Trump Is remaking markets. Is ‘buy the dip’ dead?
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. History will ultimately decide if President Donald Trump made America great again, but this much is certain: He’s made volatility great again. His muscular policies, coupled with his legions of adoring supporters, are politicizing the financial markets in ways that have rarely, if ever, been experienced in modern America.
The crosscurrents are making stocks and options harder to analyze and trickier to navigate. Many conservative investors who support President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda are calmly watching stocks tumble in response to his use of tariffs against allies and foes alike. They are more than willing to sacrifice investment gains for political victories, according to conversations with investors and advisors.
Anti-Trump investors, by contrast, are upset and selling stocks. They fear Trump is weakening the U.S. and the multinational trade and defense alliances that have stabilized international affairs since the end of World War II.
The synthesis of politics and markets at the individual investor level—rather than at the traditional macro level that some hedge funds use to guide their allocation decisions—could change the trading patterns that have long defined the stock and options markets. Since the internet bubble burst in 2000, and especially after the 2007-09 financial crisis, many investors have developed an evangelical faith in two momentum trading strategies: Buy stocks during big declines and chase hot stocks that are trending higher. But if many investors look at their portfolios are extensions of their political beliefs, those strategies may no longer hold sway.
Read on livemint.com