Long Gold And Short Semis Into Year-End? | Weekly Roundup — Transcript
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- 0:00Nothing said on Ford guidance is a
- 0:02recommendation to buy or sell any
- 0:03investments or products.
- 0:11All right, what's going on everybody?
- 0:12Welcome back to another roundup edition
- 0:14of Forward Guidance special edition cuz
- 0:18we got the man Tony Greer back in the
- 0:20house. Tony, always so fun to have you.
- 0:21I was saying right before we recorded
- 0:23that it seems like anytime we book in to
- 0:25come in, markets start falling apart.
- 0:27you were I think the last time we really
- 0:29did this was in was in last March. Um
- 0:31and marketers are were were falling
- 0:33apart and here you are again and the
- 0:35cues are down over five six%. Great to
- 0:37have you dude.
- 0:38>> Yeah it's great to be here man. Luckily,
- 0:40we were a little bit ahead of this one
- 0:41in the semiconductor space. But, you
- 0:44know, I to to even think that I had any
- 0:46clue what was going to happen in the
- 0:47last two days, you know, the up and back
- 0:50and the violent reversals, man, nobody
- 0:53sees this coming. You know, there's not
- 0:55really headline specific driven. We're
- 0:58just digesting the sort of
- 1:01>> pressure release of having the midterms
- 1:04behind us, you know, and getting the
- 1:05results we knew were coming.
- 1:08So, there's obviously a lot to it, man.
- 1:10You guys start wherever you want.
- 1:12>> Yeah. Well, uh, why don't we actually
- 1:14talk about your TG conference first? Um,
- 1:18because you're running that again, you
- 1:19know, give you give you the limelight a
- 1:21bit because I don't know, I'll be
- 1:22honest, that was like one of my favorite
- 1:23conferences I've ever been to last year
- 1:25and you're doing it again. We're going
- 1:26to be going again in February. But yeah,
- 1:27tell us a bit about it before we get
- 1:29into the thick of it. I'm so excited,
- 1:31Felix, because you know how smoothly it
- 1:32went last year and I actually had a
- 1:34notepad of all the kinks that I couldn't
- 1:36wait to work out and improve on and like
- 1:39we kind of got all that stuff done. I'm
- 1:42thrilled. I got Michael Howell. I'm
- 1:43planning his trip over from London now,
- 1:46you know, like some new blood in there.
- 1:48I'm psyched to have Paulo MRO there, you
- 1:51know, a really popular face on Thin Twit
- 1:53and Dave Colum and guys that are just
- 1:56going to, you know, just open up
- 1:58people's minds, you know what I mean?
- 1:59And and then, you know, we've got the
- 2:01we've got the fun pattern down in the
- 2:03background, you know, like we've got the
- 2:05vibe in Nashville. We've got a lot of
- 2:07special stuff that we're going to add to
- 2:09this conference that's going to be
- 2:10better than last year. And so, and we've
- 2:13sold a lot of tickets already. We're
- 2:15probably halfway full by now, which is
- 2:17awesome, you know. Um, so I can't wait,
- 2:20man. I can't wait to have you guys back.
- 2:21I'm honored that you're making the trip
- 2:23down again. Um, but I think that you'll
- 2:25be pleasantly surprised again like you
- 2:27were last year. This is going to be a
- 2:28great great crew. And then, you know,
- 2:30the returnees, man, you know, Grant
- 2:32Williams, Johnston, JD, Jared Dillian,
- 2:35you know, Duneberg. I mean, we got a
- 2:38great crew. The lineup is awesome.
- 2:41>> That'll be a good time, man. That was
- 2:42that was a blast last year. as usual.
- 2:44You know what I mean? I'm just pissed
- 2:46that we didn't come away with it with
- 2:47the obvious signal to sell gold,
- 2:50>> you know? Like we were all busy. Yeah.
- 2:52>> We were all so busy arm in- arm hugging
- 2:55each other with gold at 5,500 that we
- 2:57forgot to make sales, you know.
- 2:59>> Yeah, that'll that'll happen. That we're
- 3:02we're definitely going to make sure to
- 3:04now Now it's it's like you're playing
- 3:06mind games like do you contra the contra
- 3:08now? cuz now what one of the best things
- 3:11last year was just the quality of the
- 3:13people in your community that were there
- 3:14and I think you know obviously you come
- 3:16away with a lot from the speakers and
- 3:19everything you learn and hear there but
- 3:21but just the conversations you're having
- 3:22at lunch and breakfast and the side
- 3:24events was
- 3:25>> was fantastic. I was really impressed.
- 3:27So yeah, they're great people. We we had
- 3:30great people come out for this and you
- 3:31don't realize that they uh you know they
- 3:33all have great stories too, you know,
- 3:36and you go and you start hearing and and
- 3:37like I find myself digging into you know
- 3:40people's backgrounds be like wait a
- 3:42minute how did you wind up doing that
- 3:43you know like where did you where were
- 3:44you born you know and I so that just the
- 3:47organic conversations and networking you
- 3:50know make it worth the trip. I really
- 3:51do. I I'm a firm believer that the
- 3:54in-person experience is the new luxury
- 3:56item, you know, and it's only getting
- 3:58even more that way. And, you know, I was
- 4:00just down in Nashville for JD's
- 4:02conference and that plate that was
- 4:04packed. There wasn't room for another
- 4:06ass in another seat. And I mean, just
- 4:09same thing, you know, just great
- 4:10communal get together with like, you
- 4:13know, like-minded people trying to
- 4:14figure the world out. So, we can't ask
- 4:16for much more than that, can we?
- 4:18>> Nope. Get your tickets everybody. We'll
- 4:20put the link in the in the show.
- 4:22>> Thank you for that, guys. I really
- 4:23appreciate that.
- 4:25>> Of course, man. Happy to help some good
- 4:26people and and be there as well. So,
- 4:28it'll be fun.
- 4:29>> Um, all right, guys. No shortage of
- 4:31stuff to talk about. Markets are falling
- 4:33apart. Um, we had the midterms.
- 4:35Obviously, it's been a clearing event.
- 4:37Looks like a lot of hedges were rolling
- 4:39off yesterday and now the real move is
- 4:41getting started. Um, how are you guys
- 4:44thinking about it? Who wants to take it
- 4:45first? if you te
- 4:48>> Yeah. I mean, I like election stuff and
- 4:51a lot of people uh you know, they they
- 4:55don't want to mix politics and markets,
- 4:57but I think in this day and age, you
- 4:58have to more than ever. Um and we've
- 5:01seen that with the Trump presidency in
- 5:03spectacular fashion, I think. But, um
- 5:06so, so I I was expecting the blue the
- 5:08blue sweep, not quite necessarily to
- 5:11this this extent. Um, and the thing is
- 5:15is as always with markets, you can get
- 5:17things right and like there can be moves
- 5:19that you just don't even see coming. But
- 5:22the takeaway I had from yesterday's
- 5:24price action that I was writing to
- 5:26people was the so much of what I was
- 5:29seeing across the board told me there
- 5:32was a lot of positioning things in
- 5:33there. So you had like solar, which is
- 5:35obviously a dem trade up huge, you know,
- 5:37you had
- 5:38>> you had these huge rallies and things.
