Ich habe 70 Charts analysiert, um festzustellen, ob wir CRASHEN oder STEIGEN! (Deep Dive Analyse) — Transcript
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- 0:00The entire Wall Street is currently
- 0:01arguing about a single question. Are we
- 0:03experiencing 1998 or 2000 right now, and
- 0:05the answer determines whether we see
- 0:07another doubling or a crash of nearly 80
- 0:09percent, because Thursday's crash is
- 0:11reminiscent of both years. In 1998, the
- 0:14market collapsed in a very similar way.
- 0:16After that, however, the Nasdaq more
- 0:18than doubled again by March 2000. In the
- 0:20year 2000, the bubble finally burst. The
- 0:22Nasdaq lost 78 percent and took 15 years
- 0:25to reach its old high again.
- 0:28So, is this 1998 and another doubling is
- 0:30coming before the burst, or is it 2000
- 0:32and the bubble is bursting right now?
- 0:34And anyone who overlays today's
- 0:36semiconductor index with that of 1999
- 0:38and 2000 sees this disturbing pattern,
- 0:40but that is only one argument, and
- 0:42Thursday's crash is truly significant.
- 0:44We lost 2.3 trillion US dollars in the
- 0:46Nasdaq alone, more than ever before, and
- 0:48according to textbook statistics, such a
- 0:51day should actually only occur every
- 0:538,000 years.
- 0:54That is why we will go through point by
- 0:56point today what speaks for 1998 and
- 0:58what speaks for 2000.
- 1:00At the end, you will get my answer and
- 1:02three indicators by which you can
- 1:03recognize for yourselves in which
- 1:04direction things are heading, and I will
- 1:06show you what also happened with Bitcoin
- 1:07on Thursday, because that was also
- 1:09unique.
- 1:10That is exactly what we will talk about
- 1:12, and for that, I spent the entire
- 1:13weekend working through 70 charts and 10
- 1:15analyses from Goldman Sachs, Nomura, JP
- 1:17Morgan, Bank of America, and others. Not
- 1:19just for this video, but also for myself
- 1:21, because I wanted to know where we
- 1:22stand right now and what I can derive
- 1:24from it for myself, and that is exactly
- 1:25what I will show you here in this video
- 1:26. I have visually reprocessed all the
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- 1:48as I said.
- 1:49Let's start with the raw numbers from
- 1:51Thursday. You all noticed the crash. The
- 1:53Nasdaq 100 lost 6.36 percent.
- 1:56That was the worst day since March 16th
- 1:58. March 2020, that is, since the corona
- 2:00crash.
- 2:01The S&P 500 lost 4.36%, the most since
- 2:04the tariff shock in April 2020.
- 2:08The Nasdaq 100 alone lost around 2.3
- 2:10trillion US dollars in market value on
- 2:12this day.
- 2:14According to Bloomberg, this is the
- 2:16largest daily loss in the index's
- 2:17history, and Goldman Sachs has also
- 2:19recalculated it, especially
- 2:21statistically, regarding how rare such a
- 2:23day is.
- 2:24Anyone who participates in every single
- 2:26trading day on the stock market would
- 2:28technically have to wait 8,000 years on
- 2:29average to experience such a crash just
- 2:31once.
- 2:33And yet, we have already seen such a day
- 2:35several times this year, so extreme days
- 2:37are becoming the rule, which shows that
- 2:39textbook statistics simply no longer fit
- 2:41this market, and it wasn't the only
- 2:42extreme value on that day.
- 2:45The semiconductor ETF SMH has lost
- 2:47around 20%in five days.
- 2:50It last lost that much in March 2020,
- 2:52also during the Corona crash.
- 2:54The semiconductor index SOX also fell by
- 2:5712%in a single day.
- 2:59That was also its worst day since 2020,
- 3:02and if we go further, we will see, for
- 3:04example, that Nvidia, the second-largest
- 3:06company in the world, had a realized
- 3:08volatility of 100 over five days.
- 3:11Translated, that means the stock
- 3:12fluctuated by more than 6%per day on
- 3:14average, basically like a small shitcoin
- 3:17or an altcoin in the crypto market that
- 3:19also swings very violently.
- 3:21On Thursday alone, Nvidia fell by 9.3%.
- 3:25Goldman tracks its own baskets of stocks
- 3:27for individual AI themes.
- 3:2913 of them had their largest daily loss
- 3:32since the launch of ChatGPT in November
- 3:352022.
- 3:36At the very top are optical networks
- 3:39with -15.26%and memory chips here with
- 3:42-15.2%.
- 3:44Goldman’s broad US AI basket also had
- 3:47its worst day since March 2020.
- 3:50What is interesting is what didn't fall
- 3:52; for example, Apple only fell by 1.5%
- 3:54because they don't have a major
- 3:56commitment to the AI theme.
