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Lucas Downey

June 2024

Beware This Year’s Big Gainers

June 3, 2024Lucas Downey

The best stocks aren’t always the best stocks. In fact, they can be dangerous. We all want to own stocks that go up more than any other, but the ones that zoom in eye-popping fashion are often extremely small or extremely speculative. Investors might pile in and hope for the best on one headline, and then they might bail just as quickly on the next headline. You might get lucky and make good money, depending on the timing. But the probability is much higher that you will come out bruised in the end.

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Landing the Moby Dick of Stocks and Making Thousands of Percent

June 1, 2024Lucas Downey

My dad is sitting on a nearly 4,000% gain. I watched his $5,650 turn into $227,000… and counting. (I’ve also watched my own $10,000 turn into $0. That’s a story – and important lesson – for another day.) It started in 2017 when my dad asked me about this new-to-him company he heard about: Nvidia (NVDA). We’ve all heard about it now, but I knew it then, as well, as I had already created my Quantum Edge system, and NVDA was flashing in all the right spots.

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May 2024

When 70% Gains in 10 Minutes Is Bad

May 30, 2024Lucas Downey

Within 10 minutes or so, that stock was about 70% higher. It was still tiny and trading just over 50 cents per share, but 70% within minutes is huge. And in this case, a little frightening. The conference attendees in the room were buying shares… even as the speaker talked about it. When it was my turn to get up on the stage, I did a good job killing the excitement in the room by telling them my dishwasher story…

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Power Trends+: Picking Stocks Using Just One Simple Number 

May 29, 2024Lucas Downey

In today’s Power Trends+ video, we are reminded of the importance of investing in great companies, not just a great story. You and your fellow readers continue to send in impressive tickers for us to analyze, and even those that are lackluster allow us to demonstrate what to look out for when finding winning stocks.

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A New Twist on an Old Trend Sets Us Up for Big Profits

May 25, 2024Lucas Downey

The biggest and best investments are often in companies leading the way in megatrends, future-altering ideas, and cutting-edge innovation. Next-generation ideas can produce generational profits. You might be thinking artificial intelligence, computer networking, and robotic medicine. All true. But there’s another massive trend I want to look at today. One that goes back more than 100,000 years. That’s when the first homes were built.

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These Stocks Outperform Even in Election Years

May 23, 2024Lucas Downey

Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, embodied this pursuit of excellence with what he called his “Mamba Mentality.” He wanted to be better each day then he was the day before. “it’s the process of doing better every day – and doing that for a period of years – that then creates a masterpiece.”  I didn’t think about it day to day, but thanks to those early pushes, I was in full Mamba Mentality while spending an estimated 30,000 hours, at least $250,000, and significant brainpower developing my Quantum Edge stock rating system.

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Power Trends+: The Best and Worst of Stocks You Asked For 

May 22, 2024Lucas Downey

We ask you to let us know what stocks you would like us to analyze, and wow did you respond. We have well over 50 tickers on the list, so I decided to once again run them all through my Quantum Edge system to see how they ranked overall and in terms of fundamentals, technicals, and Big Money inflows.  In this Power Trends+ video issue, I’ll walk you through the top four and bottom four of the stocks you’ve asked about.

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Opportunity or Danger? Driverless Trucks Might be Heading to a Road Near You

May 18, 2024Lucas Downey

Does the idea of a car that drives itself excite you or scare you? Probably both. Taking a nap, watching a movie, or getting things done (like analyzing stocks!) while en route to your destination sounds pretty appealing. Not to mention not having to deal with other drivers. But “trusting” a 4,000-pound vehicle to safely stop, start, turn, slow down, speed up, and react the millions of ways a human driver would is frightening.

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Many of These Huge Gainers Are Still Good Buys

May 16, 2024Lucas Downey

I saw an interesting tweet the other day that got me thinking. Sorry, I guess I should say I saw an interesting “post” on X – the platform formerly known as Twitter. Crazy name changes aside, BNN Bloomberg anchor Jon Erlichman posted a list of 19 top stocks and what they would be worth today if anyone invested $10,000 15 years ago. These are some of the whoppers. Returns ranged from nearly 40,000% in Nvidia (NVDA) to a “mere” 1,014% in Starbucks (SBUX). They are all well-known brands and companies. And chances are pretty good you own or have owned one or more through the years…

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Power Trends+: An Overheated Sector and Two Impressive Stocks You Won’t Want to Miss

May 14, 2024Lucas Downey

There’s something really interesting happening right now with the market and sector rankings. Sectors that used to be consistently stuck in the middle are now leading the pack – Energy, Industrials, and Financials are currently the top three. But the most surprising for me is Utilities. It rose from being the second weakest sector in my Quantum Edge system for a long time to fourth place in just a few weeks – and over the past three months it’s been the top-performing sector in the S&P 500. Mind blown.

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This Data Tells Us Stocks May Be Ready to Shoot Higher

May 13, 2024Lucas Downey

When a doctor reads an x-ray, that physician doesn’t really need to know why a bone is broken to know the right way to treat it. It doesn’t really matter if the patient was trying to be Superman on his kids’ backyard trampoline or makes millions of dollars a year getting banged around as a professional athlete. The what – that broken bone – is more important than the why.

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