Global Market Comments
July 30, 2021
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(JULY 28 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A),
(SPY), (CRSP), (TLT), (TBT), (BABA), (BIDU), (FXI), (RAD), (TSLA), (NASD), (NKLA), (NIO), (INTC), (MU), (NVDA), (AMD), (TSM), (VXX), (XVZ), (SVXY), (FCX), (ROM), (SPG)
July 28 Biweekly Strategy Webinar Q&A
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the July 28 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar broadcast from Lake Tahoe, NV.
Q: What is your plan with the (SPY) $443-$448 and the $445/450 vertical bear put spreads?
A: I’m going to keep those until we hit the lower strike price on either one and then I’ll just stop out. If the market doesn’t go down in August, then we are going straight up for the rest of the year as the earnings power of big tech is now so overwhelming. Sorry, that’s my discipline and I’m sticking to it. Usually, what happens 90% of the time when we go through the strike, and then go back down again by expiration for a max profit. But the only way to guarantee that you'll keep your losses small is by stopping out of these things quickly. That’s easy to do when you know that 95% of the time the next trade alert you’ll get is a winner.
Q: Are you still expecting a 5% correction?
A: I am. I think once we get all these great earnings reports out of the way this week, we’re going to be in for a beating. I just don't see stocks going straight up all the way through August, so that’s another reason why I'm hanging on to my short positions in the S&P 500 (SPY).
Q: What’s the best way to play CRISPR Therapeutics (CRSP) right now?
A: That is with the $125-$130 vertical bull call spread LEAPS with any maturity in 2022. We had a run in (CRSP) from $100 up to $170 and I didn’t take the damn profit! And now we’ve gone all the way back down to $118 again. Welcome to the biotech space. You always take the ballistic moves. Someday I should read my own research and find out why I should be doing this. For those who missed (CRSP) the last time, we are one proprietary drug announcement, one joint venture announcement, or one more miracle cure away from another run to $170. So that will probably happen in the next year, you get the $125-$130 call spread, and you will double your money easily on that.
Q: I’m down 40% on the United States Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) January $130-$135 vertical bear put spread LEAPS. What would you do?
A: Number one, if you have any more cash I would double up. Number two, I would wait, because I would think that starting from the Fall, the Fed will start to taper; even if they do it just a little bit, that means we have a new trend, the end of the free lunch is upon us, and the (TLT) will drop from $150 down to $132 where it was in March so fast it will make your head spin. I'm hanging onto my own short position in (TLT). If you are new to the (TLT) space and you want some free money, put on the January 2020 $150-$155 vertical bear put spread now will generate about a 75% return by the January 21, 2022 options expiration. I just didn't figure on a 6.5% GDP growth rate generating a 1.1% bond yield, but that’s what we have. I'm sorry, it’s just not in the playbook. Historically, bonds yield exactly what the nominal GDP growth rate is; that means bonds should be yielding 6.50% now, instead of 1.1%. They will yield 6.5% in the future, but not right now. And that's the great thing about LEAPS—you have a whole year or 6 months for your thesis to play out and become right, so hang on to those bond shorts.
Q: Do you have any ideas about the target for Facebook (FB) by the end of the year?
A: I would say up about 20% from current levels. Not only from Facebook but all the other big tech FANGS too. Analysts are wildly underestimating the growth of these companies in the new post-pandemic world.
Q: Do you think the worst of the pandemic will be over by September?
A: Yes, we will be back on a downtrend by September at the latest and that will trigger the next leg up in the bull market. Delta with its great infectious and fatality rates is panicking people into getting shots. The US government is about to require vaccinations for all federal employees and that will get another 5 million vaccinated. Americans have the freedom to do whatever they want but they don’t have the freedom to kill their neighbors with fatal infections.
Q: What should I do with my China (BABA), (BIDU), (FXI) position? Should I be doubling down?