- 3:58The S&P 500 only has a 60%correlation
- 4:00with its own equal-weighted index, so
- 4:02the old mantra of "diversify widely and
- 4:04you'll be on the safe side" no longer
- 4:06applies.
- 4:08That simply doesn't work in this market
- 4:09anymore.
- 4:11What really occupied my thoughts while
- 4:12looking at all the data is that a day
- 4:14like this isn't happening for the first
- 4:16time.
- 4:17As mentioned, investors traded 11.23
- 4:20million put options on the CBOE on
- 4:23Thursday. A put is basically an
- 4:25insurance policy against falling prices
- 4:28. That is the highest figure in the
- 4:30history of the exchange. The old record
- 4:32was 10.22 million on April 4.
- 4:352025, at the height of the tariff panic
- 4:38.
- 4:38And if we take another step forward here
- 4:41to the next chart, you will see an
- 4:43interesting statistic there as well.
- 4:46The ten biggest days, these ten biggest
- 4:48put days, where bets on falling prices
- 4:51were extremely heavy, all occurred
- 4:53either this year or last year.
- 4:55And these statistics go back 30 years.
- 4:57Of course, put options are traded more
- 5:00generally than in the past, but the fact
- 5:02that the ten biggest days for this
- 5:04insurance against falling prices fall
- 5:06exactly on these two years is, I believe
- 5:08, no coincidence and says something
- 5:10about this market.
- 5:12Moving on, if you look at Goldman’s
- 5:15panic index for volatility on a scale of
- 5:180 to 10, it rose to 9.57 on Thursday,
- 5:20clearly in the panic zone.
- 5:23Goldman’s volatility desk writes that
- 5:26this is the greatest panic we have seen
- 5:28in a very long time. The VIX, the
- 5:31volatility index on Wall Street, rose by
- 5:3470%in a single day.
- 5:36The VXN, the fear barometer for the
- 5:39Nasdaq, saw its biggest daily jump since
- 5:42March 2020. And yet, the whole situation
- 5:45looks almost harmless in the S&P 500,
- 5:46you have to say, right? The S&P 500 is
- 5:49currently just 6.3%below its high. Since
- 5:522009, the average correction has been
- 5:557.6%. So, at the index level, everything
- 5:57still looks very normal. It is also
- 5:59already the third correction of more
- 6:02than 5%this year. Beneath the surface,
- 6:04however, it looks completely different,
- 6:05right? The Nasdaq 100 is now 14.7%below
- 6:08its record from the 6th of October.
- 6:1159 out of 100 stocks in the Nasdaq are
- 6:14already in a bear market, meaning more
- 6:16than 20%below their high. The
- 6:18semiconductor index is around 38%below
- 6:20its high.
- 6:22So the index hides how much damage is
- 6:24really prevailing on the surface, and
- 6:25that will become important later,
- 6:27especially when we talk about the Fed.
- 6:29But why did this happen right now? The
- 6:32trigger, I believe, is also clear. The
- 6:34US midterm elections were held on
- 6:35Tuesday. The Democrats won both houses
- 6:37of Congress, in addition to several
- 6:39governorships. The market was still
- 6:41celebrating that on Wednesday. On
- 6:42Thursday, the bill came due because of a
- 6:45topic that many have underestimated so
- 6:47far: data centers. People in the US do
- 6:50not want data centers in their own
- 6:52backyards.
- 6:53In an election poll, 76%of respondents
- 6:55rejected a new data center in their
- 6:57community, and this resistance is
- 6:59currently growing very rapidly.
- 7:02In September, 24%were strongly against
- 7:04it, in August it was 61%, and now
- 7:06politics is also coming into play. If
- 7:09you look at this, including an analysis
- 7:11from Goldman Sachs, around 45%of planned
- 7:13data center capacity in the US is in
- 7:15states where a construction moratorium
- 7:18could be looming after the election.
- 7:20Texas alone accounts for 26.7%of that.
- 7:23The new governor there wants to halt
- 7:25construction until new laws are, uh, in
- 7:27place.
- 7:28The legislative period in Texas runs
- 7:30until the end of 2027.
- 7:32The logic behind it is simple, right?
- 7:35So, if the construction of data centers
- 7:37slows down drastically, it impacts
- 7:39growth expectations, making them
- 7:41increasingly unrealistic, which is why
- 7:43the market sold off everything tied to
- 7:45this expansion on Thursday, right?
- 7:48That much is clear. But that is only
- 7:50half the story. The other half is the
- 7:52money. Very important, I already spoke
- 7:54about that on October 6th. October,
- 7:56spoken. In a deep-dive video, insiders
- 7:58know more. Uh, bets on AI bankruptcies
- 8:00are rising, where we looked at default
- 8:02insurance.
