The sea was angry! [03.26.2026]

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1:09You see, when the markets are going the wrong way, we've always had this line. You will get no help from Wall Street. I watched a parade of people today telling you not to worry and just buy. And I'm buying with both hands today, not understanding bull in bear markets. And you know we don't take on anybody here. We don't name names except for that one woman who keeps falling for 1.5 million in Bitcoin. And quietly, she's lower than number.

2:09But there are certain things that are happening in this market right now that you absolutely positively need to know about. Big time. No about. And I hope you're listening even more carefully today. There is a line on Wall Street and I hope this doesn't offend, but it's true. Pretty ladies. There's a line that says when they come after the pretty ladies look out. And what the pretty ladies are, the strongest stocks in the market, the ones that have been doing well, the ones that have bucked the trend. So first, this is serious talk on everything that affects you, the markets, the economy, your job, your industry, the more locks in DC, war, and all that other crap.

3:10And if you do not get to show, we'll post it at GaryK.com. We'll also post it on our X feed. And if you don't follow us on X, you should just put our name in. If you'd like to email us, just be nice and respectful. We're respectful back unless you like Hamas. And by the way, there's some people out there that do. And we'll also post it on the YouTube channel, BizTV. So let us backtrack. We have specifically told you on this show. We're not telling you to buy sell short a cover. We're telling you what we think. And we're telling you what things look like. And we tell you that we have studied the roadmaps of bull in bear markets that they follow specific roadmaps.

4:13We show them every night in our webcast for our peeps. And it keeps us out of big trouble. And those that will follow us for years know we've stayed out of all bear markets. All of them. And may I state for the record this been some big ones. There's been some small ones. There's been some devastating ones. One that's been going on recently is the software stocks. We called the top November 4th. And we specifically said to you, we don't know what this is going to lead to. But we'll follow the bouncing ball. And it's turned into pretty much nightmarish. We have told you to avoid payroll stocks. The job market. Managed care stocks united health in the rest. Autos and auto dealers. Most retail housing and housing related.

5:20You know, the home depot lows restoration hardware and the likes. As of recent because of oil prices going up, anything travel. We told you we're topping airlines, cruise lines, booking holdings, expedia, little lesser extend hotels. We've been all over the financials. Specifically the ones that really topped out first were the private equity slash credit stocks. And we've said to you, boy, we're stunned. We're absolutely stunned. What blackstone is done. We warned you about insurance stocks, tops in a bunch of the staples, restaurants. And notice we're naming a lot of areas. We have told you about something called our left screen. Our left screen is made up of lesser tech names that topped out a while ago.

6:29We've been getting bruised consistently and constantly. We've warned you about China and the China stocks. Medicals. What the hell is going on with medical research and medical products. Recently we warned you that the pharmaceuticals had topped. Whoa, Gary, that's a lot of areas. No kidding. Economically sensitive names. Non AI. And we said to you things like carrier air conditioning, Otis elevator and the like. And then we talked about the indices in the markets. How the S&P, the Dow, the NASDAQ and the NASDAQ 100, which is range bound for four and a half to five months.

7:41But then recently broke below the 200 day moving average for us. A long term moving average that if they can get back above quickly. Okay, if not, could lead to more trouble. And how do we know potentially more trouble is going to come by looking at support areas? You know a price drops to a certain level and it rallies up and it drops to a certain level. Same level and drops at rallies and drops to that certain level. And over a four week eight week period, that certain level on the drop keeps holding. And we say to you, well, if that breaks to the downside, it's going to invite more selling. That's what we've been telling you about Bitcoin and the other crypto crap. And guess what's happened to the crypto and the Bitcoin and all that breaking constantly breaking down of levels, bearish markets.

8:51We warned you up front about the froth. We would come on the show for a few weeks and say just let you know there's a bunch of froth going vertical. They're being touted like crazy as growth stocks and they have no sales. And they're in areas that are drones and nuclear and quantum and rare earths and this that and the other thing. But we've also said, hey, you know, some of these are probably going to be big one day. But in the meantime, if nothing changes, they're all going to go back to where they came from. They all have gone back to where they came from. The froth came off. They've been blasted. And by the way, some of them still have ridiculous valuations, even after they drop 50, 60%. But what else? Well, you know, oils have had a good time of it as a recent. That should be obvious. Oil prices have been going up and some other things like fertilizers and things that are in short supply now because of what's going on in the Middle East.