- 5:40You had huge short coverings, huge short
- 5:42squeezes, things that were crowded get
- 5:44smoked.
- 5:45>> But what I found myself thinking is like
- 5:49the indices were just trading right back
- 5:51into trend. You know, the the things
- 5:54that you'd expect to move with them kind
- 5:56of moved, but a lot of other stuff did
- 5:58too. And I didn't read too strongly into
- 6:01it. And then, you know, that you had the
- 6:03onslaught of the Iran stuff and there
- 6:05was just so much noise. Uh so I think
- 6:08like one of the funniest analoges is
- 6:11that if you two actually one the last
- 6:14Trump midterms 2018 uh this exact thing
- 6:17happened the S&P puked from day after
- 6:21midterms all the way to late December
- 6:23and it was like almost exactly the same
- 6:25thing that time he actually kept the
- 6:27Senate lost the house but kept the
- 6:29Senate um which which was you know a big
- 6:32L this year and the other one was if you
- 6:35flip the midterm
- 6:37uh election seasonality charts upside
- 6:40down and invert them.
- 6:42>> You know, the same charts that everyone
- 6:43was looking at this year and saying,
- 6:44"Well, why why isn't this working? The
- 6:45market completely defying normal midterm
- 6:47years." If you flip those, they all
- 6:49peaked early October,
- 6:52down, bounced down again, and basically
- 6:55into year end. So, my my idea there that
- 6:58we wrote about was this the the
- 7:01Democratic victory of some extent was
- 7:04was known. I mean that Trump's the most
- 7:07unfavorable president ever. And so
- 7:09really what the midterms represent are
- 7:12just the start of the uncertainty. What
- 7:14what's going to happen with data centers
- 7:15in Texas under the blue governor? What's
- 7:17going to happen with you know all the AI
- 7:20trade and capback spending and is there
- 7:22going to be a chip glut if all of a
- 7:24sudden there's a moratorium in 40 states
- 7:26against like there's just so much
- 7:28uncertainty you don't you can't price in
- 7:30in a day. And so for me, that's the
- 7:31biggest takeaway is like
- 7:33>> take whatever I think I know and
- 7:34discount it by probably 50% because
- 7:37we're probably gonna have a a
- 7:40um government shutdown threats and whole
- 7:43scramble again in a few months too. So
- 7:45there's a lot of weird [ __ ] to to
- 7:46contend with.
- 7:48>> Yeah.
- 7:49>> Yeah, there is. Man, you know, I'm
- 7:51trying to operate from a position of the
- 7:53bond market low is in in October, right?
- 7:57And I feel like I see a lot of response
- 7:59to that in the markets, but it's running
- 8:02into some headwinds also,
- 8:04>> right? Like the response to the low
- 8:06being in the bond market and the idea of
- 8:09being able to think about rates being at
- 8:12least peaked and maybe heading a little
- 8:14bit lower from here at some point is
- 8:17kind of predicated on the oil market as
- 8:19well, you know. So that that that twist
- 8:21in it is very difficult. But what we saw
- 8:23obviously like the the the messaging to
- 8:26me was that you know the the things that
- 8:28are appreciating lower rates are do want
- 8:31to rally like retail you know um if you
- 8:36you know um what was I going to say
- 8:38financials things like that financials
- 8:40quietly make a new all-time high
- 8:42yesterday right I'm sure they're off
- 8:44today in this complete slide but you
- 8:46know the equal weight S&P makes a new
- 8:48all-time high financials make a new
- 8:50all-time high you know you have three
- 8:52sigma rallies yesterday across
- 8:54transports, airlines, a lot of it gets
- 8:56reversed today. Um, but I'm trying to
- 9:00decide, you know, it's hard to see
- 9:01through the smoke screen of trying to
- 9:04call peace in Iran. And, you know, the
- 9:06idea that oil is going to go down 10 or
- 9:08$20 from here. Um, and I think if that
- 9:12does happen, that would be unbelievable
- 9:13for the markets. That'll be, you know,
- 9:15industrials will be bid only for a
- 9:16little while, and that'll be exciting.
- 9:18The miners will all come back to life
- 9:20and things like that.
- 9:21Um, but I do, you know, I think that
- 9:23there are some really high power trades
- 9:26to pursue from now to the end of the
- 9:28year. Like I feel like we are just
- 9:30finding a tradable direction this year,
- 9:34you know, like there have been so
- 9:35there's been such a crossfire. We came
- 9:37into the year and the you know the
- 9:39debasement trade was firing and then oil
- 9:42services took off when we nabbed Maduro
- 9:44and then semiconductors took off in
- 9:46April and went up 75% into SpaceX and
- 9:50then SpaceX capped the whole semi rally
- 9:53and then we had the peace talk you know
- 9:55like oil is down to $70 now we had that
- 9:58rally and it's like man like none of
- 10:00that was real you know like all all of
- 10:02that was all kind of head fakes in
- 10:03different directions and I feel like now
- 10:06with semis is backing off, oil holding
- 10:08its ground, gold holding above 4K. It's
- 10:12like, okay, those are the trades that I
- 10:14want to pursue. you know, I think semi,
- 10:16you know, the bubble, I've been talking
- 10:18about it and I finally made some money
- 10:20today on it with a big, you know, down
- 10:21move being short, but that chart just
- 10:25started to come undone, you know, and if
- 10:27this is going to be a real, you know,
- 10:29and we've got anthropic ahead a couple
- 10:31of weeks away from this now, you know,
- 10:33like
- 10:33>> they could be heaving this into a NASDAQ
- 10:36that's 5 10% lower from here
- 10:39>> by then or more,
- 10:41>> you know. So, so now how is that going
- 10:42to play in, right? like like you know
- 10:45you get so used to the idea of okay I'll
- 10:48wait until mid November to short things
- 10:50because anthropic is going to mark a
- 10:52sell the fact and it's like oh no we're
- 10:55November 6th and we're coming apart now
- 10:56or fifth we're coming apart now you know
- 10:58and it's like man this is really tough
- 11:00to wrestle with I think in the end we're
- 11:02going to learn though that natural
- 11:03resources and commodities are going to
- 11:05live through this and tech is just going
- 11:07to have to repric because it got so far
- 11:10over its skis so I'm kind of looking for
- 11:12that broadly speaking speaking to morph
- 11:15into the end of the year. You know, I
- 11:17can get excited about gold miners when
- 11:20number one, gold miners fill all of the
- 11:22gaps from the breakout on the way out to
- 11:2575. Fill them all the way down to 75 and
- 11:28then we get that little dip into 3950s,
- 11:323,800 in gold and right back to 40 4,100
- 11:36bid. That's a serious response to me.
- 11:40And that's the kind of dip that bottoms
- 11:42are often made of where you make a new
- 11:44low in a new, you know, new range low.