- 8:04By the way, that was exactly the high of
- 8:06the Nasdaq 100 and the intermediate high
- 8:08of the semiconductor index, so the
- 8:09timing fit quite well there.
- 8:12The big cloud corporations—if you look
- 8:15at it, just a reminder—the so-called
- 8:17hyperscalers have already issued 296
- 8:18billion dollars in bonds this year.
- 8:21Goldman had expected 250 billion for the
- 8:24entire year.
- 8:25That is around 9%of all investment-grade
- 8:27corporate bonds worldwide.
- 8:29In total, AI-related bonds this year
- 8:32stand at 687 billion dollars. And if you
- 8:35look at the data, you can clearly see
- 8:37that the credit market is currently
- 8:38getting even more nervous.
- 8:40A CDS is basically credit default
- 8:41insurance against insolvency, if one can
- 8:44no longer service loans, if a debtor can
- 8:46no longer pay back the funds.
- 8:49Goldman's basket for CDS on AI data
- 8:51center firms rose above 500 basis points
- 8:54on Thursday, a record.
- 8:57The bonds of CoreWeave, for example, one
- 8:59of the biggest or large AI cloud
- 9:00providers, are trading at a spread of
- 9:02over 12 percentage points above
- 9:03government bonds.
- 9:05The problem is simply that every quarter
- 9:08a permit is missing is another quarter
- 9:10of interest payments on a half-finished
- 9:12data center.
- 9:14The list of postponed or canceled IPOs
- 9:15and financings in the data center sector
- 9:17has been growing since September.
- 9:20We have just received a fresh report
- 9:22that Microsoft has canceled a data
- 9:24center with Oracle, for example.
- 9:27On Thursday, Bloomberg even reported
- 9:29that the bank ING wants to offload a
- 9:30credit package for data centers worth
- 9:32500 million dollars.
- 9:34Even at Goldman, where they are leaning
- 9:36more toward the 1998 scenario, they call
- 9:38the scale of spending and the
- 9:40uncertainty regarding returns an
- 9:42uncomfortable parallel to 2000, but
- 9:44large investments on credit existed in
- 9:46both years.
- 9:47That is, we must clearly state, it is
- 9:49not an indication that just because
- 9:50everything is running on borrowed money
- 9:52, it somehow points to the year 2000 and
- 9:53thus to a bursting of the bubble.
- 9:55We already had large investments on
- 9:57borrowed money back in 1998. That is
- 10:00very clear, or very important to note
- 10:01there.
- 10:02So, using this argument to say, hey,
- 10:04everything is running on credit, that’s
- 10:06why I’m getting out of the market now,
- 10:07that can be dangerous in the sense that
- 10:09you then miss the entire remaining rally
- 10:11because, as I said, major investments
- 10:13essentially started in 1996, or before
- 10:14the dot-com bubble.
- 10:16The essential difference was only made
- 10:18by the credit market. Starting in 2000,
- 10:20no more money was injected.
- 10:22Exactly, that is the open question today
- 10:24, and we will come back to that at the
- 10:26end of the video, how you can recognize
- 10:27it for yourself, because at the end of
- 10:29the day, it's all about when the flow of
- 10:30money is stopped.
- 10:32The question remains why such a
- 10:34political topic triggers a day that,
- 10:36statistically, should only occur every
- 10:388,000 days, and the answer lies, in
- 10:40principle, in the structure of the
- 10:41market. This is called the shrinking
- 10:43denominator. More than half of all
- 10:45stocks today are held passively, that is
- 10:48, via index funds and ETFs that buy
- 10:50stocks regardless of what they cost.
- 10:53A large part of daily trading comes from
- 10:55systematic strategies, index adjustments
- 10:58, and ETFs, and fast active funds
- 11:00operate with high leverage, meaning
- 11:02tight risk limits and very similar risk
- 11:05models when compared side by side.
- 11:08This means that with a shrinking
- 11:09denominator, a uniformly acting group
- 11:11can trigger daily movements that,
- 11:13according to standard statistics, hardly
- 11:15ever occur. Translated, this means that
- 11:17when one fund reaches its loss limit,
- 11:19they all do, and on the other side,
- 11:21there are only passive funds that don't
- 11:23care about the price and programs that
- 11:25sell simply because the price is falling
- 11:27. On Thursday, you could see that happen
- 11:29live.
- 11:31ETFs accounted for 32%of the total
- 11:33trading volume, the most since June, and
- 11:35almost no one was looking at individual
- 11:37stocks, right?
- 11:38Everyone sold the index, and then the
- 11:41programs took over; leveraged ETFs have
- 11:44to reset their leverage every evening.
- 11:46If prices fall sharply, they have to
- 11:48sell at the close of trading.
- 11:50On Thursday, that amounted to 48.6
- 11:53billion dollars, the second-highest
- 11:55value ever recorded, and if we continue
- 11:57here, then we also have the funds with
- 12:00volatility control.
