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Well, folks, we might be at the

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beginning of a doom loop of a liquidity

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crisis. And in this segment, we're going

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to explain what that means and what that

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could mean for the stock market. Now,

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we've been talking about these potential

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liquidity issues over the last few weeks

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on the channel. In fact, if you've been

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watching the warnings we've been talking

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about, none of this should be a

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surprise. In fact, starting about 2 and

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1/2 weeks ago, we started flagging the

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FMS, the Bank of America fund manager

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survey. Now, these are their words, not

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mine, but look at them yourself as a

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reminder. My keep in mind, these

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screenshots are all in the Meet Kevin

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app, which you can download for free on

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Apple or Android. You get the daily

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wealth and the other. It's totally free.

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You can see them there. But anyway, the

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Bank of America fund manager survey

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average cash level has declined from 3.9

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to 3.8%. This was posted October

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mid-occtober about October 16th. The

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sell signal for the Bank of America

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global fund manager survey was last

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triggered in July when cash fell from

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4.2 to 4 uh 3.9%.

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If we sit at or below 3.7,

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we move to a hard sell indicator. Now,

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right now, in the last survey that came

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out the last week of October, so fast

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forward about 2 weeks, we dropped all

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the way down to about 3.8%.

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Now, this is old news. We kind of

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already know this. I just want to catch

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you up on this. Usually when we get to

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these low levels of cash available,

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people start becoming frankly unable to

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buy the dip. A recent example or

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actually a few recent examples of where

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we had more cash available to buy the

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dip and then we had Nike swoosh style

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recoveries were liberation day. We

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essentially Nike swoosh straight up from

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there, right? S&P up like 30 plus% from

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there. Cash was much more available.

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Take a look at October 22. This is

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roughly when I bought my Nvidia shares,

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which you know are like massively up. Uh

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but I bought the dip on chip stocks in

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October of 22. In fact, I had a fund

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that was basically had a huge allocation

2:22

to chips. And I'm like, guys, this is

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like we're in a chips recession. This is

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the perfect time to buy chips. Look at

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where cash levels were in October of 22

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around 6%.

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way higher than where we sit today or

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even the COVID low of April 20th. So, it

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gives you more recent sort of memory

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examples of when those cash levels are

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higher, we can usually sustain a larger

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rally up. Right now, we sit at a very

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low level, which roughly aligns with the

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end of 20121,

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roughly align with other pain points

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where historically stocks haven't

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necessarily performed the best. It's

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only one signal. It's not the only

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signal. That's the Bank of America fund

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manager survey. Another signal that we

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paid attention to in the course member

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alpha report this morning where we set

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up our strategy for the day. In fact,

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I'll I'll tell you what our course

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member strategy was this morning. You

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won't I'll just break it down for you.

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You can take it for what it was. But one

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of the things we looked at this morning

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was actually a dangerous double top.

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Now, this is not broadly on an index.

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This double top that formed, this is

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just an example of this is a really low

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resolution crappy image of what a double

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top looks like. And then it usually

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continues with a fall off the cliff to

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the right side. Right? This dangerous

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double top has actually formed on a

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company that I think is exceptionally

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profitable. It has a relatively low PEG

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ratio. we're at about a two. Uh so

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frankly, it has about 20 to 30% upside

3:54

in the stock based on where its

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valuation sits and its growth forecast

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sits and where where uh forecast sit and

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and and where its margins are. This is a

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a company that first of all, I highly

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respect the CEO of

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the valuation's bare. And what company

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just had a double top on the day chart?

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Microsoft. That is another indication of

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liquidity concerns going into of course

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the Palanteer earnings we had yesterday.

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There's a reason why in my video

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yesterday I called Palunteer earnings

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critical before the earnings came out

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because it's a sign of will there be

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enough liquidity to keep the pump going.

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We've obviously extended on sort of this

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like euphoric tip over here and clearly

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the answer is no. There's not enough

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liquidity to keep the pump going.

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start adding these things together. This

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bizarre double top on Microsoft I don't

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think is idiosyncratic because when you

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look at the company itself the numbers

4:52

are great. So you have a double top on

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Microsoft you have a euphoric tip on the

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Q's you know your triple Q's your NASDAQ

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100 tech index and on Palunteer. So

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you've got that euphoric kind of

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rotation up uh the double top on

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Microsoft with the euphoric rotation.

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Then you have the fund manager survey

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which is a red flag of liquidity.

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Bitcoin,

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Bitcoin's price only moves

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because of liquidity. I will explain

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more on Bitcoin and Micro Strategy in a

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moment. And then number five catalyst is

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actually what's happening with funding

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rates

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uh especially at the Federal Reserve.

