TradeSmith Daily

April 2024

A Picks-and-Shovel A.I. Play

April 11, 2024TradeSmith Research Team

By Lucas Downey, Contributing Editor, TradeSmith Daily A.I. excitement is everywhere you look… And I’m not just talking about ChatGPT. Analysts have touted countless use cases for artificial intelligence, even in off-the-run areas like cybersecurity, health care, and trucking. When you sit and think about it, is it really a hard stretch to assume that A.I. will impact a lot of industries for the better? Certainly not… But, don’t get too carried away dreaming of a world where A.I. powers absolutely

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The Fed’s Rate Lever Just Broke

April 12, 2024TradeSmith Research Team

Three months of hot inflation unfortunately do make a trend… Taking stock of the money supply… Interest rate hikes might be making inflation worse… Trade ideas for the months ahead… The perfect timing for a prescient call… By Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily Another month, another disappointingly high reading in the Consumer Price Index… And another day of pearl-clutching price action in the U.S. stock market, as traders bemoan the likely delay of rate cuts. Here are the highlights: The S&P

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Your Zero-to-Hero Investment Guide

April 13, 2024TradeSmith Research Team

Note from Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily: TradeSmith CEO Keith Kaplan owes much of his success to two hardworking, loving, and influential people: his parents. As Keith shares below, his folks weren’t wealthy. They had to scrape and sacrifice to provide for him and his sister – even spending 10 years in one of the most dangerous school districts in the U.S. just to get a chance at a better life. But these principles, among others, showed Keith what it takes for anyone

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How to Prepare for Election-Year Chaos

April 14, 2024TradeSmith Research Team

Note from Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily: Like it or not, the U.S. presidential election is now less than seven months away. Thus far, the fight between President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been quiet. But according to my colleague Louis Navellier from our corporate partner InvestorPlace, chaos is building in the background. History shows that investors need to prepare for the months ahead. Just, not in the way you might expect for

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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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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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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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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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