- 12:02These funds determine how many shares
- 12:04they hold based on how much the market
- 12:06fluctuates.
- 12:07If volatility rises, they have to sell.
- 12:09In just one week, they dumped 117
- 12:11billion dollars in stocks, and then
- 12:13there are the market makers, right? They
- 12:16are constantly hedging themselves
- 12:17through options positions as well.
- 12:20When they have negative gamma, they have
- 12:22to sell into falling prices and buy into
- 12:24rising ones.
- 12:25That was around 7 billion more on top
- 12:28for every percent the S&P 500 falls, and
- 12:31the next wave is already lined up.
- 12:34Trend-following funds, the so-called
- 12:36CTAs, turned short on the Nasdaq when
- 12:39the index fell below 27,600 points.
- 12:42Below 26,800 points, their position
- 12:45drops back to the level of April 2025,
- 12:47which is when we had the, uh, tariff
- 12:50shock.
- 12:51The Nasdaq 100 closed at 26,630 on
- 12:55Thursday.
- 12:57In a weak scenario, Goldman expects
- 12:59another 7.5 billion dollars in sales for
- 13:02the S&P 500 alone over the next, uh, few
- 13:04days.
- 13:06We'll have to wait and see; we'll take a
- 13:08look at the, uh, statistics on that in a
- 13:10moment.
- 13:10If you look at the irony of the day, on
- 13:13Wednesday, when prices rose after the
- 13:15election, in the middle of that
- 13:17post-election relief rally, many
- 13:19investors sold their hedges. On Thursday
- 13:21, everyone wanted that exact same hedge
- 13:24back.
- 13:25With 6.2 million contracts, there was a
- 13:27new record for index puts.
- 13:30Three of the five biggest index put days
- 13:32of all time have occurred in the last
- 13:33three weeks, so there we also have a
- 13:35very stark extreme.
- 13:37At the same time, short selling on US
- 13:39ETFs rose by 7%, the sharpest increase
- 13:41since March. It's like a homeowner—if
- 13:44you translate it simply—a homeowner sold
- 13:46, uh, or canceled their fire insurance
- 13:48on Wednesday, and then on Thursday, the
- 13:50house just burns down, right? So that’s
- 13:52how quickly it can happen.
- 13:54And for our comparison between 1998 and
- 13:562000, this is also important because we
- 13:58essentially had market mechanics here,
- 14:00forced selling, and partly fundamental
- 14:02developments.
- 14:04It was exactly the same in 1998.
- 14:06Back then, the hedge fund LTCM got into
- 14:08trouble with massive leverage after
- 14:10Russia stopped servicing its debt.
- 14:13The markets collapsed, but the economy
- 14:15kept running. I'll tell you the whole
- 14:17story in more detail in a moment.
- 14:19What we have heard so far with these
- 14:21market mechanics is a clear argument for
- 14:22why there was such heavy selling,
- 14:24fitting for 1998.
- 14:25Now you might think the hedge funds beat
- 14:27the market down. The answer surprised me
- 14:29somewhat as well. The panic we saw
- 14:31earlier was in the options market and in
- 14:33trading the index as a whole.
- 14:36For individual stocks, it looked
- 14:37different. According to Goldman Prime,
- 14:39the department that manages hedge funds
- 14:41, the funds there did not sell in a
- 14:43panic.
- 14:44The bottom line: hedge funds, where a
- 14:46manager personally decides on every
- 14:48stock, were simply not the main drivers
- 14:50of this sell-off.
- 14:52Nevertheless, the tech funds were hit
- 14:54the hardest, losing 4.1%in a single day
- 14:57.
- 14:58Before the AI sell-off in the summer,
- 15:00they were still up around 24%for the
- 15:01year.
- 15:02Now they are roughly at zero. The entire
- 15:05AI gain for the year is gone, and if
- 15:06you're at zero eight weeks before the
- 15:08end of the year, you're obviously going
- 15:10to take less risk, right?
- 15:12These funds just want to survive until
- 15:14next year, and the question then is, who
- 15:16was selling besides all the algorithms?
- 15:19Above all, retail investors. There are
- 15:21clear statistics on this, too.
- 15:23On Thursday, retail investors sold a net
- 15:26$ 338 million in individual US stocks.
- 15:30There were only two days with higher
- 15:31volumes, back in March 2020 during the
- 15:33Corona crash.
- 15:34And of the ten largest sell-off days
- 15:36since 2020, seven occurred in 2024,
- 15:38which is another indication—if it still
- 15:40wasn't clear—that we are in very extreme
- 15:43times.
- 15:45At JP Morgan, retail sales had already
- 15:47reached around $ 1.3 billion by midday,
- 15:50primarily in large tech stocks,
- 15:52semiconductors, and leveraged ETFs.
