Own Your Fear

One of the best parts of the stock market is you can invest in what you’re worried about.

Worried about robots taking jobs? Just own the damn robots.

Worried about social media rotting brains? Buy some Meta stock (owners of Instagram and Facebook) and benefit from the attention economy.

The market gives you a chance to take ownership instead of victimhood.

That’s what makes this game beautiful. 

Your fears can become opportunities if you know where to look.

And that’s where technical analysis comes in.

Price shows us where our worries are making money.

Charts reveal which fears are priced in, and which ones are paying out. 

It’s how we can see where our wallets might actually benefit from the very things we’re anxious about.

Let’s take inflation as an example. Most people complain about it. Few position for it.

That’s where the Horizon Kinetics Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL) comes in.

INFL holds companies that benefit from inflation.

Firms tied to hard assets, pricing power, and scarcity.

Financials make up 27%, Energy 26%, and Materials another 23%.

That’s a healthy diversifier compared to the S&P 500, where those same sectors combined make up less than 20% of the index.

It’s not about replacing the S&P,  it’s about complementing it with exposure to areas that respond differently when inflation trends higher.

The setup is really clean, confirming our wallet can benefit from this worry.

We’ve got a clear uptrend, a key polarity zone around $43 that flipped from resistance to support, and price reclaiming its former high AVWAP.

I like adding exposure here, using that $43 area as the line in the sand.

Inflation erodes purchasing power. Investing is how you fight back.

You can sit around worrying about it, or you can position yourself to benefit from it.

Anyway, that’s my two cents.