$BABA-W (09988.HK)$ should close green today, then it’s back to 200 as expected with more good news coming in 2022.

The hottest investment theme today is not cryptocurrency trading, but the "Metaverse".
I am not a big fan of buying crypto as an investment but I said the investment opportunities will emerge from the ecosystem surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. And I believe Metaverse is one of them.
I think Metaverse is moving our digital life to a new level by integrating many latest technologies. The metaverse will be right at the new frontier of human digital evolution, because it puts together all the latest innovations such as blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), etc.
What is the Metaverse?
The metaverse is a combination of two words: “meta” and “verse”. Meta means “beyond”, Verse means universe.
The word “Metaverse” was first coined by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash". In the book, the Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.
If it is hard to imagine, take a look at the trailer of the 2018 movie“Ready Player One”, then you will have some ideas.
In today's context, the Metaverse is a digital reality that combines aspects of social media, online gaming, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and cryptocurrencies to allow users to interact virtually. It is a “universe” where people interact with each other not in real person, but virtually.
Today, I think to many people, the metaverse may still sound like science fiction, but human advancement always starts with dreams. The 1980s “Back to the Future" series was one of my favourite movies, and most of the things that appeared in the movie have become reality today.
Why the Metaverse will be a secular trend
Recently, I published this article to discuss this topic:
* What is the metaverse?
* Why the Metaverse will be a secular trend
* Why you don't want to miss it?
* What are the investment opportunities surrounding this theme?
Click this link to read the entire article.
The stocks below are mentioned in the article.
$Meta Platforms (FB.US)$ $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ $Zoom Communications (ZM.US)$ $Disney (DIS.US)$ $Amazon (AMZN.US)$ $Netflix (NFLX.US)$ $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ $Roblox (RBLX.US)$ $TENCENT (00700.HK)$ $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ $Autodesk (ADSK.US)$ $Unity Software (U.US)$ $Tesla (TSLA.US)$

$AMC Entertainment (AMC.US)$ This will help AMC on Q4 and provably even give them a higher line of credit for future expenditure
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/spiderman-no-way-home-box-office-opening-weekend-pandemic-record-1235137725/

My youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAPWOEQKCpCWmzKkdo7v-iw
Xiaomi is showing resilience today finally after breaking 20 then 19 then 18 HKD before making a small gain today from 18.12 to 18.22 HKD. This is considered a blessing since Hang Seng Tech tanked close to 2.5%. Companies like Kuaishou Tech, Alibaba, Bilibili, Netease, Meituan, etc all came down by close to 3%... Well is it that Xiaomi has already fallen to the value territory and the point that it doesnt make sense for it to go further?
I cant say that for sure but the chip shortage, poor IR handling skills, handset competition in China and other markets plus the capital worries for the EV unit may weigh on Xiaomi... But so what? There was even the concern that Lei Jun had to step down from key business units may signal some problems.
Then again when Lei Jun emerged as the controlling individual of the Venture Cap or rather PE arm of Xiaomi, such panic over Lei Jun abated which may explain for today's resilience. Of course another part could be Xiaomi own share buyback. Even with the share buyback all the way from 27 HKD down to 18 HKD, such share buyback pales and cant work when the narrative and downside pressure over whatever can be said weigh on Xiaomi..
But VALUE WILL EVENTUALLY EMERGE.. will the IPO Price of 17 HKD provide a strong support? Only time will tell but I am a truly long-term investor of Xiaomi...
See this youtube video by me on Xiaomi if you want to know why I believe in Xiaomi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glRHKF1fQkU
As always, this should not be construed as any investment or trading advice.
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Hello everyone, I'm Lao Li
There is no market that only rises and does not fall, and there is no market that only falls but does not rise. The higher you jump, the more pain you will fall, and the deeper you squat, the higher and farther you will jump in the future.
Although today the market has set new lows again, this new low can be used as a starting point for the mid-term market. Because the pessimism is released more thoroughly, from the perspective of transaction volume, the market looks like funds will enter the market after the index is at a new low. If the market goes out of a big positive tomorrow, this will further stimulate the accelerated entry of incremental funds. .
It has a mitigating effect on the short-term liquidity of the market.
$Hang Seng Index (800000.HK)$ The Hang Seng Index rebounded again after a new low, and the short-term market wind has not changed. However, after the continuous decline in the market and the recovery of the external market, there is not much room for the index to fall, but the probability of a substantial rebound in the short-term is also not large. Yes, wait for the low position to converge and choose the main direction. At the technical level, the Hang Seng Index continues to remain in the downward channel, supporting 23,000 within the day, and 24,300 above pressure waiting for the direction to be selected.
$BYD COMPANY (01211.HK)$ BYD has completely reproduced Tesla’s trend of low and high. It should be noted that the valuation is too high in the short term. Secondly, although the industry’s prosperity does not change, the growth rate of performance affects the adjustment of valuation, and with the upstream The rise in prices squeezes downstream profits, and near the end of the year, there is indeed the possibility of high-low switching. The current price is high, waiting for the adjustment to end. If the intraday support 240 breaks to open up the downward space, the upward rebound pressure 280 is an upward trend line pressure. , Wait for the adjustment to be over.
$SMIC (00981.HK)$ SMIC continues to fall today, and still maintains yesterday's view. This decline was not caused by bad news, and the sentiment fell. Kdj diverged directly upwards, which is expected to form a golden fork to drive the stock price to usher in an anti-truck. The more and more carefully this location becomes a golden pit.
$PING AN (02318.HK)$  China Ping An continues to consolidate. It can be seen that China Ping An has obvious signs of strengthening recently, and does not follow the index fluctuations. After the negatives are exhausted, it is expected to correct the decline during the year. The daily support is mainly 55 bargain hunting, and the top is stable and 63 opens. Rebound space.
$TENCENT (00700.HK)$  Tencent continued its downward trend and tested the previous lows again in the short term. The current stock price remains fluctuating at the bottom edge of the box. However, it can be seen that the volatility of Alibaba  $BABA-W (09988.HK)$ ,   $MEITUAN-W (03690.HK)$ , and   $XIAOMI-W (01810.HK)$ has declined recently, and the fundamentals have been exhausted.
China's concept stocks are now on the left, and the odds on the left are enough, but it takes time to stabilize and move up, and try to buy as low as possible.

