We Beat Warren Buffett With This 1 Stock
It’s not every day that we beat the greatest investor of all time to the punch. But recently … we did. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway just bought $4 billion worth of shares in this stock. When the filing was released, the stock jumped 11%! It’s in an industry that Mr. Market got WRONG. So we…
Brandan FurnaceThe Chip Shortage Won’t Stop Semiconductor Manufacturing
If you don’t know why semiconductor chips are a big deal, you’re going to find out today. It’s a huge market that has been beaten down for a while now, but as Bloomberg says: “There’s nowhere to go but up.” In This Post: Monday Market Insights: Today’s video covers promising news for the semiconductor…
Secret Ingredient to Long-Term Investing Success
Here’s the 3-1-Q. 3 insights, 1 word for you to ponder and 1 question for you to jump-start your week… 3 Insights… No. 1: Burning Down Paradise The wildfire burned the entire town of Paradise to the ground — killing nearly 100 and leveling 95% of the buildings in town. And it was completely avoidable,…
What Charles Says About Elections & Your Stocks
“3 Best Stocks to Buy for a Republican House.” “What Midterm Election Results Could Mean for This Stock.” “Stocks Fall as Democrats Over-Perform.” Election day flooded my inbox with these kinds of headlines. I asked Charles what he thought. His response: “IGNORE IT!” It’s all noise. As “A-Team” Alpha Investors we look at facts, like…
Analysts are WRONG About 2023 Earnings
Jerome Powell is trying to be clear, and traders have their heads in the sand. The Federal Reserve chairman used the word “pain” eight times in last week’s press conference. He reminded everyone that: Higher interest rates, slower growth, and a softening labor market are all painful for the public that we serve. But they’re…
“Trickle-Up Pain” Is Coming to the Stock Market
Inflation has always been a problem. It’s just usually a quieter problem. For most of the past decade, inflation has been at 2% or lower. Barely enough to notice it. Consumers were blissfully unaware about inflation or how it worked. These days, it’s a universal talking point. With the Consumer Price Index persistently above 8%,…
A Peek Behind the Market Maker’s Shoulder
Many traders make a dangerous assumption about options contracts. Because they’re derivatives of stock prices, a lot of people think options are priced “automatically” based on how the stock price is moving. This just isn’t the case. There are tons of factors that can lead to options mispricing – typically the kind of mispricing that…
Does This Line Signal a 16-Year Bear Market?
Rarely will you see me give any real credence to any fundamental market metric. Company P/E ratios, earnings per share, free cash flow… These just don’t factor in to my trading style. I’m far more interested in where the money’s moving in the short term, and none of those stats can tell me that. But…
10X in Today’s Market – Banyan Hill Publishing
Here’s the 3-1-Q. 3 insights, 1 word for you to ponder and 1 question for you to jump-start your week… 3 Insights… No. 1: [Chart] Holding a Stock Long-Term for 10X Carl Icahn bought $3.6 billion of Apple stock and sold for a $2 billion profit. Not bad? But if he hadn’t sold, he’d be…
Batter Up! Kings 1, Market 0
Trading the market is a lot like being the manager of a baseball team. Hear me out… First off, both trading and baseball is a marathon – not a sprint. As traders, we can’t let one single trade made or break us. We need to compound winner after winner, all the while making more on…