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Take a look at this. If you subtract the

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sofa rate from sort of base

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international rates, you could see the

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the delta of how liquidity is funding up

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or or drying up in the banking sector.

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Now, this is actually a pretty big red

5:48

flag, but it's early broadly. It's not

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enough of a liquidity issue yet.

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But here's the self self-fulfilling

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nature that could happen. The doomers

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point this out really well. They say

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liquidity concerns are the sort of thing

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that can become self-fulfilling.

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Even if an institution has ample

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liquidity on its own balance sheet, say

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let's say JP Morgan and Chase, stress

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elsewhere will lead to the tendency to

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hoard liquidity until there are better

6:22

opportunities.

6:24

So, the problem with this credit cycle

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that we're in right now, which I didn't

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think would come this early, we know the

6:32

cockroaches are a problem, but I thought

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we might still be okay until at least

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the government reopening. The problem

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that we face, though, is the sheer

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number of warnings we're getting on

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credit risks are becoming concerning.

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And that's what's changing the game

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here. It's not just what you're seeing

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at the repo markets, which yesterday we

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had another surge in repo demand. Now,

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in the grand scheme of things, is $29

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billion or $14 billion plus 7. Are these

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numbers? Well, I guess that's 49 versus,

7:04

you know, 21 billion over here. Are 49

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to $21 billion of repo stress really

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that big of a deal? In the grand scheme

7:12

of things, they're relatively small

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numbers, right? But you have to go all

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the way back to COVID to see the credit

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stress for any of this to actually

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matter. If we go back to or or or like

7:25

2008, you know, this is kind of when you

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start seeing credit stress because you

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have a big gap over here. This literally

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jumps from 2018 to like 2019. So, we

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don't actually see I mean, there should

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be a giant white gap right there, but

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they just deleted that. I I don't know

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why they do that. But if you zoom in a

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little bit just to make the dates make a

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little bit more sense. There we go. You

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could see we've had no liquidity issues

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except for once very briefly right here

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this summer and that's it. And lately

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they've been ramping up again like in co

7:57

and that's why that delta chart is so

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concerning because it suggests that

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there could be a self-fulfilling start

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to credit concerns. See, UBS is warning

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of looming credit risks from credit

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ratings, which I hate to say it, but

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sounds very 2008esque.

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He literally says there is now a growing

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chorus of voices pointing to risks in

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the multi-t trillion dollar credit

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rating industry and the insurance

8:23

industry because basically rather than

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using big credit rating agencies like

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maybe standard and pores or Moody's or

8:30

whatever rather than using the big and

8:33

expensive companies you can actually now

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just call up quote small rating agencies

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to check the box of regulation.

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and then just share those private

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ratings with certain issuers and

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investors to get debt or investments.

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And you don't actually have the

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reputation of a large credit agency

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anymore. You have the reputations of a

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bunch of small credit rating agencies

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rating debt,

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which just amplifies the potential risk

9:06

of the credit the private credit bubble.

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Now remember, people are like, "Oh, but

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private credit doesn't affect the

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banking system." Wrong. The IMF tells us

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that 90% of lending to private credit

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comes from big banks like JP Morgan and

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the other big boys. They just get done

9:24

through convoluted uh you know,

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assortments of capital, which is scary.

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So now what you have is not only

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thisricolor and first branch collapse or

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some of the other issues that you're

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finding in private credit. We just saw

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Renovo Homes go bankrupt taking out a

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bunch of uh you know uh smaller

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contractors in home renovations. But

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you're also finding that this is going

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so extreme that credit agencies were

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actually giving first brands uh and and

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their auditors were actually giving

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first brands good reviews, you know,

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good ratings, good audits or passing

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audits. Mind you, First Brands didn't

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use a PCAOB audit, which I think is very

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important. This is your highest standard

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of auditing. They use lower standards of

10:10

auditing. But look at this. The company

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First Brands is now literally suing

10:15

their founder because the CEO funneled

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up to $700 million into his own mansion

10:25

into his uh fleet of 17 exotic cars, a

10:29

celebrity personal trainer, $3 million

10:32

of luxury rent for a townhouse in New

10:35

York, $500,000 to a private chef. And

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what's concerning to me is not that

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that's the kind of scam that happened at

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first brands. It's that the nonPCAOB

10:47

auditors apparently missed all of that.

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And apparently the credit rating

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agencies missed all of that. I mean, it

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goes so bad that they literally talk

10:55

about certain invoices saying that, oh,

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First Brands actually sold products

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worth 11.2 2 million that you could

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finance against when the reality was the

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product was only worth $2.3 million.

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That's a scam. That's fraud. It's no

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surprise that there's fraud here and the

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CEO, if this is true, should go to jail.