A: Not yet, and there’s no point in selling your positions now because you’ve already taken a big hit, and all the big names are down 50% from the February high. I wouldn't double down yet because you don’t know what's happening in China, nobody does, not even the Chinese. This is their way of addressing the concentration of the wealth in the top 1% as has happened here in the US as well. They’re targeting all the billionaire stocks and crushing them by restricting overseas flotations and so on, so it ends when it ends, and when that happens all the China stocks will double; but I have absolutely no idea when that's going to happen. That being said, I have been getting phone calls from hedge funds who aren’t in China asking if it's time to get in, so that's always an interesting precursor.
Q: What happened to the flu?
A: It got wiped out by all the Covid measures we took; all the mask-wearing, social distancing, all that stuff also eliminates transmission of flu viruses. Viruses are viruses, they’re all transmitted the same way, and we saw this in the Rite Aid (RAD) earnings and the 55% drop in its stock, which were down enormously because their sales of flu medicines went to zero, and that was a big part of their business. I didn’t get the flu last year either because I didn’t get Covid; I was extremely vigilant on defensive measures in the pandemic, all of which worked.
Q: Why would the Fed taper or do much of anything when Powell wants to be reappointed in February 2022?
A: I don’t think he is going to get reappointed when his four-year term is up in early 2022. His policies have been excellent, but never underestimate the desire of a president to have his own man in the office. I think Powell will go his way after doing an outstanding job, and they will appoint another hyper dove to the position when his job is up.
Q: What are your thoughts on the Chinese electric auto company Nio competing here in the U.S.?
A: They will never compete here in the U.S. China has actually been making electric cars longer than Tesla (TSLA) has but has never been able to get the quality up to U.S. standards. Look what happened to Nikola (NKLA) who’s founder was just indicted. Avoid (NIO) and all the other alternative startup electric car companies—they will never catch up with Tesla, and you will lose all your money. Can I be any clearer than that?
Q: You recently raised the ten-year price target up for the Dow Average from 120,000 to 240,000. What is Nasdaq's target 10 years out?
A: I would say they’re even higher. I think Nasdaq (NASD) could go up 10X in 10 years, from 14,000 to 140,000 because they are accounting for 50% of all earnings in the U.S. now, and that will increase going forward, so the stocks have to go ballistic.
Q: What do you think of Intel (INTC)?
A: I don’t like it. They had a huge rally when they fired their old CEO and brought in a new one. There was a lot of talk on reforming and restructuring the company and the stock rallied. Since then, the market has started insisting on performance which hasn’t happened yet so the stock gave up its gains. When it does happen, you’ll get a rally in the stock, not until then, and that could be years off. So I'd much rather own the companies that have wiped out Intel: (MU), (NVDA), (AMD), and (TSM).
Q: When you do recommend buying the Volatility Index (VIX), do you recommend buying the (VIX) or the (VXX)?
A: You can only buy the VIX in the futures market or through ETFs and ETNs, like the (VXX), the (XVZ), and the (SVXY), or options on these. I would be very careful in buying that because time decay is an absolute killer in that security, and that's why all the professionals only play it from the short side. That's also why these spikes in prices literally last only hours because you have professionals hammering (VIX). Somebody told me once that 50% of all the professional traders in the CME make their living shorting the (VIX) and the (VXX). So, if you think you’re better than the professionals, go for it. My guess is that you’re not and there are much better ways to make money like buying 6-to-12-month LEAPS on big tech stocks.
Q: Can the Delta variant get a bigger pullback?
A: Yes. I expect one in August, about 5%. But if Delta gets worse, the selloff gets worse. You saw what it did last year, down 40% in the (SPY) in only two months, so yes, it all depends on the Delta virus. I'm not really worrying about Delta, it's the next one, Epsilon or Lambda, which could be the real killer. That's when the fatality rate goes from 2% to 50%, and if you think I'm crazy, that's exactly what happened in 1919. Go read The Great Influenza book by John Barry that came out 20 years ago, which instantly became a best seller last year for some reason.
Q: Does the Matterhorn have enough flat space on the top to stand on it?
A: Actually, there is a 6’x6’ sort of level rock to stand on top of the Matterhorn. If you slip, it’s a 5000’ fall straight down on any side, and on a good weather day in the summer, there are 200 people climbing the Matterhorn. There's sometimes a one-hour line just to take your turn to get to the top to take your pictures, and then get down again to make space for the next person. So that's what it's like climbing the Matterhorn, it's kind of like climbing Mount Everest, but I still like to do it every year just to make sure I can do it, and one year I hope to win the prize for the oldest climber of the year to climb the Matterhorn. Every year this German guy beats me; he’s two years older than me.
