I’m a pretty mellow guy, so I never throw things at the financial-channel talking heads. And I usually don’t yell about the crazy things that seem to be happening. (Usually.) But I often feel like just turning it off, walking away from it – for a few days or even a few weeks – and tuning back in later to see if the craziness is gone and sanity restored. That would be a mistake – and a costly one at that.
Read nowHow’d you like to be up 62% in the last month? Dumb question, I know. Any one of us would take 62% anytime, but especially when most stocks are getting tossed around in notorious August volatility. That 62% is the average gain of five stocks topping the list of a simple stock-searching “screen” I ran. Here’s what I looked for, and what I recommend you do next.
Read nowAugust is traditionally a lousy month for stocks – second only to September in terms of terrible performance. Then comes the strongest stretch of the year – by far – for stocks. Now is the time to buy stocks for what I expect will be a fun and profitable finish to 2023. This year, it could easily be more explosive than usual because multiple catalysts are converging at just the right time.
Read nowIt seems like the “gloom and doom” school of journalists are shouting louder than ever… desperate to get our attention while we’re off on that last beach vacation. Or moving the kids into their college dorms, in my case. If the negativity ever starts to get to you, do what I do.
Read nowWhen I get interested in something, I can get a little – shall we say – obsessed with figuring out how it works. A recent obsession has been learning how to solve the famous Rubik’s cube and its 45 quintillion possible combinations! The answer is the way to solve any big puzzle, including making money in stocks.
Read nowWhen Big Money is on vacation, we get lower volume and higher volatility. Now is the time to get in position for the fourth quarter, which is historically the best quarter by far. With Big Money traders tanning themselves at the shore, smart investors can swoop in to position themselves to make the most of what’s coming.
Read nowAlmost everyone – from the richest in the world to new college grads – is already drowning in debt. And the deep end keeps getting deeper. This wave of debt rolling across the U.S. economy is making its mark in some surprising ways. Ways we can use to position our stock portfolio and stay on the right side of this trend.
Read nowIn my past life in the world of Big Money investing, I spent eight years as head of “equity derivatives” for North America for Cantor…
Read nowI don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’ve seen a bunch of outsized moves in stocks recently. It got me thinking back to a huge move earlier in the year that my system detected in advance.
Read nowWhat’s happening now with artificial intelligence reminds me so much of the dawn of the internet… or Henry Ford’s assembly line … or the steam engine or the Gutenberg printing press. Suddenly, people can log phenomenal achievements – with a fraction of the effort, in a fraction of the time.
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