Author: Lawrence Chan

Second week of January managed to recover all losses made in the first week for the US stock market. Sentiment survey also posted the fourth week of very bullish sentiment. Can this keep going and force a breakout to the upside this week? Hard to say when the whole stock market has transformed into meme stocks like GME …

It is mesmerizing to watch the Chess Puzzle World Championship. Even if you don’t have time watching the whole thing, skip to the end and watch the final showdown. I am amazed how they can solve these puzzles at such high speed.

One of the hottest topics last week was the Miami alien event. Many videos popped up on YouTube and X. Here is one claiming to have new photos.

This is the winter season and a timely video on how to prevent and treat colds and flu from Dr. Huberman was uploaded a few days ago. You don’t need to watch the whole video if you don’t have the time. He is nice enough to have all the links for each chapter in the description section so you can skip to the parts that interest you.

My schedule was so messed up this week I ended up breaking all my normal routines that now affect my sleep badly. Hopefully this week things will return to normal.

Have a great weekend all!

I could not write my weekly post yesterday thanks to equipment failure here. Luckily I always have spare devices around to take care of such situation. It took some time to figure out which part of the network infrastructure failed and then replacing that with the spare device. And there goes my Saturday plans …

Someone sent me this video about research on aliens. It was recorded back in year 2022. Given the extensive new developments on this front, I think we should all pay attention to this because it looks to me very much like another objective is being pushed to the public by those who really controlling the world behind the scene. Whatever explosive changes unveiled regarding aliens will lead to serious consequences in all areas of our lives.

In the past, I have included links to videos explaining the impacts of various kinds of disasters. Here is a new one that probably no one really thinks about. The reason for getting more people to be aware of this is that we experienced a major outage of internet with one of Canada’s largest internet service providers back in year 2022 and that crippled the nation at every level from retailers can’t process payments to banks not able to process transactions of any kind. Being aware and have the means to deal with such outage is always a good idea.

Along the same line of thoughts, this scientist raised a very interesting question about the exponential increase of methane gas on Earth. It matters because it is not in line with what we have learned from past long term cycles. In fact, this gives me some uneasy feelings after watching this.

Back to catch up on my work. Have a great weekend all!

Last trading week of the year and no new all-time-high for S&P500 as many bulls proclaimed. It can go higher next week but definitely not before 2023 ended. There is a reason for that and it is all part of the hidden order in price discovery. Next year 2024 will be one hell of a year for trading and pretty much everything else – mark my words.

I came across this video clip just a day ago. It is something I will ask every single young adult to watch and reflect on.

I don’t know how this video popped up on my screen in youtube but it is a very interesting video for those who have never thought of improving their health through a simple structured training program. The concept is not new but the awareness of the benefits of taking care of the fascia system is low even among those who regularly exercise.

Here is another video talking about the absurdity of the rise of the stock market lately. As usual, people who have no idea how financial markets really work always making up excuses to explain what they do not understand.

I guess it is not a bad idea to reiterate this for those who still believe the stock markets or whatever financial markets are reflection of the reality – no, financial market by definition is just an American football game and the winning side at the moment is the one that manages to push harder.

Wish you all a Happy New Year!

Another win for the stock market this week while the bears who thought that the sudden flush on Wednesday was the cue to a crash. Put it lightly, they are very disappointed by Friday. However, several big name gurus warned that 2024 can be the year of hard landing and other unpleasant outcomes in the economy. Bulls got their warning and we will know soon enough who is right and who is wrong.

I find this podcast by Jordan Peterson very interesting as it deviates from his usual guests discussing things distance from the technology world. Many of you may find this video meaningful and impactful on their everyday life. Enjoy.

At the end of the year, we often see lots of predictions for the next year on youtube. Here is one that I find useful information and foods for thought without going too much into specific astrology lingos.

If you are into entrepreneur discussions, I have a good one here with Chris Williams talking with George Mack. Lots of topics are covered and good information through and through. Be prepare to spend almost 2 hours to watch it.

I am winding things down this weekend for 2023 while planning ahead what to do this coming 2024.

Merry Christmas!

Option expiration week with S&P500 edged out higher for yet another week. Bears are now questioning themselves and bulls are all gung ho for a rally into the year end. Given the punishment mechanism of the market, my guess is a pullback is due or that world war 3 will start this weekend to ruin the bulls’ party.

Vegan influencers can be, very interesting, at times. Many people are misled into the vegetarian diet without understanding what that entails. After committing into the cult, they then find dumb b.s. to support their decisions just like any other idiocies. Can’t help these people.

For those of you who are concerned about next year, check out this video with Ed Dowd. If you do not plan to kill yourself after watching this, I am sure you will be quite depressed still.

Well, I guess there is no need to be so serious, enjoy this funny video about UK.

Back to work for me.

Have a great weekend all!

Another boring week in the stock market ended with a ramp up on Friday. Bears crying foul wondering why the market is not dropping. One has to wonder why they have no common sense at all? Everyone in the financial industry are enjoying their department parties one after another. For those who know they are getting a decent bonus, quite a number of them are already getting ready for their year end vacations. When no one cares what is happening now, there is no liquidity so up grind is the norm.

An interesting clip of Andrew Huberman on Tom Segura. Lots of good info in this single video. Enjoy!

It is the time of the year that we are getting the famous Saxo Bank’s outrageous predictions. As usual, many of them may not come true but the thoughts of the possibility is a great exercise to prepare for the unexpected outcomes.

