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Power Trends+: Picking Stocks Using Just One Simple Number 

May 29, 2024 Hidden PowerTrends (2025)

Lucas Downey

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In today’s Power Trends+ video, we are reminded of the importance of investing in great companies, not just a great story.

You and your fellow readers continue to send in impressive tickers for us to analyze, and even those that are lackluster allow us to demonstrate what to look out for when finding winning stocks.

Today, my fellow TradeSmith analyst Luke Downey and I share the screen, where we’ll take a closer look at six of your recommendations. Luke digs into the data, and I do what I do best – run these stocks through my Quantum Edge system.

Some of these companies might surprise you.

While we both love to show you what’s under the hood of good and bad companies, the Quantum Score is valuable because it can do that for you in a single number. All that hard work and research is distilled into the Quantum Score.

We hope you find the analysis helpful, and we love seeing your overwhelming response. As a reminder, the stocks in this video issue are not currently recommended in my investing services. But that doesn’t stop us from digging into the data to help you in your research. 

If you’d like to receive my recommendations powered by the Quantum Score and my full Quantum Edge system, click here to learn how you can join TradeSmith Investment Report today.

We’ll be back with more Power Trends+ video analysis next week, so make sure to send in your tickers to [email protected].

Talk soon,

Jason Bodner
Editor, Jason Bodner’s Power Trends

Disclosure: On the date of publication, Jason Bodner and Luke Downey held a position in Lam Research (LRCX) mentioned in this video.

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