9:59That has occurred. But there's been something else that has been going on. Ports in the storm for lack of a better way to explain them. Stocks that have been strong. They popped out. Starting the first of this year, gaped up three days in a row. You know what they are. The semi conductors, the artificial intelligence, a storage memory, data, data centers, energy, construction of the data centers. And we've been hopping on them every day. They call them the pretty ladies on Wall Street. They're getting them now. And that's worrisome. We'll explain a little bit more up next on investor's edge.

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14:25The last bastion of quality programming. With Gary called Bob. He doesn't get better than this. So, welcome once again to Investors Edge. First, as I say, I have no clue what happens tomorrow. You got that? I don't know what happens tomorrow. I do know how the market looks. And let me give out the final numbers and we'll give you an idea of how it looks. A Dow is down 469 today. And by the way, the Dow early was a little port in the storm early, but they finally got that. The S&P down 114 NASDAQ 521, NASDAQ 1575, the all-important semiconductor index down 381. That would be a juicy 4.79% as my rusty abacus says.

15:42The semi-conductors have been a port in the storm. How do I take a big look at them? Well, I know it's been strong. I know it is strong. And I know if they start breaking the pretty ladies. And we're just letting you know that the semis have for now three weeks are living below the 50 day moving average, which is not good. And today, ASMR. This is one of the big semi-conductor equipment companies down 64 bucks today to 1329 below the 50 day. The stronger name in the group is applied materials down 31 bucks today 8% that just breaks the 50 day. KLC down 6% today breaks the 50 day and lamb research much weaker than the rest down 9% today.

16:50So, is it time they're getting the semi-conductors? Well, let me just say they worsened big time today. Is there any cause and effect? Is did something happen in the Middle East? Did something I didn't see anything? Except, what did we tell you yesterday? Micron. That was the strongest name and it broke support. And we also told you about DRAM prices that look like they may be topping. That defines demand. If demand comes off, could be trouble. Maybe that's a clue. A Taiwan semi now living below the 50 day micron is I just named the equipment makers and just it was a miserable day.

17:52But not just the semi-conductors. You know how we've been saying every day? Oh, C-I-C-N, a coherent, corning, G even over the L-I-T, which is lumentum, C-gate, Western Digital, Sand Disk. They clipped them all good today. I can tell you C-gate broke the 50 by just a little bit though. I don't have any others that broke the 50 day today. What I can tell you is you got a lot of 7 to 10% drops today. And we'll see what happens tomorrow. It's just bad news that the areas that were holding up very well came in today pretty darn good. Again, tomorrow's another day.

18:55I have no redeeming qualities of anywhere else. There was some bounces today. I can tell you software kind of outperformed today. And they've been weak, but if you're in a big downtrend than you outperformed for a day, what do you do? You're bouncing. Terrific. We'll throw a party. They got the construction names today. What these companies are. They've always been in what is known as the building construction thingamabab. That supposedly they're going to have a lot of commercial industrial government work for the data centers and stuff. They got clipped today. A few of them have been breaking down recently. The strongest ones came in today. The same goes for the energy. Remember, there's this whole little grouping for artificial intelligence that have been strong. Less strong today.

19:56So I really don't have anything redeeming to tell you, yes, there's a lot more bearishness out there now. Hell yeah. The bears have picked up. You know, we have these little indicators. So that's okay. We'll take that. More people are bearish. Maybe you get closer to a worst case scenario. But technically, the overall as George Costanza has said, the sea was angry that day my friends like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. One of the great lines out of Seinfeld. And as you know, my life lives around Seinfeld. I keep using all their lines all the time. And I'm using a little bit of the office also anyway.

20:57It was just a rough day. It was just a rough day. And we'll walk into tomorrow and we'll see what happens on a Friday. There was no news today on the Middle East, but there was a cabinet meeting that was televised today. It instilled no confidence, unfortunately. All it did was show egomaniacs acting like they're in control. We're in control. While your ass is a paying a dollar more for gas. While you're sitting online at airports for four hours. While a bunch of TSA people said, screw you. I'm retiring and quitting.

21:59Or I got to go do Uber driving right now because you haven't paid me for a month. And the cabinet meeting they acted like everything's just frickin fine. Go watch some snippets of it. I want them to throw up. Oh, by the way, 14 soldiers dead, 140 injured, a bunch of them lost arms and legs. Everything's terrific. We're in control because we destroyed a lot of their military. I got news for you. Every single one of you. Every single one of you could be president and do what are and just talk to our military. Take that out, that out, that out. No problem. Up next. A little bit more on that and right back in the markets. Oh, and some tidbits. This is the one only investors edge.

