area over the decades. I even chased down the infamous Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army that parachuted plagued infected rats into China during WWII, after first experimenting on American POWs.
The answer to the probability of biowarfare always comes back the same. Countries never use this last resort for fear of it coming back on their own population. It really is an Armageddon weapon. Only a nut case would want to try it.
Back in 1976, I was one of the fortunate few to see in person the last living cases of smallpox. As I walked through a 15th century village high in the Himalayas in Nepal, two dozen smiling children leaned out of second-story windows to wave at me. The face of everyone was covered with bleeding sores. And these were the survivors. Believe me, you don’t want to catch it yourself.
Sure, I know this doesn’t directly relate to what the stock market is going to do today. But if a virus escaped from a rogue lab and killed everyone on the planet, it would be bad for prices, wouldn’t it?
I really hope one of the kids competing in the MIT contest doesn’t suffer from the same sort of mental problems as the boy in Newton, Connecticut did.
I Think Woodshop Would Have Been Easier
Cause of the Next Bear Market, or the End of the World?
Mad Hedge Technology Letter
December 12, 2022
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(A DIFFERENT PLAYBOOK)
(META), (AAPL), (CSCO), (INTC)
It is almost guaranteed that the 2023 tech playbook will be quite different from 2022.
That’s not to say it will be easy.
But backward-facing data shows us that market leaders of a certain time period in history almost never recreate the same kind of success moving forward.
Domination emerges from elsewhere and is usually a place we would have never imagined.
Looking at some of the biggest tech companies in 2022, many were wrong-footed.
Micro examples are plentiful such as Apple’s reliance on Chinese factories for iPhone manufacturing.
Also, there is the failure of Meta (META) to have pivoted to the metaverse, and look at Netflix suddenly thinking it was a genius idea to enter the American culture wars with their content.
There were early signs that a shift is already underway.
Even more concerning is that these big companies are out of ideas for the moment.
Will Apple (AAPL) keep making the iPhone with no material improvement?
Probably yes since they can get away with it for the moment.
I believe that a company will come along and finally knock the stuffing out of these big tech giants.
Some of them have gotten too comfortable and instead of investing deeply into their creative divisions, they have chosen to increase share buybacks and bolster dividends.
The percentage of capital spent on research and development keeps dwindling as a percentage of total revenue.
Next year’s tech consensus is 8% revenue growth which is hardly what you would expect for this traditional growth sector.
While it is true that it is hard to move the needle much for a $2 trillion company, I still feel they aren’t doing enough to rewrite the rules of the game while they still have the clout and resources.
The example of past stock market greats is a reminder that things can change quickly. Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) were leaders in the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, but have never climbed back to the highs they reached in 2000, while it took the Nasdaq 100 Index 15 years to surpass its 2000 peak.
Not only is revenue growth projected to shrink next year, but profitability is supposed to slow by 2%.
Faced with higher cost of borrowing and rising inflation, investors are becoming choosier in terms of which companies they are willing to back.
The last few weeks have been incredibly slow in not only the volume of tech trading but the velocity of price movement in tech stocks.
The Santa Claus rally was effectively extinguished when China’s protest smothered the loosening of interest rate momentum.
Since then, we have received mixed reports in China which have been difficult to decode because the country is like a black box.
Tomorrow we will finally get more direction to tech stocks with the CPI report that everybody has been waiting for.
Expectations are for a 7.3% increase year over year in the face of rising producers purchasing data.
Either way, a big move is expected tomorrow upon the news of the inflation data.
It will either confirm that inflation is headed lower, which is bullish for tech stocks, or a high data point will trigger a sharp selloff.
Expect some new tech trade alerts short following the CPI report tomorrow.
Global Market Comments
April 15, 2021
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(CYBERSECURITY IS ONLY JUST GETTING STARTED),
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Global Market Comments
April 6, 2021
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(TESTIMONIAL)
Global Market Comments
March 29, 2021
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE WEEK THAT NEVER WAS),
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Of course, WWII historians know well the man who never was, the popular name for Operation Mincemeat.
In 1943, British intelligence found a homeless man who died on the streets of London, dressed him up as a Royal Marine Major William Martin, and released his body from a submarine off the coast of Spain, a German ally.
Handcuffed to his wrist was a briefcase with highly detailed plans for the allied invasion of Greece and the Balkans. The Germans shifted ten divisions to defend the region.
When the allies invaded Sicily instead, it came completely out of the blue. The invading American and British forces found the island almost undefended and inadequately manned and supplied by Italian troops. The allies planned for three months to capture Sicily. Instead, they did it in a mere 38 days. Allied losses came in at a tenth of those expected, thanks to Royal Marine Major William Martin.
