tangman

[Year End Thoughts] My 2020 Outlook.

Long
tangman Updated   
AMEX:XLE   SPDR Select Sector Fund - Energy Select Sector
Rather than chasing the US equity bubble up here, I want to gross up when I can (on dips) in Energy, Real Estate, and Gold.

Energy is one of my best idea longs for the beginning of 2020.

- XOM is at 12-year rock bottom prices and will pay you a dividend to wait for the eventual uptick in Oil.
- The Fed is determined to "run inflation hot" even though CPI is already over 2%. We are going to get more inflation.
- Recent presentations by Mike Gordon on Hedgeye: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhc6vyxV...
- and on MacroVoices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qe4px0o...
- and a BofAML note: pbs.twimg.com/m...ELOWZsYWsAA1N-K?format=jpg...

CNQ has already begun severely outperforming the US energy sector. They are a Canadian Oil Sands producer with excellent fundamentals:

Attached to the long Energy thesis is long Russia. Russia is a huge energy producing country and will benefit from increased prices.
Weekly chart of Russia ETF (RSX):

Related, Sberbank:

And Gazprom:

I like real-estate in an inflationary environment. In particular, tech-related Real Estate:

And of course Gold. I expect Gold to continue its bull run soon, within a week or two. However as one of the most manipulated markets, it can be very difficult to trade. I suggest slowly buying physical every time it goes down.

I believe the US stock market would have already collapsed, owing to liquidity problems indicated by the extreme spike in Repo rate to 10%. Had the Fed not begun throwing the kitchen sink at the problem, we would have already seen a deflationary bust. It seems like that money has flown into the S&P and AAPL:


I'm not entirely convinced that this WON'T end in a Venezuelan or Argentina style hyperinflation. So, I think foreign diversification (Russia and Gold) are essential holdings.
Comment:
The XOM link up top is broken for some reason.
Here it is:

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Comment:
Ok It doesn't like me posting links weird.

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Last try? May have to just copy & paste

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