Q: When will Freeport McMoRan (FCX) start going up? I have the 2023 LEAPS
A: Good thing you have the two-year LEAPS because that gives you two years for inflation to show its ugly face once again. You just have to be patient with these. I think we’ll get a rally in the Fall along with all the other interest rate plays like banks, industrials, money management companies, and so on. (FCX) will certainly participate in that. In the meantime, if we get all the way down to $30 in Freeport McMoRan, I would double up your position.
Q: Why is oil (USO) not a buy? Oil is the ultimate inflation hedge.
A: Yes, unless all of the cars in the United States become electric in the next 15 years, which they will, wiping out half of all demand from the largest oil consumer. The United States consumes about 20 million barrels of oil a day, half of that is for cars, and if you take that out of the demand picture you dump 10 million barrels a day on the market and oil goes back to negative numbers like we saw last year. Never do counter-trend trades unless you’re a professional in from of a screen 24 hours a day.
Q: Should I take profits on my ProShares Ultra Technology ETF (ROM) November $90-$95 vertical bull spread and then enter a new spread when tech sells off?
A: Absolutely! When you have that much leverage and you get these price spikes, you sell! The leverage on this position is 2X on the ETF and 10X on the options for a total of 20X! Well done, nice trade and nice profit, go out and buy yourself a new Tesla and wait for the next dip in tech, which may have already started, and which could power on for the rest of August.
Q: What’s the next move for REITs?
A: REITs came off of historic lows last year; a lot of people thought they were going to go bankrupt, and for companies like (SPG) it was a close-run thing. I would be inclined to take profits on REITs here. The next thing to happen is for interest rates to go up and REITs don’t do that great in a rising rate environment.
Q: When is the off-season in Incline Village?
A: It’s the Spring and the Fall, in between ski season and the summer season. That means there are four months a year here, May/June and September/October, where I’m the only one here and the parking lots are empty. There is no one on the trails, the weather is perfect, the leaves are changing colors, and the roads aren’t crowded, so that is the time to be here. It’s a mob scene in the winter and a worse mob scene in the summer!
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Mad Hedge Technology Letter
May 21, 2021
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE STRENGTH OF AMD)
(AMD), (INTC), (TSM), (XLNX), (SMH)
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is a chip stock that needs some serious attention, even more so because of their new share repurchase program that has no end date.
They are led by one of the best tech CEOs in Silicon Valley Lisa Su, who has been in charge since 2014.
She transformed the company into a profitable one, secured incremental market share from Intel Corp. (INTC) and diminished concerns that AMD has a weak balance sheet.
Strength begets strength as AMD introduced a $4 billion stock buyback plan, its first repurchase authorization since 2001, signaling the chipmaker’s robust momentum in their own business.
The buyback will be distributed through cash from operations and will total about 4% of AMD’s market value.
AMD's stock in the high $70s right here looks like a screaming buy.
Share buyback is not only something Apple and Microsoft do, but other smaller players are getting in on the action displaying the great breadth and depth of the tech market.
We don’t see this anywhere else in any other industry because profitable companies simply return money back to shareholders and tech has the luxury of accelerated future earnings and revenue growth to buttress this.
Cut it up however you want, the tech sector is responsible for the bulk of earnings as it relates to the total market and that won’t change.
AMD delivered $832 million in free cash flow in Q1 2021.
The company has now pivoted from a net debt position to a balance sheet that will harness over $3 billion in net cash by the end of the current quarter.
This strength of the balance sheets is even pertinent if you strip out the Xilinx deal which will bring in their own array of financial pluses to add on to the might of AMD's current cash flow situation.
An accumulating share count is something to be wary of in any stock and given that AMD had the opportunity to reduce share count, it was a no-brainer.
Years ago, AMD had 766 million shares outstanding, and it would have climbed to over 1.6 billion considering the Xilinix shares by the end of this year.
