Behold Three Scary AF Charts for Investors

You're receiving this email as part of your subscription to Lou Basenese’s Trend Trader Daily [Unsubscribe](. [Trend Trader Daily] Behold Three Scary AF Charts for Investors Friday, August 5, 2022 When Fridays roll around in the Trend Trader Daily Nation, we roll out the charts. All it takes is a quick glance — and you’ll be up to speed and poised to profit from the market’s most important trends. This week, I’m putting an exclamation point on some of the scariest and arguably stupidest investment decisions in recent times. Consider this a warning to be smarter — or you might end up learning these lessons the hard way, too. > ADVERTISEMENT < The 'inflation-proof' stock no one's talking about Legend who bought Amazon at $48 and Apple at $0.35 is [pounding the table on a $4 inflation-proof play.]( Recession Readiness? Now that we’re unofficially in a recession, which I’ve been [warning]( about for months, it’s instructive to assess the financial health of consumers. Why? Because we’re a consumption-based economy, and the quickest path out of a recession is going to be a rebound in consumer spending. All I have to say is that we’d better pray the labor market keeps booming, because too many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. As you can see, literally millions of people don’t have a penny to absorb the shock of soaring prices and an economic slowdown. (click image to enlarge) I’ve shared before that [stocks love jobs](. But with no savings, this reality promises to be all the more true in the current market. Reckless Speculation While living without savings might be scary, imagine thinking you were investing in a stable, foreign currency only to find out that you’d purchased wildly overvalued shares of a three-year old fintech company. No, this isn’t the lead story for The Onion. This is 100% real speculative stupidity. Investors bid up shares of Hong Kong-based AMTD Digital Inc. 14,000% in less than a month. (click image to enlarge) It’s now trading at an unthinkable valuation that’s four times as much as the $115 billion market cap Goldman Sachs (GS) or about 4000x times earnings. (That’s not a typo.) So what’s going on? Well, it’s two parts mistaken identity… As Bloomberg [reports](, “AMTD Digital has an interesting stock ticker — HKD, better known as the abbreviation for the Hong Kong dollar. Meanwhile, the ticker of AMTD Idea is AMTD — curiously close to AMD, for Advanced Micro Devices Inc., a $158 billion company with a far bigger public float that has rallied 33% since the start of July.” And one big part of meme-stock mania, à la AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (AMC) and GameStop Corp. (GME). Sure enough, AMTD tops the list of the most-mentioned stocks on Stocktwits. Of course, we all know how every meme-stock story ends. AMTD won’t be any different. Countless investors, however, appear destined to learn this lesson the hard way. Speaking of which… The Meta Scam Just like Facebook’s name change to Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) was nothing more than an investor relations scam — remember, the company makes 97% or more of its revenues from ad sales, and zilch from the metaverse — the entire metaverse is turning out to be a scam, too. As you can see, trading volumes and prices for “virtual” land plummeted. (click image to enlarge) Go figure. Paying insanely high prices for something that doesn’t actually exist didn’t work out. Or if you prefer to sugarcoat it, as Eric Klein, founder and CEO of metaverse real estate firm MetaSpace REIT told The Information, “The metaverse had so much hype at the beginning of the year and we’ve kind of lost it.” Kind of?! I guess Klein and his ilk who still believe the metaverse will “come to fruition within the next couple of years” are gluttons for punishment… and more losses. 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