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The Good, The Bad, and The Likely The stock market is currently in a “battleground” state, where no investor truly knows what the Federal Reserve (Fed) will do regarding the extremely high year/year inflation rate and the current lack of Quantitative Ea...

Common Sense in Tough Times The market is down. This is why: Stock valuations are dependent on two things: the value of the business's free cash flow and their multiple. When the Federal Reserve increases the targeted Treasury rate, loaning become...

2021 Recap; 2022 Foreward

What Was 2021? What a year for US equities!

Santa Rally or Santa Slump?

Santa Rally or Santa Slump? In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the stock market tends to flatten. This year, due to the large amount of retail traders, we have seen plenty of volatility, but indices appear to be struggling to set a new trend in ...

How much do you need to retire?

Regarding Retirement How much do you need to retire? According to a Bank of America study, over 3/4 of Americans have no idea how much they'll need. This seemingly shocking statistic can be put in context with the following; it is incredib...

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Regarding Retirement How much do you need to retire? According to a Bank of America study, over 3/4 of Americans have no idea how much they'll need. This seemingly shocking statistic can be put in context with the following; it is incredib...

A return to normal means the end of pandemic picks.

Normalization Starvation A return to normal is the cue to sell pandemic picks. Case in point - DocuSign.

What should you do about Omicron, the new coronavirus variant?

How to Play Omicron A newly-discovered variant of coronavirus, known as Omicron, accelerated the Thanksgiving weekend sell-off. This is all you need to know.

Stay Calm.

Stay The Course This is not a 4 day weekend. After the markets closed yesterday, traders will do what they do best, attempt to make money in an uncertain environment. But today is not a normal trading day. Markets on Black Friday end ...

Valuing a public company accurately is an absolute necessity for active investors. Should COVID-related, or any additional health-related, costs be considered a permanent addition to the standard valuation analysis?

The "C" in Controversy The properly value a company's performance, investors analyze the company's EBITDA margin. The EBITDA, Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, margin allows financial analysts to properly underst...

What does it mean to HODL?

I AM HODLING HODL, hold on for dear life, is a common phrase used by meme-stock and crypto investors. Surpisingly tied to the passive mentality of buy-and-hold, this strategy has demonstrated immense success during the pandemic.

Politics!?!?!?

It's About Drive; It's About Powell Gear up, young investor. We're going political!

Active or Passive: Which one are you?

Actively Passive Oh, you're an active investor? Do you really think you can beat the markets over time? Pathetic! Only a dummy-brained fool will attempt something that 95% of professional fund managers fail to do.

The Supply Chain Crisis

Hollow Holidays The supply chain emergency is about to become the supply chain catastrophe.

The Semiconductor shortage explained.

Dip, Without The Chips We are running out of chips. The world does not have enough sufficient supply to meet supremely increased demand.

Real Estate Post.

Sounds Like A Broken Record The commercial real estate market is currently operating under the idea that low interest rates are here for at least another 6 months.

US Treasuries

Yield to the Yields Yields yield a rudimentary understanding of the current market forecast.

An introduction to US treasuries.

Yield to the Yields Yields yield a rudimentary understanding of the current market forecast.

Huge Bitcoin News.

Bitcoin's Upgrade Bitcoin is getting an upgrade to its blockchain, the first since 2017. Known as Taproot, the upgrade is expected to go live within a couple hours of this posting (on Sunday November 14th) at block 709,632.

is getting a massive upgrade. New article tomorrow!

The number of short-sellers has been falling. How does this impact you?

The Short Short Shorting shorts would be nothing short of sure-fire stock gains in 2021.

China's Non-Bailout Bailout. China is on the verge of having a complete real estate market meltdown. How does this affect US investors?

China's Non-Bailout Bailout Beijing is not providing a bailout, according to the Chinese government. However, Chinese authorities will reportedly force the billionaire owner and founder to help pay for some of Evergrande's debts, as Evergrande is t...

New post about the Chinese ongoing Everegrande crisis tomorrow

Gamestop is Back!

GME is Back! Gamestop (GME), the darling of Reddit's Wall Street Bets, despised by billion-dollar hedge funds, after growing to immense popularity in January 2021, is back on Reddit's front page.

Transitory Inflation: Is it Good or Bad?

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The Untaxable Elon Musk. What to make of this potentially new complicated billionaire's unrealized gains' tax and Elon Musk's reaction.

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The S&P500 is up 27% in 2021 thus far and over 114% since the bottom of the 2020 crash. Can it continue? Yes. Here's everything you need to know about the market going forward into 2022.

Party Like It's 1999! The recovery is in. Public companies are smashing earnings expectations left and right with their shares gaining so much so fast that newer investors are quickly developing a fear of missing out (FOMO). With the S&P 500 ...

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