History repeating itself as usual. These folks are just sociopaths and will trade on everything just to make money in the moment. The stock market trades on emotion/sentiment and all they are doing is normalizing the psychotic delusions of an American president that is negotiating with himself and putting out lies to the public regarding most everything.
Right now, Wall Street market makers (aka market manipulators) are promoting hope instead of fear (because they also know the AI bubble is eventually going to start its deflation leading to that fear driven market — thus the need to find reasons to pump the market up and sell high to suckers who buy into this rally).
In pushing the market to even higher levels though, all that does is provide this ongoing permission structure of market manipulation at the expense of actual market visibility (which has been FUBAR with the “liberation day” tariffs since 2025). The ones who get hurt in the end are of course the regular people (retirement accounts, IRA’s, 401k’s, etc) and/or the ones foolish enough to invest in this market by purchasing into the highs while the smart money is dumping their positions in order to lock in actual profits (classic pump and dump).
I’ve remained transparent about my sell orders with AAPL (my largest holdings). The only thing I’m doing is constantly increasing the quantity in those orders (aka decreasing the amounts I am willing to hold) based on ongoing factors/current events. And I’m also hedging into gold since I expect the purchasing power of the USD to be eroded/devalued significantly as the United States becomes isolated by its actions. Again, the disclaimer applies.
I have no crystal ball on this market though and would like to be 100% wrong on this.