- 11:47There's no followth through seller and
- 11:49all of a sudden things start creeping
- 11:51back up into the range. Next thing you
- 11:53know, we've got liberals in charge
- 11:55again. And I think the gold market wants
- 11:57to say, "Look, if they're in charge
- 11:58again, that the basement trade is back
- 11:59on. We don't care what's going on in
- 12:01technology right now." So, I feel like
- 12:04it could be the kind of thing into the
- 12:05end of the year where, you know, the
- 12:07NASDAQ really comes off and the only
- 12:09thing that survives are like ENTP, gold
- 12:12miners, um, you know, industrials, basic
- 12:15materials, things like that. I could be
- 12:18wrong, but I feel like that's the trade
- 12:20that we're telling telegraphing for the
- 12:21last two months of the quarter.
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- 14:05Yeah, I like all that a lot. I I'm the
- 14:07same way, Tony. I've been looking the
- 14:08last couple weeks at these these random
- 14:10days of correlations between sectors and
- 14:12how that reacts and and just trying to
- 14:14think through what what does that tell
- 14:15me, you know, and we've had a couple of
- 14:17those sprinkles in the last couple weeks
- 14:18where you see bonds rally with equities
- 14:20lower. And, you know, there's even been
- 14:22a couple times where you've seen oil up
- 14:23and bonds rally at the same time. It's
- 14:25because you're trying to navigate this
- 14:26oil thing and the AI thing at the same
- 14:28time and how that nets out the economy.
- 14:30But it's like, hey, when I'm getting
- 14:31those clean reads, you know, right now
- 14:32we're in a leverage wash out and it's
- 14:35you're trying to piece through to the
- 14:36other side. But I think I think it's
- 14:38accurate when you mentioned 2018. I
- 14:40think that's been a a really good analog
- 14:42for me right now. But Q4 2018, you know,
- 14:44you have a you have a new Fed chair
- 14:45trying to navigate how to how the hell
- 14:47to talk in these press conferences. you
- 14:49had you know one one hike maybe maybe
- 14:52two based on this potentially false
- 14:54notion of a of a strong economy but the
- 14:57underlying is actually quite weak and
- 14:58then suddenly you see that reverse quite
- 15:00quickly after this you know big unwind
- 15:03we had like I think it was cues were
- 15:05like 20% down in 2018 and then we've
- 15:07just seen we saw the whole Fed pivot
- 15:09then um you know the the original PAL
- 15:11pivot was born then so I think there's
- 15:13yeah there's a lot to take in right now
- 15:15that the market's telling us
- 15:16>> the the one thing that I'm going to hang
- 15:18my hat on though. No matter what oil
- 15:20does is that you know bonds can back off
- 15:23etc. But that's a good low man. We're
- 15:25not going to see that price like people
- 15:26have to remember what a drawn out
- 15:28pronounced bond selloff that was you
- 15:30know like it landed in the historic
- 15:33tables for how long it lasted and that
- 15:36just makes me believe that the recovery
- 15:37is going to be that much longer. And
- 15:39that bottom that we saw in October, you
- 15:42know, I mean, we saw max max bearish
- 15:44sentiment. We saw the econ uh the
- 15:46economist cover. We saw, you know, RSI
- 15:49at like eight in bonds, you know, the
- 15:51long bond, and you were like, "Okay,
- 15:52man." Like, I don't know what's going to
- 15:54make it give, but it's going to give at
- 15:55some point. And that's to me like the
- 15:58most important thing. I'm trying not to
- 15:59let that out of my head because even if
- 16:00oil rallies like we're going to need to
- 16:03see like a sustained rally above $110
- 16:08for bonds to re to even approach that
- 16:10low, you know? So that that's like to me
- 16:12like I'm looking to buy the dip in bonds
- 16:15and I think in energy now the most
- 16:17interesting one of the more interesting
- 16:18trades I'm trying not to get memorized
- 16:20by the semi-ell off although you know
- 16:23everything is three sigma plus today you
- 16:26know and it's like man you know you
- 16:27can't even get a bounce today like there
- 16:29is not even like uh there's not even a
- 16:32muscle memory bounce today that's how
- 16:34you know that like this thing is like
- 16:36still rolling downhill
- 16:38um so that's scary because if we have
- 16:40the big T if we have MAG 7 back off
- 16:43another 10%. You know, now you got the
- 16:45S&P floundering below the 200 day and
- 16:48there could be some damage incurred at
- 16:50that point. But I'm really trying I'm
- 16:52hard trying hard not to get too index
- 16:55focused. Like Quinn said and like Felix
- 16:57alluded to, there's like there's so much
- 16:59crosscurrent trading going on that like
- 17:01a view on the S&P just kind of confuses
- 17:04me. I want to stay bullish in in basic
- 17:06materials and natural resources. I want
- 17:08to stay bullish in bonds. I want to stay
- 17:10bearish in tech. That's just a general
- 17:13idea for now. But man, it this this the
- 17:15down and back, the up and back down from
- 17:18today and yesterday like this. I can't
- 17:19wait to see how things close tomorrow,
- 17:22right? Because a rally right back
- 17:23tomorrow just to relieve some of today's
- 17:25oversoldness would not shock me, you
- 17:29know, and it's just uh you got to stick
- 17:32with the trades that are working and
- 17:33manage the living [ __ ] out of them.
- 17:36>> Yeah, that's that's all I've been doing.
- 17:38The thing with this is that there's, you
- 17:41know, we're watching the the AI and
- 17:44semis and tech just melt. You know, kind
- 17:47of small caps growthier stuff's taking
- 17:49part now, too.
- 17:51>> And there's still 80% chance of a hike
- 17:53in December, which is just like I don't
- 17:57think it's going to happen. But the
- 17:59thing is is I don't I don't think the if
- 18:02you recall back to 18 it's like the the
- 18:06market bottoms when that comes out
- 18:08basically. And you know we saw with the
- 18:10October hike they you know sent flurry
- 18:13of Fed speakers out to to talk the
- 18:16market down. They took October October
- 18:18was at 72. It went down to zero
- 18:21basically of percent chance of a hike.
- 18:23But that was the month before midterm. I
- 18:26mean what what incentive
- 18:28you know it seems like people kind of
- 18:30forgot I don't know how yesterday huge
- 18:33blue sweep and somehow the narrative in
- 18:35the markets forgot about what everyone
- 18:36was saying okay Trump's going to just
- 18:40like he has no incentive him and Bessant
- 18:42to prop this market he has the Democrats
- 18:44to point to he said 10 times on the
- 18:45campaign trail depression if the Dems
- 18:48win and then like Jem Carson's been
- 18:51saying that forever like super on the
- 18:53ball and then somehow Oh, yesterday
- 18:55everyone was like, "Clearing event.
- 18:57We're off. Sweet." Like, and it was
- 18:59like, "Wait a second. What's going on?
- 19:01How?" It was so strange.
- 19:03>> Don't Don't take hedges being rolled off
- 19:05as like real signal. I think that's the
- 19:07lesson.
