You know what struck me most about Liberation Day last year when President Donald Trump announced all of the tariffs?
The speed. I’ve been trading since the ’80s, and that crash happened bewilderingly fast. But here’s the thing — the market threw the baby out with the bathwater.
Look, I know a lot of folks believe the market is always right. I’m not one of them. I believe the market’s always wrong and it’s searching for the correct price.
And Liberation Day proved it.
People who couldn’t even spell “tariff” overreacted so viciously that quality companies got dumped alongside everything else. They were selling stocks that didn’t have anything to do with a tariff. Every single stock was going down — everything.
That told me one thing: program selling, not rational evaluation.
The Clean Reset
What that crash did was set the stage for the hellacious rally that followed. It was a beautiful reset — it got the weak holders out and changed hands.
I was sitting there shaking my head, picking and choosing what I wanted to buy on sale. I bought everything from McDonald’s (MCD) to more Broadcom (AVGO) and several other positions.
Here’s what really gets me: This wasn’t even a real crisis. Think about that for a second. If panic like this happens when there’s no actual crisis, imagine the opportunities when something real does come along.
It reminded me of COVID — both events shared that “everything theme” where panic caused wholesale dumping. Back then, everyone said we’re all gonna die, let’s get out before we’re dead.
This time? Tariffs are gonna ruin everything, he’s destroying the economy. Same panic, different excuse.
Why I’m Ready for Round Two
We’re gonna need another pullback like that, hopefully in the first quarter of this year to set up the rest of 2026, but it’s gotta happen. And I’m ready for it.
I’ve got plenty of dry powder and my list of stocks I’m gonna short. I’m really looking forward to the rug pull. There’s a lot of stocks I want to see go on sale.
You want to know how wrong the experts were? Every analyst was spectacularly wrong in 2020 and every economist said tariffs would ruin the economy in 2025.
None of it happened. These analysts don’t know anything and the economists know even less.
That’s why I don’t trade the headlines. I trade the setup that panic leaves behind. Liberation Day gave us indiscriminate selling and that created exceptional buying opportunities.
Next time the market throws a tantrum? I’ll be ready to do it all over again.
Trade well,
Jack Carter
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