This obviously makes EPS metrics appear rosier in future earnings reports and inching them up is a nod to AMD CFO Devinder Kumar who usually has a big say in these decisions.
Under Su’s helmsmanship, the company’s market value has toppled the $90 billion mark from only $2 billion just seven years ago.
That was the year she was named CEO and she hasn’t looked back.
Su’s key to returning AMD to profitability was to rely on the quality of product delivered — these new products snatched market share from Intel.
As what a savvy CEO usually does, she has played down success in order to tamper down high expectations in the stock price and business by saying, “without a doubt it does not get easier.”
I don’t think it was ever easy to begin with but that’s beside the point.
Su’s AMD has gone from an inferior chipmaker building cheaper knockoffs to Intel products to a premium provider of computer processors that win orders solely based on superior performance.
AMD has already repurchased $77 million of stock in its prior buyback plan two decades ago.
Su has rejuvenated AMD’s reputation and performance at a critical juncture and as chip shortages become the norm in this boom-and-bust industry.
The public health problem triggered a crazy demand for remote work and the devices that facilitate a work from home economy.
During this sensitive period, the world’s largest chipmaker, Intel, had struggled to develop its manufacturing technology, one of the foundations of its decades-long dominance of the computer industry.
The chip shortage is an example of the periodic mismatch between supply and demand in the semiconductor market whose companies avoid dipping into capital expenditure until capacity is stretched to the extreme limit.
This is an expensive business to get into, constructing high-performance chips is time-consuming and an engineering headache, thus barriers of entry are incredibly insurmountable.
Most new chip foundries and designers don’t happen unless sovereign nations make it a national security issue which is the case lately.
Ancillary industries started to hoard chips 6-8 months ago and I believe that these pressures will begin to subside soon as supply chains start to normalize.
These longer-term contracts to secure inputs we are seeing now will eventually be reduced easing the supply crunch as demand begins to slow and capacity begins to rise.
Even Su predicts supply of AMD chips, which are built by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), will catch up throughout 2021.
As the tech consolidation rips through chip stocks, I see this as an unequivocal buying opportunity for the strongest of names.
If AMD continues to build on their strong financial position — continue to offer more share repurchases and even a sweet dividend — it clearly means they are building premium products buyers want and that satisfaction not only filters down to the end-user of their chips but the owners of the stock.
I first recommended this stock at $18 at the advent of the Mad Hedge tech letter in 2018, and I am still bullish AMD long term period.
It was a great company in 2018 — it’s gotten even better in 2021 — don’t miss out.
Global Market Comments
April 9, 2021
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(HOW TO HANDLE THE FRIDAY, APRIL 16 OPTIONS EXPIRATION),
(TLT), (TSLA), (TSM)
Followers of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader Alert Services have the good fortune to own no less than SIX deep-in-the-money options positions, all of which are profitable. These expire in five trading days on Friday, April 16, and I just want to explain to the newbies how to best maximize their profits.
I will start sending out trade alerts with the closing P&Ls over two days starting on Thursday, April 15 so I don’t overwhelm your inbox with an overabundance of profits.
It was time to be aggressive. I was aggressive beyond the pale.
These involve the:
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2X (TSLA) 4/$450-$500 call spread 20%
2X (TLT) 4/$142-$145 put spread 20%
(TLT) 4/$127-$130 call spread. - 10%
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(TSM) 4/ $111-$116 call spread 10%
Provided that we don’t have a huge selloff in the markets or monster rallies in bonds, all six of these positions will expire at their maximum profit point.
So far, so good.
I’ll do the math for you on the United States Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) April 16 $142-$145 vertical bear put spread, which I initiated on March 23, 2021 and will definitely run into expiration. (TLT) shares are currently trading at $137.73, some $4.27 lower than the $142.00 strike price.
Provided that the (TLT) doesn’t trade above $142.00 in five days, we will capture the maximum potential profit in the trade. That’s why I love limited risk put spreads. They pay you even when you are wrong on the direction of the stock. All of the money we made was due to time decay and the decline in volatility in (TLT) shares.
