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Lucas Downey

February 2025

Today’s Headlines Are Pushing These Stocks Higher

February 10, 2025Lucas Downey

While you were preparing the appetizers for the big game last night, or maybe already enjoying some while watching The Puppy Bowl (my personal favorite), President Trump made a big announcement… once again about tariffs. As he was enroute to the Super Bowl himself, Trump told reporters that he will impose 25% tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum. If true, this is huge news for America’s steel industry.

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When It Comes to the Market, the Experts Are Wrong

February 8, 2025Lucas Downey

“Predictions are hard, especially about the future,” said physicist Niels Bohr said. Hard to argue with that. When predictions are historically no better than a coin flip, how can you ever invest successfully and have confidence putting your hard-earned money into stocks?

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ETF Power Rankings Show More Breadth This Month

February 6, 2025Lucas Downey

Our January ETF Power Rankings were dominated by energy funds. In fact, 13 of the highest-rated 15 ETFs were energy related. Not this month. The Top 5 ETFs are quite diverse, ranging from growth to energy to tech to financials. That kind of breadth is positive.

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Power Trends+: Ignore the Chaos and Focus on the Data 

February 4, 2025Lucas Downey

Chaos seems to be the theme lately. We had DeepSeek despair, and then tariff trauma... and then no tariff relief. Quite the roller coaster for the market this past week. It can be incredibly frustrating and difficult trying to keep up with all the emotional swings we’ve been seeing, but there’s one incredibly powerful tool we have to combat these ups and downs.

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Massively Outperform by Following the Money that Moves Stocks

February 3, 2025Lucas Downey

If I had to pick one formula to give investors the highest probability of success, I would say… Follow the money that moves stocks. That’s not mom and pop investors on Main Street, or even the wealthy family with the big house down the street. It’s the biggest investors on the planet – institutions and hedge funds – that manage billions of dollars. Their investments are the money flow waves you want to ride.

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January 2025

The Great Head Fake: This Stock Crashed Then Soared

January 31, 2025Lucas Downey

I think Bernard Baruch was on to something when he said more than a century ago that “the main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.” I was one of those fools more times than I care to admit early in my career – until I discovered the power of data and quantitative analysis to turn foolishness into financial freedom.

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Tech Just Crashed. Now What?

January 30, 2025Lucas Downey

Did you feel that earthquake on Monday? We saw some of the largest single-day moves in some of the strongest stocks of the past decade. Technology stocks fell so hard it created an implosion felt across the entire market… a $969 billion implosion to be exact. So how could the market lose nearly $1 trillion in a single day? It’s all thanks to panic selling after some shocking news came out of China.

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Power Trends+: The Largest Market Cap Loss in Stock Market History?! 

January 28, 2025Lucas Downey

The tech sector specifically took a huge hit after the announcement of a new and supposedly better and cheaper AI technology called DeepSeek. Whether it’s real or not, investors certainly decided to run in fear. In fact, one popular stock saw the single largest market cap loss in stock market history. You’ll have to check out this latest Power Trends+ to see which company took the hit.  Of course, we wouldn’t miss a chance to run some of your requested stocks through my Quantum Edge system. Luke and I put four stocks to the Quantum Score test, and they are all over the map.

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