Personally, I believe the year 2024 will be a very interesting year because year 2023 is likely to form an “inside year” for S&P500 which can lead to explosive moves in both directions.

If you are not offended by astrology, here is an interesting roadmap of the future based on astrology.

This is rollover weekend for many future contracts. I do not have help this week as everyone wants to take a break. So back to work now and hopefully I can get things done quickly and enjoy a break tomorrow.

Have a great weekend all!

Another week of bull bear fight in the stock market resulting in another successful defense of weekly support. Bears are very frustrated and drawing all kinds of lines projecting from a steep pullback to an outright crash. Bulls are laughing to the bank and poke fun at the bears.

So classic – holiday mode trading always in favor of a bullish up grind.

One funny news in the chess world that’s worth checking out is that Hikaru Nakamura is being accused of cheating by former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik. The whole thing is summarized by this video and the ongoing development of the situation is getting to surreal level. In short, some people just can’t grasp the basics of statistics and refuse to accept the fact that some events that are deemed near impossible to happen are actually common events.

For example, to win some kind of lottery at one out of 14 million chance by a single person is exactly that – near impossible. But we see lotteries are always won somewhere everyday. Would you call those winners cheating? No, of course. When there are so many people buying every single lottery game, it is bounded to happen very often.

Here is an argument against the idea of an imminent stock market crash from none other than Raoul Pal.

While there are tons of videos saying shit will hit the fan like this one.

I have been asked many times what I think will happen to the stock market – I think both sides are right! Hence the future hinges on the next 1-second event does not happen in coming 2 years then you get what Raoul Pal predicted. If any one-second event hits, the system collapse. We have all the necessary conditions in place for a potential “global reset” but that does not imply it will happen quickly.

Another busy weekend for me so better go back to work now.

Have a great weekend all!

Another week of climbing the wall of bad news is good news for the stock market. At this point the wounded bears who refused to accept the fact that the stock market is just a fu#ckery should really wake up to this reality. There is no need to have long term opinions about the market to make money from it. The key to come out ahead is always playing this game with good risk control.

To have a good laugh, here is a video talking to Robert Prechter on his ultra bearish view. Some of you know that I am not a fan of the Elliott Wave stuff because it is quite useless for active players. But then given his guru status, many loves hearing from him, especially those who need the comfort that their bearish view is “right”.

Here is an opposite view on the stock market from a newsletter guru. I find it funny that the background has several miniature Japanese swords with some other Asian themed items.

One thing that I find many people, including those “financial experts”, confused of, the causation relationship of the stock market indices and the general economic environment. The stock market indices are designed with specific rules to construct them from the component stocks. For example, the Nasdaq 100 index is made up of the top 100 stocks traded on Nasdaq, by their capitalization size. It has nothing to do with the economy. These companies can be completely unrelated to the everyday life of 99% of the world population.

So these indices can go up and down for whatever reasons. They are just part of the casino’s offerings to take money away from those dumb enough to play the game without knowing what they are getting into.

This video puts this concept together nicely in the context of geopolitics. Yep, we are f$#ked.

For my US readers, have a great Thanksgiving weekend!

For the rest of my readers, just enjoy this weekend and stay safe!

Third week of more gain for the stock market makes the bears angry. Well, can’t blame them. The 5-stages of grief take time to complete. In the mean time, the bulls are so excited that I see on youtube and X that many of them are bragging non-stop already. What’s the point to brag? In the not too long history of the stock market indices, having a 8-12% correction was the norm every year.

I find this video talking about the future of finance very interesting. The level of b.s. is off the chart. And David Lin was not able to ask any intelligent questions or getting any meaningful answers from the guest. This tells me a lot about this so-called “future” is highly questionable.

On the other hand, this video has a lot more useful information for everyone. Just the story of the guest jumping from being a successful lawyer to a successful entrepreneur is worth the time.

Lately I started to see a lot more pessimistic videos from those feng shui masters talking about a difficult future due to the “9th era” which is the last 20 years of a 180-year cycle. And that will start by early February 2024. I still recall a few years back many of these  so-called masters keep saying this coming “9th era” will be good fortune for owning real estates because this next era is represented by the fire element and in the Chinese astrology system fire element can create / assistance the earth element, blah blah blah … and now they all changed their views.

This is the reason why these esoteric knowledge are rarely useful in real life – it is way better to focus on one self, inward, to see what can be done to improve one’s life.

This speech from Jordan Peterson is way more useful to everyone.

I couldn’t do any writing yesterday due to all day hard labor working on getting our server room ready for doubling the capacity. Yes my team has a big plan for next year and we can doing everything we can to get things done not just on schedule but ahead of it. That’s focus on what can be done today so that one can better the potential outcomes in the future.

Have a great weekend all!

Another week of positive gain for the stock market. Bulls are now having their victory dance while Moody waited until after the stock markets closed to announce its downgrade of USA. Would that do anything to the US stock market by Monday? I have no idea.

Patrick Boyle’s latest video on Peace Dividend is a must watch for the current generations of investors and traders. As long as this new multipolar world order continues, there is no easy way out.

Patrick has another video on Ray Dalio – it is not really a surprise because all famous and “successful” people love to re-write their history in their own narratives. I do not agree everything said in the video, as usual, but it is not because I believe in what Dalio does at his firm makes sense. In fact, I don’t.

For those interested in astrology, I find this astrologer’s videos quite interesting with this particular one applicable to us all now.

I have a lot to take care of this weekend, better get back to work now.

Have a great weekend all!