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US stock market faces severe correction risk

The guest warned that the S&P 500 is overdue for a significant drawdown, potentially up to 50%, driven by extreme valuations and warning signals from leading indicators like Bitcoin.

The argument

The guest noted that the market's dependency on stocks going higher is at a century-high, while high-velocity surges in commodities relative to low equity volatility mirror patterns seen before the 1967 market downturn. He also argued that the collapse of the Bitcoin-to-gold ratio serves as a leading indicator front-running a broader stock market correction.

The thesis, stress-tested
✓ What validates it
  • S&P 500 breaking below key moving averages
  • Continued decline in the Bitcoin-to-gold ratio
▸ Risks discussed
  • The Federal Reserve intervening to support the market
  • Continued momentum in mega-cap tech or speculative IPOs
Hear it yourself
"It just sometimes you're supposed to be sound when they're yelling. So now where do we go from here? Everybody will tell you the fundamentals. I get it. Okay. Debasement, dollar, and all that stuff. Chinese central banks are buying. All the stuff we pointed out five years ago. The key thing is I was wrong on gold breaking above 2,000 and 2,020, '21, '22, and '23. Four years, I was wrong. So I took the pain, and finally, it broke out. But now it's just one of those things that goes up too much. You have to watch out. You have to be careful. And, certainly, when the masses jump on board, and that's where we are right now."
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