Asia stocks set for mixed open in countdown to Fed
Asian stocks are set for a mixed start Wednesday after the latest inflation data added to the case for tighter Federal Reserve policy, weighing on U.S. shares. The dollar rose with Treasury yields.
Australian shares slipped, futures for Japan fell and Hong Kong contracts were little changed. $S&P 500 Index (.SPX.US)$ and $NASDAQ 100 Index (.NDX.US)$ futures wavered. Technology shares led the drop on Wall Street as investors fret over reduced stimulus and sour on costlier parts of the stock market.
JPMorgan says it's OK if you're still in love with risky stocks
Investors should reconsider their affection for the safety of technology megacaps and start seeking out risky assets like beaten-down high-growth stocks and Chinese shares.
So says Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, $JPMorgan (JPM.US)$'s global head of equity research. "In the first half next year, assuming inflation shows signs of normalization, assuming the Fed ends up being more balanced and doesn't continue to move forward with tightening, which I believe the market is pricing in, and assuming the Covid situation starts to come back under control, I think you'll see a rotation from lower-beta megacaps into higher-beta."
New fund chasing day-trader favorites slammed by meme stock slide
The $ROUNDHILL MEME ETF (MEME.US)$ has fallen every day since its launch last Wednesday.
So far this week, $GameStop (GME.US)$ and $AMC Entertainment (AMC.US)$ have shed 15% and 16%, respectively. Meanwhile, the fund's top holding $Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC.US)$ -- the special purpose acquisition company taking former president Donald Trump's media company public -- is down 11%, bringing its losses to 23% since the ETF launched.
Elon Musk's stock sales could total $18 billion by the end of year
Elon Musk sold $906 million in $Tesla (TSLA.US)$ stock Monday. As of Tuesday morning, he has sold a total of 11.9 million shares, according to InsiderScore/Verity. Musk is making two kinds of stock sales — one to pay taxes on his compensation package and the other for straight cash-outs, or "to-pocket" sales.
Based on his 10% sale target, Musk will likely only sell another $5 billion before the year is out.
Dogecoin spikes more than 20% after Elon Musk says Tesla will accept it as payment for merch
Dogecoin skyrocketed more than 20% on Tuesday after Elon Musk said Tesla would accept it as payment for some merchandise. Musk has frequently talked up dogecoin, calling it his favorite digital coin and mentioning it in an appearance on "Saturday Night Live." Dogecoin hit a record-high price above 74 cents in May but has since plunged sharply.
Red-hot chip stocks are cooling
The $PHLX Semiconductor Index (.SOX.US)$, home to the likes of $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$ and $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$, has gained 36% in 2021 after advances of more than 50% in both 2019 and 2020. That brings the three-year cumulative return including dividends to almost 250%, exceeding gains seen in any similar span of the late-1990s technology mania.
However, global growth in chip sales slowed in October to May levels and has been cooling for three straight months, industry show.
Adobe, Cloudflare lead plunge in cloud stocks after JPMorgan issues wave of downgrades on valuation concerns
JPMorgan analysts downgraded Adobe, Datadog, Cloudflare, Zscaler and other software stocks in an outlook report for 2022. "With rates climbing, this adds risk to higher multiple software stocks trading over 20 times revenue," the analysts wrote.
$Adobe (ADBE.US)$ fell almost 7%, $Cloudflare (NET.US)$ tumbled 9% and $Zscaler (ZS.US)$ was off almost 8%.
UK regulator says Google and Apple hold 'vice-like' grip on consumers
$Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ and $Apple (AAPL.US)$ hold a "vice-like" grip over how people use mobile phones, Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday.
The statement is a fresh warning to tech groups after the regulator stepped up scrutiny of the power they wield in a world increasingly lived online. It recently told $Meta Platforms (FB.US)$ it had to sell Giphy, the popular animated images platform it bought in 2020.
Source: Bloomberg, CNBC