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The question is, or the bigger concern

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is, wait a minute, what if that means

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there's a lot more uncovered fraud like

11:26

that everywhere else? And that's why

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you're starting to see these funding

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stresses create concerns because these

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are signs that other banking

11:36

institutions are going, you know what,

11:37

we're just going to hold cash. We're

11:39

going to see how many cockroaches are

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out there. And once you get that

11:43

tightening of credit, that's when the

11:45

true problems happen. Now, we're not

11:47

quite there yet. Excess liquidity, if we

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look at excess liquidity charts, we're

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flat on excess liquidity. So, it's not

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like we're super low on excess

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liquidity. Uh and on top of that, we're

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not in this place where uh credit

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spreads are signaling some form of

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massive dry up in lending yet. You could

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see that here. Credit spreads are still

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relatively tight, which is bullish. You

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could see financing costs uh are are

12:15

rising, but we're not like skyrocketing,

12:19

and we're still seeing a generation of

12:21

commercial and industrial loans. The

12:23

problem is this chart only goes through

12:25

the third quarter. So we don't yet know

12:28

what stresses are going to show up in

12:29

October. So these are things to pay

12:32

attention to. But we could see the seeds

12:34

of a credit crisis and a liquidity

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crisis are real. So what did we talk

12:39

about in the alpha report this morning?

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Well, I made uh a a a I had a very clear

12:45

we spent probably about 30 minutes

12:46

coming up with a strategy uh you know in

12:49

the actual stream. Uh, and obviously it

12:51

took me a lot longer to to prepare it

12:53

before my stream because I try to go

12:55

into the streams prepared. So when

12:57

people come to the alpha report, we're

12:58

like, "Okay, Kevin's already gonna start

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by talking about here's the game plan

13:02

for today." And that's basically what we

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do. So, you know, we start our course

13:06

member live stream, we go live, uh, and

13:08

I break down here's the game plan for

13:09

today. Here's what's going on. Here's

13:11

what you got to watch for. You know,

13:12

here are the traps and here's my

13:14

strategy. So, what I said in the alpha

13:16

report this morning, uh, which you can

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get that at meetke.com. We've got like a

13:20

quiet code that you could use. It's NVDA

13:23

for Nvidia earnings coming up. It's

13:24

going to be a bigger deal next week and

13:26

the week after when we get towards

13:27

Nvidia earnings, which is really the end

13:28

of our catalyst for earnings, by the

13:30

way. They actually had pretty damn good

13:32

earnings. Like, Palanteer earnings were

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good. It's just their valuation is

13:34

kooky. The only way you could keep the

13:36

valuation going is by having loose

13:38

liquidity. So anyway, the strategy we

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had this morning was we need to see if

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the Q's can make it to 6:30, otherwise

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bearish.

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So what happened? We made it to 627

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and then we started bleeding. Volume

13:58

started declining. The cues gave up.

14:01

We're basically at the same places where

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we were at the open. And our strategy

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was I'm not interested in buying the dip

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unless we can prove 6:30 because proving

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6:30 means we have enough liquidity in

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the market. If we lose 630 or we have a

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have a selloff at either the end or

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beginning of the day that that

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exacerbates liquidity stress because now

14:22

people are like crap I got to pay off

14:23

margin I got to pay off debt and they

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don't have money to buy the dip. Then

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you could actually end up getting more

14:28

of a dip over time. So, that's just an

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example of what we talk about uh in the

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alpha report and how we set that up this

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morning. And so far, that seems to be

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exactly what's going on. Now, what does

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this broadly mean? Well, near-term, we

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shouldn't really be having a sell-off on

14:46

fear over jobs. I mean, in fairness, the

14:48

ADP report expectations are all over the

14:51

place for tomorrow. ADP expectations

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literally imply that no one has a clue.

14:56

Like, I literally wrote that here.

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Nobody has a clue. Now, standard

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deviation on this is 27 thou. I'm sorry,

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it's less than that. I think it's I

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can't remember what the st actually

15:05

might be 27,000, but let me check. The

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expectation is that we're going to get a

15:09

40,000 jobs read on ADP, but look at how

15:12

diffuse the economist estimates are for

15:15

ADP. You've got some people sitting at

15:17

60, 64, 68, which would be great, but

15:21

you've got some economists at - 20,000.

15:24

You know, any negative read would be

15:25

terrible. But there's no consistency

15:27

here on what people think. It shows that

15:30

people are even more confused

15:33

with what's going to happen. The

15:35

standard deviation, yeah, it's 26,000 uh

15:38

470. All right. So about 27,000 26,000

15:42

whatever 6 or 7 somewhere in there. Um

15:45

so the estimates are all over the place.

