Market Volatility and Opportunities We See Today
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Why is the market experiencing volatility right now?
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From Fool Global Headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Travis William, joined by Dan Kaplinger and John Quast. I think the topic of the week for investors is volatility. We've had some huge moves. Even yesterday, Thursday, the market started up, ended up down.
What factors contributed to Bitcoin's recent drop?
If you're looking at the NASDAQ, down 2%. I know my portfolio took a huge hit Dan, what should we be taking from a moment like this? Because we're just getting out of earnings season. It seemed like earnings season was pretty good. NVIDIA's earnings were Wednesday after the market closed. Those seem pretty solid. And then suddenly the bottom fell out. But it seems like this is happening every few days. It's either up big or down big. What in the world is going on? Welcome to the tug-of-war phase that every bull market goes through, Travis. I got to tell you, this is normal, folks. It might not seem like it, it might not make sense, but we see this just about every time. Early in the week, everybody was nervous about what Nvidia was going to say.
Were they going to be able to live up to the hype? Were they going to be able to beat expectations? Jensen Wong, no stranger to making high predictions as far as causing expectations to go through the roof. But largely, NVIDIA delivered Wednesday afternoon after the market closed. Everybody, it looked like we were going to get a huge up day. There's going to be a huge relief rally. We did get a relief rally for about 30 minutes on Thursday morning. It didn't last long. And then everything starts going back down, and everybody's sort of like, oh, well, gee, but what if? Well, what if, yeah, sure, NVIDIA is looking great, but what if we don't get those second-order effects dropped down into other providers of AI hardware, chips, software?
What if these companies that are relying on AI to increase productivity aren't able to see returns on their investment? What if some of the weaker hands in the play start to say, well, gee, maybe AI isn't everything that it was cracked up to be. Maybe we need to diversify our strategies. Whenever you have these trends that are based on a single concept, they're very vulnerable to any shaking of confidence in that trend.
Where are the best investment opportunities in the current market?
because we simply don't know quite yet what the there there is. I mean, we went through this with the internet where there was definitely a there there, but it took a long time to figure it out. We're still sort of in that figuring it out phase with AI. Is that sort of the way to think about at least that tech side? It takes years for the tech to show its full potential, but we're trying to trade on a daily, on a weekly, on a monthly basis. That timeframe disconnect is what causes all this volatility, yes. John, what level are you thinking about this as normal, and how does fear and greed play into this?
As Dan points out, we're definitely in normal territory. I will say, though, that we're still in mild volatility territory when we're looking at the historical averages. If you look at the 10-year chart, there's definitely higher clusters of volatility in late 2018, early 2020, and for much of 2022. What's interesting to me is, you talk about fear and greed. We are in extreme fear mode right now. The fear and greed index hit a new low yesterday of six. If you look at the consumer sentiment index, we're hitting 50-year lows. Consumer expectations in November dropped 36% year-over-year. What is so fascinating to me is, if you look at where we are, yes, there is some volatility, Not anything near like what we've seen in the market is within 5% of its all-time high, and people are already panicking.
I think that investors are gaslighting themselves here, thinking that everything is falling apart, when really, when you look at things, it's all quite good still. There's a great Morgan Housel quote about this. Every five to seven years, investors forget that recessions happen every five to seven years.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is the market experiencing volatility right now?
0:05–0:54
2
What factors contributed to Bitcoin's recent drop?
0:54–2:52
3
Where are the best investment opportunities in the current market?
2:52–6:25
4
How does CEO performance impact stock market perceptions?
6:25–7:38
5
What insights can we gain from the fear and greed index?
7:38–8:58
6
How do forced liquidations affect Bitcoin's market value?
8:58–14:38
7
What lessons can investors learn from past market cycles?
14:38–19:58
8
Which CEOs are being considered for the Hall of Fame?
19:58–40:39