14/17 $BTC bottom indicators are flashing.
This isn't a broad agreement across indicators, it's a rare level of analytical confluence which only appears when we are absolutely aligned with forming a bottom.
I was bearish at the highs. Now I'm bullish at the lows.
🚨US MARGIN DEBT IS FLASHING A WARNING:
US margin debt as a share of M2 money supply spiked to 6.2% in May.
This is just shy of the all-time record of 6.3%, set at the height of the 2000 Dot-Com bubble peak.
Total margin debt now stands at $1.4 trillion, an all-time high in dollar terms.
Historically, spikes in margin debt relative to money supply have preceded major market tops.
Margin debt peaked in March 2000, just months before the Dot-Com collapse, and again in July 2007, 3 months before the S&P 500 topped out ahead of the Financial Crisis.
Most recently, it peaked in October 2021, 2 months before the S&P 500's December 2021 high, preceding a -25% drawdown through September 2022.
Will history repeat itself?
The Nasdaq fell 78% from 2000 to 2002. But that's not how anyone experienced it.
They experienced this:
– A 35% rally. Then new lows.
– A 12% rally. Then new lows.
– A 25% rally. Then new lows.
– A 41% rally. Then new lows.
– A 45% rally. Then the bottom, 30 months after the top.
Five times the market screamed "it's over." Five times it lied.
Former colleagues of mine lived through it on a trading floor. They told me what the routine became: by Thursday, you started praying for Friday afternoon. Not for the weekend. For the close. Two days where you couldn't lose money.
Then you walked out of the office with your head down.
That is what a real bear market does. It doesn't scare you out at the bottom. It exhausts you out, one false dawn at a time.
Bear markets don't end when the sellers are done. They end when the buyers are.
AI compute prices are completely collapsing. This is going to impact AI data center gross margins at the worst possible time.
Keep in mind, even at peak pricing all of these AI providers were extremely unprofitable.
The decline in private credit funding has forced them to switch from heavily subsidized subscription pricing to token based billing.
A desperate move, because corporations are now realizing LLMs are anywhere from 10-20x more expensive than they had been told.
Like subprime loans in 2008, the teaser rate just expired.
The rush for SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI to IPO is clearly because they see a double headwind of declining demand + declining gross margins.
Price discovery and return to normal is the hallmark of every bubble.
Did the AI bubble just pop?
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Peter Lynch famously said there's a "100% correlation" between earnings and stock price over time.
If that's true...
These 10 stocks may be screaming opportunity.
1. $NFLX - Netflix
Hyperliquid charges $0.07 to trade a $100 event contract.
The incumbents charge $1.56 to $3.50 for the exact same position.
That's not a discount. That's a 20-50x gap.
HIP-4 just made on-chain event markets cheaper than anywhere else. By a lot.
I found this fascinating. Ray Dalio is promoted on every podcast and TV as a "financial genius"...
Turns out he's a terrible investor.
https://t.co/FVc4vPaGOs