Your profit can be calculated as follows:
Profit: $3.00 expiration value - $2.60 cost = $0.40 net profit
(4 contracts X 100 contracts per option X $0.40 profit per options)
= $1,600 or 16% in 19 trading days.
Many of you have already emailed me asking what to do with these winning positions.
The answer is very simple. You take your left hand, grab your right wrist, pull it behind your neck, and pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
You don’t have to do anything.
Your broker (are they still called that?) will automatically use your long position to cover your short position, canceling out the total holdings.
The entire profit will be credited to your account on Monday morning April 19 and the margin freed up.
Some firms charge you a modest $10 or $15 fee for performing this service.
If you don’t see the cash show up in your account on Monday, get on the blower immediately and find it.
Although the expiration process is now supposed to be fully automated, occasionally machines do make mistakes. Better to sort out any confusion before losses ensue.
If you want to wimp out and close the position before the expiration, it may be expensive to do so. You can probably unload them pennies below their maximum expiration value.
Keep in mind that the liquidity in the options market understandably disappears, and the spreads substantially widen when a security has only hours, or minutes until expiration on Friday, April 16. So, if you plan to exit, do so well before the final expiration at the Friday market close.
This is known in the trade as the “expiration risk.”
If for some reason your short position in your spread gets “called away,” don’t worry. Just call your broker and instruct them to exercise your long option position to cover your short option position. That gets you out of your position a few days early at your maximum profit point.
If your broker tells you to sell your remaining long and cover your short separately in the market, don’t. That makes money for your broker, but not you. Do what I say, and then fire your broker and close your account because they are giving you terrible advice. I’ve seen this happen many times among my followers.
One way or the other, I’m sure you’ll do OK, as long as I am looking over your shoulder, as I will be, always. Think of me as your trading guardian angel.
I am going to hang back and wait for good entry points before jumping back in. It’s all about keeping that “Buy low, sell high” thing going.
I’m looking to cherry-pick my new positions going into the next month end.
Take your winnings and go out and buy yourself a well-earned dinner. Just make sure it’s take-out. I want you to stick around.
Well done, and on to the next trade.
Ready to Put Out Any Fire
Mad Hedge Technology Letter
January 15, 2021
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE CHIP BONANZA)
(MU), (QCOM), (TSM)
Cutting edge smartphones and uncontrollable demand for more data-center processing power means equipment manufacturers will need to include significantly more dynamic random access memory (DRAM).
One of the most influential DRAM manufacturers is Micron (MU) and they are poised for a breakout, which is why I executed a call spread with a February expiration.
Micron just so happens to be the best of breed for DRAM which should elevate the stock to higher highs.
Micron’s DRAM is a must-have input into fueling artificial-intelligence and machine-learning applications, next-generation videogame consoles, and in 5G phones, which typically contain more storage and memory than the prior generations of handsets.
The sudden surge for DRAM and other semiconductor products is setting up a year in which capacity is failing to keep up with demand.
End manufacturers are piling on heaps up pressure on the chip companies to procure the chips they need to produce everything from cars to consumer electronics.
The uptick in demand means that prices for semiconductor products are skyrocketing and this could start to turn into a bottleneck for chip companies that cannot fulfill orders.
There is no panacea to the situation.
There is no switch to turn on to add new chip-making machinery.
It’s an expensive and time-draining exercise that includes ordering half a year out, and even longer now.
There has been a deal-making bonanza lately with Qualcomm (QCOM) acquiring NUVIA for $1.4bn and other deep pockets investors looking to pick off the next chip company to flip.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said it was working with the car industry to address critical shortages.
This will mean a wave of capital investment into new factories that can produce chips.
The boom – bust cycle is starting up again.
The pandemic has had a helping hand in the supply crunch with the demand for laptops because of remote work exploding.
There is simply a heightened appetite for cloud-computing services and the data centers behind them.
U.S. restrictions on Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. led competitors to hoard chips and charge excessively for highly sought for parts.
With a severe lack of chips, automakers and consumer-electronics manufacturers are competing for every bit of limited manufacturing capacity.
Corporations are starting to feel the domino effect with Ford Motor Co. announcing it would temporarily furlough a factory in Kentucky this week because of chip shortages that has also led some competitors to change production plans.