The analogy here is that last week, we witnessed the market that never was. Stocks went down, then up. Bonds went up, then down. Even Tesla was virtually unchanged. It all ended up as a big fat zero for traders.
What all of this means for us investors is a subject of heated discussion among strategists. Of course, the Cassandras are always out there arguing that this is all proof that markets are peaking and that the mother of all stock market crashes is just ahead of us.
I take a different tack.
I think we are well into a long-overdue “time” correction whereby stocks go sideways for weeks or months before resuming their heroic assault on new highs. The timing will be dictated by the frantic reversal of the bond market at a ten-year Treasury yield of 2.00%.
Investors will rotate from the newly expensive recovery plays like banks into the newly cheap, such as technology stocks. Notice the sudden recent interest in legacy companies like Oracle (ORCL), Intel (INTC), and Cisco Systems (CSCO), which completely missed the great 2020 tech rally.
All of this sets up perfectly for the barbell portfolio which I have been advocating all year.
If there is a selloff, it will be by things that normal people don’t own. Those include SPACS, anything the Reddit crowd chases, stay-at-home stocks, and very high-priced tech stocks with no earnings.
Much focus has been placed on the Taiwanese-owned Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal. As a Middle Eastern war correspondent for many years, I spent endless hours debating with my compatriots over what closure of the canal would mean.
What hasn’t been mentioned was that the accident was not caused by a Chinese captain, but Egyptian pilot ships are required to take on to raise revenues, and bribes, for the impoverished country. This all happened in the middle of a sandstorm where visibility is near zero.
I can tell you right now that they won’t get the Ever Given off there until they start to unload containers and lift off some weight so the 200,000-ton ship can rise of its own accord. Good luck with that in the middle of the Sinai Desert. Why not just sell all the contents on Amazon and have them deliver it for free as part of their prime membership?
This is a debacle that will last weeks, if not months, and will cost $9 billion a day in international trade until it’s over. In the meantime, commercial shippers have asked for protection from pirates from the US Navy as they navigate the unfamiliar water around the tip of Africa.
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Weekly Jobless Claims dive by 100,000, to 684,000, a one-year low. The decline was led by Illinois and Ohio. Labor shortages are popping up around the country in skilled areas, but bars and restaurants are still lagging severely.
Huge Office Cuts are coming, with execs planning a permanent 20% cut. Better to give the money to shareholders. Downtowns across the country will change beyond all recognition. How do you turn an office into an apartment?
CP Rail buys Kansas City Southern, for $25 billion, further concentrating the north American rail industry. It’s a steal because an economy entering a decade-long boom moves lots of stuff. It’s also a great North/South international trade play, which is recovering strongly with the exit of our last president. I used to ride box cars on the old Canadian Pacific back in the sixties (you can’t hitch hike where there are no cars), and occasionally the engineers would let me drive. It suddenly makes Norfolk South (NSC) and Union Pacific (UNP) look very tempting.
Another Tesla $3,000 Target was issued by Ark’s Cathie Wood, an early investor. Cathie’s Ark Innovation Fund ETF was up 180% last year largely on the strength of a massive Tesla (TSLA) holding. Her bear case is a low of $1,500 by 2025, nearly triple the current price. She has only one more triple to go to get to my own $10,000 forecast.
Biden has $3 Trillion More to Spend on top of the just passed $1.9 trillion rescue package. It's all rocket fuel for the stock market, not so much for bonds. The money will be spent on a mix of old-line freeway and bridge repair along with new spending on decarbonizing the power grid and social measures. It will be financed by tax hikes on those earning over $400,000. Remember, Roosevelt hiked the maximum tax rate to 90% on the wealthy, where it stayed for 30 years, and Biden is old enough to remember.
Daily Air Travelers top 1.5 Million, for the first time in a year. The pandemic low was 200,000 a day. It’s an indication of how anxious Americans have become to travel, and how strong the imminent economic boom will be.
Intel to build two chip fabs for $20 billion in Arizona to address the current severe shortage. US construction is a positive as it helps reduce reliance on foreign supplies. Too bad it will still leave them five years behind (AMD), but it’s a major move in the right direction. It deals with everything investors wanted to hear and moves them solidly into the 10nm architecture market. Buy (INTC) on dips.
New Home Sales Dive, off 18.2% in February, now that the free money train has left the station. Weather was blamed as a factor, with giant snowstorms slamming much of the country. Shortage of supply is another big issue. Some big builders are basically out of inventory and are reduced to selling floor plans with extended completion dates.
