Happy Thanksgiving from TradeSmith

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Thanksgiving is easily my favorite holiday of the year. Yeah, I’m that weird guy that looks forward to Thanksgiving even slightly more than Christmas. (Probably because my second love in life, after the markets, is cooking.)  

So I wouldn’t personally ever let an email keep me from celebrating Thanksgiving for very long.  

But before you dive into the day’s food, family, and football… and even if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving at all… I wanted to send a quick note of thanks from all of us here at TradeSmith – and from me personally. 

Every day when I sit down to write TradeSmith Daily, I’m reminded of how fortunate I am to have this job. 

I get to write to hundreds of thousands of sophisticated, thoughtful investors who – just like all of us – are trying to better their lives by making smarter market decisions.  

You’re here because you know that data, discipline, and clear thinking give investors a real edge. And TradeSmith is the ultimate tribe for people with these principles. 

I’m thankful to have you as my audience. And you should know, I take the responsibility of giving my best to you very seriously.  

So thank you for being part of this and for giving me a reason to always improve.  

Aside from that, this year has been a big one for us at TradeSmith. We launched several tools that have already changed how many of you navigate the markets: 

• Seasonality and the Seasonal Edge Strategy, which make recurring market tendencies visible and tradable. 

• Predictive Alpha Prime, which takes our predictive analytics to a level we’ve been working toward for years. 

• The T-Line, now one of our most popular indicators for spotting mispricings in the options market. 

• The Velocity algorithm (formerly known as Mean Variance Optimization), which has become a core element of numerous trading strategies already launched or right around the corner.  

• Plus, a steady stream of improvements across our platforms – cleaner interfaces, better strategies, and better editorial to share our software and ideas with you. 

We’re thankful that we get to build these tools for investors like you and help you build your wealth smarter with them. 

I’m also thankful for your engagement. Your replies, ideas, questions, and challenges help shape the Daily more than you know. They push us to keep improving, keep testing assumptions, and keep delivering insights that actually matter. 

Most of all, thank you for making TradeSmith Daily a part of your investing routine. It’s an honor to help you cut through the chaos, make sense of big market moves, and see the opportunities hiding in plain sight. 

I hope today gives you a chance to slow down, enjoy the people you care about, and recharge.  

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Monday. As always with more data, more perspective, and more innovation to navigate the markets with clarity. 

To building wealth beyond measure, 

Michael Salvatore 
Editor, TradeSmith Daily 

P.S. Actually, just one final note… 

I sign off each issue with the phrase “to building wealth beyond measure” not simply to suggest some hyperbolic level of wealth.  

What I really mean by “wealth beyond measure” is quite literally the type of wealth you cannot measure.  

Wealth of knowledge. Wealth of character. Wealth of security and confidence in yourself. Wealth of kinship and community.