- 15:56A trader at JP Morgan summarizes the
- 15:58sentiment—I’ve pulled out a quote here.
- 16:00It feels like retail investors have
- 16:03finally given up on the AI trade.
- 16:05There is also an important observation
- 16:07to be made here. After the sell-off in
- 16:09July, retail investors continued selling
- 16:11for days, even as the market was already
- 16:13recovering. So keep an eye on whether
- 16:15large institutional investors are now
- 16:17coming back into the market.
- 16:19Only that will sustain a real recovery,
- 16:20not retail investors who are just
- 16:22blowing back and forth like leaves in
- 16:24the wind, right? That is exactly what we
- 16:26keep seeing in the crypto market as well
- 16:28. And one more detail that many people
- 16:30really underestimate, in my opinion, is
- 16:32what retail investors are still buying,
- 16:35especially leveraged ETFs like the SOXL
- 16:37, which tracks the semiconductor index
- 16:39with triple leverage. The semiconductor
- 16:41index itself is still significantly
- 16:43above its April level. The leveraged one
- 16:45, on the other hand, has already fallen
- 16:46back to its April level.
- 16:49This is because the leverage eats up all
- 16:51the gains, and as I said, we see this
- 16:53time and again with these leveraged
- 16:55products, which are very popular with
- 16:57retail investors and where people just
- 16:59jump in because they get greedy, right?
- 17:03And then we move on to the next step,
- 17:05when we look at this globally: in Asia,
- 17:07the emergency brake is currently being
- 17:09pulled.
- 17:10Before we get to the big question of
- 17:12whether we are experiencing 1998 or 2000
- 17:14, it’s worth taking a look at Asia,
- 17:16because the state is now intervening
- 17:18there. Until recently, Taiwan was the
- 17:21last market that had hardly been
- 17:23affected by the AI sell-off.
- 17:25The Taiwan ETF EWT has now closed below
- 17:27its 200-day moving average for the first
- 17:29time since April 2023.
- 17:31It has only been this oversold a few
- 17:33times in the last 10 years.
- 17:35On Friday, the Taiex fell by 4.51%.
- 17:39For the week, it was 12.19%.
- 17:42According to Bloomberg, it was the
- 17:44weakest week since 2001, and that is
- 17:45when the state stepped in.
- 17:47They have a stabilization fund, and the
- 17:49state has now authorized its deployment
- 17:51.
- 17:52The fund has now released 500 billion
- 17:54Taiwan dollars, or about 15.3 billion US
- 17:56dollars, and is authorized to use it to
- 17:58buy stocks.
- 18:00So, the market is now being actively
- 18:01supported here.
- 18:04In terms of total volume, if you look at
- 18:06the sell-offs, it is probably not on a
- 18:08scale where you can say it's enough, but
- 18:10it is certainly an indication that the
- 18:13state, in this case Taiwan, is stepping
- 18:15in and saying we have crashed so hard
- 18:17that we must intervene now.
- 18:19In South Korea, it looked similar on
- 18:22Friday. The Kospi lost 8.76%after the
- 18:25opening, and trading was automatically
- 18:27suspended. In the end, it stood at a
- 18:29loss of around 6%.
- 18:31The government is now suspending for
- 18:32three months the requirement that
- 18:34brokers must demand a fixed minimum
- 18:35margin for securities loans.
- 18:37This is the first time since July 2022.
- 18:40The goal is clear: retail investors who
- 18:42bought on credit should not be
- 18:43liquidated, meaning they should not be
- 18:45forced into panic selling.
- 18:47By the way, Korea was already a leading
- 18:49indicator for AI trading, and the
- 18:51semiconductor index there, the SOX, has
- 18:52now caught up with the Kospi on the way
- 18:54down.
- 18:56And Japan, the Nikkei, also fell 6%and
- 19:00is now 20%below its recent high, which
- 19:03technically puts it in a bear market.
- 19:07So Asia is intervening with everything
- 19:09they have: sovereign wealth funds,
- 19:11short-selling curbs, and relaxed lending
- 19:13rules.
- 19:14You only do that when things are really
- 19:16on fire, and the AI sector is definitely
- 19:18on fire right now, and that is the big
- 19:20difference compared to the US, it must
- 19:22be said.
- 19:23There, the central bank is usually the
- 19:24fire department during a crash, and the
- 19:26Fed can lower interest rates to support
- 19:28the market.
- 19:28But this time, the exact opposite is
- 19:30happening, right?
- 19:31We’ve had interest rate hikes in
- 19:33September, now another pause, and the
- 19:35next hike is already priced in for
- 19:37December, which brings us to the big
- 19:38question: Is this 1998 or is it 2000?
