This Week inward Barrons: 2-24-2019:
“Hey dad – are nosotros at that spot yet?”
“Shhh – can’t you lot encounter your dad is taking a nap …” Tesla household unit of measurement on 12.31.2020
Elon Musk is no stranger to making bold predictions, as well as the 1 he made concluding calendar week was directed toward those self-driving tech doubters. The Tesla CEO said that the electrical motorcar maker’s total self-driving feature-set volition live completed past times the halt of 2019. And past times the halt of 2020, he added, you’ll live able to snooze inward the driver’s spot piece it takes you lot from your parking lot to wherever you’re going. “I recollect nosotros volition live feature-complete on total self-driving way this year, pregnant the motorcar volition live able to notice you lot inward a parking lot, pick you lot up, as well as receive got you lot all the way to your destination without an intervention this year,” Elon said. Today, Tesla’s engineering can “guide a motorcar from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting as well as making lane changes, navigating highway interchanges, as well as taking exits,”said Musk as well as the driver’s manual.
Currently, Tesla’s vehicles can’t drive themselves on service roads, parking lots, or inward cities. Tesla has said that every motorcar produced since Oct 2016 has all the hardware needed to drive itself. In Jan 2017, Elon said elements of that characteristic would start rolling out inward three to half-dozen months. That didn’t happen. Elon has repeatedly underestimated the fourth dimension it would receive got to consummate as well as adequately exam ambitious projects. Last calendar week Mr. Musk cautioned that it volition receive got Tesla some other yr to acquire to the indicate where their cars tin completely drive themselves. “People sometimes extrapolate ‘feature-complete’ to hateful that total self-driving straight off works alongside 100% certainty - requiring no observation,” he told his audience. “This is non the case.” Elon said that Tesla drivers would live able to autumn asleep as well as wake upwardly at their destinations using total self-drive past times the halt of 2020. Until then, drivers volition receive got to move along to monitor the engineering as well as live create to receive got command of the bicycle if something goes wrong.
As Elon continues to construct aggressive predictions for Tesla's self-driving technology, most of his autonomous vehicle competitors are moving their go-live dates farther out inward fourth dimension as well as tempering their aggressive timelines for total self-driving motorcar roll-outs. Waymo downplayed the launch of their driverless taxi service inward Phoenix concluding year, revealing that a security driver would remain behind the bicycle at all times. Meanwhile, General Motors’ Cruise has said it volition curlicue out its ain AV taxi service this year, but it has stayed mum on when as well as where that mightiness happen. Uber’s plans are inward flux equally it recovers from concluding year’s testing crash that killed a woman. And companies similar Nuro as well as Aurora are taking the tedious as well as steady approach, telling reporters as well as investors that they’re edifice their tech alongside caution as well as without fanfare. Elon also said that Tesla’s Autopilot team, which launched the characteristic to grip highway driving, has straight off turned to treatment intersections. “On a evolution level, at that spot is no work recognizing halt signs as well as traffic lights, but you lot practise acquire ambiguity inward some complex intersections alongside multiple traffic lights. Even if you’re a person, it’s non e'er clear.”
It makes feel that Tesla began its self-driving projection alongside a highway driving feature. Autonomous manufacture experts receive got long said highway driving is easier – the roads are by as well as large uniform as well as don’t also play host to pedestrians as well as cyclists. But high-speed, highway crashes are to a greater extent than dangerous. Tesla hasn’t shown off whatsoever other chemical constituent of its total self-driving characteristic since Oct 2016, when the society published a promotional video showing a Model south driving through a Northern California neighborhood without its driver’s hands on the wheel. Musk said concluding calendar week that Tesla’s Autopilot AI computer “is virtually to curlicue into production.” He said the company’s engineering volition live a 2,000% improvement over its electrical flow technology. So telling your car: “take me home”could before long acquire a reality.
Our Manipulated Market:
It’s all virtually Boeing:
- Boeing is the most of import society inward the U.S. equity markets.
- Boeing is upwardly +30.7% year-to-date – making it the best-performing DOW stock.
- Boeing comprises 10.9% of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- Boeing is 240% to a greater extent than market-influential than Apple, 390% to a greater extent than market-critical than Microsoft, as well as neither Amazon or Google are fifty-fifty inward the running.
- Boeing’s has straight contributed 776 points of the DOW’s 2019 rise.
- Boeing has contributed to a greater extent than DOW points than the adjacent iv names combined: (Goldman Sachs (225), IBM (177), United Tech (157), as well as Home Depot (133)).
- And those v names are responsible for over one-half (56%) of the DOW’s gains YTD.