China is a huge market with enormous potential. They have very good and large companies that can rival US firms. Personally, I believe there are big growths and opportunities in Chinese stocks.
That said, I opine that for those who choose to start your journey of investment in Chinese stocks or choose to remain invested in them, you must be able to:
1) Be in for long term. Think 5 years, 8 years, 10 years etc. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
2) Accept the high volatility due to regulatory pressures.
3) Be mentally prepared for Murphy’s Law - anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
4) More importantly, invest only what you can afford to lose.
If you can stick to the above, and weather the current storm, the potential flip side / upside would be high returns from these beaten-down cheap stocks - like a sleeping giant (bull) waiting to be awaken and unleashed.
Short term fluctuations do not change the long term positive outlook. Not financial advice though. DYDD and invest safely.
$Alibaba (BABA.US)$ 
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$JD.com (JD.US)$ 
$NIO Inc (NIO.US)$ 
$XPeng (XPEV.US)$ 
$BYD COMPANY (01211.HK)$ 
$Li Auto (LI.US)$ 
$Baidu (BIDU.US)$ 
$Bilibili (BILI.US)$ 
$TENCENT (00700.HK)$ 
$PDD Holdings (PDD.US)$ 
$Futu Holdings Ltd (FUTU.US)$ 

1. China's regulatory clampdown has left investors bewildered and shocked. Most foreign investors have never experienced such extensive government intervention in other markets before.
2. It has been the way how China operated as they have regulated several industries in the past 20 years and this time isn't any different.
3. For example, some of you might remember the 2008 melamine milk scandal. 21 companies were tainted with excessive melamine including Mengniu and Yili, two largest dairy companies in China today. China government regulated the industry and punished a group of perpetrators to death and imprisonment. Thereafter the industry was cleaned up and you don't hear such problems anymore.   $MENGNIU DAIRY (02319.HK)$  share price went up 10x since 2008 while   $Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group (600887.SH)$ went up 40x. China didn't destroy the companies nor nationalise them.
4. I was involved as an investor in the next example. It was during 2016 where China was clamping down on corruption. If some of you can recall, China was very well known for corruption in the past. Now less so. The government arrested many top officials for graft and demand for luxury goods such as   $Kweichow Moutai (600519.SH)$  declined - few want to be accused of graft when they buy such items.
5.   $ORIENTAL WATCH (00398.HK)$ is a luxury watch retailer with majority of the sales coming from China. It got hit because of the anti-corruption drive. I bought the stock at the low and the business and share price recovered after the drive ended. I eventually sold for a 1.5x return. Today, it is up 5x from the price I bought.
6. I was involved in the third example too. In 2019, China regulated the pharmaceutical industry. They introduced a two-invoice policy to reduce the middleman distributors to just two for any drug. China was plagued with rising drug costs which the man on the street could face affordability issues. The key problem was the unnecessary middlemen who marked up the costs. This policy sent the pharma stock prices down.
7. One of which was   $CMS (00867.HK)$  I picked the stock up as the impact wasn't that big to them since they were a key distributor even under the new system. The share price recovered but I sold for a 34% gain because there was a short seller report that came up. Just wanted to err on the safe side. The company is still around today though and the stock went up as much as 2x from the price I bought at one point in time.
8. There were even more industries in which China had regulated in the past but I showed three examples here. Investors can in fact take advantage of these regulations as opportunities to buy stocks on the cheap.
9. Most investment literature is written by the west who operate in a system different from China. We cannot just adopt the same worldview and apply it to China. China is China. If you use other worldview to see China, you will only see what's wrong with it.
10. China is a central planning country and the government has a lot of power. This is unlike the US where legislative, executive and judicial powers are separated. Regulations are more effective in China than in the US (where they deliberate for months and still can end up in a stalemate). The features are cannot be more different.
11. The Chinese has a paternalistic culture where the father is the head of the household and is responsible for disciplining (子不教父子过). This is reflective of how the China government behave too. They see themselves as the head of the country and it is their responsibility to discipline anyone whose actions are deemed as harmful to the society.
12. People don't care about China in the past. But now they are too big to be ignored and they bring a culture that the world may not be accustomed to. Some of the rules will be rewritten inadvertently too.