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From Zerohedge.

When stocks are ejected from market-cap-weighted indexes, swooping in to load up on them -- and hold on to them -- can pay off nicely, according to a new paper from Newport Beach, California-based Research Affiliates LLC.

...which makes no sense of course, but at least it explains why I've had such a terrible performance this week - because I'm positioning for the worst, and I'm only-short in my portfolio.

Here is the trading outcome for this month, November 2023:

Derivates is a ticking time bomb. The next crash should be called "The derivatives crash". I've already mentioned it here - the world wealth is... comparable to the total world derivative exposure. Derivatives are often unreported and unregulated.

Here is an explanation of why dollars don't exist, and the guvmt doesn't even print money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhPvVdZCNJk

Dollars don't exist because they are a unit of measure. Centimeters don't exist either, you can't have too many (or not enough) centimeters to e.g. build a house.

Well, I'm way too late on this, demonstrating a failure of focus on my part, and an example of how politics must not be ignored, when looking at finance. NVDA is going psychotically up not because they have such a great business (although they do), and not because economic conditions precipitate asset price increases (they don't), but because the US guvmt gave NVDA free unlimited money in 2022. Since the world seems always to be in a state of war, there is a current skirmish in which the US wants to internalize and usurp the semiconductor industry. So they give NVDA free unlimited money.

How much does Reddit make? Seemingly, they make $1.40 per user per year, $0.12 per user per month.

^ 0 days, 100.0 is the start of a recession (we know it exactly b/c it's looking at historical data). Leading to a recession, everyone and everything is hurting. At the start of the recession, the stock market is hurting some more.

This chart (from the video) shows that the only net buyers of stocks since 2008 are corporations themselves (ie it's a scammy pump and dump, but without the dump).