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September 2024

Here’s the Top Stock in My Quant System

September 30, 2024Lucas Downey

As we begin the fourth quarter tomorrow – by far the best quarter of the year for stocks – I thought I would do something I can’t do very often. I want to tell you the top-ranked stock in my Quantum Edge system.

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This Once-Hated Investment is Set to Soar

September 28, 2024Lucas Downey

Unloved and unused things are everywhere. Even certain areas of the stock market go untouched by most investors. But when those investments are about to become loved, look out. In last week’s Power Trends, I discussed how homebuilders are poised to explode due to a setup that mimics the post WWII Baby Boom. But as I thought over other potential implications to falling interest rates, another area screams opportunity. An area most investors left for dead… and for good reasons… until now.

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Power Trends+ (Part 2): Get in Now Before the Cash Bubble Bursts 

September 26, 2024Lucas Downey

As promised, we’re back with this week’s Power Trends+ Part 2... and it’s time to analyze stocks. Today, we’re taking a look at your requested stocks by running the top two and bottom two through my Quantum Edge system to see exactly what makes a company worthwhile and what you should be steering clear of.

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How the World’s Best Investors Get Out of Their Own Way

September 23, 2024Lucas Downey

Longtime Power Trends readers know the reason I designed and built my Quantum Edge system was to make smart investment decisions based on data and not emotions. I learned from experience. When I started trading, I made every mistake in the book – from greedily chasing a stock higher to buying a falling stock because I had a “gut feeling” it would turn around. Not to mention selling at the wrong times, too.

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Act Now to Profit from This Just-Ignited Boom

September 21, 2024Lucas Downey

The data points to a similar wave and opportunity starting in just a few months and building for a few years. The door opened this week when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in four years. More cuts are all but certain, which will unlock what has become a significant housing crisis.

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Big Money Is Already Flowing Into These “Rate Cut” Stocks

September 19, 2024Lucas Downey

Yesterday was the big day, and the central bank went big with an outsized half-point cut. But more importantly than the size, the Fed kicked off a rate reduction cycle with a bang. That bang was the starter’s gun. The floodgates are creaking open as record amounts of cash on the sidelines – a ginormous $6.5 trillion in money markets alone – starts pouring into stocks.

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Power Trends+: Rate Cuts Are Here & These 3 Stocks Historically Benefit 

September 18, 2024Lucas Downey

We just heard that the Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates for the first time in four years. The Fed went big, too, with a half-point cut. Both the size and timing of the rate cut are rare. The Fed typically doesn’t make moves like this in the months preceding an election. But make no mistake, this points to not just a sizable rally in the last part of the year but a prolonged period of sideline cash pouring back into stocks.

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It’s Happening This Week, and You Won’t Want to Be Left Behind

September 16, 2024Lucas Downey

Tired of hearing about interest rates? I get it. Stocks have been leaning into this headwind for a long time – first with a series of rate increases and then the interminable wait for rates to start coming back down. But whether you’re sick of hearing about it or not, you should care if you invest in stocks.

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Let’s Go Back to School: Stock Market 101

September 14, 2024Lucas Downey

One important lesson I learned is when stocks swoon, do not panic. When you’re invested in high-quality companies, they are likely to ride those algo-induced ups and downs to even bigger gains. But how do you find those rare stocks and even stand a chance against the bots? You join them. I decided long ago, I couldn’t fight what was already happening. So, I got onboard. I started writing my own algorithms. Only, they weren’t day-trading algos or nanosecond algos. Mine are designed to identify stocks poised for explosive growth.

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Strong Months Are Ahead. Now’s the Time to Prepare.

September 12, 2024Lucas Downey

As we kick off September, I admit it can be easy to feel a little pessimistic knowing this month’s historical pattern. And this year, we add an election fraught with anxiety and uncertainty that follows only a few weeks after the month concludes. Last week the S&P 500 had its worst week since early 2023, mostly due to inflation fears coming back into focus causing the size of interest rate cuts to once again become murky. But in typical volatile fashion, stocks rebounded on Monday: The S&P 500 climbed 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 0.6%, and the Nasdaq led the charge with a roughly 0.9% gain.

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