The situation is getting so bad that companies are now asking for as much as they can get demanding two years’ supply of chips; and General Motors Co. last month asked suppliers to stockpile a year’s worth of chips.
Bulk orders are normal, but companies are asking for a larger delivery as the availability of chips disappears.
It has literally become a free-for-all triggered by desperation.
Lead times across the industry have risen to six months, from eight to 10 weeks before the pandemic,
For some niche chips, the lead time is up to 20 or more weeks.
Chip sales are expected to grow 6% this year, reaching a record high.
Don’t forget also that the application of chips in automobiles is still a relatively new industry.
Cars didn’t need chips before, but as Tesla has shown you, cars are now iPads on wheels, tricked out with the latest gadgets.
Powerful entertainment systems and driver-assistance functions like rear cameras can’t function without chips.
This all means more demand in a world where companies are fiercely on the prowl for more chips.
Production cycles are long, the development cycles are even longer and there are reliability requirements that increase the cycle times.
Companies can’t just slot in older, weaker chips to power these high-octane systems without reducing the quality significantly.
Chip companies have rung the alarm bells and admitted this dearth of supply won’t be fixed this year.
The demand is so high that the shortage could last until 2023.
Of course, some companies are nimbler than others but in general, this capital-intensive process is like a monolith and moves incredibly slowly.
The bottom line is that these confluences of external and internal forces mean that chip stocks will go higher in 2021.
Mad Hedge Technology Letter
September 23, 2019
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE COMING REVOLUTION IN 5G)
(MSFT), (TSM), (AVGO)
5G is overhyped but that doesn’t mean everyone will be a loser.
The shift to fifth-generation wireless technology, or 5G, will offer investors numerous compelling investment opportunities.
It has been predicted that 5G phone shipments will rise from 17 million this year to 130 million in 2020 and 327 million in 2021.
However, on the flip side of it, 5G, especially for the technically astute consumer and at current prices, is oversold.
At least for 2020.
Some percentage of teens and students will want to watch movies and play high-bandwidth games on their phones but when they discover the data costs, they will retreat from such purchases.
Also, many who hype 5G aren't aware of the technical limitations especially for those outside of certain metro areas.
It could turn out to be a vanity buy for some or most.
It will benefit businesses, of course, but not the majority of the cell phone market. Certainly not in the US.
Even for me, everything I use on my smartphone wouldn’t need 5G.
If there is no noticeable effect, then do consumers really need this technology?
I would say not until something more comes out that requires us to need 5G and I do not see that on the horizon.
Back in the world of the stock market, many analysts understand that RF (radio frequency chip) supply chain companies are compelling in their new growth opportunities for 5G phones.
Even if many consumers do not need 5G, many device makers will splurge on their supply chain to get there, meaning chip companies who sell 5G components will gain.
The marketing of 5G entails the standard hyping-up of the shift to 5G.
And industry participants would say it is substantially important to the semiconductor and telecom industries, but it will take time to absorb on the consumer side.
Analysts expect 5G to deliver speeds 10 to 40 times faster than current 4G LTE networks. Its lower latency promises to enable new applications from augmented reality and automated factories to self-driving and cloud gaming.
But as I referenced above, there are only a handful of consumers that need cloud gaming and augmented reality.
Automated factories work with the current speed of technology and in a global slowdown, corporates will want to wait for a healthier environment to initiate a new CAPEX cycle.
Here are some chip stocks that supply chain could benefit from.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) is a stock with thematic drivers that can potentially benefit from the upcoming 5G renaissance and global supply chain shifts.
TSM has a large foundry and advanced chip-making technology leadership.
Broadcom (AVGO) will also become a vital winner of 5G smartphone adoption while supplying specialized processors for 5G front and back haul.
Broadcom will supply chips to both Apple and Samsung for their 5G smartphones.
The rapid run of chip shares could have more to go for the end of the year as investors have front-run chip stocks for the past few months.
However, I do believe that the downdraft in smartphone demand and connected devices will hurt the end product sales.
Consumers will hold off on buying 5G-supported Huawei, Samsung, and Apple products, meaning chip stocks could stall out after this nice run.
