Lucas Downey

August 2024

Project Greenlight: 6 Steps to Beat Wall Street Algos (Video No. 3)

August 23, 2024Lucas Downey

Watch now… This could be the most valuable trading video you watch all year. In today’s video bulletin, I reveal a simple six-step strategy you can use to: You’ve already seen how computers have taken full control of the stock markets. You’ve seen how Wall Street now uses this to their own advantage – and how it puts individual investors at an extreme disadvantage. You’ve seen how these firms control more than $131 trillion every day. And you’ve seen how

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Project Greenlight: You Versus the Algos (Video No. 2)

August 23, 2024Lucas Downey

Watch now… Yesterday you received the first of three video bulletins as part of “Project Greenlight.” You saw how AI is taking over Wall Street trading as we speak. I revealed to you how algorithms already control 90% of stock trades… and how AI will only make them stronger. You also saw how this puts individual traders at an extreme disadvantage. But today – here in “Project Greenlight” Video No. 2 – I will start getting into the solution. I’ll

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Project Greenlight: The Coming AI “Takeover” (Video #1)

August 23, 2024Lucas Downey

Watch now… Artificial Intelligence has gotten so much press this year… You may think you’ve heard all there is to hear about this breakthrough tech. We’ve heard how AI could soon replace millions of workers. Some folks believe it will bring about a kind of paradise for mankind. Others, like Elon Musk, suggest it could end mankind altogether. As investors, we’ve heard about Nvidia soaring more than 19,000%… and counting. But here’s the bigger AI investing story most folks are

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All Eyes Are on Jackson Hole, but Does It Really Matter?

August 22, 2024Lucas Downey

Every year in late August, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City holds its Economic Policy Symposium. (Told you it was for nerds.) And every year at the symposium, the Federal Reserve chair delivers a closely watched speech. As we sit on the cusp of the first interest-rate cut since the Fed started raising rates in March 2022, Jerome Powell’s speech at 10:00 a.m. ET tomorrow will be among the most watched and picked apart in years. It will be watched closely because investors want clarity about rate policy – specifically that a cut is coming at the mid-September meeting.

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Power Trends+: An Important Issue Hits Home

August 20, 2024Lucas Downey

There’s something really important happening right now that my colleague Luke Downey and I wanted you to know about, so I invited him to join me in our latest Power Trends+. It’s something not a lot of people are talking about and brings an interesting investment opportunity. We’ll go over a few companies involved, including ones you wrote in about.

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Massively Outperform the Market by Following the Green Lights Every Day – Not Just Quarterly

August 19, 2024Lucas Downey

Every morning, my master algorithms perform a comprehensive analysis of the roughly 6,000 publicly traded stocks on Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. They bring in 120 independent data pulls on each and every stock, then apply 80 equations on them to analyze multiple factors – price, volume, earnings, etc. Every company is scored on 29 primary ratings, including 17 technicals, which tell us how shares are trading in the market, and 12 fundamentals, measuring how healthy the company is. All told, that’s nearly a million data points per day – and what a rich story it tells.

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A New Form of AI Is Here – and It’s Going to Change the World as We Know It

August 17, 2024Lucas Downey

As AI continues to advance, too many people are underestimating what’s about to hit us – and how quickly. That’s why my colleague Eric Fry – a Global Macro Specialist – is holding a special presentation on how to position yourself for the approaching reality of artificial general intelligence (AGI). While AGI will bring wildly unpredictable change, there will be ways to prepare for – and profit from – its emergence. He’ll share more details during his The Road to AGI Summit scheduled for Thursday, August 22nd at 1 p.m. Eastern.

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Look Outside the Box for Back-to-School Stock Deals

August 15, 2024Lucas Downey

To give families a little break, approximately 20 states hold tax-free weeks around back-to-school time. You can buy things like clothing, footwear, and school supplies without paying sales tax on the designated dates. (Sorry, it doesn’t work on cars or houses or other insanely expensive items). With all that money being spent, I couldn’t help but look to see if there were any good back-to-school deals for us investors. Let’s run a few retail companies through my Quantum Edge algorithms and see what we find.

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Power Trends+: An Incredibly Rare Fall That’s Actually Quite Bullish

August 13, 2024Lucas Downey

Opportunities like this don’t come around often. In fact, this one has only happened six times in history. What am I talking about? My colleague Luke Downey will show you in today’s Power Trends+ when he goes over some incredible studies on one of the most talked about stocks of the year: Super Micro Computer (SMCI). This AI powerhouse is extremely oversold, and that’s actually quite bullish. You won’t want to miss Luke’s analysis of this outstanding company.

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Stocks are a Puzzle – Here’s How I Solve It

August 12, 2024Lucas Downey

When I get interested in something, I can get a little – shall we say – obsessed with figuring out how it works. Just ask my wife and kids. One obsession was learning how to solve the famous Rubik’s cube and its 45 quintillion possible combinations. Talk about a headache.

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Volatility Got You Scared? Wall Street Knows That

August 10, 2024Lucas Downey

You may be surprised – and angry – to learn that Wall Street's algorithms that now dominate trading often increase volatility by driving down the prices of stocks to flush out “weak hands” or trigger stop-loss alerts… with the intention of buying those very same stocks at lower prices. Understanding what's driving the current volatility might help you avoid potentially serious mistakes and not fall victim.

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Updated Quantum Edge Ratings on the “Mag 7”

August 8, 2024Lucas Downey

I joked in Monday’s Power Trends that we should just close the stock market in August and September. I take it back... I think. Stocks have improved since Monday’s selloff – though I expect more volatility ahead in this typically bumpy time of year. But the main reason I “take it back” is that we would miss one of the four quarterly earnings seasons of the year. For a quant guy like me, the data in those reports is the lifeblood of our fundamental analysis.

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