Are You Smarter than a Billionaire?
Jun 20, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Are you smarter than some of the world’s top billionaire investors? Could you beat Bill Gates by 219%, Prem Watsa by 266% and Warren Buffett by 145%? Find out what these richest investors know. If you’re using TradeStops you can… and you can do it while you’re asleep or on the golf course. When I first started investing my own…
Is This 9-Year Bull Market Over?
Jun 16, 2017 | Investing Strategies
We are well into the ninth year of a bull market that has barely seen any 10% corrections, much less a 20% drop. But warning signs that this bullish market are coming to an end have begun to show up. We’ve seen a couple of “shudders” in the markets the past two weeks and many investors are spooked. I believe…
Be the “Third Man” to Beat the Billionaires
Jun 13, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Knowing what the billionaires are investing in is a huge advantage. Here’s how to observe rich and famous investors and make that information work in your favor. Richard Wyckoff was one of the first to study cognitive biases in the stock market. In 1933, he published this quote: Three men came to Wall Street. The first always knew what was…
The Summer of Gold?
Jun 09, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Even with this week’s sell-off, gold is up more than 3% since we last wrote our gold price predictions in May. And it still looks to have plenty of room to run. If you’re among our thousands of new members, you might not know that we have been bullish on gold for a while now. We base our sentiments on…
Billionaires and Banks
Jun 02, 2017 | Investing Strategies
We’ve been continuing to dig into the investment ideas of the world’s greatest billionaire investors and looking at how we can leverage their insights to our own advantage. And this week we’ve found something that I think you’ll find very compelling. First though, we’d like to continue welcoming the thousands of new TradeStops members who have joined in the past…
Tulips, Dot Coms, Housing, and…
May 26, 2017 | Investing Strategies
First off, we’d like to take just a minute to welcome all our new subscribers that have joined us this week. It’s great to have you. Welcome aboard. In these Friday editorials, we generally wander a bit beyond the confines of our TradeStops tools and share my broader observations about what is happening in one or another market. This week,…
Buffett’s Blunder
May 23, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Warren Buffett lost 41% on his ill-fated investment in UnitedHealth Group (UNH). That gave us one or two investment ideas for you. Using the tools of TradeStops you could have made 640% or more. We know it sounds hard to believe, but it’s true. We’ve recently been conducting research on how individual investors can “beat the billionaires” using the investment…
Another Chance to Samba With Brazil
May 19, 2017 | Investing Strategies
We showed you how the noise of the media can mask great investment opportunities. It’s rare that you get a second chance, but that’s what’s happening with Brazil, specifically, the Brazilian stock market. Yesterday, EWZ, the ETF for the Brazilian market dropped an astounding 16% on news of more political corruption. The headline from Zack’s summed it up: Brazilian Stocks…
The Secret to Beating Buffett
May 16, 2017 | Investing Strategies
You probably don’t think of yourself as having advantages over Warren Buffett when it comes to investing … but you do. Buffett admitted as much himself in a BusinessWeek interview about investment advice back in 1999. Here’s the money quote: “The highest rates of return I’ve ever achieved were in the 1950s. I killed the Dow. You ought to see…
Why Emerging Markets are Headed to New Highs
May 12, 2017 | Investing Strategies
Since early 2016, EEM, the popular ETF covering 23 of the world’s leading emerging markets is up over 50 percent. EEM is up about 20 percent this year alone. Investors are naturally nervous that big emerging markets have come too far too fast. Have emerging markets gone as far as they can go? Do the downside risks outweigh the upside…
