TradeSmith Daily

July 2024

How Three Generations Can Build Wealth With 15 Stocks Each

July 26, 2024Keith Kaplan

There’s no one-size-fits-all wealth building plan. Everyone has different needs depending on what stage they are in life… different goals and priorities… and an endless number of other factors that are unique to everyone. Just consider these three scenarios: I wouldn’t dare to say each of these people should invest the same way. The risk tolerance and methods each should use are completely different. Normally, creating an investing plan for your specific needs takes a lot of time and energy.

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The New MegaTrends Set to Send Growth Stocks Soaring

July 27, 2024Michael Salvatore

The internet was supposed to make us all smarter, more informed, and therefore more effective investors. Sometimes, though, it overloads us instead. There’s just so much information – often from dubious sources that might be actively trying to mislead us – that finding what’s useful grows exponentially more difficult. And in times like we’re in right now, just keeping pace with the gauntlet of events is a challenge. The good news is, recent events have paved the way for high-growth, smaller-cap

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This Unusual Indicator Can Turn Unknown Stocks into Gold

July 28, 2024TradeSmith Editorial Staff

Note from Michael Salvatore, Editor, TradeSmith Daily: Money flows are the most powerful force in markets. Money flows represent knowledge. They express a trader’s conviction. And when you see money flows grow to unusual size, that’s a signal you should grab onto with both hands. Jonathan Rose, founder of our corporate partner Masters in Trading, understands this well as a former CBOE dealmaker. These days, he shares his best ideas – and how to find them – to subscribers of

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When the Market’s Biggest Rumor Becomes News

July 29, 2024Michael Salvatore

The market’s biggest rumor becomes news this week… The small-cap rebellion heats up in response… But there’s no guarantee the Fed delivers… The Quantum Edge Hotlist reveals the new footmen to watch… Don’t ignore the most important seasonal trend in front of us… How to defend yourself from a choppy second half… ❖ Things have changed quickly in the second half of July… Over the last two weeks, traders have been falling over themselves to buy the biggest rumor in

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Don’t Hold Your Breath for Big Tech

July 30, 2024TradeSmith Research Team

Wall Street’s pain trade keeps on trucking. After the June CPI green-lit the Federal Reserve to finally cut interest rates, popular investor positioning has been turned upside down. A wicked reversion trade was set in motion… vaulting small caps to their highest level in over two years. That rebirth in the cyclical trade came at the expense of the most crowded trade of all: mega-cap tech. In just two short weeks, the Russell 2000 surged 8.35% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq

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How to Trade “The Two-Day Beatdown”

July 31, 2024Michael Salvatore

A two-day decline like this sets up a killer short-term return… Here are your top targets… NVDA’s downswing and when to lock in profits… The small-cap trend is here to stay… The money flows confirm it… How Keith Kaplan made a better stock chart… ❖ The recent large-cap exodus got us thinking… The last two weeks were marked by a stunning rotation from large-cap tech to small-caps. In other words, the favorite trade of the past year and a half

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99.9% Have No Idea if the Market Is Healthy

July 31, 2024Keith Kaplan

Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Google every single day. Of those hundreds of millions of people, a lot of them are investors who are involved enough to check stock prices daily. And most of them think of the S&P 500 as the primary stock market benchmark. Therefore, we can assume that at least once per day (probably more), a large number of investors find themselves Googling “S&P 500,” then staring down an image that looks something

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August 2024

Rate Cuts Will Send Small-Caps to All-time Highs

August 1, 2024TradeSmith Research Team

Investing should never be a popularity contest. It should be a profit contest. To generate outsized profits, you must be willing to bet on areas not in the limelight of the media… AND do so with an evidence-rich approach. For years, small-caps were the whipping boy of the market. Investors shunned the group as high interest rates sent capital to mega-cap tech. This trade became so extreme, you’d be met with flying tomatoes if you made a constructive call on the

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