15:47

This data comes out at 5:15 in the

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morning tomorrow. I don't think that

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this is why the market is concerned

15:52

though. Now, if we get a really bad ADP

15:54

report, you know, if we come in under

15:55

zero tomorrow, it's going to be bad. Uh,

15:58

anything over zero is actually positive

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tomorrow because we'll be within break

16:02

evens.

16:04

But if we get something uh that's

16:06

negative, then there's a real sign that

16:08

we've done an oopsy-doopsies with the

16:10

Fed and they are behind. See, I I

16:13

tweeted this yesterday. You can follow

16:14

me there at Realme Kevin if you want,

16:16

but anyway. Wow. first person at the Fed

16:18

who understands this and it's quote Fed

16:21

Daily says if you wait for the job

16:23

market report to show weakness you're

16:25

already behind correct you're already

16:27

behind what are we seeing on state

16:29

unemployment claims data state

16:31

unemployment claims data is showing us

16:33

us that at the end of September and at

16:35

the beginning of October we're starting

16:37

to see pickups in unemployment filings

16:40

in addition to that we had a lot of

16:41

layoffs in October now what happens when

16:46

you have a stable stabilized job

16:47

openings rate and layoffs rise. Well,

16:51

when you have a stable openings rate and

16:54

layoffs rise, the only place this curve

16:57

goes, these purple dots start going to

16:59

the right and then you get what's called

17:01

the normalization of the beverage curve,

17:05

which is bad because when the curve

17:07

starts going out to the right, the

17:08

unemployment rate skyrockets fast, like

17:12

really, really rapidly. you don't

17:13

actually need to see much of a decline

17:15

anymore in the job openings rate. You

17:17

just need to see layoffs and then the

17:18

skyrockets to the right really fast. So,

17:21

broadly uh this this liquidity issue

17:24

that we're facing is all related in my

17:27

opinion to private credit. And because

17:29

of these private credit issues, you're

17:32

seeing less support for Michael Sailor's

17:35

Bitcoin buying strategy. Literally, his

17:39

company is now named Strategy. Uh so if

17:43

you look at what Michael Sailor is

17:45

doing, uh you can see that Michael

17:48

Sailor just as based on this quote tweet

17:51

here acquired 45.6 million worth of

17:54

Bitcoin at 114,000. Okay, fine. So we're

17:57

down 14% on that, but whatever. They're

17:59

they're still up on their average cost,

18:01

right? Their average cost is $75,000.

18:05

And they don't really have bonds due for

18:06

a few years anyway. So, you would really

18:08

have to see a true collapse in the price

18:10

of Bitcoin to see Michael Sailor have

18:12

any problems. Now, I personally think,

18:14

and this is my opinion, this pisses off

18:16

a lot of people in crypto, but I hate to

18:17

say it. I personally think the only way

18:20

you get to the true value of Bitcoin is

18:22

when the treasury companies go bust. I

18:25

hate to say that. I hate to say it. I've

18:27

been saying it for years. And that's not

18:29

to say like I'm bearish or or making a

18:31

directional bet in the short term. It's

18:33

just to say that once that liquidity

18:35

support dries up in crypto, that's when

18:38

you actually get to more of the true

18:40

value of what Bitcoin's true value

18:41

actually is because you lose that order

18:44

book support. You have to think about

18:46

all these treasury companies as really

18:48

like peg legs propping up the value of

18:51

Bitcoin, not actual like demand. Because

18:55

what you're doing is you're you're

18:56

you're breaking the piggy bank, which is

19:00

a piggy bank that doesn't last forever,

19:02

right? You are taking the piggy bank of

19:04

the stock and you are breaking the piggy

19:07

bank of the stock to fund Bitcoin

19:09

purchases, but it doesn't last forever.

19:12

What happens when the piggy bank runs

19:14

out of shares to liquidate? Like in

19:17

other words, the shares go to a very low

19:20

value. Then you can't pay your debts

19:22

back. Then you go bankrupt. then you

19:24

don't support the purchases of Bitcoin.

19:26

Then you might actually have to start

19:27

selling Bitcoin just to pay back your

19:29

debts and then you have problems.

19:32

Obviously, that's like the doomer bear

19:34

scenario. But the point is that if you

19:36

actually look at the numbers at Micro

19:39

Strategy, you could see that

19:41

fundamentally the business cannot pay

19:44

all of these payments based on the money

19:46

they make. First of all, look at this.

19:49

the dividends on just the preferred

19:51

stock alone in the last three months.

19:56

Three months of dividends for their

19:57

preferred strategies and in their other

20:00

funds and you know strike and the other

20:02

you know Strive and all these other like

20:04

feeder funds that they've created their

20:07

gross profits on their software of $90

20:10

million their gross profits do not cover

20:14

their dividends on preferred stock

20:15

alone.

