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NASDAQ Investors Enter the “Forest of Make Believe”

July 15, 2020 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

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At MarketWatch, Barbara Kollmeyer, reports on Nordea senior macro strategist Sebastien Galy, who says tech investors have entered the “forest of make believe.” She writes:

Our call of the day, from Nordea’s senior macro strategist Sebastien Galy, says it is time to get more cautious on those highflying growth stocks.

A drop for the Nasdaq COMP, 1.05% on Monday, followed by signs of some recovery in Nasdaq futures on Tuesday, “is a shot across the bow that we have crossed the Rubicon, past the valley of common sense into the river of hope to the forest of make believe. When optimists start to worry, it is time for proper hedging and we upgrade our caution on growth stocks,” Galy says in emailed comments.

His call comes as fund managers surveyed by Bank of America say a bullish position on U.S. tech stocks has become the most “crowded trade.” (See the chart below)

Galy says the market is seeing a limited number of investors trade among themselves, “helped by fast money betting on momentum much as a wave slowly building until it crests and collapses. At first, each correction is seen as a unique opportunity to buy into the dream of say Tesla TSLA, -1.09% and there are indeed Googles GOOGL, 0.48% and Amazons AMZN, -1.13% so that the madness has some rationality to it. One should dare and they do.”

But valuations right now are so “disconnected from reality, that so many growth stocks paint a picture of the future that is impossible as the attrition rate is actually quite high. Euphoria is typical for any such investment and is only a concern when it becomes a sense of panic of missing a dip. Another warning sign is when conservative investors finally move into growth stocks in large size,” says Galy.

And while improving economic data should help sustain a “fairy tale disconnected with reality,” investors should expect waves of mild corrections until a big move lower, possibly by September or October, he warns.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA, CFP® is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. was ranked #10 in CNBC's 2019 Financial Advisor Top 100. Jeremy is also a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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