TradeSmith CEO Keith Kaplan recently asked me to sit down for a midyear check-in: To see what I’m looking for in stocks, and to get some thoughts on what investors should be doing right now. Keith is a friend – and my boss! – so I was on my best behavior. Seriously, though, our talk led to some useful insights about where we are, where we’re going, and how to make the most of it...
Read nowAfter 10 straight increases, the Fed left interest rates unchanged – the first time that’s happened since January 2022. Yay! But Powell also signaled that we’ve got a long way to go before inflation is beaten, so the Fed said it could bump rates higher again – maybe even two more times by the end of the year. Boooo! So, what do we make of his announcement? And how should we play this with our stock portfolios?
Read nowIt wasn’t too long ago that energy stocks were some of the market’s highest fliers. Then things slowed down for a long time. But we're now seeing some "green shoots" of buying thanks to cutbacks in oil production, seasonal demand, and other factors.
Read nowPop quiz: What do GameStop (GME) and Nvidia (NVDA) have in common? Not much, is the short answer. But GameStop taught the world how powerful a “short squeeze” can be to take share prices to the moon, as meme traders like to say. Here's how I incorporate possible short squeezes into my stock selection process.
Read nowYou probably don’t realize it, but you’ve been fighting against the great Data Divide your entire investing career. This Data Divide has meant that everyday investors have missed the biggest trading profits for more than half a century. We need our own data edge to get us on the right side of the divide.
Read nowSo, let’s get this straight. First we had virtual reality. Then came augmented reality. Of course, everyone is now talking about artificial intelligence. And today we welcome (back) to the party mixed reality. How do we really know what reality is “real” and what isn’t? Data. Let's see what it says about Apple (AAPL), the company that just made this grand foray into mixed reality.
Read nowSo, let’s get this straight. First we had virtual reality. Then came augmented reality. Of course, everyone is now talking about artificial intelligence. And today we welcome (back) to the party mixed reality. How do we really know what reality is “real” and what isn’t? Data. Let's see what it says about Apple (AAPL), the company that just made this grand foray into mixed reality.
Read nowMy daily scan of the markets with Quantum Edge turns up all kinds of great stocks you and I may not have thought of – or even heard of before. But the Big Money players on Wall Street miss very little. They’re the folks that make stocks move. When their army of analysts turns up a great opportunity, it shows up in MY system, too – as a Big Money “buy” signal.
Read nowFor the last 100 years, just 4% of stocks delivered 100% of the stock market’s net gain above U.S. Treasury bonds. Or to put it another way: 96% of all stocks over the last century failed to beat Treasuries. To find those needles in the global stock-market haystack requires screening those millions of data points daily. In fact, it demands that we analyze the right factors, at the right time and in the right way. AI makes that doable.
Read nowWe’re in the early stages of a massive transformation that is equal parts exciting and scary. So, while others figure out the goods and bads of AI, we’ve already proven it can help us make money. In a special two-part series beginning today, I’ll take you deep inside my system to show you how it can help us build wealth.
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