Why is Boeing is the unmarried most of import stock inward the marketplace today? Because it lone tin displace an index, as well as thence command order-flow inward the equity markets. It controls the DOW, as well as the DOW (in turn) tin displace the S&P as well as the Nasdaq. The term for that is ‘statistical arbitrage’. Large trading firms receive got figured this out, as well as are showtime to game the system. After all, from the showtime of the year, outflows receive got exceeded inflows yet markets move along to rise.
When a unmarried stock tin drive order-flow, that way that our markets are non inward a goodness place. When a $400 production that is trading less than 4m shares a solar daytime tin drive a marketplace – that stinks of a NO LIQUIDITY market. The liquidity issues inward this marketplace are real, fragile, as well as paramount. Firms receive got learned how to game the organization past times turning their buying algorithms toward 1 private stock, which inward plough drives an index as well as other marketplace behavior. And who is currently the largest buyer of Boeing stock – good Boeing of course of teaching via its ain stock buyback program.
Info-Bits:
- FED Meeting Notes: “Almost all participants thought that it would live desirable to denote a programme to halt reducing the Federal Reserve’s property holdings.” In gild words, they are preparing for some other circular of QE.
- Over inward Europe: Manufacturing slipped into contraction alongside its lowest reading inward half-dozen years. Germany’s economic scheme stagnated at the halt of 2018, trailing most of its peers – narrowly avoiding recession.
- Honda vs Brexit: Honda (due to Brexit) is closing their exclusively works life inward England, as well as Nissan also moved SUV manufacturing from England to Japan.
- Just Fold-it: Is what Samsung said when they introduced the latest reboot of the flip telephone that tin opened upwardly up live a tablet. It costs $2,000, as well as it’s unclear what the telephone illustration province of affairs volition expression like.
- Nike blew the presentation: Nike’s stock dropped later Duke’s star basketball game musician Zion Williamson's sneaker flare-up opened upwardly during a game – injuring Zion.
- Tesla took a dive: After Consumer Reports said that it could no longer recommend the Model three due to reliability concerns. Tesla's full general counsel also said goodbye after exclusively 2 months on the job. The departure is said to live due to "a misfortunate cultural fit." Guess he didn’t similar the open fire throwers?
- The ‘Zon is out-smarting the Gov’t: Amazon paid $0 inward federal taxes concluding year, but made $11B inward profit. They did that because they get: (a) enquiry as well as evolution taxation deductions, (b) a 100% taxation deduction for investment inward equipment, as well as most importantly, (c) a taxation deduction for stock-based compensation. This way fifty-fifty though profits went up, so did their stock, as well as so did the value of their taxation deductions. Congrats to the ‘Zon.
- The Lyft Roadshow: Lyft is going on an IPO roadshow during the calendar week of March 18th. This gives them a caput start over Uber, as well as volition probable value them between $20B as well as $25B.
- AI-Powered Trading: Humans are fragile, flawed creatures. That's why Alpha Vertex uses Artificial Intelligence to powerfulness their actionable merchandise ideas.
- Payless volition unopen 2,100 stores: Its e-commerce operations are also shutting down. These are the most store closings past times a unmarried chain inward 2019, as well as volition sure enough double the number of retail stores laid to close this yr vs last.
- U.S. economic scheme ain’t lookin’ good: (a) Our manufacturing PMI tumbled to 17 calendar month lows, (b) the world’s largest transportation society warned that the Global Economic Outlook for 2019 is worse than 2018, (c) trace organization spending suffered its longest contraction since 2015, as well as (d) the Philly FED simply recorded its largest index spill since the 2011 U.S. ratings downgrade.
- Has Gold Bottomed? See below.
- Tech Smackdowns: U.K. lawmakers are calling Facebook a “digital gangster. There's evidence that Facebook knowingly violated United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland privacy as well as contest laws. They lied virtually non knowing the breadth of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And lied virtually the scale of Russian ads on their platform.
- Buybacks are non specific to U.S. companies: Japanese corporate buybacks receive got hitting a tape this financial yr as well as are laid to maintain their increment equally cash-rich companies bow to governmental as well as investor push clit per unit of measurement area to boost returns as well as improve governance. Recently SoftBank, Sony, as well as Itochu receive got announced plans to purchase dorsum shares. That brought the total value of Japanese purchase backs inward the past times 52 weeks to over $59B – the most for whatsoever financial yr since 2003.
Crypto-Bytes:
- Bankcoins: One of the world’s largest banks, J.P. Morgan Chase moves to a greater extent than than $6T internationally – on a daily basis. It’s (sort of) launching its ain cryptocurrency. They announced JPM Coin, equally an internal distributed ledger-based short town organization – that could potentially supercede wire transfers for international payments past times large corporate clients, cutting short town times from days to seconds, as well as render instant short town for securities issuance. JPM Coin could also supercede U.S. dollars held overseas past times major firms using JPM’s treasury services. This would ensure that a subsidiary could stand upwardly for cash on the residuum canvass without having to genuinely wire it to the unit. But non everyone is impressed. Signature Bank, a small-fry compared to JPM inward terms of property size, is already running a private Ethereum-based stablecoin network – doing tens of millions of dollars inward settlements for hundreds of clients. Could someone allow Jamie Dimon know that his 1stever banking cryptocurrency money – is a fraud.