- 19:41Let’s take a closer look at both years
- 19:43in detail to evaluate the similarities
- 19:46and differences, so we can then answer
- 19:48where we currently stand or what exactly
- 19:50matters right now, as that is our
- 19:52benchmark. 1998, what happened there in
- 19:54Russia, uh, in Russia? In the summer,
- 19:57Russia stated that they could or would
- 19:59no longer pay their debts.
- 20:02This led to a major crash, and most
- 20:03notably, the most famous hedge fund at
- 20:05the time, LTCM, began to falter.
- 20:07They had borrowed so much money that the
- 20:10entire financial system was under threat
- 20:12. The stock market plunged by a fifth,
- 20:15but then the Fed intervened.
- 20:17They brought the major banks to the
- 20:19table, saved the fund, and cut interest
- 20:21rates several times within a few weeks.
- 20:23The panic subsided. As mentioned earlier
- 20:26, the Nasdaq subsequently more than
- 20:28doubled.
- 20:292000, a clear difference. This time, the
- 20:32Fed did exactly the opposite.
- 20:34They kept raising interest rates because
- 20:36they wanted to cool down the economy.
- 20:37In March 2000, the Nasdaq reached its
- 20:39peak, and then the bubble, the dot-com
- 20:42bubble, burst.
- 20:43As stated at the beginning, it lost
- 20:46almost 80%and took 15 years to recover.
- 20:50And a strategist, if you want to bring
- 20:53in expert opinions, notably Goldman
- 20:55Sachs, for example, says: "I lean toward
- 20:571998." His reasoning: Unlike in the year
- 20:592000, today's market leaders have real
- 21:02revenue, cash flows, and balance sheets
- 21:04, and a delay in building data centers
- 21:06does not destroy the demand for
- 21:08computing power.
- 21:10It only postpones it.
- 21:12Let’s go through what I consider to be
- 21:14the most important arguments. There are
- 21:16several points that are important here.
- 21:18First, the valuation.
- 21:20Nvidia is currently trading at around
- 21:22ten times the expected earnings for the
- 21:24next 24 months, as cheap as it hasn't
- 21:26been since 2013.
- 21:28Valuations in the semiconductor sector
- 21:30have halved since June. Cisco was
- 21:32trading at well over a hundred times its
- 21:34earnings in the year 2000. That leans
- 21:37more toward 1998. Second, the Fed.
- 21:40In 1998, the Fed cut rates, in 2000 it
- 21:43raised them, and today we are still in
- 21:45the middle of an interest rate hike
- 21:47cycle, with about an 80%probability
- 21:49right now that we will see another rate
- 21:51hike in December.
- 21:53That would suggest 2000 in this regard.
- 21:56Third, earnings. Traders describe the
- 21:59situation like this: company figures are
- 22:00improving, yet stocks are falling anyway
- 22:02. The quarterly figures, prices for
- 22:04memory chips, and computing power are,
- 22:06uh, strong. Back in 2000, many stock
- 22:09prices were tied to companies that had
- 22:11no profits at all. That speaks in favor
- 22:14of 1998 again. If you look further into
- 22:17it, uh, there is this chart here. The
- 22:19exaggeration, so that is the fourth
- 22:21point. Bank of America measures how far
- 22:23the semiconductor index is above or
- 22:25below its 200-day, uh, line.
- 22:27This year it was up to 74%higher; this
- 22:29value was only higher during the dot-com
- 22:32bubble, here at 111%.
- 22:34In the last five days, the semiconductor
- 22:37index has lost more than 15%against the
- 22:39S&P 500, lagging behind as much as it
- 22:42hasn't since 2002.
- 22:44And let's go back to the beginning here
- 22:46, uh, to this chart with the
- 22:48semiconductor index overlaid with back
- 22:50then, '99 to 2000. The progression
- 22:52matches surprisingly well, you have to
- 22:55say. That speaks more for 2000 here.
- 22:58And this perhaps results in an interim
- 23:00picture that is very unsatisfying for
- 23:02some, namely that the arguments simply
- 23:03balance each other out now when you look
- 23:05at these points, the similarities and
- 23:07the differences.
- 23:08One open question remains, of course:
- 23:10will the credit market continue to
- 23:12finance, uh, things? And if you also
- 23:13look at a trend line, we also see that
- 23:15we are hanging by a thread there. A
- 23:17trend line that is now being tested for
- 23:19the third time on the Nasdaq.
- 23:21What my answer to this is now, and what
- 23:23my interim conclusion from this entire
- 23:25analysis is, is that we are more likely
- 23:28experiencing a 1998, but without the
- 23:30rescue by the Fed. The valuations, the
- 23:32profits, and the mechanical trigger look
- 23:35like 1998. But the most important
- 23:37element of 1998 is missing, namely the
- 23:39Fed stepping in, and that also has a
- 23:42clear reason.
- 23:43At the index level, hardly anything has
- 23:45really happened yet, right? S&P 500 down
- 23:486.3%.
