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Lucas Downey

September 2024

Strong Months Are Ahead. Now’s the Time to Prepare.

September 12, 2024Lucas Downey

As we kick off September, I admit it can be easy to feel a little pessimistic knowing this month’s historical pattern. And this year, we add an election fraught with anxiety and uncertainty that follows only a few weeks after the month concludes. Last week the S&P 500 had its worst week since early 2023, mostly due to inflation fears coming back into focus causing the size of interest rate cuts to once again become murky. But in typical volatile fashion, stocks rebounded on Monday: The S&P 500 climbed 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 0.6%, and the Nasdaq led the charge with a roughly 0.9% gain.

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Fear AI or Love It: This Is How You Find Opportunity 

September 9, 2024Lucas Downey

Does AI scare you? Have things gone too far? Is this the beginning of the end? Well, it depends on who you listen to. Some think that AI is the savior, while others think the reckoner. Either way, we all need to buckle our seatbelts and prepare for a wild ride. If you ask me, though, just know I’m an eternal optimist. I consider the alternative a waste of my energy. So, I’m going to give you a smoother ride into the AI future.

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Build Your Own Fantasy Team – With Real Profits

September 7, 2024Lucas Downey

Unfortunately, I think more people use data when it comes to sports than they do with investing. We use quantitative analysis all the time to build our own “fantasy team” of all-star stocks that are the best performers in the market. Actually, it’s not a fantasy team at all. The profits are very real.

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This Rare Event Could Eclipse September’s Disastrous Reputation

September 5, 2024Lucas Downey

You know the data and my analysis point to a strong finish to 2024. We’ve talked about it before, and we’ll continue to highlight the best ways to profit. Along those lines, my colleague Luke Lango – Chief Investment Analyst at InvestorPlace – has crunched some numbers… and he’s identified a rare economic event that historically triggers a stock market boom. It happened three times in the past 30 years – in 1995, 1998, and 2019 – and it triggered a stock market boom on all of those occasions. In about two weeks, according to oddsmakers, there’s a 100% chance this event is happening again.

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6 Important Indicators to Help You Follow the Big Money

September 2, 2024Lucas Downey

We’ve talked a lot recently about how Wall Street’s algorithms now dominate trading activity. Every investor needs to be aware of this because it impacts virtually every stock that you own or might own. And algorithmic domination is only intensifying as Big Money incorporates artificial intelligence into its technology. Believe me, these firms have the money to do it.

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August 2024

This Big Breakthrough Changed Everything

August 31, 2024Lucas Downey

After working my way up in a blue chip Wall Street firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, I became a trader. I helped the biggest institutions and hedge funds execute their massive trades by matching up buyers and sellers. Once I realized the most successful Wall Streeters were using algorithms, I decided it was time to build my own.

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What the Data Says about Today’s Most Important Company

August 29, 2024Lucas Downey

Interest rates, inflation, industry trends, politics, and… Nvidia (NVDA). They have one important thing in common: they can single handedly move the stock market up or down. It’s not often that one company can shoot stocks higher or send them tumbling, but Nvidia has achieved that rare status. That makes NVDA an important company to watch. Not just because so many people own it (including me), but because it affects so many other stocks that even more people own.

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Power Trends+: Using the Dip to Your Advantage

August 27, 2024Lucas Downey

Good things come to those who wait... sometimes. We’re in the thick of summer and election year volatility, but that also brings investment opportunities that you won’t want to let slip by. In today’s Power Trends+, my colleague Luke Downey discusses an important study that highlights the continued volatility in September. But that’s only part of the story... bullish markets are ahead.

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Seeing Is Believing: Watching Big Money Flows Overcomes a Built-In Disadvantage

August 26, 2024Lucas Downey

Amazing, isn’t it? Regular folks can barely pay for groceries these days, and some of these Wall Street guys are so rich they’ve run out of crazy things to buy. Every investor needs to know how exactly they got that rich, because it’s more important than ever. If you’re not doing what they do on a much smaller scale, you’re already behind. They’ve made all those gobs of money using computer algorithms.

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Lightning-Fast Algorithms Make Tracking Big Money More Important than Ever

August 24, 2024Lucas Downey

When you and I buy stock – even if we’re buying what we would consider a lot – it’s nothing compared to Big Money. These largest investors on the planet buy and sell millions of shares of stocks, even tens of millions. When we buy, it’s like a few snowflakes falling gently on the ground. They add to the pile, but the impact is negligible. But when Wall Street enters a trade, it can be an avalanche that changes the landscape.

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