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Sep 7: we favored semis, the Mag 7 and the Nasdaq 100.
Sep 4–25 total return:
$SMH +6.98%
Mag 7 +4.81%
$NDX +3.63%
$SPX +0.38%
Equal-weight S&P −3.25%
Not a lucky guess.
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Consumer sentiment has dropped to a 5-month low with consumer expectations for higher prices to rise ~5% yr/yr.
Semis ($SOXX) likely sees their longest consecutive down stretch since last Nov.
$NOK Q good and they sell it down 10% after already getting cut in half.
This is where we are. sell everything. shorts are about to get yanked.
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Blackstone's Gray on the notion that AI is a bubble:
“When you think about a bubble, you think about building capacity and then hoping the demand comes,” Gray said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Thursday after the firm reported its third-quarter results. “With AI, you’re building capacity, and you’re hoping you can keep up with the demand.”
It’s “a very different dynamic” from phenomena such as the 1990s telecom bubble, he said. Gray pointed to an AI consulting firm Blackstone created with Anthropic PBC called Ode.
“We can’t keep up with customer demand,” he said. “Demand is almost parabolic.”
#SPX $SPY $QQQ
Hedge Fund loading up on shorts per GS
Across global equities, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s prime brokerage desk says short sales have exceeded long purchases by a ratio of roughly five to one. Short leverage across its book sits in the 99th percentile over the past five years. Net leverage among fundamental long/short funds, a gauge of how much long exposure exceeds shorts, is near a three-year low, despite a rise in gross leverage.
Now they are going after $Meta credit
Treacherous markets where narratives are fueling incresed volatility
Since the end of Q2:
S&P 500 +2%
Nasdaq 100 −3.6%
Russell 2000 −10%
A fragmented market with no follow-through. We're trend followers, and we've been raising cash since the rout began.
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Can it always get worse? Goldman's momentum basket: three 20%+ unwinds in four months, all bigger than anything in the prior two years.
That's how hard it's been to be a growth investor.
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Can it always get worse? Yes. Is a bottom close? Also yes.
Goldman's momentum basket: three 20%+ drawdowns in four months. July's ~45% drop was a record.
Systematic strategies are amplifying the selling.
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