- 19:08>> And somebody going toes up today, too,
- 19:10right? Without a doubt. Like, there's a
- 19:12leverage blow up on the tape. I mean,
- 19:13with this many three sigma moves back in
- 19:15the other direction, it's just another
- 19:17blowup, you know? And I'm not sure what
- 19:18led it. Well, this today's blowup is
- 19:20probably led by somebody that was long
- 19:22all technology and had a blowout, you
- 19:24know? Like yesterday's blow up could
- 19:26have been something different, you know?
- 19:28Like I'm not even sure what like I was
- 19:30getting so bullish yesterday,
- 19:33you know, like I'm I'm a guy that reads
- 19:35when there are there is a large number
- 19:39of large magnitude moves across sectors,
- 19:43right? Not just stocks, but sectors.
- 19:45That's usually a major tell. We had 14
- 19:48sectors yesterday in the S&P with two
- 19:50sigma rallies or more and five sectors
- 19:54with three sigma rallies including
- 19:56retail, finance, consumer discretionary,
- 19:58airlines, home construction, and broker
- 20:01dealers. And all of that completely
- 20:04reversed today.
- 20:05>> You know what I mean? And it's like
- 20:06whoa. Like like I have to like I'm
- 20:08literally dizzy right now because I'm
- 20:10the kind of guy that sees that and says,
- 20:12"All right, man. It looks like the
- 20:14market was just relieved of this
- 20:16decision about the midterms. It's such
- 20:19an obvious outcome that it's the most
- 20:21obvious like by the fact event, you
- 20:24know, that that's what it told us
- 20:25yesterday. And today it was like, yeah,
- 20:27it is by the fact event, but you've got
- 20:28this AI bubble that's bursting all over
- 20:30your face, you know, and I just feel
- 20:33like that could be one of the things
- 20:34that's going on. Like the stock market
- 20:37wants to go higher, but the, you know,
- 20:39the AI bubble is just like, no. and the
- 20:41capitalization. Now, we know if Nvidia
- 20:43is off 10% in a day, you know, the S&P
- 20:46is going to be down big. You know,
- 20:47there's almost nothing that you can do
- 20:49about that now.
- 20:50>> So, man, you know, I'm kind of
- 20:53like I said, I think tomorrow's close is
- 20:55going to be the most it's got to be the
- 20:57most important thing of all now. You
- 20:58know, do we retrace? Do we go out on the
- 21:01balls low? Which to me, the the
- 21:03semiconductor selloff, like it's nice
- 21:06that it's down 10% today and everything
- 21:08like that, but there's room, man. You
- 21:10know what I mean? Like there's the the
- 21:12socks the SM SMH is trading 455 down
- 21:15from the 600s. There's room to 350
- 21:18before there's support.
- 21:20>> Yeah.
- 21:21>> The old crypto chart.
- 21:24>> Crypto I tell you man, crypto looked put
- 21:26it this way. I can't even believe I'm
- 21:28saying this, but like crypto looks fine
- 21:30to me.
- 21:31>> You know, I hate the fact that it took
- 21:33another credibility hit with a $6
- 21:35billion hack. I mean that sucks, you
- 21:37know? Like I I feel bad for the people
- 21:40that are in it big when [ __ ] like that
- 21:42happens. I mean that really sucks, you
- 21:43know, and it takes the credibility out
- 21:45of the security, but I look at the chart
- 21:47and I'm like this thing like the my blue
- 21:50sky breakout is still intact.
- 21:52>> So I've got that position on. It's not,
- 21:54you know, I don't have a huge position
- 21:55because I'm a little bit scared of
- 21:56Bitcoin, but I've got that on and it's
- 21:58working. So I feel good about that. You
- 22:00know, my other ideas for the quarter in
- 22:02my quarterly report were long energy and
- 22:04long bonds and those were working. I
- 22:06clearly pointed out that semis were a do
- 22:09not touch up here, but man, you know, I
- 22:11feel like there's still room in the semi
- 22:13short and and like, you know, gold and
- 22:15gold miners now are a trade that I don't
- 22:17want to take my eye off. You know, we've
- 22:19gotten lulled to sleep in gold.
- 22:21>> You know, first it was gold sucks. Why
- 22:23isn't it going anywhere? And then it
- 22:25was, hey, gold's hanging in here pretty
- 22:26good. And then we made the new low and
- 22:28everybody threw the towel in and now
- 22:30it's 4,100 bid and now all the bulls are
- 22:32like, oh, we're back in business. All
- 22:34right, cool. Like that was that was
- 22:35nothing. Like I can live with that. And
- 22:37meanwhile, if you ask me, gold's doing
- 22:39exactly what the [ __ ] it's supposed to
- 22:40be doing and not really going anywhere
- 22:42while all hell is breaking loose, you
- 22:44know? So, like, I'm cool with my gold
- 22:46right now. I really am.
- 22:47>> Yeah.
- 22:47>> Yeah. We've been talking a lot about
- 22:48that recently around gold and Bitcoin,
- 22:50which are like they're they're assets
- 22:52that you can tell want to go higher.
- 22:54They're just getting hampered by just
- 22:55pretty [ __ ] liquidation like liquid.
- 22:57Yeah. By risk, by liquidity, by the tech
- 22:59thing, but you can tell it wants to go.
- 23:01And you just got to decide how do you
- 23:03want to navigate from A to B. Are you
- 23:04willing to just wait for the chop like
- 23:06you are right now or do you wait for for
- 23:08the confirmation? But it's clear it
- 23:09wants to go. The fundamentals are ready
- 23:11for it. You just got to get to the other
- 23:13side and and wait for that to happen.
- 23:15>> That that look below Tony that look
- 23:18below summer lows in gold reminds me of
- 23:20when you pointed out Bitcoin and in the
- 23:23summer and you said that's a good low
- 23:25right there when you have the the rec
- 23:27look below reclaim. It's like
- 23:30>> oddly similar chart
- 23:31>> saying dude we've we've seen that. I
- 23:33mean, that's a pattern I make a living
- 23:34on, you know what I mean? Like, you
- 23:35know, it doesn't always happen
- 23:36immediately. It's nice when it does. Um,
- 23:39but if you can have faith and confidence
- 23:41in just understanding the mechanism that
- 23:43that means, you know, you break a new
- 23:46range, you look into, you're essentially
- 23:48looking into a new room to see where all
- 23:50the action is, and all of a sudden
- 23:51there's nobody in there. You know,
- 23:53there's nobody that's like, I GOT 10,000
- 23:54TO GO DOWN HERE. YOU KNOW, IT'S like
- 23:56crickets. And so the market just goes
- 23:58back to doing what it was doing, which
- 24:00is, you know, consolidating within a
- 24:02range, looking for its next excuse to
- 24:05get on a bull market run in a secular
- 24:07bull market. You know, like I don't want
- 24:09to get I'm I'm I'm a, you know, I'm a a
- 24:11technician and a pattern recognition guy
- 24:13by nature, but I don't want to get
- 24:15bucked off the gold trade just because
- 24:17it's meandering through moving averages
- 24:20right now. You know, like if you' asked
- 24:22me two years ago like where do you think
- 24:24gold is going to be in two years, like I
- 24:26wouldn't have said 5k bid or four, you
- 24:28know, I probably would have just said, I
- 24:29don't know, you know, maybe it's up a
- 24:31little bit more from here, but you know,
- 24:32we've just had a couple of huge years,
- 24:34150% year in gold miners last year.