20:17

Now, if you actually look at net income,

20:20

oh, it's even worse. Now, I'm not going

20:22

to use the unrealized loss here on

20:24

digital assets, but if I look at their

20:26

net income, I could take 90.6

20:29

minus 29.9

20:32

for sales and marketing minus 22.6

20:35

minus 38.1.

20:37

It's literally zero. What did I do that

20:40

math wrong or is that literally zero? I

20:42

mean, mental check here. 40 60 30 60

20:47

plus 30 is 90. Yeah, dude. If you

20:49

literally take gross profit and subtract

20:51

just sales and marketing research and

20:52

development GNA, it's literally zero.

20:56

So, they make no money, which we could

20:57

have already known that by going to the

20:59

cash flow statement. You know, the cash

21:00

flow statement makes this obvious. Their

21:02

cash from operations is $45 million.

21:07

Their free cash flow is $72 million in 9

21:10

months. And the only reason they were

21:12

able to buy $19 billion of Bitcoin,

21:15

which they were able to purchase right

21:16

here, is because they got proceeds from

21:19

convertible notes at $2 billion,

21:20

proceeds from selling preferred stock

21:23

under the other entities that they have,

21:24

and proceeds from selling Micro Strategy

21:27

stock. So, in other words, if Micro

21:29

Strategy stock goes down, the peg leg of

21:32

Bitcoin liquidity is gone

21:35

and then it goes down. It's really

21:38

simple. Liquidity is nothing more than

21:40

an order book. You have to understand

21:43

order books to understand liquidity. I

21:45

don't know that I really want to explain

21:47

order books right now, so I probably

21:48

won't. But if you don't understand how

21:51

an order book works, maybe start there.

21:53

Okay, we actually talked about that this

21:55

morning in the course member live

21:56

stream, but that's more educational.

21:58

You're welcome to watch that. Um, it's

22:00

mekevin.com. But I think another and

22:04

this is I don't know if this is another

22:07

symptom of liquidity but I want to

22:08

mention it. So I think another symptom

22:11

of liquidity could be that we're seeing

22:12

a lot of people diversify into house

22:14

hack. Now I'm not trying to make that a

22:15

pitch and just to be clear like this is

22:18

not a solicitation. If you want to

22:19

invest in house hack you go to house

22:21

hack.com or reinvest.co. Read the

22:23

offering circular. Every investment has

22:24

risk. Okay.

22:27

But I believe that what we're seeing

22:31

is this skyrocketing of of investments

22:34

into house hack. Uh partly because

22:37

people look at it and go it's you know

22:40

it's based on the company's valuation is

22:42

based on an August of 2024 valuation. So

22:45

imagine the stock market was frozen in

22:46

August of 2024 when the company had way

22:49

more expenses and way fewer assets and

22:51

no AI strategy.

22:54

And that's what people are investing in

22:56

at now, including myself. Like I'm

22:58

buying shares before the end of the year

22:59

cuz I'm like, "This is great, right?

23:01

It's like this frozen in time

23:02

valuation." And so I think because

23:04

people know that and they know it's

23:05

backed by real estate, they look and go,

23:07

"Okay, well, we're going to diversify

23:09

away from stocks at all-time highs." And

23:11

so when we get these red days, people

23:13

are diversifying away. They're like, "I

23:14

need to diversify." And so on these red

23:17

days, I I feel like it's like a

23:18

liquidity signal. People are like,

23:20

"Okay, it's red. Take some money off the

23:22

table. Let's diversify a bit. And who

23:24

knows, maybe they're using some else to

23:25

pay down cash or or pay down debt or or

23:28

hold cash or whatever. I don't know.

23:30

But, you know, we raised $ 1.5 million

23:32

last month, which is insane. I think

23:34

that was like our our highest month this

23:36

year since we started. I think maybe

23:38

second highest. Uh and then, yeah, I

23:40

think I probably crossed half a million

23:43

today for November cuz we were over

23:45

$400,000 for the first three days.

23:47

That's Saturday, Sunday, Monday. We're

23:49

over 400 grand, which is wild. Which it,

23:52

you know, on one hand, you could argue,

23:54

wait, doesn't that imply more liquidity?

