To The Moon

The stock market often makes big moves based on short-term news. When Jerome Powell mentions that interest rates may continue to rise to combat inflation, the Dow and Nasdaq generally drop -- unless they don't because people expected worse or assume that the news was already priced into the market.It's an inexact science where people make reactionary moves that send markets up or down based on some sort of prevailing wisdom. Basically, people take short-term news and conflate it to have long-term meaning.The media -- of which I have been a member for roughly 30 years -- do not generally help calm the short-term hysteria.People don't get paid to go on cable-news channels to express reasoned long-term opinions. They're supposed to fire off hot takes, which make it seem as if the Fed's rate m

US markets continue to trek higher this week. In fact, after looking at the price movement yesterday, I was of the view that Nasdaq 100 will make another all-time high even before Jerome Powell's speech for Jackson Hole. With points level at 15432, readers who read my articles and posts since the beginning of this year would have noted that my price target of 16,000 is likely to become a reality. Rather than to cover more on what Jerome Powell had spoken yesterday, I would touch on another interesting area, which even I myself was caught by the sudden tide that hit numerous hedge funds that invested in Chinese stocks.Since the Bill Hwang's saga back in March that led to a quick meltdown of Nasdaq 100 futures and several stocks from large to small cap US and Chinese stocks, a number of US b