- 24:38Everybody piled in. That's why they
- 24:39can't get off their ass this year. Um,
- 24:42but I still think there's a real trade
- 24:43there. I still think that there's a real
- 24:44trade there, especially with the
- 24:46election results. I just don't know if
- 24:49it can live through this semi-bubble
- 24:50popping,
- 24:53>> you know?
- 24:53>> Yeah, I think it's I think it's still a
- 24:55little early stages, too. Like it's you
- 24:57know how whenever we see markets down,
- 24:59people always joke about, you know,
- 25:00rumors of a pod shop blowing up, but I
- 25:02think that's actually happening today.
- 25:03Like we've already got news from a while
- 25:06Capital is returning capital to
- 25:07investors. So like the multistrats are
- 25:09blowing up, but it's it's still the long
- 25:11short equity guys. Like it has
- 25:13>> it's all equity move. The bond market
- 25:14doesn't even care about this, right?
- 25:16like
- 25:16>> Yeah, exactly. So,
- 25:18>> bond market hasn't moved since the
- 25:20election. The bond market is standing
- 25:21like this since the election. Doesn't
- 25:23care about the election. Doesn't care
- 25:24about this market move barely at all. I
- 25:27mean, you know, Ra, you can make the
- 25:28case that bonds are a couple ticks
- 25:29higher with the risk off.
- 25:31>> That seems perfectly normal and they're
- 25:33still, you know, kind of within range.
- 25:35So,
- 25:36>> man, that's a sign of strength to me.
- 25:39>> Yeah,
- 25:40>> that that looks fine. And
- 25:41>> you could take that in either direction.
- 25:43One is that it's just going to remain
- 25:44isolated to the equity pods that are all
- 25:46blowing up right now. Or it's that this
- 25:48hasn't broadened out yet and that's the
- 25:50next leg from here is that it starts to
- 25:52broaden out. I mean, and that's where
- 25:53you got to keep keep your focus on on
- 25:55what assets you're excited about because
- 25:57yeah, you know, even though we're
- 25:58bullish bonds, bullish gold, those can
- 26:00get, you know, when you need cash, you
- 26:02need cash and that can happen
- 26:03regardless. And you got to have a plan
- 26:05for that. But, uh, yeah, that's kind of
- 26:08what I'm looking at.
- 26:09>> You guys have any thoughts on FX?
- 26:12And I don't really I really don't I use
- 26:15that kind of as my speedometer coin
- 26:17right now. And um the dollar is
- 26:19comfortably in this 98102 range for me.
- 26:22And you know I kind of I'm not going to
- 26:24I'm not going to sweat it unless it gets
- 26:25out of there.
- 26:26>> Unless feel unless Felix has any
- 26:28brilliant ideas, you should probably
- 26:29talk to Brent Donnelly about FX.
- 26:32>> No, I just What are you going What are
- 26:34you bringing? Wait. What are you
- 26:34thinking?
- 26:35>> Well, what's interesting to me is
- 26:38probably the most in FX and I don't I
- 26:40I'm similar to Tony. I don't trade it
- 26:42that often is how bullish the dollar's
- 26:44been, but yet strong the yen versus the
- 26:48dollar. So like when you look at DXY,
- 26:50it's it's pretty bull market stuff, but
- 26:53then USD JPY is like struggling at the
- 26:56200 underside retest.
- 26:58>> And I mean it's not a trade I I care to
- 27:00take that much, but I think it's um I
- 27:04think it's indicative of if you think
- 27:06about, you know, yen's usually a safe
- 27:08haven. bonds are bid, gold's forming a
- 27:10bottom. And I think it's helpful to like
- 27:13you said, what's going to be in vogue
- 27:14next few months? I mean, it does
- 27:16definitely doesn't look like the the you
- 27:19know, high beta momentum. It's it's kind
- 27:22of all the safety and
- 27:24>> and um for gold, you know, like the
- 27:27dollar does matter. And if if that's
- 27:29sort of petering out with
- 27:31>> growth petering out and inflation
- 27:33petering out like it's probably
- 27:35generally good that yields are have
- 27:37found their top you know in terms of
- 27:40>> the dollar's upward momentum. So I I
- 27:42think it's but yeah I don't have any
- 27:44strong trades there.
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- 29:33I think what I'm looking at adjacent to
- 29:34that is the fact that
- 29:37the rates market is still pricing in
- 29:39hikes. Um, that feels kind of surprising
- 29:42to me. Like we still I was looking this
- 29:43morning, we still have the two-year
- 29:44that's above Fed funds. Um,
- 29:47>> imagine them hiking another hike in
- 29:49>> That's what I'm saying. Imagine they
- 29:50hike it like it depends what you think
- 29:53is really driving them to hike rates
- 29:55here. But if it is about AI buildout
- 29:57thing and the fact that you know the the
- 29:59top the top leg of the K-shaped economy
- 30:01is spending like crazy because equities
- 30:02have been so much higher, like both of
- 30:04those notions are being taken out. You
- 30:06you can make the argument that some
- 30:07aspects of the oil market like diesels
- 30:09have been having some demand destruction
- 30:11there. Like to me it's about we're
- 30:13quickly shifting towards a growth
- 30:14slowdown and we still have rate hikes
- 30:16priced in.
- 30:17>> Yeah. Yeah. That's Yeah. That's what I
- 30:21see too, you know, like we're we we've
- 30:23got the hikes priced in to battle the
- 30:25energy inflation which really
- 30:28historically shouldn't be a factor. You
- 30:32know what I mean? You know, like you
- 30:34know, if you think about it, I mean gas
- 30:36is dirt cheap still. dirt cheap on an
- 30:38inflationadjusted basis without a doubt.
- 30:41So, you know, when you think about it
- 30:43that way, it's like that shouldn't be
- 30:45causing that. I mean, that's why I don't
- 30:46think B bonds are definitely have the
- 30:48bottom in like no matter what inflation
- 30:50adjusted energy is cheap. The problem is
- 30:53you can't tell that to the farmer who's
- 30:56got to pay $750 for diesel and it
- 30:59doesn't work in his break even analysis
- 31:01anymore, you know? So, I kind of get
- 31:03that. And and the problem is though that
- 31:06like
- 31:08I don't know there's like there's like
- 31:10this false inflation. I don't know. I
- 31:12think it's like Jared said like there's
- 31:14the mind virus of we have this issue at
- 31:16the grocery store and really no issue in
- 31:20the in the markets, right? There's no
- 31:22real major CPI inflation. The last PPI
- 31:26inflation that came in a little bit hot,
- 31:28the bond market totally ignored. And so
- 31:30it's like man, you know, like we we're
- 31:32ra what are we hiking rates for now?
- 31:34Especially with this tech coming up
- 31:35coming off the way it is now. So I kind
- 31:38of agree that that that chances of hike
- 31:41in December are going to collapse if
- 31:42this continues at all. You know, un
- 31:45unless there's a total total down and
- 31:47back recovery in stocks, which I'm not
- 31:49seeing cuz the semi chart is now
- 31:51officially broken. Man, I don't know how
- 31:54they get another hike on the tape. I
- 31:56really don't.