23:56

Maybe. But I actually think it's people

24:00

selling other assets and diversifying

24:02

away from things at all-time highs like

24:04

what we saw with the Palunteer numbers,

24:06

right? We went into Palunteer with a

24:08

euphoric spike and like an eight peg

24:11

and a lot of trader momentum. So, it's

24:14

no surprise that you're moving down on

24:16

Palunteer post even good earnings. But

24:19

this is a sign of liquidity. If people

24:21

had more cash, the stock should be going

24:23

up on those earnings, not down, which is

24:27

convenient for Michael Bur because

24:29

obviously Michael Bur, you know, he's

24:32

now shorting Nvidia and Palunteer, but

24:35

he disclosed his shorts as of I believe

24:37

September 30th, the end of the end of

24:40

Q3, which means he's actually still

24:42

upside down on his shorts if he had

24:44

those shorts as of September 30th,

24:45

assuming he bought them the very last

24:47

day of the quarter, because Nvidia and

24:49

Palanteer are still up from the end of

24:51

that. But some people see that as

24:53

potentially a sign that Michael Bur

24:55

thinks this is the next bubble. I don't

24:57

know what would give that away. Maybe

24:59

this, you know, post about the capital

25:01

cycle ends with a shakeout and a

25:02

consolidation.

25:04

Okay, basically how everything is

25:06

leveraged to the tits. I mean, I showed

25:09

Palunteer's assets yesterday and I don't

25:12

know what people were talking about with

25:13

leverage to the tits. All I saw was

25:16

leaked footage of Palunteer's balance

25:18

sheet. And all I have to say is bam,

25:20

those assets are hot.

25:22

Okay, that's it. That's all I got to say

25:25

about Palanteer. The assets were hot.

25:28

Beautiful balance sheet. I mean, nobody

25:31

knows the balance sheet better than I

25:32

do.

25:33

>> Kevin is much more interested than most

25:35

people, by the way, in the balance

25:37

sheet.

25:39

Michael Burray tells us that growth

25:42

rates for the prior 5 years at companies

25:45

like Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft

25:48

have basically peaked. Microsoft

25:50

actually being the least of the issues

25:53

in terms of declines relative to 23, 4,

25:56

and 5. So he's arguing that people are

25:58

taking on all these billions of dollars

26:00

of debt via bonds or feeder fund bonds

26:04

or whatever to fund this capex cycle

26:06

while their actual cloud segment

26:08

year-over-year growth is collapsing

26:10

relative to the historic average. Now in

26:12

fairness, you know, back in 2018 to 22,

26:15

those were COVID days. So your average

26:18

could be pumped up by COVID numbers,

26:20

right? So maybe it's not that fair to

26:23

compare to those periods of time. But,

26:24

you know, this gives you sort of a

26:25

balanced view on Michael Bur here. Now,

26:28

of course, I can't reply or quote tweet

26:32

any of these damn Bur posts short of

26:35

taking a screenshot because the bastard

26:37

blocked me. The bastard blocked me

26:40

because I showed him an eggplant.

26:44

That's it. I I replied to him with an

26:46

eggplant emoji and I got blocked. So,

26:49

who's the real weenie baby here? Anyway,

26:54

all of it right now

26:57

expects like markets expect that

27:00

liquidity can keep booming. I mean, look

27:02

at this. Anthropic projects 70 billion

27:05

in revenue, 17 billion in cash flow in

27:08

28. Dude, people are pulling numbers out

27:12

of their ass to keep numbers going.

27:17

Now maybe it'll keep going

27:19

but you know to project out three years

27:22

or four years or five years for LLM

27:25

products that could become commoditized

27:27

just like Satya Nadellop warns when the

27:29

CEO of Microsoft is saying all your crap

27:32

might become commoditized but we're

27:34

going to make money off the commodity

27:35

anyway because we're going to be farmers

27:36

like the the farmers farming soybeans.

27:39

It's kind of a warning sign that maybe

27:42

some of those numbers are just

27:44

speculative pie in the sky numbers,

27:47

but people are in pain. How do we know

27:50

people are in pain? Well, because CZ

27:51

tells us that when Bitcoin's down 13.7%

27:54

from all-time highs yesterday, he tells

27:56

us that people are in pain. But then

27:59

again, Donald Trump doesn't know CZ. So

28:01

maybe maybe uh you know even though he

28:03

got pardoned by Donald Trump and even

28:05

though CZ is helping fund and promote

28:08

the World Liberty financial scam I mean

28:11

token uh which is basically bailed out

28:14

by the feeder fund called Alt 5 which is

28:17

also a scam. I mean it's a publicly

28:18

listed stock which happens to have a

28:20

support level at zero because I expect

28:22

it's going to go bankrupt and delist

28:23

because it's a scam. I mean because it's

28:25

it's you know it's just going to come

28:27

upon hard times. uh you know we we

28:30

really end up with a big question of do

28:35

people have I mean this is what it all

28:36

boils down to do people have money to

28:38

buy the dip or not and unfortunately if

28:43

banks tighten tighten lending because of

28:45

this private credit crap we haven't seen

28:47

it yet but we we're starting to see it

28:50

the signs are starting to come then

28:52

unfortunately even short-term

28:55

bullishness could be misplaced now you

28:58

know I'm not like a 10 out of 10 on the

29:00

bare bull scale. I'm pretty mid-range.