- 23:50The last times the Fed acted or reacted
- 23:52, the S&P was significantly lower or in
- 23:55a much sharper, yes, correction or
- 23:58sometimes even in a bear market.
- 24:01What we saw, most recently in 2022, is
- 24:03that they even hiked further during the
- 24:04correction because inflation was high,
- 24:06and that is naturally also a very
- 24:08important point.
- 24:09Inflation remains at a very high level,
- 24:12and if we go further, generally, if you
- 24:14look at it currently, does that mean we
- 24:17are going down further now?
- 24:19If you look at the statistics, they
- 24:20actually say something different. Take a
- 24:22look at the 20 largest jumps of the
- 24:24volatility index since 1990 here.
- 24:27Thursday landed in third place here with
- 24:29plus 70%. Three months after such jumps
- 24:32, the S&P 500 was on average 5%higher
- 24:34after one year. So, these are actually
- 24:37Japanese-style moments where entering
- 24:39the market has historically and
- 24:40statistically paid off in most cases.
- 24:43And let's go even further. Since 2015,
- 24:45the Nasdaq has fallen by more than 5%on
- 24:47a single day seven times.
- 24:50Six times it was higher three months
- 24:52later, but six times it fell below the
- 24:54level of the crash day again within one
- 24:56month.
- 24:57So usually, there is an initial recovery
- 24:59after such a big crash. You can see that
- 25:02here in this second column. So most
- 25:03cases are then green. After a week,
- 25:06however, there is another low, where
- 25:08this low is tested once more. But
- 25:10afterwards, if you look at it after
- 25:12three months—which isn't exactly a
- 25:14long-term perspective, I find—three
- 25:16months, we actually see a recovery again
- 25:18and again.
- 25:20What is interesting, however, is that
- 25:22there is one exception, and that was in
- 25:232022, in the exact case where the Fed
- 25:25had raised interest rates, and that is,
- 25:27as I said, currently the case as well,
- 25:29and Goldman has also evaluated this for
- 25:30its panic index.
- 25:32After the 15 previous signals above 9.5
- 25:35, the S&P 500 was on average 4.6%higher
- 25:38after three months in 80%of the cases.
- 25:42After one month, it was only 0.68%on
- 25:44average.
- 25:45These figures come primarily from phases
- 25:47in which the Fed was actually helping.
- 25:50The turnaround must therefore come from
- 25:51somewhere else, and there are three
- 25:52indicators for this, in my view, which
- 25:54you can also observe yourselves in the
- 25:55coming weeks. The first is volatility.
- 25:57Volatility-controlled funds have sold
- 26:00117 billion dollars. Their equity
- 26:02allocation is now as low as it has been
- 26:05in only 14.6%of cases over the last
- 26:07three years. As soon as the fluctuation
- 26:09drops, as soon as the volatility index
- 26:11drops, they have to buy back
- 26:12automatically. No market can sustain a
- 26:15volatility of 100 at Nvidia for long. So
- 26:17that will not remain a normal state in
- 26:20my view. At some point, the market will
- 26:22level off again, the volatility indices
- 26:25will also pull back, and then these
- 26:27volatility-controlled funds will have to
- 26:29buy back. The second indicator, and this
- 26:31is very important and I believe many are
- 26:33currently underestimating it, is
- 26:34politics. Remember April 2025. The
- 26:37Nasdaq fell by more than 11%over two
- 26:40days because of tariffs.
- 26:42A few days later, Trump suspended most
- 26:44tariffs for 90 days, and by the end of
- 26:46June, the Nasdaq was at a new record,
- 26:48right?
- 26:49So that is what happened. The Fed didn't
- 26:51cut rates back then until September.
- 26:53The trigger was political, so the
- 26:54turnaround also came from politics.
- 26:57This time, the trigger is the threatened
- 27:00construction freeze for data centers,
- 27:02and the new governor of Texas is already
- 27:04saying herself that it’s not like they
- 27:06hate data centers, right?
- 27:08So she is already rowing back a little
- 27:10bit. Projects that have already been
- 27:11approved should just be allowed to be
- 27:12completed. Goldman calls this a
- 27:14regulatory reset and expects any
- 27:16potential construction freezes to be
- 27:18short-lived.
- 27:19The third indicator is the credit market
- 27:21, and that decides between 1998 or 2000
- 27:23in my view.
- 27:25At the moment, the fire is only burning
- 27:26in one corner, and that’s specifically
- 27:28those building data centers; they are
- 27:30currently paying large premiums and
- 27:32higher interest rates.
- 27:34As I said, CoreWeave, for example, is
- 27:36paying over 12 percentage points more
- 27:37than the US government. But for normal
- 27:39large companies, you can hardly see any
- 27:41of that.
