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July 2024

How to Avoid Catastrophic Loss in AI’s Final Phase

Jason Bodner

As a Power Trends reader, you are well acquainted with my firm belief that successful investors take their emotions out of their decisions and rely on data. That’s the whole point of my Quantum Edge system, which I developed after learning the hard way. I want to introduce you today to Tom Gentile, who similarly overcame some early struggles and developed a proven and successful system that generates profits. Tom is more of a shorter-term trader than I am, but his work is impressive and worth learning about.

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Even Most Pros Lose the Investing Game, But You Don’t Have To

Jason Bodner

If investing were a game, it would be an incredibly difficult one. If it were easy, everyone would succeed. In fact, most people don’t… including the “pros.” It is nearly statistically as probable – or I should say improbable – as winning the lottery. S&P Global (of the S&P 500) published a scorecard on professional money managers and how they did relative to their respective benchmark indexes. Here’s what they found.

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3 First-Half Champions – Including the Top-Ranked Stock in My System

Jason Bodner

If you’re invested in an S&P 500 index fund, you’re probably pretty happy with the first half of 2024. The benchmark index gained a solid 14.5% the last six months, which is already about 50% more than the annual average. But what a difference if you own the top performers. Fortunately, I’ve recommended two to my readers, and I own one myself. So I’ll take that as win-win.

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June 2024

The Great Income Heist Is Coming – Here’s What to Do Now

Jason Bodner

I want to warn you now that you may be about to make less money. If you have money in interest-bearing accounts, that juicy return you’ve enjoyed is about to decrease. And a lot of folks may not even realize it. Even more importantly, they may not realize the account itself may no longer be a good place for your hard-earned money. The Great Income Heist is coming, and record dollar amounts are about to take a hit.

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Power Trends+: You Request Them, We Rank Them

Jason Bodner

Investors might be feeling a little stung, too, but for other reasons. Stocks have gotten more volatile recently, and many are hitting lows. But there’s always a silver lining and some glimmers of hope – like the fact I can still celebrate a Panthers win since I’m a Florida native and live right up the road from the arena where they play.  And there are always great stocks poised to make money... we just need to know how to find them.

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Why I Expect NVIDIA to Be a $5 Trillion Company

Jason Bodner

If you had asked me what the most important date for NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) in June would be, my answer would have been Monday, June 10. This was the day NVIDIA stock would start trading at its new split-adjusted price following its 10-for-1 stock split on June 7. However, my new answer is Tuesday, June 18, the day NVIDIA’s market cap hit $3.35 trillion – sailing past Microsoft Corporation’s (MSFT) $3.317 trillion market cap and briefly making NVIDIA the largest publicly traded company in the world. But we haven’t seen anything yet.

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It’s Time to Factor the Election Into Your Investing – Here’s the Roadmap

Jason Bodner

We’re quickly approaching the midpoint of the year, and considering how inflation, high interest rates, and global uncertainty have hung over the market, stocks have done well. I hope you’ve made good money along the way. In fact, that Nasdaq Composite is on pace for 30%+ gains in 2024, and the S&P 500 is not far behind. That would be about triple the annual average (about 10%) in a “normal” year. But this year is not normal.

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How To Pick Money-Making Stocks: Part 3

Jason Bodner

Picking winning stocks is a near impossible game. That’s because only a handful of stocks account for all of stock market success. This was proven by the impressive work of Professor Hendrik Bessembinder, who found only 4% of stocks account for all of the net gains of stocks above government bonds in the past 100 years. To complicate matters even more, only 1% of stocks account for half of the entire net gain of stocks over bonds.

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