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Jesse Felder: When bubbles go bust

You still hear the rare oddball holdout say, “I’m waiting for the market to rise for one last high in order to put in a blowoff top,” as if it didn’t already put in the most obvious blowoff top in market history. In fact, the meme stock blowoff clear back in February of 2021 marked the beginning of this bear market for quite a number of stocks. More than two decades ago, the Nasdaq put in a blowoff top, the likes of which many thought they would never see again in their lives; but that was nothing compared to this supernova event…

by Jesse Felder on The Felder Report:

While the decline in the broad stock market over the first half of this year has led many to believe the current bear market is just that old, it may be important to note that many of the most popular stocks in the market peaked and rolled over well before the major indexes did. In fact, it was the meme stock blowoff top back in February of 2021, nearly a year before the peak in the broad market, that marked the beginning of the bear market for many. And this sequence should be familiar to those of us who were involved in markets a couple of decades ago.

Back in early March of 2000, the Nasdaq put in a blow off top of its own, similar to that in seen in the Goldman Sachs Non-Profitable Tech Index in February of 2021 (both indexed to 100 in the chart below). Much like the broader market today, the other major indexes didn’t follow the lead of the Nasdaq until several months later. In fact, the NYSE Composite even went on to make a new high in September of 2000, much like the major indexes did late last year. In both cases, the failure of the most speculative stocks in the market to confirm those later highs served as a clear warning sign for risk appetites in a broader sense.

 

What is perhaps most striking about the comparison in the chart above is the fact that in the 16 months’ runup to its final peak the Goldman Sachs Non-Profitable Tech Index significantly outperformed the Nasdaq 100 Index in the final blowoff stage of its own bubble: a 450% gain in the former versus 300% in the latter. Of course it’s not an apples-to-apples comparison (Goldman’s index doesn’t go back that far) but, after witnessing the first bubble in real time, it’s also not something I thought I would ever see again let alone something I would see surpassed in such dramatic fashion.

It’s also interesting to note the correlation between the two price patterns (at 0.87)  is very high which just goes to show that when bubbles burst, there is a fairly predictable pattern they follow. And if that earlier history of the Nasdaq during the Dotcom Bubble is to remain a valid guide, there is still a great deal of potential downside ahead even after the carnage we have seen in the speculative favorites so far. How do you lose 90%? You lose 50% and then you lose 50% again… and then you lose 50% once more. The current cycle has now seen the first two halvings. The final one could be still ahead.

 

Jesse Felder worked for the largest firm on Wall Street, co-founded a multi-billion-dollar hedge fund and has been active in the markets for over 20 years. He is author of Fire Wall Street: Empower Yourself and Become Your Own Financial Adviser and producer of the podcast Superinvestors and the Art of Worldly Wisdom.

 


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