- 31:58>> Yeah.
- 31:59>> What do you think? It's just classic
- 32:00Fed. I mean, it's just classic. Like,
- 32:02>> you can you can change the the commander
- 32:05of the institution, but you can't you're
- 32:07not going to change the institution.
- 32:09>> Can't change the stripes on a Tiger,
- 32:10right?
- 32:12>> How about how about speaking about those
- 32:14stripes, how about last week,
- 32:16>> Cororeweave credit is coming undone and
- 32:18Goldman Sachs comes out and says, "Now,
- 32:20we initiated with a buy core. It's fine.
- 32:24>> Don't don't ask questions."
- 32:25>> Yeah. Space SpaceX comes out, reports
- 32:29it's trading up a little bit to 140. JP
- 32:32Morgan comes out, $500 price target.
- 32:34You're like, what? $500? Like, why not a
- 32:37$200 or 250 price target? Like, give me
- 32:40a break. All that stuff is to keep this
- 32:42from happening.
- 32:43>> Well, you know what's so funny about
- 32:44that is, you know, the classic bank
- 32:46thing. You got the sell side saying buy
- 32:47and then you got the buy side. I just
- 32:49saw this this news just came a couple
- 32:50minutes ago, but it's saying a roughly
- 32:52$500 million portfolio of data center
- 32:54loans have been up for sale all at once
- 32:56in a rare auction that comes just days
- 32:58after a democratic sweep. So now you got
- 33:00you got the sell side saying buy these
- 33:01bonds and then meanwhile they're just
- 33:03all trying to liquidate.
- 33:04>> Well, that's why they're saying it
- 33:05because they got a trillion dollars of
- 33:07AI capex to sell you and they got an
- 33:09anthropic IPO to jam down retail's
- 33:12throats. I mean, think of think to get
- 33:15to get the SpaceX IPO off midsummer when
- 33:18semis are at in the stratosphere. They
- 33:20had to open up down to like 25k accounts
- 33:22at Fidelity. What are they going to have
- 33:24to do? Get to get the anthropic IPO out
- 33:26the door.
- 33:27>> Dude, Fidelity already said all you need
- 33:29all you need is like, you know, proof of
- 33:30proof of your last meal
- 33:32>> and we'll let you buy some [ __ ]
- 33:34anthropic. You know what I mean? Send us
- 33:36a P photo of you with your lunch.
- 33:38>> Yeah.
- 33:39>> And we'll get you some IPO.
- 33:42No, I'm serious, man. This thing I mean,
- 33:45imagine you're Dario Modi right now,
- 33:49right? The scout didn't work.
- 33:50>> I don't I don't know what they do.
- 33:53>> I think he just is I think what'll calm
- 33:55everything is if he just comes out one
- 33:57more time and says AI is going to kill
- 33:58every like then that then this is all
- 34:01done, right?
- 34:01>> Yeah. Then we're good.
- 34:02>> Just
- 34:03>> could you imagine they started that SCOP
- 34:05today,
- 34:07dude? I mean, they could have caused a
- 34:10market crash by doing that with the
- 34:12wrong timing on that SCOP about AI
- 34:14taking over the world. Well, we're
- 34:16crafting our response to the people's
- 34:18reaction to the AI catastrophe.
- 34:21>> Really? Well, how about we stop the
- 34:22catastrophe?
- 34:24>> Yeah.
- 34:24>> No, no, that's going to happen. It's out
- 34:25of our control. We're working on the PR
- 34:27release for after
- 34:29>> the catastrophe. We want to make sure
- 34:30that the stocks are in good shape, you
- 34:32know? And you're like, this is a comedy
- 34:33show, man. So anyway, they're getting
- 34:36justice today and semis are coming
- 34:37undone. S&P is making a new low as we
- 34:40speak. It's just getting started. I got
- 34:42a feeling tomorrow. I mean, semis look
- 34:44like they can they can leave another
- 34:46like gap or two on the chart here and
- 34:48just break away from those big golden
- 34:50arches that I've been talking about.
- 34:52Man, this I mean the thing took it spent
- 34:54a year consolidating
- 34:56almost, you know, from September to
- 34:58September
- 34:59with the with the SpaceX IPO as the
- 35:02cherry on top at the dead ball high. I
- 35:04mean, if that's that's as good a high as
- 35:06the bonds are a good low.
- 35:09>> I think the short I'm most annoyed that
- 35:11I missed was the obvious short all of
- 35:13Elon's companies when the Dems like
- 35:16they're like
- 35:17>> or or shorting all the Trump crypto
- 35:19coins.
- 35:20>> Yeah, true. Those things are down 30%. I
- 35:22was like, that was so obvious
- 35:23>> that it's unbelievable that he ran a
- 35:26crypto scam right from the Oval Office
- 35:28and made hundreds of millions of dollars
- 35:30right in everyone's face. And he's like,
- 35:32what? [ __ ] you.
- 35:33>> What's What's the What's the problem,
- 35:35man?
- 35:37>> What do you think we're do? What do you
- 35:38think we're doing here?
- 35:40>> You know what I mean? What do you think
- 35:41we're doing here? We're making money.
- 35:44>> How about Well, how about this? We were
- 35:46just talking about Elon Musk. How about
- 35:47How about at the level where Scott
- 35:49Galloway
- 35:50essentially says calls Elon Musk a
- 35:53traitor to America and compares it to
- 35:56the what the Rosenberg execution.
- 36:00>> Yeah, that was insane.
- 36:01>> That's
- 36:02the guy.
- 36:03>> Yeah, I used to listen to read a lot of
- 36:05Scott, but I don't really know what his
- 36:08kind of strategy is here right now.
- 36:10Felix, I got to tell you, Felix, I was
- 36:12at one of his presentations with my
- 36:15shiny book, waiting for him to sign it,
- 36:18and I got him to sign it. Yeah. Like I I
- 36:21literally I thought this when I read
- 36:22What's the book about the four big tech
- 36:24companies?
- 36:25>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- 36:26>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The big
- 36:28>> Yeah. Like Yeah. Yeah.
- 36:30>> That book was brilliant. He won me over.
- 36:32He actually, you want to hear this? He
- 36:33actually had one of my tweets as his pin
- 36:36tweet for about three months.
- 36:39No [ __ ] And then after Jan 6th when he
- 36:43was like calling for these people to go
- 36:45to a goolog, I was like, "Bro, that
- 36:47whole thing was the biggest setup I've
- 36:49ever seen in my life." And he blocked
- 36:50me. So I I went from being a super fan
- 36:54getting his autograph. I had my tweet
- 36:56pinned. I had like a hundred screenshots
- 36:58like Scott Galloway pinned my tweet,
- 37:00man.
- 37:01>> And now now like he blocked me and I'm
- 37:03like I'm so happy about seeing this.
