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you can see their top suppliers, and floow the number of shipments (water based bills of lading, not air) and see where all their products are going-
>>>shipments...companies are getting from suppliers in China, you can make some inferences to the health of their sales
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Vision into shipments from OEMs in .CH to USA can provide great insight. What is more interesting is seeing the financual influence that the major importers have over the suppliers.
If you look at a classic example of cars, the Eagle and the Talon, while officially (based on sub-frame) were the same car, but by two different car companies, (hence a diff fairing body).
You can see the supply from .ch/.tw OEMs (Giant, Trek, etc) were largely diverted to their largely .com(USA) vendors, with a large majority of the shipments of bicycle frames going to the east coast - and through the supply tracking of bikes, one could see where that economic heat make laid.. thus - could see where mayhaps one may short/invest?
But now with scrapers, while we dont have personal HFT bots (unless we can afford the next gen investment specific GPTs which will be coming.
Ill take a GPT that learns from others investing strategies from all my clients in my hedgie and optimize models based on all their sentiment and success %....
Yeah - money is going to be the singularity nuke.
/rant :-)