{"id":62522,"date":"2024-04-22T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=62522"},"modified":"2024-04-22T18:36:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:36:51","slug":"the-electrons-our-our-screen-they-bring-us-pleasure-and-nvidias-massive-10-drop-on-friday-tonight-we-celebrate-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=62522","title":{"rendered":"The electrons on our screen. They bring us pleasure&#8230; and Nvidia&#8217;s massive 10% drop on Friday! Tonight we celebrate Passover (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">They&#8217;re only electrons. Passing blips. They give pleasure.\u00a0 They give hellish angst &#8212; what I suffered over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My biggest love cratered 10% on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NVDIA-One-Month-Again.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An explanation? I eyed the headlines:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ Nvidia is Down 10%. Is This the Beginning of the End?<br \/>\n+ Nvidia drops 10% as investors see risk in Big Tech shares<br \/>\n+ Nvidia, AI Stocks Catch A Cold After Super Micro Computer (SMCI) Sneezes<br \/>\n+ Nvidia stock crash coincides with the release of &#8220;<em>The Tortured Poets<\/em>&#8221; album from Taylor Swift<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In other words, the learned talking heads had no freakin&#8217; clue why NVDA plummeted 10% in one day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My friend (and Cramer) argued that parabolic moves up (like Nvidia has had) always come a-cropping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It wasn&#8217;t going to $1200, like many street analysts predicted. It was going to $500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One mature (i.e. old) fellow argued Nvidia was &#8220;pausing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reality: Maybe a big Nvidia shareholder with a short fuse had opted to sell his gargantuan holdings and the quant funds had latched onto a predictable course south &#8212; until close of business last Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What do I know about Nvidia?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\">+ Everybody and their uncle wants what they make, and more.<br \/>\n+ Nvidia is constrained by what it can pump out their door &#8212; not by the demand for its magnificent chips., which (to use Bezos&#8217;s term) is unconstrained.<br \/>\n+ I&#8217;m guessing all the new chip companies like Google, Amazon, Meta are making bargaining chips, more than real chips. You don&#8217;t get into Nvidia&#8217;s biz overnight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last time I sold on a Nvidia parabola, I was proved famously an idiot and had to buy back my entire position (and more) in following days at higher prices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This time I didn&#8217;t sell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The good news that this morning (Monday), despite all the conniptions and agitas of the last week and weekend, today I&#8217;m still up 68% on my Nvidia. Which, not surprisingly, is better than a slap in the belly with a cold fish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I do have coping mechanisms:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">+ Foremost, this Taylor Swift advice to all her young fans whose doomed romances have given them a heavy doze of Nvidia agita.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Shake It Off\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">+ Then there&#8217;s tennis and afternoon naps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I can&#8217;t not look at the electrons, except when I&#8217;m on the tennis court and striving for my parabolic down-the-line backhand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Tonight Passover (a.k.a Pesach) begins<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s a celebration of the Jews escaping the Egyptians. It&#8217;s best told in these cartoons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/the-neighbors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/both-ways.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Moses-Cloud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pop-tarts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/stop-it-2-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/stop-it-2-jpg.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/stop-it-2-jpg-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/late-breaking-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That&#8217;s it for now. My Tesla short is up 13.3% and my bitcoin\/ethereum holdings are up 36.9%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Go figure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See you tomorrow. &#8212; <em>Harry Newton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re only electrons. Passing blips. They give pleasure.\u00a0 They give hellish angst &#8212; what I suffered over the weekend. My biggest love cratered 10% on Friday. An explanation? I eyed the headlines: + Nvidia is Down 10%. Is This the Beginning of the End? + Nvidia drops 10% as investors see risk in Big Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62522"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62547,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62522\/revisions\/62547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}