- 37:05like he's been an obvious
- 37:08>> like sort of activist in hiding under
- 37:11academia, you know, but calling Elon Mus
- 37:14that I think I thought was completely
- 37:15out of line. Completely out of line and
- 37:17he caught hell for it, too, that he
- 37:18deserved.
- 37:20But who knows, man.
- 37:21>> That's what sucks about our society at
- 37:22this juncture. The the division is just
- 37:26it's sad, man.
- 37:27>> The bull market never stops, right?
- 37:30>> The bull market and division.
- 37:32>> Well, they just keep
- 37:34>> Yeah. Yeah, they keep throwing these
- 37:35stories in your face that are so
- 37:37divisive that like every story is
- 37:39another level of like, you know,
- 37:40splitting groups apart, you know, like
- 37:43all the stuff, all the stuff that goes
- 37:45on in, you know, sports and all that
- 37:46[ __ ] But whatever. We're getting away
- 37:48from the markets now. I don't want to do
- 37:49that to you. I don't want to do that to
- 37:51you.
- 37:51>> So, from now to the end of the year, if
- 37:53you what's your favorite trade?
- 37:56>> I think it's gold. I think it's gold.
- 37:58Uh, and I think in agricultural
- 38:01commodities there's some some
- 38:03interesting stuff, but I'm a little
- 38:05nervous about this growth scare until
- 38:07the Fed gets off their horse. So, but I
- 38:10think gold can frontr run that. Like, I
- 38:11think gold can say
- 38:13>> I think gold can say, "Hey, you guys,
- 38:15you guys want to hike one more time? You
- 38:17don't? Let's see." But either way,
- 38:20growth
- 38:21>> in a tough spot. Yeah. Like
- 38:23>> I like that a lot. Like if you if you
- 38:24long gold and short semis which
- 38:26basically is what you're doing Tony like
- 38:27that feels just beautiful and and bonds
- 38:30too like yeah really like Yeah.
- 38:32>> Yeah. What do you think for that idea
- 38:34like that Felix
- 38:38>> I'm throwing in one more sector home
- 38:41construction.
- 38:43Don't sleep on that because in my
- 38:46opinion, man, the setup in those are
- 38:48this year they got the kitchen sink
- 38:50thrown at them, right? $7 diesel, 7 and
- 38:5412% more, seven or whatever, 7% mortgage
- 38:56rates, whatever.
- 38:58>> Um, and I'm looking at them and I'm
- 39:00like, they're unchanged on the year.
- 39:02Unched.
- 39:03>> That is crazy,
- 39:04>> right? And if you would have said, you
- 39:05know, one of those things, right? Okay,
- 39:08you wake up in the middle of the night,
- 39:09oil is $110, diesel seven bucks,
- 39:12mortgage rates are $7. Where are home
- 39:14construction stocks on the year? You'd
- 39:16be like, down 20, down 20%. And they've
- 39:18hung in and they have this beautiful
- 39:19flat bottom and they've really responded
- 39:22to the bond market bottoming like kind
- 39:24of on these times that catch me off
- 39:25guard when it's like, whoa, there's a
- 39:27big rally in home construction. So, I
- 39:29have that on my pad, too. And I feel
- 39:31like it could be a sneaky one that can
- 39:34avoid the semicolapse,
- 39:36you know, and and sort of live through a
- 39:39couple of other things going on with
- 39:41with energy moving around. So, I don't
- 39:43know. That's the thing that I've got my
- 39:44eye on between now and the end of the
- 39:45year.
- 39:46>> So, I longed a lot of housing stuff out
- 39:49of out of that kind of to play bonds
- 39:51because I didn't want to buy bonds and
- 39:53then I sold. They kept
- 39:56>> really nice pops. They kept going.
- 39:58They're kind of trade back. This is a
- 40:00good one for you because you're the
- 40:01master at getting entries on something
- 40:02you're stocking like XHB, ITB, whichever
- 40:05one of those, they're pretty similar.
- 40:06Like, how do you think about getting an
- 40:08entry in a chart that's popped pretty
- 40:11good off its lows? the the thesis and
- 40:13catalysts are probably still there for
- 40:15some time, but it's no longer like as
- 40:18easy, you know, where you so that's kind
- 40:21of like, you know, that that's what I
- 40:23coach people through is like how to get
- 40:25exposure when you want it and it's not
- 40:27really advantageous, right? And I use
- 40:30what's kind of like a threeprong effect
- 40:32where I have a bid below, right? The
- 40:35place that I'm happy to buy some. I have
- 40:37a sort of stop me into some up here
- 40:40above the market and then I have an egg
- 40:43timer alongside it that says if I don't
- 40:45get hit down here and if I don't get in
- 40:47up here I have to put 20% of the
- 40:49position on by the bell on Friday.
- 40:52>> You know, you know if you know it's
- 40:53something it's something you're saying
- 40:55now it's like
- 40:57>> you're talking about something that you
- 40:58want to buy, right? It's not something
- 41:00that you're feeling out. It's something
- 41:02that you've identified as an opportunity
- 41:04and you want to buy, but you want better
- 41:06prices, right? It's not something that
- 41:08like, okay, cancel this on approach,
- 41:09right? Like, it's coming my way. I don't
- 41:11want to buy it anymore cuz it's going
- 41:12down. It's like you're making a
- 41:13commitment for, you know, a period of
- 41:15time. But for me, that always works
- 41:17because,
- 41:19you know, I'm I'm like watching these
- 41:20three options, right? I'm watching my
- 41:22bid below. I'm watching me get stopped
- 41:24into maybe a smaller portion. Um, but I
- 41:27also got the clock ticking that's going
- 41:29to get me into some by Friday if I don't
- 41:31get any on the books, you know. So, that
- 41:32that's one way that I do it. And uh then
- 41:34you just keep adjusting that every day,
- 41:37you know, for another 25% piece. And
- 41:39then you just got to manage it once you
- 41:40get your position on, man. Just like
- 41:42everything else, you know, be prepared
- 41:43to pull the [ __ ] rip cord. Yeah,
- 41:46that's the only thing you could do in
- 41:47this tape right now. I mean, with with
- 41:48three sigma up, three sigma down days,
- 41:50I'm afraid to open up the market
- 41:52tomorrow.
- 41:54>> I'm afraid I wouldn't go home. I would
- 41:55go with a dollar of risk on tonight. Put
- 41:58it that way. Even though I've had a good
- 41:59semi call, I covered them into the
- 42:02selloff this morning. I took a chance
- 42:03trying to go long and got buried so fast
- 42:06my head was spinning. So, I'm like, I'm
- 42:08done for today.
- 42:09>> Let's see what happens tomorrow. And God
- 42:11knows what the hell that could be, man.