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25:25While you're paying a dollar more for gas. While the job market's been sinking. While you're missing your flights at the airport. And you're waiting in line for four freaking hours. And everything's just terrific. If I had the President's ear. I'd sit him down and say President Trump. You have got to have some empathy for what's happening out there. You look too happy today. You acted too happy. You acted like you just won the lottery. And you had all the people in that room in the cabinet.

26:28Everything's just freaking terrific. And it ain't. And stop telling us you've won. And it's not a war, but it is a war. Or it isn't a war. Or what the hell is it? And if you don't think the market is also about confidence. I got some Everglades for you. Yesterday, within one hour, all from Trump wants a ceasefire with the Iran. Declare's victory is sending Marines into Iran. Is not putting boots on the ground. Change his mind in one minute. Does not want ceasefire. Says Iran is no people left. Declare's victory. Ask for ceasefire with Iran. Ask for help with Iran. Says NATO are poo faces. Says Iran begging for ceasefire.

27:29Says everything is perfect. Says $500 oil is a good thing. Demands Iran open her moves. Says her moves was never closed. Says US not at war with Iran. Declare's victory in Iran. Says war with Iran for nukes. Says Iran never had nukes. Says objectives very clear. Says world owes him thank you. Says world are poo faces. Gives Trump peace prize. Declare's victory in Iran. Bombsy. Defeal my frustration. The market kept dropping through his cabinet meeting. Confidence. Intangibles. Uncertainty. It's a big part of life. Need you to know that. And I am rooting for him.

28:30I have to. I stand with him. Tidbits. I just want to let you know, as I have always told you, get a 15 year loan, not a 30 on a mortgage. Get a 15, not a 30. You're going to pay a little more in your monthly payments, but you're paid off in 15 years, and you start paying it off from the first payment. Let me read something to you. On a $400,000 loan. With an interest rate of $6.5 over 30 years, you will pay a total of $510,000. An interest. You'll pay more in interest over 30 years than the purchase price of the home.

29:30Whenever you're buying a house, go get an amortization table of a 15 to 30, and you'll thank me. That's a tidbit. I found that. Software. As you know, very rough shape. It was actually better relative strength today. I got a little tidbit yesterday. Software is getting smoked again today after anthropic ship their new update that lets your AI control your computer for you. Okay. And then I want to bring up a symbol, VCX. It came out trading yesterday. It's some sort of IPO that is kind of like a fund with a net asset value

30:31that owns private companies in AI and all that crap. It was trading at 565 yesterday. It closed at 262 today, down over 50%. Yeah, right. Remember what we told you about this crap that's coming out at ridiculous valuations? It is imperative. It is absolutely imperative. You realize you got to take what Wall Street show in you and tell in you. And all I know is. All I know. There's another one. VCX is the symbol. It's a portfolio of private companies and they just ridiculously valued it, whatever, whatever, whatever. And there's actually a net asset value there and it was freaking insane. Tidbits. I got emails from a bunch of you on what I asked about the annuities yesterday.

31:33You all agreed. That on an annuity, the distribution, you don't pay taxes on the distribution, but the gains in the annuity. But you know what the problem is for my friend. The annuity company was bought out three times and cannot figure out the cost basis. It's going to be a guessing game on cost basis. And they're going to try and do like a halfway type of thing. And if they get ordered it, they're going to write a note saying we did best efforts. But three buyouts and we can't figure this out. And by the way, the annuity company was called they could not help. Yay. So that's a little tidbit for you today. Also on this George Costanza day. It was a little bit of a rough day today, ladies and gentlemen.

32:36Sandis down 74. Light the strongest name down 81. Seagate 34. FN down 62. CNN down 50. That's been strong. And by the way, we've seen days up that much. So they're really trading sharply both up and down right now. Yikes. Just a tough day. Big indices are trading below the 200 day moving average. These small and mid caps had a rough day. Of course, they're still trading above. But I really do not have much in the way of redeeming qualities. Except sentiment is decidedly on the bearer side now. We told you yesterday that meta and Google were breaking very important support levels.

33:42Google, we didn't say meta yet. Meta down 47 bucks today. They lost some lawsuit or whatever. Completely breaking long term everything. And Google was down 10 bucks today. That broke the top support. And what we mean by that, it was already toast. Give it double toast now. Those are two mega cap names, ladies and gentlemen. Tesla below the 200 day worsens. It's not a great environment. That's all I can tell you. They got the pretty ladies today. Foreign markets, the strongest one, South Korea took out the 50 day today. I believe Taiwan was on the strong side too. Took out the 50 day today.