- Knocking On 4K's Door: Bitcoin is breaking higher upwardly $4k, and about to secure its initiative of all positive calendar month since July 2018. Also, Ethereum volume surpassed Bitcoin lately – leading to a marketplace rally as well as pointing to ETH existence undervalued.
- Crypto Flagship: Samsung’s latest flagship cellular telephone volition include a dedicated secure storage component subdivision designed for cryptocurrency private keys. The novel S10 joins a growing trace of smartphones designed alongside cryptocurrencies inward mind. Samsung is the largest telephone manufacturer to unveil a blockchain characteristic inward a phone, as well as volition encounter the widest distribution.
Last Week (we learned):
The U.S. stock marketplace has rallied from the Dec lows inward what is an almost straight trace higher. Those types of moves practise non frequently halt well. While it was expected that the S&P Index would driblet to 2,300, as well as correspondingly bounce dorsum into the 2,800 part – most analysts never expected the veracity of the move. So the marketplace may live telling us that it has other intentions, as well as this coming calendar week volition probable either confirm or invalidate them. Last week, the marketplace had a strong displace through 2,725 as well as is giving strong indications of moving into 2,900 – which would live a ‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) type of behavior. I am targeting the 2,800 to 2,820 part earlier the adjacent pullback / consolidation could receive got shape. As you lot tin encounter from the above chart, if nosotros displace through the 2,820’ish area, it should signal a larger than anticipated corrective rally. It’s inward this 2,820’ish part that the 2,770 back upwardly becomes extremely important. Once nosotros acquire over 2,820, whatsoever sustained breakdown below 2,770 volition live an indication that the rally has run out of steam, as well as nosotros are turning downward. But, equally long equally nosotros concur over that 2,770 back upwardly level, the pattern continues to indicate higher alongside a target of 2,867 as well as above. Downside activeness below 2,770 could live real strong as well as almost ‘crash-like’ inward behavior. So the marketplace is indeed looking at a unsafe structure. In summary, equally long equally the S&P remains over 2,770, I am looking for a challenge of the 2,820’ish arena. Alternatively, should the marketplace break below the 2,740 – 2,730 part – so we’re moving dorsum to 2,600 as well as potentially lower.
3 Potentially Explosive Companies:
- Kandi Technologies: Chinese automaker Kandi Technologies (KNDI) is 1 of those names that could live on the verge of a massive breakout. Kandi's heart as well as soul trace organization has long centered around electrical vehicles. The Chinese EV smash never transpired as well as Kandi has inward fact seen its portion of policy changes around regime subsidies – that receive got caused demand for several EV models to dry out up. Revenue as well as cost per portion are downward sharply from their 2015 peak, but Kandi was simply approved to import its EVs into the U.S. The stock surged concluding calendar week to an $8/share high. As Tesla showed, bold investors tin genuinely construct some ‘dough’ if they’re early on to a tendency similar this.
- Diebold Nixdorf: H5N1 society alongside an interesting past, Diebold Nixdorf (DBD) was built on old-school banking engineering from vaults to ATMs. However, the past times decade has been challenging equally consumers receive got moved away from cash as well as traditional banks – as well as Diebold was mired inward executive scandals as well as SEC accounting fraud. Due to these as well as other factors, shares are downward 80% from v years ago. However, progress along alongside upbeat earnings as well as revenue increment receive got caused shares to wake-up. Diebold Nixdorf shares receive got to a greater extent than than doubled to $8.50 this yr equally a sign of increasing optimism. Now may live a goodness fourth dimension to give this inexpensive stock a expression equally the turnaround gains momentum.
- Avon Products: Another embattled society experiencing an uptrend is Avon Products (AVP). This 130-year-old beauty-products construct has struggled to remain relevant equally novel brands receive got connected meliorate alongside consumers, piece e-commerce options acquire inward easier for someone to store for products online. Revenue peaked inward 2011 at $11.3B and finished financial 2018 less than one-half of that. Things are projected to live ugly 1 time again for Avon inward 2019 from a revenue stand upwardly point, but Avon stock seems to receive got stabilized. Investment inward digital tools as well as distribution equally good equally having an regular army of representatives has sparked optimism on Wall Street. Avon is launching a novel Expira product trace alongside a wellness as well as wellness focus. Throw inward a programme to create a leaner, to a greater extent than profitable trace organization as well as you lot tin encounter why some investors are optimistic. Avon may never render to its old $30 portion price, but given its electrical flow $3 portion cost (doubling inward 2019 already) could live signs of meliorate days to come.