29:03

The reason I'm mid-range is because I

29:04

believe in the short term absent, you

29:07

know, some credit crisis. We should

29:09

still be bullish until the government at

29:11

least reopens because we just have a

29:13

lack of data. Uh and there really are

29:16

good earnings. But what's weird is we're

29:19

now coming off really good earnings and

29:23

big credit warning signs. Now, a lot of

29:25

people discounted this October 1st. uh

29:28

31st spike and they said, "Oh, but

29:30

Kevin, that was just because of the end

29:31

of the month." Fine. Then how do you

29:34

explain November 3rd's spike at roughly

29:38

half of that spike. Sure, it's not as

29:40

high, but it's still way higher than

29:42

what we've seen. So, take the end of the

29:44

month out. Yesterday was literally the

29:46

highest spike here, and this spike is

29:49

still growing. You can't really look at

29:50

this one yet. You have to wait until

29:52

tomorrow to see the full funding for

29:54

November 4th, which makes intuitive

29:56

sense. The day ain't over yet. So, how

29:58

do we know how much funding has been

29:59

used yet? So, broadly, there are real

30:03

issues.

30:05

Liquidity is the name of the game. In

30:07

order for stalks to keep going up, you

30:09

need buyers. In order for Bitcoin to

30:12

keep going up, you need buyers. But

30:14

margin is at all-time highs. What if

30:17

everybody's already margined

30:21

max level margin and we just can't do

30:24

any more margin? then there's no more

30:26

money.

30:27

I can't tell you how many of these

30:29

brokerage apps, uh, you know, Robin Hood

30:32

included, send notifications going,

30:35

"Hey, guess what just went down because

30:38

the Fed cut margin rates?

30:42

Want some margin?"

30:45

It's insane. You know, Robin Hood will

30:47

show you your buying power is like 4x

30:50

your cash. And these are like crazy

30:53

numbers. Like I think I my buying power

30:55

on Robin Hood. Just the Robin Hood app.

30:57

It says my buying power is like 30 or

30:59

$40 million or whatever it is. I'm like

31:01

this is Like that's exactly

31:04

how to go bankrupt is is maximizing your

31:06

buying power and then the market hits a

31:08

down cycle. It's insane. That's just

31:10

Robin Hood. You know, I see it on the

31:12

other apps too. I get the notifications

31:14

on the other apps that I use. I'm like,

31:15

this is crazy. So, um, it makes sense.

31:19

Now, here's the strategy that I would

31:21

watch for. Okay, so here's the game

31:23

plan. All right, the game plan is

31:26

simple. To understand the game, got to

31:28

make it to the end of the me videos. Uh,

31:31

but here's my take on the game plan. So,

31:34

first things first,

31:37

show up tomorrow at 5:15 a.m., okay?

31:40

Come to the live stream and then join

31:42

the Alpha Report

31:46

uh at meetke.com. You know, you could

31:48

use that code invid video. All right.

31:50

So, tomorrow we have the 80p stream.

31:55

My opinion is that if we get uh anything

32:00

under 20k is immediately

32:04

uh going to be seen as recessionary,

32:08

very bearish. Okay. Now,

32:13

uh sorry, anything under negative 20K.

32:16

My bad. I didn't mean to put the dollar

32:17

sign there. Anything under negative

32:19

20,000 is immediately going to be seen

32:21

as recessionary. Okay. Anything close to

32:25

zero will be seen as acceptable.

32:29

Okay. And uh anything

32:34

let's go. So this would be more like

32:36

plus or minus. Let's go plus minus. Uh

32:40

and then anything over 20k is bullish

32:44

GDP.

32:46

bullish uh bearer bull scale

32:50

um you know neutral on rates

32:54

but uh you know bullish economic growth

32:58

and soft landing or you know whatever we

33:01

want to call it right so uh the current

33:04

estimate

33:07

is 40k which suggests

33:11

uh we are going in bullish so the uh

33:16

surprise factor uh will be the uh left

33:20

tail, right? So, uh down the the

33:23

surprise factor is leaning to the

33:25

downside tomorrow because estimates are

33:28

already so enthusiastic, right? Uh

33:31

that's

33:33

not great, but who knows? I mean, we'll

33:35

see. We saw that the estimates are very

33:37

very diffuse, but that's the strat. Now,

33:40

the other thing that you need to watch

33:41

for is you need to watch for

33:43

institutional liquidity. Then watch

33:46

institutional liquidity. What's

33:49

institutional liquidity? Institutional

33:51

liquidity is uh market on open and

33:55

market on close trades. So like if you

33:59

see a giant tank at the open or close,

34:03

that's a sign of a lack of institutional

34:05

liquidity, it is a red flag.

