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Shankar Sharma on retail investors:
βEquity markets are meant for big boys and professionals, theyβre not meant for Mr. Joe on the street (retail investors).β
βBest you can make 10-12%, those days are also in the hindsight. Add taxes on that and you cannot even beat FD returns.β
βI have never advised my relatives or friends or even my own sister to invest in equity directly and today they thank me.β π
- src: NDTV Profit. June 2026
π¨ EVERYTHING THAT COULD GO WRONG FOR MARKETS WENT WRONG TODAY.
S&P 500 down -1.65%, wiping out $1.14 trillion.
Nasdaq down -2.60%, wiping out $1.11 trillion.
Gold down -3.38%, wiping out $1 trillion.
Silver down -6.9%, wiping out $280 billion.
Bitcoin down -6.31%, wiping out $80 billion.
In total $2.5 TRILLION wiped out in a single session. These were not isolated moves. Everything started breaking at the same time.
It started with the jobs report this morning.
The US economy added 172,000 jobs in May. Wall Street expected 88,000. That is almost double.
On any normal day, strong jobs is good news. But inflation is already at 3.8% and oil is sitting at $90. A labor market this strong tells the Fed it cannot cut interest rates and may actually need to raise them.
The probability of a rate hike this year went from 40% to 57% in a single day. That spooked every investor holding tech and growth stocks because higher rates mean those stocks are worth less today.
Then the AI trade started cracking.
Yesterday Broadcom reported record earnings: revenue up 48%, AI chip sales up 143% and the stock still crashed 12.6%. The reason was simple.
Broadcom did not raise its AI revenue targets for the year. Investors had expected it to. That single miss made people ask a question they had been avoiding for months: are we paying too much for AI stocks?
That question got louder today when a research firm called SemiAnalysis revealed that Nvidia's next-generation AI chips will need significantly less memory than everyone assumed, roughly half of what the market was pricing in.
Memory chips are what companies like SK Hynix and Samsung make. SK Hynix fell nearly 10% today. Samsung fell over 6%.
South Korea's entire stock market crashed 5.5% in a single session. Japan's semiconductor stocks did the same.
And then Anthropic added fuel to the fire by publishing a report warning that AI is getting close to the point where it can improve itself without human help and calling for a global pause in AI development.
Coming on the same day as the memory demand news and Broadcom's miss, it fed a single growing fear across the market: what if the AI boom is moving faster than the business models can keep up with?
Underneath all of this, there is a liquidity problem nobody is talking about.
SpaceX goes public next week at a $1.75 trillion valuation. Anthropic just filed to go public. OpenAI is next.
These three companies together are worth $4 to $5 trillion. Fund managers need cash to buy into these listings.
But cash levels are already at their lowest since early 2024. The only way to raise cash is to sell what they already own. That selling is happening right now.
The new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will also hold his very first policy meeting in 11 days. He was appointed by Trump with the expectation of cutting rates.
He is now walking into a situation where inflation is high, oil is high, and the job market is running hot. Investors do not know what he will do.
When nobody knows what the most powerful central banker in the world will decide in less than two weeks, the safest move is to reduce risk today.
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong at the same time. A hot jobs report, a collapsing ceasefire, a crack in the AI trade, a trillion dollar liquidity drain, and a Fed meeting with no clear outcome.
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Make a note of all the guys who posted about being right on IT sector yesterday but silent on the fall today. Downgrade them heavily in your mind or even unfollow them.
Absolutely ngmi if you don't. The level of intellectual honesty will only hit new lows on this app.
I've tried multiple EU banks over the last 9 years and have to admit I totally get why @Revolut is getting so popular β Revolut Metal is the best product on the market right now.
1.5%/2.0% p.a., different currencies, 0.5% cashback in points, proper joint accounts, insurance, discounted lounge access, disposable cards, etc etc
You also get free Wolt subscription, free Perplexity, Headspace, Financial Times, and even Duolingo (if you're one of those weird people).
Their RevPoints are pretty amazing as well β you get 1% for every 2 euro spent, for some categories it could be 1:1 ratio (for example, https://t.co/QRM7rMSspu or https://t.co/n1410JaSdH), for some even higher (Uber gives you 10 points for every 2 euro spent). You can buy miles with points, or you can buy different gift cards at Ryanair, Apple, Nike, and many other stores.
No bank in EU gives anything similar, especially for that price. Not to mention that their app is amazing.
No single Sip investor has gotten rich
The advisor got rich.
The AMC got rich.
The distributor got rich.
AMFI got rich running ads with your money.
You got a PDF statement showing 11% CAGR that doesn't account for inflation, taxes or their fees.
Congrats on breaking even.
trading forces you to be closer to god. if you think of it, the only way you can deal with the everyday stress and stay sane is if you keep in tip top shape physically and mentally. It forces you to be disciplined. the best life for the disciplined in my opinion to be honest.
Never hold over the weekend, Monday gaps are brutal. This is what most traders thinks but the data disagrees.
Of 1,043 Mondays,
only 35 gapped up >1% and 40 gapped down >1% which is about 7% of the time.
No wonder why 2017 is considered to be golden period for option sellers, zero weekend fear.
Weekend gap risk is wildly overrated.