Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Why the "Santa Claus Rally" Happens & How To Build a Career in Finance with Peter's Intern!
Wed, 11 Dec 2024
This week Money Rehab is being guest-hosted by Peter Tuchman, trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and host of the MNN podcast Trade Like Einstein. Today, he breaks down the latest news from the markets: why "Santa Claus Rallies" happen, what The Fed is getting right and more. Plus, in the second part of the episode, you'll hear Peter's interview with Alishah Ishfaq, a TradeMas' intern, about how young people can take the road to success right to Wall Street. Subscribe to Peter's podcast Trade Like Einstein wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Follow Peter here. Recorded Tuesday, 12.10.24. All investment strategies involve risk of loss. The content you hear on this podcast is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice by our hosts or by Money News Network.
Chapter 1: What is a Santa Claus Rally?
Look, either it's going to be a major sell-off by the end of the year because people are going to start taking profits from a great year.
Why would I want to sit around and wait for that when I've got to go back and I've got to sit in front of my customers at the end of the year and I've got to explain to them why I had such a good year and why I'm going to stay around for that last month to give back any of the gains that I've had, right? No reason for that.
So that's why you do see some of the major players in the game shut their books down end of October, end of November. And so who does that leave? You've got people also positioning themselves for 2025. Obviously, there's going to be a lot going on coming into the inauguration, coming into the beginning of the new administration, whatever Mr. Trump plans on doing.
My gut is we're seeing that Jay Powell, there's not going to be an interruption in the Jay Powell story, which I think is good, because look, whatever you may think of him, politically or not, he's done, I think, a great job. If it wasn't for him, I think, and what he did and the way he planned this thing, let's think about that for a minute.
This man, after COVID and after the crazy inflation story, and nobody should blame him for it at all. It was all, again, don't even blame Joe Byron for it. It had nothing to do with that. The bottom line was you had the perfect storm happen between COVID, everybody not wanting to go back to work, a complete interruption in everything in the world, right? The world shut down. It closed down.
There was blood in the streets, people dying everywhere. and then you have to turn the switch back on, and there's still people who still haven't gone back to work. I mean, how crazy is that? Look, I knew, for me at least, given the opportunity to go back to work, I definitely took that chance. But anyway, somebody took us from,
from COVID, got us through COVID, printed a bunch of money, learned our lessons from 2007 and eight. It took nine years to get back to even after $800 billion was input into the market as that stimulus to get us out of the financial crisis. Nine years to get back to even because they put 800 billion into the market over 18 months.
This time confronted with a major, major geo-global economic disaster that COVID was. We put $3 trillion into the market over three months. That's like a massive triage as opposed to kind of trickling in the help that we needed. It's like a big Band-Aid as opposed to small little Band-Aids. And at the end of the day, we were back to even by August.
12th or 19th of the same year, up 20% in 2020, 28% in 2021. That's what his policies have done, and that's unbelievable. And look, then we got ourselves up to 8.5% in inflation, and we've gotten ourselves back to 2%. We've gotten unemployment back to where it needs to be. We've gotten everything gas back to where it needs to be. So net-net at the end of the day has done a great job.
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Chapter 2: Why is the market pulling back?
The first door they go to is not opened automatically, and they kind of give up. And they may have actually lost an opportunity along the way. So where did that confidence come from? Tell me.
I think it's something that I developed over time, certainly. In high school, I remember I would just pick up a lot of self-help books, such as Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the classic, Thinking Grow Rich, a lot of psychology books.
of this kind, and just like watching a lot of YouTube videos on, you know, like what it takes, you know, the mindset that you should have, like Jocko Willink is a great author, I kind of follow him as well. So yeah, just like having that mindset to put your emotions aside, get up and do what you have to do, just get after it. It was my motto. And reaching out, too, in terms of being persistent.
I know a lot of students tend to get discouraged after they don't hear back. Like I mentioned, you replied back to me after two months. And that was just me being consistently reaching out on LinkedIn. I certainly did have that thought that he's probably bombarded with so many messages from other students like me. I didn't really expect him to get back, but there's always a chance.
I don't give up. I think with everything else, I've always been persistent regardless of what the circumstances are, how I feel. I put all that aside. I know what the goal is. I just go after it. I think to have this mindset, you definitely have to have a lot of self-discipline.
like I mentioned, I think in high school, reading a lot of these self-help books really helped me like build and grow that mindset over time.
So, you know, it's interesting because study habits are super. So there are a lot of things that are important because along the way I did so many. If you ever hear me tell my story about studying, getting a degree in agriculture, international business, owning a record store, trading commodities, moving to Africa for two years, coming back here, finding my job on the stock exchange.
My journey into finance was not a direct one. And so it's a matter of what are the qualities that make us able to find our goals and achieve our goals, find success, find fulfillment and whatnot. We may not always have a direct line to what we end up doing. And mine was not, but persistence, discipline, consistency, honesty, um, are super important things.
And also the things, as you said, trying to do everything in your power to build confidence. Also not feel that you can't knock on every door. It's not a matter of how many times you get knocked down. It's how many times you get back up and not miss that next opportunity. And also along the way to learn the study habits too, so that when you find something you love to do, right?
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Chapter 3: What are the latest economic indicators?
I've met so many people in my life. I've had doors closed on me. I've opened other doors for other people. That feeling is exceptional. So I think we're going to wrap this up. I think we're going to do more of these. But at the end of the day, we must acknowledge this isn't an easy road. It doesn't happen by accident. This young lady has done an incredible job.
And we're going to sort of even break it down more for you because I know. I get the question asked more times than you can imagine. How do I go about this? What do I do if I'm in high school and I don't know what I want to do? Is that a bad thing? If I didn't get into my favorite college, am I going to be a loser? If I'm in college and I'm not sure of my direction, what do I do?
Am I afraid to knock on that door? That guy's not going to answer me. Who am I? And all that kind of stuff along the way. What are the study tools I need to learn? How do I actually do this? The step-by-step, walk-the-walk, talk-the-talk breakdown. So, Alicia, thank you so much for what we've done so far. I think we have a lot more to talk about to break it down.
But it's clear, this is an amazing opportunity to share what I know, connect you with Alicia, who obviously has done it. She's hitting on every piston. She's checked off all the boxes along the way. And we're hoping, if I have anything to do with it, I will support her and raise her up. to become her best self and be an amazing person that she is.
So we're really happy she's here with us on Money News Network. We're thrilled to be here with Einstein. Trade like Einstein and thank you for the day. Boom! That's all I got to say about that.
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