GameStop and a number of speculative meme stocks have rallied in tremendous fashion this week. At the same time, we've yet to see this activity catch on in the crypto space.
I think as animal spirits reignite in this speculative securities, we'll eventually see a natural rotation that will bid higher a variety of meme coins in the crypto space.
Today's letter is a look at a variety of individual names and how I'm seeing this entire dynamic through the lens of the crypto asset class.
It appears that “Meme Stock Mania” is back. Or we’re at least having an echo moment.
Cool. I’m all for it!
Whatever leads more sheep to slaughter, the better for those people who trade with plans and logic. People like you and me.
If we learned anything from the last go-’round, remember that it’s very hard to control our risks in these mania stocks – especially when we have to deal with trading halts that may or may not resolve in the direction we desire.
Fortunately, options traders have a unique and specific advantage over common stock traders – we can PRECISELY define our risks. Of course, this privilege comes with a cost: high options premiums.
Welcome back to Under the Hood, where we'll cover all the action for the two weeks ended May 10, 2024. This report is published bi-weekly, in rotation with The Minor Leaguers.
What we do here is analyze the most popular stocks during the week and find opportunities to either join in and ride these momentum names higher, or fade the crowd and bet against them.
We use a variety of sources to generate the list of most popular names.
There are so many new data sources available that all we need to do is organize and curate them in a way that shows us exactly what we want: a list of stocks that are seeing an unusual increase in investor interest.