34:44So yields 10 year, up 0.88 to 4.416. Yields will go up with oil prices. The USO today, up $3.87 today. To 1.17.26, the good news is in the aftermarket it's down a buck. Yippee. Up next, have I thrilled you yet? I'm Gary, this is the one only investors edge. Spring times the perfect time to turn the page and refresh your home style.

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37:56The Metc are 1 and 0. They beat the pirates today, 11 and 7. NCAA. Basketball. As we told you, we're going to give you out some picks. You're in the final 16. You got four games tonight. Four games tomorrow night. We'll go into the final 8. Get to the final 4 in the final. I really don't have any picks tonight. I looked at all four games and I think they're very tough games. Illinois used in a 2 versus 3 seed. Very tough. A 1 versus 4 Arizona Arkansas. I like Arizona, but Arkansas coach. Nebraska Iowa. Well, Iowa. Didn't they luck out against Florida?

38:56One would go towards Nebraska, but I'm just not sure. And when you're not sure, you don't do much. And Purdue, Texas. Purdue is the chalk in that game. If anything, I do the money line, but I don't like doing the money lines. Do you know why? Because you're paying 2 to 1 and 3 to 1. So we're going to beg off today and maybe tomorrow. We'll do some games in the back half of the final, what they call the sweet 16. But I will tell you a much better in the final 4 and in the final game. Much better. Anyway, that's the story. That's your sports for today. Yay, the Mets are 1 and 0. We'll throw a party for them. I have yet to look at the box score and see who did what. I gather the pitching wasn't so great. Oh, darn. What is that noise? That was ESPN noise.

39:57OK, anyway. The good news, you know, as I told you, my wife lost the little tip of her pinky in a car door. It did not affect the bone and will not need surgery. So that is very good news. She has very good doctors. I got to tell you when it rains at tours, sometimes ladies and gentlemen, she's doing quite good. Tidbits. Home sellers. I started to mention yesterday, but now I got the number. Now what? Outnumber buyers by 630,000 in the United States. The largest gap ever recorded. Typically, that's going to mean prices are going to come down. Just letting you know buyers market.

40:57A beer. Not bare markets, but beer. US beer shipments. Expected to reach a 37 year low now. As we have been telling you for a while, avoid alcohol stocks. One of the best things I have seen is our youngins. We're blowing off alcohol, hopefully not for the weed. As I have told you for years, we believe alcohol is about as overrated as can be. We're always amazed at how much consumption there is of alcohol. Why? What's so good about it? Let's see, what are we, and the March? I've had one drink this year. I think I had five maybe in the year before five. Really, the only drinks I have when I go to Nobu when I'm in New York, love Nobu.

41:57They have this spicy margarita drink, and that's it. It's overrated, and it's bad for you. Just letting you know. I gather the people that Budweiser aren't going to be happy with me, but such is life. What can I tell you? All right, so back on point, I have no clue about tomorrow, but let me tell you another thought. You listening? Politics and war, and the economy and the markets. I'm just wondering sooner, if sooner rather than later, the president says, screw this. And what takes the win. You know, he keeps saying every day, we won. But now we're putting boots on. Who the hell knows what's next? I'm wondering if they finally say, screw it.

43:02We won. We destroyed them. We're getting out of there. We'll see. The problem that's straight of hormones. If they say weakness, they're going to give the straight of hormones middle finger back. It's getting interesting now. The miscalculations are straight into the fore. And politics enters the fray. If you've seen the poll numbers for the Republicans, they're slightly lower than jockets and root canal. And by the way, that's not sarcasm. Amazingly, he's way underwater on immigration, even though he closed the border.

44:02Which is to me in the last 20, 30 years, the greatest thing a president could have done. Nothing but applause for doing that. But then they went too far on the deportations and they lost the conversation. Tomorrow, I have absolutely no clue what happens on the market. Which I did. Bounce it maybe. Who knows. There's no earnings reports to change the playing field. Not much. But maybe some news will drive into Friday. And by the way, on weekdays, on week weeks, Fridays will matter. So put that in your file manager about maybe just maybe they take the win.

45:08Because I got news for you. The economy is not in good shape. The job market is worse. The inflation is picked up. And of course, everything in the Middle East. Which I had better news, maybe tomorrow. You all have a great evening drive carefully. When you get home, do like we do. It's simple. Make sure you hug your family and children. They will feel better. You will feel better. I promise they will be well. Peace out all. Good night.

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