- 27:42Back in 2000, it also only started
- 27:43burning in one corner. First, the
- 27:45telecom companies stopped getting money
- 27:47, then it spread. Suddenly, even healthy
- 27:49companies had to pay much higher
- 27:51interest rates.
- 27:52Many couldn't get any new loans at all,
- 27:54and in the end, the economy slipped into
- 27:55a recession.
- 27:57That is what you need to pay attention
- 27:58to.
- 28:00If normal companies suddenly have to pay
- 28:02significantly more interest, or if
- 28:04companies cancel their bonds because
- 28:06they can't find buyers, then the fire
- 28:08spreads, and 1998 becomes 2000 once the
- 28:10cash flow stops.
- 28:12That is the deciding factor in my view.
- 28:14If it stays limited to the data centers
- 28:17, then it’s more like 1998. And above
- 28:19everything stands the interest rate path
- 28:20. So, an interest rate hike in December
- 28:21is priced in. The next important dates
- 28:23are the 10th. November inflation data,
- 28:25the 9th. December, the next interest
- 28:27rate decision. But not everything will
- 28:28be decided there; it depends on the
- 28:30coming months.
- 28:31Is inflation cooling down, or are we
- 28:33really seeing a continued steep rate
- 28:35path where further hikes are priced in?
- 28:38Many assume that this will be the last
- 28:40rate hike because the market can't
- 28:42handle any more than that, and
- 28:43accordingly, it will depend on that.
- 28:46My personal opinion is, as I said, 1998
- 28:49is more likely, and I will take every
- 28:51chance to keep investing and further
- 28:53reduce my cash position.
- 28:56I already did that this past week, in
- 28:58the week where the crash happened, or a
- 29:00day before, I bought Alphabet shares for
- 29:02example, I anticipated six weeks of ETF
- 29:04savings plan installments, and invested
- 29:06manually once more. I last did that in
- 29:09April 2025, and if it continues to go
- 29:12down—which is what the statistics
- 29:14suggest might happen, that the lows
- 29:17might be tested again in the traditional
- 29:19market—then I will naturally buy more.
- 29:22With Bitcoin, as I promised you, it is
- 29:24only the second time that Bitcoin fell
- 29:27less than the Nasdaq when the Nasdaq
- 29:29dropped more than 5%.
- 29:31The other time was here on the 16th.
- 29:34March, so the Corona crash. That was
- 29:36actually a very good entry point, wasn't
- 29:37it?
- 29:38We shouldn't forget that, and if we go
- 29:41further here, um, Bitcoin stocks
- 29:42naturally fell twice as hard, which I
- 29:44think is no surprise, and Bitcoin was a
- 29:47year ahead.
- 29:48That is also one reason why Bitcoin is
- 29:50currently holding up a bit better. The
- 29:52Nasdaq, by the way, hit its all-time
- 29:54high exactly one year after Bitcoin. On
- 29:56the 6th. October we had our all-time
- 29:58high, and since then, Bitcoin has been
- 30:00underperforming, and then the selling
- 30:02pressure is naturally a bit reduced. So
- 30:04let’s summarize.
- 30:05Thursday was statistically an 8,000-
- 30:07year event, but such days are occurring
- 30:09more and more frequently in this market
- 30:10because the machine produces them that
- 30:12way, because the market is currently
- 30:13structured like this.
- 30:15Valuations and earnings speak for 1998;
- 30:18the Fed speaks for 2000. My answer is
- 30:20more like 1998, but without the Fed
- 30:22rescue because it’s simply too early.
- 30:26In my view, there is still room to the
- 30:28downside before the Fed can or must
- 30:30react, but overall the earnings are
- 30:32definitely there, so my answer is 1998,
- 30:34and whether it shifts will be shown by
- 30:37volatility, politics, and especially the
- 30:39credit market.
- 30:41I already showed you that on October 6th
- 30:42.
- 30:43That is nothing—it shouldn't be anything
- 30:45new to you, what I’m telling you here
- 30:47regarding the credit market, but I will
- 30:49of course keep you updated in the coming
- 30:52weeks and always share these
- 30:53developments with you.
- 30:56Feel free to write in the comments what
- 30:58you think—is this a good chance to add
- 30:59to positions, or are we really seeing a
- 31:01dot-com bubble like in 2000?
- 31:03What do you make of the situation?
- 31:06With Bitcoin, you know anyway that I
- 31:08only buy when we are in the value zone,
- 31:10unless something tax-related changes or
- 31:12for whatever other reason, then I will
- 31:15let you know, but currently, it is not
- 31:17my plan to actively buy spot.
- 31:20In the traditional market, I became
- 31:21active, and I will of course continue to
- 31:23update you on that. Feel free to leave a
- 31:25comment to wrap things up, and as I said
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- 31:59otherwise, I'll see you again in the
- 32:01next update. Bye-bye.
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