The AI trade is blowing up. The market doesn’t care.

DRAM down 30%, semis in a bear market, the average stock down 1.5%. This is what rotation looks like.

For a year the doomers had one scenario. When the AI trade blows up, the whole market goes with it. It’s blowing up right now. DRAM names, your SK Hynix and SanDisk proxies, are down 30% from all-time highs. SMH is down 13 to 14%. Those are real bear markets in the market’s most crowded trade.

And the average large cap stock, using the equal-weight S&P as the proxy, is down about 1.5%. Mid caps down 2%. The Russell down 3%. A correction is 10%. This isn’t even close.

Here’s the mechanism. Ten stocks make up 37% of the S&P 500, so when Tesla and Google get smoked and the Dow barely moves, an enormous rotation has to be happening underneath. The tell is the destination. Institutions selling their 10x chip winners aren’t buying Campbell’s Soup and bonds, which would mean leaving the field. They’re buying financials, industrials, utilities, real estate. Still in stocks. Still risk-on. Just no longer piled into one sector, because no one pays a fund manager to sit on a lucky 30% position.

If your portfolio got obliterated this week while the indexes shrugged, that’s the diagnosis. Too concentrated in the crowded names. The market is fine. The crowding wasn’t. Our systems trade through regimes like this without me touching anything, and the drawdowns they take doing it are published every week.

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Michael Nauss, CMT, CAIA, CDMS