Fear and Loathing in Trader Hell: Week Ending April 4, 2025 – A Slaughterhouse Serenade
Dispatches from the Last Sane Bastard in This Casino
Welcome, you depraved vultures, to the recap of a week that turned Wall Street into a slaughterhouse, where the indices were butchered like hogs and the “Magnificent 7” staggered out as The Magnificent Pikers. It’s Sunday, April 6, 2025, and the past five days were a fever dream of Trump’s tariff guillotine—10% on all imports, 34% on China, 20% on the EU—slashing global markets into ribbons. China’s 25% on U.S. soy and cars, the EU’s 20% on tech and bourbon, and Canada’s lumber levies hit back, turning the trading floor into a blood-soaked abattoir. The VIX screamed to 45, the 10-year yield clawed to 4.45%, and the dollar’s a battered corpse, down 1.8%. X is a howling asylum—“crash confirmed,” “trade war hell”—and I’m here with my scorched coffee, ankle-deep in the gore, to chart the ruin.
The Indices: A Funeral Pyre of American Dreams
The Dow Jones Industrial Average—30 shambling wrecks of industry—puked up 2,200 points (call it 5% for the week), closing Friday at a wretched pit below 41,000 after Thursday’s 1,000-point disembowelment. The S&P 500, that 500-headed hydra of delusion, shed 6%—$5 trillion in market cap torched—landing at $505.28 (SPY’s real-time close, down from $536.70 Thursday), a nosedive from its $576 March 25 peak. The Nasdaq, tech’s golden calf, plunged into bear market hell, down 8% for the week, its AI dreams flayed by tariff blades. Yesterday’s SPY chart is a jagged autopsy: opened at $523.67, hit $525.87, then cratered to $505.06—a rollercoaster of despair with a VIX banshee wailing at 45. Trump’s “America First” turned into “Markets Last,” and Powell’s “soft landing” is a laugh track to this inferno.
Notable Stocks: Carcasses and Cackling Ghouls
Nvidia (NVDA) – Week: -14%
The AI chip deity’s a gutted piker, down 14% this week—5.6% post-market Friday alone. China’s 25% counter-tariffs slit its export throat—HST’s tech leg’s a bloody stump. X calls it “the fallen god.” RSI at 30—oversold and drowning in red ink.
Amazon (AMZN) – Week: -11.3%
Bezos’s empire is a defenestrated wreck, down 11.3%—6.1% post-market Friday after Thursday’s 5% evisceration. Tariffs torched their China-sourced junk pile—Prime’s a smoking pyre. Bollinger Bands wide as a mass grave—volatility’s the executioner.
Sunnova Energy (NOVA) – Week: -20% (Trading at $0.34)
The solar punk’s a penny-stock corpse, down 20% this week, trading at a laughable 34 cents. Tariffs didn’t spare it—furloughs and poison pills signal a death rattle—HST’s green dream’s a gutter rat. MACD’s a flatline—hope’s a cruel joke.
Chevron (CVX) – Week: -14.5% ($143.28)
Energy’s oil titan turned piker, down 14.5%—from $167.65 Monday to $143.28 Friday, a 24.37-point evisceration. Trump’s exemptions couldn’t save it from crude’s collapse and recession panic—HST’s black blood’s a puddle. X howls “oil’s dead.” Price plot from $167.65 to $143.28—greed’s grim retreat.
Fear the Butcher, Loathe the Meat
This week was a slaughterhouse serenade—Trump’s tariff blade flayed the S&P 500 into a $505.28 husk, Nvidia and Amazon bled out like stuck pigs, Sunnova’s a twitching relic at 34 cents, and Chevron grinned over the corpses. The big dogs—Goldman, the algos—short the guts while Powell chants hymns to a dead economy. Yesterday’s insanity—SPY’s $31.42 plunge—was the crescendo; today’s post-market is the encore of ruin. Me? I’m here with my burnt coffee and the obligatory shots of Patron XO Cafe, knee-deep in the slaughter, watching the charts twist like a snake in a meat grinder. Fear and loathing’s the only winner—savage, raw, and howling at the wreckage.