34:08

If you see a benign close inflows into

34:12

the close, it means people have money.

34:14

This is why today I said in the Alpha

34:17

Report super clearly to everybody who's

34:19

part of it, thank you for being a part

34:20

of it. Um, by the way, people have been

34:23

asking in email, they're like, "Okay,

34:25

like like is there going to be a better

34:27

price Black Friday?" We guarantee that

34:29

if you buy the Alpha Report now

34:32

there, like you will have the best

34:34

price. So whatever whatever happens

34:36

Black Friday, that's that's worth

34:38

knowing like you you'll be guaranteed in

34:40

at the best price. Um, so anyway,

34:44

the the reason we wanted to watch 630

34:48

was because it's not uncommon to get

34:50

these sort of like faint-hearted buy the

34:53

dips right here. You really need to

34:55

confirm that into the close. So, if we

34:58

can rally into the close, great. Happy

35:01

with liquidity. It's a great positive

35:04

sign. If we can't rally into the close

35:06

and we actually bleed into the close, it

35:08

just amplifies the liquidity issue. The

35:11

same will be true tomorrow except

35:12

tomorrow's will be amplified by

35:15

the ADP report.

35:19

There you go. So, um

35:24

there we go. That gives you a nice

35:26

breakdown of exactly what's going on.

35:29

So, somebody here writes, "My broker is

35:32

prompting me to link my other accounts

35:34

to expand my margin even in Canada."

35:36

Wow, dude.

35:39

So if you link your other brokerages,

35:41

they're basically saying, "Hey, we'll go

35:42

lend against the securities in those

35:44

other brokerages as well, so you can

35:46

maximize your margin over here." Man,

35:49

that just sounds like a disaster because

35:51

what if they have to liquidate cross

35:53

brokerages?

35:55

Oh man. Dude, dude, it's the brokers and

35:59

the FINRA system itself that's margin so

36:01

badly. That doesn't make any sense.

36:04

The brokers and FINRA

36:07

don't take out debt for you. You take

36:10

out debt. That's not a logical argument.

36:13

Just because the system says, "Hey,

36:17

Kevin, come squeeze these titties

36:22

doesn't mean I'm going to do it."

36:24

Because it's going to bad be bad for my

36:28

marriage and my children. I mean, for if

36:31

you take out all that margin, it's bad

36:32

for your brokerage account, right? Like

36:34

just because the opportunity exists

36:36

doesn't mean you squeeze the squos.

36:42

Crazy

36:44

crazy thought, right?

36:47

Uh so

36:50

let's see what else you saying.

36:52

Some of you have Michael Bur comments.

36:54

Definitely liquidity. Cash and cash

36:56

equivalents are running like a dick in

36:58

bonds.

36:59

Ah yeah yeah and and and keep in mind

37:04

that uh it is a little bit of a

37:07

confusing signal that we are seeing so

37:10

many inflows with house hack because

37:11

like if liquidity is drying up you know

37:13

why are house hack inflows so high I I I

37:15

believe it's because like if people say

37:18

hey stocks at alltime highs I'm going to

37:20

sell $500,000 of Nvidia let's say at a

37:23

profit and I'm going to put 100k into

37:24

house I think that's what's happening

37:27

like I the reason I think we see more

37:29

liquidity is because people a want to

37:32

diversify, b they want that that

37:33

valuation from AUG 24 uh and c it's kind

37:37

of just part of like a broader cash

37:39

raise strategy. Like when stocks are

37:41

going straight up, you don't and there's

37:44

so much liquidity, you kind of just like

37:47

keep going with the boom of the ride of

37:49

stocks going to the moon. Uh so so I

37:52

think that it's it's a little bit of a

37:53

complicated like it's not as clear with

37:55

a private equity uh offering.

37:59

Uh, somebody says, "Bro, with a woman,

38:02

as a woman, please enough with the

38:03

tatas." Hey, hey,

38:08

I'm just not going to say anything. Um,

38:11

anyway, so where were we? I think we

38:13

were here.

38:13

>> Welcome. Nice [music] to have you. So,

38:15

you want to talk about love making,

38:16

right?

38:17

>> Why not advertise these things that you

38:18

told us here? I feel like nobody else

38:20

knows about this.

38:21

>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

38:22

see how it goes.

38:23

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

38:24

much. People love you. People look up to

38:26

you. Kevin Praath there, financial

38:28

analyst and YouTuber, Meet Kevin. Always

38:30

great to get your take.

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