- 42:14>> Very true. No, I I like that. It's like
- 42:16you got to you got to try and find the
- 42:19least risky. you you know you always say
- 42:21there's risky prices you know good
- 42:23things bad prices bad things good prices
- 42:26>> you don't want yeah you don't want to
- 42:28always be piling into risky price trades
- 42:30you know some of the trade or at least
- 42:32if you are you got to identify it as
- 42:34that and have its own set of risk
- 42:36management parameters right I have a
- 42:39very different posture on the
- 42:40non-risisky trades than I do on risky
- 42:42trades I put on risky trades and my hair
- 42:44is standing up as soon as I have it on
- 42:45like you know I'm I'm like you know
- 42:47you're doing that nickels in front of
- 42:49the steamroll roller until it works,
- 42:51until the real breakout happens. You
- 42:52know, it was kind of like the same idea
- 42:54about I've gotten burnt a couple of
- 42:56times being short semis and then I put a
- 42:58position on and never saw the price
- 42:59again for a little while and I was like,
- 43:01"Oh, I think I got them,
- 43:03>> you know, and then was able to cover
- 43:04that." I and I covered in the pre-market
- 43:06at 5490, 485, 490, thinking those were
- 43:09good buys down 20 bucks. That's why
- 43:12that's why I got the beer muscles to buy
- 43:14it down at 460 again and lost money on
- 43:16that. I was like, "Get me the [ __ ] out
- 43:18of here.
- 43:19So yeah,
- 43:20>> it's kind it's kind of like fishing.
- 43:21Yeah. You know, you just you put the rod
- 43:23out there and see if you get a catch and
- 43:24then you get a live one and you're like,
- 43:26"All right, protect it. Protect it. Reel
- 43:28it in. Keep it tight." And
- 43:29>> Yeah. Yeah. It's like surfing, you know?
- 43:31You go out looking for good waves and
- 43:32you find one and you get capsized a few
- 43:34times, you're like, "All right, man. Get
- 43:36me out of here."
- 43:37>> You know, like I thought I was catching
- 43:38these. They're beating me up. I've been
- 43:40in that situation before, too, man.
- 43:44>> Yeah. Love it.
- 43:46>> Love it. Anything else, guys? I I think
- 43:49we covered a lot. There's There's
- 43:51Whatever we say today, by the time it
- 43:52airs tomorrow is probably going to be
- 43:53wrong. So
- 43:54>> yeah, exactly.
- 43:55>> We'll be right for five minutes, wrong
- 43:56for another 10. Like, yeah, who the hell
- 43:58knows?
- 43:59>> All right. So, one thing about here's
- 44:00here's here's like the classic setup,
- 44:03right? We open up the week.
- 44:06We open up the week with oil up at 105
- 44:10bucks or something, right? Trump starts
- 44:12the week.
- 44:14Peace negotiation number 37 coming
- 44:17online here. Iran want Hey guys, Iran
- 44:19wants to talk. Look at this. What do you
- 44:21know? Monday morning
- 44:23now. Oil sitting at its 200 day moving
- 44:26average right. We're relying on Captain
- 44:30[ __ ] who just cost us the whole House
- 44:32and Senate to come up to follow through
- 44:35on this being a a forthright, you know,
- 44:39idea of his that he and I ran are going
- 44:40to sit down at the table and really iron
- 44:43this [ __ ] thing out and fix it,
- 44:45right?
- 44:46>> If you believe that he's full of [ __ ]
- 44:48number 40th time, you got to be long oil
- 44:51here.
- 44:52>> No, I'm saying just be long it and risk
- 44:54$2. you know, the 200 day moving average
- 44:56is right below. Like, I'll be long I if
- 44:57I do anything like
- 45:00>> after the whole kurfuffle today, I will
- 45:01be long a little bit of crude oil going
- 45:03home and seeing if you know, Captain
- 45:05Courageous actually puts a peace deal or
- 45:07if we blow up another refinery over the
- 45:09weekend. Look at that. You know, like so
- 45:12that's the only thing that that's
- 45:12another thing that's on my mind.
- 45:14>> You know, I don't want to be like, man,
- 45:16we could have the guy just lost the
- 45:18House and Senate and we had a chance to
- 45:19fade him with crude oil in the 80s and I
- 45:21didn't do it. The guy's like over for a
- 45:23hundred this year and I didn't fade him
- 45:25when Crude oil was sitting in my lap. I
- 45:28don't know. Just just something I don't
- 45:29want to let go by without making a
- 45:31couple bucks on it. If it goes up $10
- 45:33tonight, that's all.
- 45:35>> Couldn't agree more, man. I'm I'm
- 45:37probably the biggest oil bowl in the
- 45:40>> east of the right.
- 45:41>> They're not They're not making it easy
- 45:43for you, though. They're not making it
- 45:44easy for you.
- 45:45>> But if you could make eye contact when
- 45:47it was $70 offered a couple months ago,
- 45:49he was hiding. He didn't answer his text
- 45:51messages. Nothing, man.
- 45:55>> Well, I I didn't even join it till till
- 45:58mid late summer.
- 45:59>> No, I know. I'm busting you balls.
- 46:01>> Yeah, I think I think he's just Yeah.
- 46:03No, but
- 46:04>> when you go into it, it's like exactly
- 46:06what you outlined, TG. It's like
- 46:08freaking you're just pulling up to the
- 46:11the donkey daycare and you're like,
- 46:13"What what shit's going to hit me in the
- 46:14face today?"
- 46:16And then you know six days later Pete
- 46:20Hagith removal headline yesterday I
- 46:22think that took oil down like 8% or like
- 46:25you just don't know. Yeah.
- 46:26>> Seriously that guy's expendable now,
- 46:29>> right?
- 46:30>> Totally expendable. We could we could
- 46:32pin the Iran war on him, kick him out,
- 46:34whatever. I mean this is this is comedy
- 46:37>> and and I think that's why the markets
- 46:39are so difficult, right?
- 46:40>> Of the course. Yeah.
- 46:41>> Yeah. Yeah.
- 46:42>> Yeah. Nobody wants to put size on oil
- 46:44because of that. It's a nightmare.
- 46:47>> That's what I mean. That's what I mean.
- 46:48I mean, you know, we've had this big
- 46:50pullback from the highs and diesel and
- 46:51the crack spread and stuff like that,
- 46:53but it's like, man,
- 46:55I don't, you know, I don't trust that
- 46:56it's over. I I don't trust that it's
- 46:58over. I don't trust that we're making
- 46:59peace with Iran. I don't I don't trust
- 47:01anything. The guy just lost midterms.
- 47:03He's like, I'm going to Israel.
- 47:06>> Okay.
- 47:08>> Yeah.
- 47:09>> Okay, cool. Cool. We'll take care of all
- 47:11the stuff that you left us with. It's
- 47:12fine.
- 47:14Yeah. Take your $7 billion that you just
- 47:16printed, too.
- 47:17>> Yeah. Yeah. No worries.
- 47:19>> God, no worries at all.
- 47:21>> All right, guys. That was a lot of fun,
- 47:22Tony. Always a pleasure to have you.
- 47:24Can't wait to can't wait to hang in
- 47:25person in Nashville. It's
- 47:27>> totally. You guys are the best. I'm
- 47:28honored to be on here. Thank you very
- 47:30much.
- 47:31>> Good stuff. Everybody, sign up for the
- 47:33TG Macco conference in February in
- 47:35Nashville.
- 47:36>> Hell yeah. Well,
- 47:38>> have a good weekend.
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