US Dollar (UUP) hits a four-month high, with a major assist from rising US bond interest rates. Expect the rally to continue until ten-year yields hit 2.00%, then sell the daylights out of it. With the US money supply growing at a near exponential 30% annual rate, there’s no way the dollar strength can continue. When you increase the supply, you decrease the value, simple supply and demand. My first pick is to buy the Aussie (FXA) a call option on a global synchronized economic recovery.
When we come out the other side of pandemic, we will be perfectly poised to launch into my new American Golden Age, or the next Roaring Twenties. With interest rates still at zero, oil cheap, there will be no reason not to. The Dow Average will rise by 400% to 120,000 or more in the coming decade. The American coming out the other side of the pandemic will be far more efficient and profitable than the old. Dow 120,000, here we come!
It’s amazing how well patience can help your performance. My Mad Hedge Global Trading Dispatch profit reached a super-hot 18.61% so far in March on the heels of a spectacular 13.28% profit in February.
It was a go-nowhere week in the market, so I limited myself to a single trade all week, a double short in the bond market (TLT) on top of a welcome $5 rally. The position turned immediately profitable.
I still have a deep in-the-money call spread Tesla (TSLA) that is profitable and expires in 14 trading days. That leaves me with 70% cash and a barrel full of dry powder.
This is my fifth double-digit month in a row. My 2021 year-to-date performance soared to 42.10%. The Dow Average is up 9.9% so far in 2021.
That brings my 11-year total return to 464.65%, some 2.08 times the S&P 500 (SPX) over the same period. My 11-year average annualized return now stands at an unbelievable 41.30%.
My trailing one-year return exploded to positively eye-popping 119.39%. I truly have to pinch myself when I see numbers like this. I bet many of you are making the biggest money of your long lives.
We need to keep an eye on the number of US Corona virus cases at 30.2 million and deaths topping 550,000, which you can find here.
Thankfully, death rates have slowed dramatically, but Obituaries are still the largest sector in the newspaper. At this point, some 47% of the US population has achieved immunity through vaccination or catching the disease. Herd immunity is near.
The coming week is a big one for jobs data.
On Monday, March 29, at 9:00 AM, the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index for March is released.
On Tuesday, March 30, at 9:00 AM, the S&P Case Shiller National Home Price Index for January is published.
On Wednesday, March 31 at 8:15 AM, the ADP Challenger Private Employment Report for March is out. Pending Home Sales for February are indicated at 9:00 AM.
On Thursday, April 1 at 8:30 AM, the Weekly Jobless Claims are published.
On Friday, April 2 at 8:30 AM we get the Nonfarm Payroll Report for March. At 2:00 PM, we learn the Baker-Hughes Rig Count.
As for me, tax time is coming up and let me tell you, I have absolutely the best IRS story of all time.
It comes from my late, dear friend, Al Pinder, who I sat next to for ten years at the Foreign Correspondents of Japan in Tokyo, pounding away on antiquated Royal typewriters until our shoulders were as stiff as boards. Al then was the shipping correspondent for the New York Journal of Commerce newspaper.
Al was a colorful character, to say the least.
In the run up to WWII, Al took an extended vacation in Japan where he toured and photographed the country’s beaches, looking for the best landing sites for the US military in case war broke out.
To sneak the top-secret pictures out of the country, he bought a large steamer trunk and placed them a false bottom. Then he went to Tokyo’s red-light district in Yoshiwara, bought a dubious sex toy, an inflatable life-sized Japanese doll, and placed it on top.
When the trunk was searched, the customs officials found the doll, had a good laugh and passed him on. Al’s photos were the basis of Operation Olympic, the 1945 US invasion of Japan, made unnecessary by the dropping of the atomic bomb.
When the war broke out, Pinder parachuted into western China, where he acted as the liaison with Mao Zedong’s guerilla forces in Hunan province. In 1944, Al received a coded message from headquarters ordering him to intercept a top-secret airdrop from a DC3 in the middle of the night.
Knowing he would be mercilessly tortured by the Japanese if caught, he set up three signal fires in a triangle in a remote part of the desert and managed to find the parachute. Dodging enemy patrols all the way, he returned to his hideout in a mountain cave and opened the package.
In it was a letter from the IRS asking why he had not filed a tax return for the past three years.
I told this story at Al’s wake a few years ago and everyone had a good laugh. Al went on to run CIA operations in Japan during the fifties and sixties. When he passed away, there was a frantic search for a safe deposit box by American intelligence officials containing records of all CIA payoffs to Japan’s leading conservative party.
When the box was finally found, there was an enormous sigh of relief at the embassy. I still miss Al.
Stay healthy.
John Thomas
CEO & Publisher
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader
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