{"id":19418,"date":"2017-11-16T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/?p=19418"},"modified":"2017-11-16T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:55:03","slug":"rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Rolling Stone Jinx Tesla with the Magazine Cover Indicator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, I got an email with the subject line &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It came from Neil Strauss, author of the infamous pick-up artist memoir <em>The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail.png 352w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-150x115.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-80x61.png 80w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-220x169.png 220w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-130x100.png 130w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-196x150.png 196w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/neilemail-310x238.png 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know what you're about to ask&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I can neither confirm nor deny that I read<i> The Game.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So, to whom was Neil referring as &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesla<\/strong> (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, whom Neil just profiled for a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/features\/elon-musk-inventors-plans-for-outer-space-cars-finding-love-w511747\">Rolling Stone cover story<\/a><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949.jpg 620w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-59x80.jpg 59w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-162x220.jpg 162w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-74x100.jpg 74w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-175x238.jpg 175w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-305x415.jpg 305w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-358x487.jpg 358w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/elon-musk-0b50501d-c829-4634-aaa8-8afbda486949-438x595.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone covers focus on entertainers, followed by politicians and athletes.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at hundreds of Rolling Stone covers going back to 1990 and I found exactly one CEO cover story&#8230; and it was about an even bigger tech icon.<\/p>\n<p>It was the\u00a0October 27, 2011 issue commemorating <strong>Apple<\/strong> (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs, who had died 3 weeks earlier:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew.jpg 305w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-59x80.jpg 59w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-162x220.jpg 162w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-73x100.jpg 73w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Rolling_Stone-_The_Steve_Jobs_Nobody_Knew-175x238.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even in the late 1990's dot-com boom, there wasn't a single tech-focused Rolling Stone cover story, let alone a CEO story.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, this has me thinking about the magazine cover indicator.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine cover indicator says that a dramatic magazine cover story (typically a major business magazine like Fortune or BusinessWeek) can be a contrary indicator.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous example is BusinessWeek's The Death of Equities cover in August 1979, which preceded the biggest bull market known to man.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.financialsense.com\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/u163\/images\/2013\/0201\/03-bottom.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Chart from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialsense.com\/contributors\/chris-puplava\/secular-bear-market-in-stocks-is-over\">FinancialSense.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So did Rolling Stone &#8216;jinx' Tesla? And the wider world of technology of stocks?<\/p>\n<p>Let's see.<\/p>\n<p>In Neil Strauss email, he said he &#8220;spent the last nine months in and out of his world, working on this profile&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>9 months back from November 15 is February 15.<\/p>\n<p>Let's assume that Rolling Stone spent a month before slating Musk for a cover story.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Tesla traded between $210.96 and $258.46.<\/p>\n<p>It hit $389.61 in September before pulling back to $312.49 when the story hit.<\/p>\n<p>Here's what the stock chart looks like:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1.png 700w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-220x220.png 220w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-238x238.png 238w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-415x415.png 415w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-487x487.png 487w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla-elon-musk-rolling-stone-1-595x595.png 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since Tesla's at a bit of a crossroads now, only time will tell if Rolling Stone put in the &#8216;jinx.'<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I should put it another way.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell if Elon Musk marked a top in his ego &#8212; and by extension his Tesla\/Solar City\/Space X juggernaut &#8212; by agreeing to a Rolling Stone cover in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So we'll see.<\/p>\n<p>But what about technology overall?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/October 27, 2011.\">We know it's been ripping since the election<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>But here's a 20-year monthly chart of the <strong>S&P Technology ETF<\/strong> (XLK):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.t3live.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK.png 700w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-220x220.png 220w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-238x238.png 238w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-415x415.png 415w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-487x487.png 487w, https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/XLK-595x595.png 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear: the magazine cover indicator should not be mixed up with actual science or rational analysis.<\/p>\n<p>It's mostly valuable to permabears desperate for attention on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>But I can't help but ask: wouldn't it be funny if tech topped out just as Rolling Stone broke tradition to put Elon Musk on the cover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, I got an email with the subject line &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221; It came from Neil Strauss, author of the infamous pick-up artist memoir The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists: I know what you&#8217;re about to ask&#8230; And I can neither confirm nor deny that I read The Game. So, to whom was Neil referring as &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221;? Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, whom Neil just profiled for a Rolling Stone cover story: Rolling Stone covers focus on entertainers, followed by politicians and athletes. I looked at hundreds of Rolling Stone covers going back to 1990 and I found exactly one CEO cover story&#8230; and it was about an even bigger tech icon. It was the\u00a0October 27, 2011 issue commemorating Apple (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs, who had died 3 weeks earlier: Even in the late 1990&#8217;s dot-com boom, there wasn&#8217;t a single tech-focused Rolling Stone cover story, let alone a CEO story. And of course, this has me thinking about the magazine cover indicator. The magazine cover indicator says that a dramatic magazine cover story (typically a major business magazine like Fortune or BusinessWeek) can be a contrary indicator. The most famous example is BusinessWeek&#8217;s The Death of Equities cover in August 1979, which preceded the biggest bull market known to man. Chart from FinancialSense.com So did Rolling Stone &#8216;jinx&#8217; Tesla? And the wider world of technology of stocks? Let&#8217;s see. In Neil Strauss email, he said he &#8220;spent the last nine months in and out of his world, working on this profile&#8230;&#8221; 9 months back from November 15 is February 15. Let&#8217;s assume that Rolling Stone spent a month before slating Musk for a cover story. In January, Tesla traded between $210.96 and $258.46. It hit $389.61 in September before pulling back to $312.49 when the story hit. Here&#8217;s what the stock chart looks like: Since Tesla&#8217;s at a bit of a crossroads now, only time will tell if Rolling Stone put in the &#8216;jinx.&#8217; Or maybe I should put it another way. Only time will tell if Elon Musk marked a top in his ego &#8212; and by extension his Tesla\/Solar City\/Space X juggernaut &#8212; by agreeing to a Rolling Stone cover in the first place. So we&#8217;ll see. But what about technology overall? We know it&#8217;s been ripping since the election. But here&#8217;s a 20-year monthly chart of the S&#038;P Technology ETF (XLK): Let me be clear: the magazine cover indicator should not be mixed up with actual science or rational analysis. It&#8217;s mostly valuable to permabears desperate for attention on Twitter. But I can&#8217;t help but ask: wouldn&#8217;t it be funny if tech topped out just as Rolling Stone broke tradition to put Elon Musk on the cover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Did Rolling Stone Jinx Tesla with the Magazine Cover Indicator? - T3 Live<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did Rolling Stone Jinx Tesla with the Magazine Cover Indicator? - T3 Live\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, I got an email with the subject line &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221; It came from Neil Strauss, author of the infamous pick-up artist memoir The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists: I know what you&#039;re about to ask&#8230; And I can neither confirm nor deny that I read The Game. So, to whom was Neil referring as &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221;? Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, whom Neil just profiled for a Rolling Stone cover story: Rolling Stone covers focus on entertainers, followed by politicians and athletes. I looked at hundreds of Rolling Stone covers going back to 1990 and I found exactly one CEO cover story&#8230; and it was about an even bigger tech icon. It was the\u00a0October 27, 2011 issue commemorating Apple (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs, who had died 3 weeks earlier: Even in the late 1990&#039;s dot-com boom, there wasn&#039;t a single tech-focused Rolling Stone cover story, let alone a CEO story. And of course, this has me thinking about the magazine cover indicator. The magazine cover indicator says that a dramatic magazine cover story (typically a major business magazine like Fortune or BusinessWeek) can be a contrary indicator. The most famous example is BusinessWeek&#039;s The Death of Equities cover in August 1979, which preceded the biggest bull market known to man. Chart from FinancialSense.com So did Rolling Stone &#8216;jinx&#039; Tesla? And the wider world of technology of stocks? Let&#039;s see. In Neil Strauss email, he said he &#8220;spent the last nine months in and out of his world, working on this profile&#8230;&#8221; 9 months back from November 15 is February 15. Let&#039;s assume that Rolling Stone spent a month before slating Musk for a cover story. In January, Tesla traded between $210.96 and $258.46. It hit $389.61 in September before pulling back to $312.49 when the story hit. Here&#039;s what the stock chart looks like: Since Tesla&#039;s at a bit of a crossroads now, only time will tell if Rolling Stone put in the &#8216;jinx.&#039; Or maybe I should put it another way. 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So, to whom was Neil referring as &#8220;The Most Important Person of Our Generation.&#8221;? Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, whom Neil just profiled for a Rolling Stone cover story: Rolling Stone covers focus on entertainers, followed by politicians and athletes. I looked at hundreds of Rolling Stone covers going back to 1990 and I found exactly one CEO cover story&#8230; and it was about an even bigger tech icon. It was the\u00a0October 27, 2011 issue commemorating Apple (AAPL) founder Steve Jobs, who had died 3 weeks earlier: Even in the late 1990's dot-com boom, there wasn't a single tech-focused Rolling Stone cover story, let alone a CEO story. And of course, this has me thinking about the magazine cover indicator. The magazine cover indicator says that a dramatic magazine cover story (typically a major business magazine like Fortune or BusinessWeek) can be a contrary indicator. The most famous example is BusinessWeek's The Death of Equities cover in August 1979, which preceded the biggest bull market known to man. Chart from FinancialSense.com So did Rolling Stone &#8216;jinx' Tesla? And the wider world of technology of stocks? Let's see. In Neil Strauss email, he said he &#8220;spent the last nine months in and out of his world, working on this profile&#8230;&#8221; 9 months back from November 15 is February 15. Let's assume that Rolling Stone spent a month before slating Musk for a cover story. In January, Tesla traded between $210.96 and $258.46. It hit $389.61 in September before pulling back to $312.49 when the story hit. Here's what the stock chart looks like: Since Tesla's at a bit of a crossroads now, only time will tell if Rolling Stone put in the &#8216;jinx.' Or maybe I should put it another way. Only time will tell if Elon Musk marked a top in his ego &#8212; and by extension his Tesla\/Solar City\/Space X juggernaut &#8212; by agreeing to a Rolling Stone cover in the first place. So we'll see. But what about technology overall? We know it's been ripping since the election. But here's a 20-year monthly chart of the S&P Technology ETF (XLK): Let me be clear: the magazine cover indicator should not be mixed up with actual science or rational analysis. It's mostly valuable to permabears desperate for attention on Twitter. But I can't help but ask: wouldn't it be funny if tech topped out just as Rolling Stone broke tradition to put Elon Musk on the cover?","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/","og_site_name":"T3 Live","article_published_time":"2017-11-16T16:38:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-11-16T16:55:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":452,"height":404,"url":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rsmusk.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Michael Comeau","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Comeau","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael Comeau","@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/#\/schema\/person\/fba749facdb049b3468b79104546c739"},"headline":"Did Rolling Stone Jinx Tesla with the Magazine Cover Indicator?","datePublished":"2017-11-16T16:38:38+00:00","dateModified":"2017-11-16T16:55:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/"},"wordCount":485,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rsmusk.png","articleSection":["Articles"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2017\/11\/16\/rolling-stone-tesla-magazine-cover-indicator\/","name":"Did Rolling Stone Jinx Tesla with the Magazine Cover Indicator? 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