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Topley’s Top 10 – July 30, 2020

1. Forget FAAANG….Overstock.Com +750% YTD.

OSTK Bottomed at $2.75…..$62 Last

www.stockcharts.com

2. Kodak Spikes 2200% in 2 Days as 62,000 Robinhood Traders Swarm the Stock.

Business Insider.

More than 63,000 Robinhood traders piled into Kodak shares during its 2,100% rally–Ben Winck

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/kodak-stock-price-rally-leads-robinhood-investors-buy-robintrack-retail-2020-7-1029447131#

3. Number of Robinhood User Positions in S&P 500 Stocks.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-lampone-9277986/

4. Velocity of Returns Great Financial Crisis vs. Corona Rally.

www.dorseywright.com

5. Another Insider Selling/Sentiment Chart.

The Daily Shot-WSJ

https://blogs.wsj.com/dailyshot/2020/07/27/the-daily-shot-factors-behind-the-record-setting-rally-in-gold/

6. 17-23% of Bitcoins Lost Forever???

Just as gold bars are lost at sea or $100 bills can burn, bitcoins can disappear from the Internet forever. When all 21 million bitcoins are mined by the year 2040, the actual amount available to trade or spend will be significantly lower.

According to new research from Chainalysis, a digital forensics firm that studies the bitcoin blockchain, 3.79 million bitcoins are already gone for good based on a high estimate—and 2.78 million based on a low one. Those numbers imply 17% to 23% of existing bitcoins, which are today worth around $8,500 each, are lost.

Exclusive: Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says BY JEFF JOHN ROBERTS AND NICOLAS RAPP

https://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/

7. Another Sentiment Indicator Hits Record Highs

Macro Charts

@MacroCharts

$NDX Daily Sentiment. The 50d reached Top 2.5% most overbought in history (20 years) and the highest since 2011. See the break below its 50d, similar to Feb 2018, May 2019, Jan 2020. The 50d has also turned down. If history repeats, this could be finished, or very close.

8. Millennial Home Ownership Spike.

Odeta Kushi

@odetakushi

Big jump in the homeownership rate today, mostly driven by younger households. We saw a spike in the number of owners, and a decline in the number of renters. This is the highest rate of homeownership since 2008.

9. A Third of Jobs Lost During Pandemic Have Returned.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/16/9-charts-that-show-good-bad-alarming-this-early-economic-recovery/

10. Reading On Paper

I’m staring at a pile of paper on my desk that is my stack of things I found on the Internet that I want to read.

It’s a bit ironic to write this on a blog, but if I come across something on my computer or phone that is longer than a page or two, I print it out and read it on paper.

I have found that when I read on a computer screen or phone, I tend to skim. That’s fine for a short email or a short blog post (as this will be).

But it is not great for an eight page blog post, a white paper on a new crypto project, or a memo from one of my colleagues or portfolio companies.

When I read on paper, I often will use a pen to underline or mark-up the document. I find that leads to better comprehension and retention of the concepts.

I’ve noticed that our children, all of whom are in the mid to late 20s, also read books in paper form and mark them up when reading them. So while reading on paper may be a generational thing, I believe it is also a valuable technique for all ages and all generations.

Found at Abnormal Returns Blog www.abnormalreturns.com

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Topley’s Top 10 – July 28, 2020

Story of the Day…..Art Samberg (Pequot Capital Management), Lee Cooperman (Omega Family Office) and Mario Gabelli (Gabelli Asset Management) car pooled together to Columbia MBA.

Art Samberg Obituary….He (Arthur Samberg) carpooled to classes with Lee Cooperman and Mario Gabelli, who also became prominent investors.

Arthur Samberg Built Hedge-Fund Giant With Tech Savvy–Electrician’s son made huge profits in 1990s but closed firm amid insider-trading probe

https://www.wsj.com/articles/arthur-samberg-built-hedge-fund-giant-with-tech-savvy-11595524007

1. Insider Selling Spiking.

Red Flag?  Insider Sales are ramping.

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Topley’s Top 10 – July 27, 2020

1.Read of the Weekend…The Rescues Ruining Capitalism.

WSJ By Ruchir Sharma

Modern society looks increasingly to government for protection from major crises, whether recessions, public-health disasters or, as today, a painful combination of both. Such rescues have their place, and few would deny that the Covid-19 pandemic called for dramatic intervention. But there is a downside to this reflex to intervene, which has become more automatic over the past four decades. Our growing intolerance for economic risk and loss is undermining the natural resilience of capitalism and now threatens its very survival.

The world economy went into this pandemic vulnerable to another financial crisis precisely because it had already become so fragile, so heavily dependent on constant government help. Governments have offered increasingly easy credit and generous bailouts not only to soften the impact of every crisis since the 1980s but also to try to boost growth during the good times.

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Topley’s Top 10 – July 24, 2020

1. Put/Call Ratio at Extreme Levels.

Seeking Alpha

Put. Call. Ratio. Thanks to @ThinkTankCharts for an update on one of our favorite charts – the equity put-call ratio on the S&P 500. This is a red flag if there ever was one. The indicator is back at its June 8 level – beyond extreme. Traders are holding considerably more calls than puts right now, indicative of a frothy market with little concern for downside protection. Corrective price moves can happen fast, and capitulation may come quicker.

ThinkTankCharts provides nice context here – major market bottoms are noted when the put-call ratio spikes, but you can also see when the ratio bottomed as the SPX peaked earlier this year. The June 8 spike down is also evident. Is it different this time? There does not appear to by any good reason why it should be different now.

Bottom line: The bells and whistles should be going off when investors see this chart. It is a huge short-term risk flag being waved. Sticking with the components/theme of this chart, maybe now is the time to consider picking up a little insurance by way of put options to mitigate the risk.

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