Next Week:
Based upon:
- China as well as Europe both kicking their ‘tariffs as well as Brexit’ downward the road,
- The financial ETF (XLF) stabilizing (last calendar week as well as this calendar week closing at 26.47’ish),
- Both implied as well as historical volatility contracting this week,
- The bond marketplace moving inward lock-step alongside the equity marketplace (normally moving inward contrary directions),
- The FOMC exhibiting confusion as well as putting everything on break –
- I’m nonetheless cautiously leaning long.
Back inward October, November, as well as Dec the S&Ps hitting their caput on 2820 as well as were rejected. Now that we're simply a yoke points away from challenging that part 1 time again – what’s going to happen? Every slice of logic tells me that nosotros don't receive got the earnings to back upwardly us remaining at this level. Our economical increment is so weak that the FED had to capitulate on hikes, as well as our volumes don't equate to the excitement necessary to break higher upwardly resistance. But naught virtually this marketplace is running on logic or fundamentals. All it took to erase the most damaging driblet inward many years was the FED tossing inward the towel. Now that the FED is squarely inward the "We ain't doin’ nuttin’ camp”, could this live the fourth dimension nosotros break over 2820 as well as roar dorsum to the old highs? It's sure enough possible, but non logical. At this point, it's completely rational to simply sit down tight as well as lookout what happens at the 2800 to 2820 level. If nosotros punch through as well as move past times 2820 for to a greater extent than than 1 day, it's almost a given that we're going to encounter them challenge 2900. But if 2820 holds equally resistance, I could easily encounter the marketplace give dorsum one-half the gains it's made since the Dec lows – moving downward to the 2650 level. So, it's something of a conclusion indicate here. Unfortunately, logic as well as fundamentals state that it doesn’t break through 2820, but a frightened FED suggests they simply mightiness push clit it off. I’m going to lean long into this market, but maintain my fingers nigh the sell button.
I'm on tape proverb that some shape of Red People's Republic of China – U.S. bargain volition acquire done. But what happens to the marketplace when nosotros acquire that bargain – is upwardly for debate. Some recollect nosotros simply start a whole novel leg higher. I recollect they run the marketplace difficult for a brusk period, as well as so receive got profits. In other words, I watching for a "blow off top" and displace to the downside.
Tips:
Top Equity Recommendations:
HODL’s:
- Aurora (ACB = $6.96 / inward @ $3.57) – & covered write,
- Canntrust Holdings (CNTTF = $9.63 / inward @ $3.12),
- Canopy Growth Corp (CGC = $44.54 / inward @ 22.17),
- HEXO (HEXO = $5.90 / inward @ $5.12),
- Nova Vax (NVAX = $1.927 / inward @ $2.19) – & $0.65 covered write,
Crypto:
- Bitcoin (BTC = $4,148)
- Ethereum (ETH = 163.29)
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH = 153.64)
Options:
- Gold Miners (GDXJ = 33.86) Mar 1, -34.5 / +36, CCS for $0.48 CR
Thoughts:
- IWMhas been chugging along like: “The Little Engine that Could”, rising almost 17% inward 2019. It’s been downward exclusively 8 out of the 33 trading days this year, which mightiness construct you lot recollect that the boxcars IWM is pulling are filled alongside loaded dice. IWM’s volume has been slowing down, suggesting a reduced appetite for the little cap sector. And that could hateful that it’s reached the top of the mount – at to the lowest degree for now. With IWM’s IV low, debit spreads are to a greater extent than attractive trades. If you lot recollect IWM mightiness live headed for a downhill side, the long pose vertical that’s brusk the $155 PUT as well as long the $158 PUT inward the March 29th expiration is a bearish strategy that has a 64% probability of making 50% of its max turn a profit earlier expiration.
- LUV- Who ticked off the ghost of Herb Kelleher? Southwest Airlines dropped over 5% concluding calendar week – the equivalent of iv touchstone deviations. Flight cancellations, delays inward the novel Hawaii routes, as well as a rising concern virtually security drove it lower. Given that whatsoever of this intelligence isn’t genuinely new, it’s probable that the ghost of LUV’s lately deceased founder spooked the market. LUV’s implied volatility jumped equally the stock fell, but is nonetheless relatively low, as well as suggests that the marketplace may non live equally scared of LUV equally you lot mightiness think. If you lot recollect LUV mightiness bounce from this sell off, the long telephone telephone vertical that’s long the $53 CALL as well as brusk the $55 CALL inward the March 29thexpiration is a bullish strategy that has a 60% probability of making 50% of its max turn a profit earlier expiring.
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