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Bull markets rotate through sector rotation. This is exactly what we saw last week. Small caps followed through while large caps consolidated their recent gains. Towards the end of the week, we even had some old highflyers popping up – GME, BBWI, APRN, BYND, and PTON. Those are not even A.I. or quantum computing related. They are just highly-shorted former octane momentum stocks. When they reach for the bottom of the barrel, there is usually a rug pull around the corner. The timing of this signal is rarely exact. From a strictly psychological point, it makes sense – when there’s too much froth in the market, we tend to see a sudden pullback that scares people out.  The FOMC meeting this Wednesday might be an excuse for it. 

The overall uptrend for the large-cap indexes SPY and QQQ is still intact. A slight pullback to their 20-day moving averages would be completely normal. Dips during rising markets highlight potential future winners. The stocks that try to break out or go sideways while the indexes decline are likely to outperform when the indexes recover. 

A.I. is still the hottest narrative in the market. We are at a stage where it is not driven by just a few stocks like NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMD, and ADBE. Smaller, more speculative names are starting to perk up – AI, SOUN, YEXT, UPST, IONQ, QBTS. 

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After a slight pullback early in the week, most stocks bounced and closed strong. This time it wasn’t just about tech names. Other sectors also woke up and started to participate in the rally. Market breadth is improving. The S&P 500 is back to the same level where the Fed started raising rates 5% ago. This is truly impressive. Some say it’s about A.I. but we know it is not as simple as that. There are other factors at play. The debt ceiling is likely to be raised again. The economy is still strong. There are plenty of job openings. Commodity prices have been declining for months which has helped with reducing inflation expectations. No one is talking about the Fed and inflation anymore. All the rage is about A.I. and how it could impact productivity and innovation in many businesses. I don’t know if it’s just a fad. If it isn’t, we are still in the early stages and there are plenty of big movers left in the market.

The month of May passed and the buyers haven’t gone away. They are actually expanding. Quite a few companies which had significant downside gaps after earnings have fully recovered. Others are having big upside gaps and are holding them for the most part. This is bullish market behavior. How did we go from “the market is being carried by only a few stocks” and “market breadth is terrible under the surface” to “it’s a bull market”? As the cliche goes – the change happened first slowly, and then suddenly. It started with a few mega-caps. Then, other tech stocks joined. And most recently, other sectors are trying to bounce as well. You don’t fight the tape in such a situation. You find a way to participate. This is what I did when I bought SPXL last Thursday alongside my smaller option trades. Keep in mind that small caps just closed above their 200dma. If this rally has more room, we are yet to see big moves. As usual, not everything will be moving at the same time and at the same pace. There will be plenty of shakeouts, upside gaps followed by intraday selloffs and then recoveries, downside gaps followed by recoveries, and violent pullback to 10 and 20-day EMAs. How do I know this? This is how typically bull markets behave. Trading seems easy only in hindsight. At some point, enough people will turn bullish and we will see signs of complacency in the market. Some might even argue that those signs are already here. This is when the proverbial rug will be pulled.

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Last week started with a quick shakeout. QQQ pulled back to its 10-day EMA. Then, Nvidia reported earnings and jump-started a massive rally. This time, the bull run didn’t impact only the usual suspects – NVDA, AMD, MSFT, GOOGL, META, AI, SMCI, SYM but it stretched into many more names – AVGO, ADBE, AMZN, TSLA, COHR, ANET, TEAM, etc. The entire tech sector is in a strong uptrend. The rest of the market is lagging behind. The most interesting part about the tech power is that it is happening on the back of rising interest rates and the U.S. Dollar. The 1-month T-bills are yielding 6%. Historically, this is not considered an easy-money market environment. And yet, tech stocks can’t stop going higher.

In January when most stocks were going up, I joked that either the market believes that inflation is coming down or A.I. will have a massive impact on the economy. I didn’t really believe the latter at the time. My joke turned out to be a reality. There’s a chance that A.I. will influence our lives to the same degree that the Internet did in the late 90s. If this is true, we are in just the first or second inning of the action. The bulk of the moves, which will surely feel like irrational exuberance to many, is yet to come. Don’t get me wrong – there will be some quick, random, and violent pullbacks in A.I.-related names that will shake many people out but the dips are likely to get bought eventually. Those dips are not likely to come when almost everyone is expecting them. Many hoped that Nvidia will pull back after earnings so they can jump on the A.I. train. You know what happened. NVDA gapped up 30%, the biggest post-earnings gap for a mega-cap stock. Those dips will come when you least expect them and you are completely confident in the invincibility of the A.I. story. They will be so scary that you will question the A.I. narrative. This will be the time when the best risk-reward entry points will appear.

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