TradeSmith Daily

April 2024

Down, Set, Hike!

April 22, 2024Michael Salvatore

The market crumbles under the threat of a rate hike… But the TradeSmith gameplan never changes… What it takes to trade like a turtle… Build your watchlist with Jason Bodner’s latest Power Rankings… There’s big gains to be found in “alternative markets”… By Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily They must just be playing with us at this point. Late to the party but with a voice a hundred times as loud, more Federal Reserve officials are now starting to suggest that rate hikes, not

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A New Way to Make Explosive Crypto Gains

April 21, 2024Michael Salvatore

Note from Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily: By the time you read this, the long-awaited bitcoin halving will be complete. This regular event, which reduces the supply of new bitcoin by half, is a historical tailwind for crypto prices. That’s why today we’re sharing this insight from Luke Lango, senior investment analyst at our corporate partner InvestorPlace. Luke has a special plan to take advantage of this event. And thanks to the quantitative engines that drive his analysis, he thinks

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The Next Perfect Trade Just Kicked Off

April 20, 2024Michael Salvatore

By Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily I’ve met a lot of traders in my time. William McCanless is like none of them. He’s skilled and dedicated to his craft. He knows his specialty – short-term trading based on technical patterns – and he sticks to it, to great effect for subscribers of his Trade Cycles advisory. You can say things like this about a lot of traders. But where William sets himself apart is his origin story. William didn’t go to

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No Freedom, No Deal

April 19, 2024Michael Salvatore

A historical risk-off signal could soon flash… U.S. says “no thanks” to socialist oil… But seasonality says Biden’s about to see some gas-price relief… A “perfect” trade to watch closely… By Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily As I write, the S&P 500 is at 5,046, down from its all-time high of about 5,231 set at the end of March. Do you know what that means? If you’ve been a close follower of TradeSmith Daily, you very much do. It means all we

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The Rare Few Stocks to Buy in May

April 18, 2024Michael Salvatore

The “sell in May and go away” headlines are right around the corner. And who can blame the media machine for using them? It’s one of few folksy market mantras with historical merit. Stock returns from May to October are traditionally poor compared to the November-to-April period. But I asked myself: Can that be true of every single stock? Surely not… Today, in a special video analysis with contributing editor Lucas Downey, we answer the question of what stocks are

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Did “Sell in May” Come Early?

April 17, 2024Michael Salvatore

Friday’s worst-in-months selloff extends… Underneath the fear, it’s all about rates… A strange and worrying divergence… Seasonal patterns show choppy months ahead… How you can still profit as stocks tread water… By Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily You don’t need me to tell you stocks sold off Monday. We all felt it. After a relatively strong open, where it looked like the market was shrugging off the Friday panic and weekend events, traders threw the gear into reverse and floored it.

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Don’t Jog – Run to This Massive Opportunity

April 16, 2024Michael Salvatore

By Lucas Downey, Contributing Editor, TradeSmith Daily So often, investing is unexciting… mostly passing time until a special situation lands in your lap. But those exciting times do come around. And when they do… saddle up. Because those golden-hour moments don’t hang around for long. A great example was when the investing crowd, feeling defeated by a prolonged correction, couldn’t imagine a breakneck rally last November. However, in TradeSmith Daily, we saw a monster opportunity shaping up. And that marked a significant

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Biden’s Most Inflationary Policy

April 15, 2024Michael Salvatore

Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness campaign continues… War drums beat ever louder… “Sell in May” season may have come early… Protect yourself with defensive stocks and quick trades in the Age of Chaos… By Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily Canceling student loans will probably wind up as the most inflationary policy of Biden’s presidency… full stop. It will assure a longer, more painful inflation fight and terminally higher education costs for everyone… in exchange for the short-term benefit of a relative few.

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