The Burst

Dan Zanger is a revered name among traders. His legendary story of turning $11,000 into $18,000,000 over the span of a year and a half is not one we’ve been able to corroborate but regardless his profitability has not been questioned because his approach to trading is time-tested.

What Dan does that few academic finance professors would advocate is to put most of his eggs in a very few baskets.

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The crypto hype seems to be long in the distant past, eclipsed by buzz over artificial intelligence and machine learning.

But perhaps the nail is not yet in the coffin of the most high profile of all the cryptocurrencies, bitcoin. Recently, some well-known traders have been announcing their entry in the digital coin,

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Peak excitement is kicking in now. The market has risen in 15 of the last 17 weeks. Nvidia’s forecasts that beat the street by a couple of billion dollars led to a $250 billion surge in market capitalization. And retail traders are pouring into out-of-the-money call options in the hopes of making life-changing returns on popular stocks.

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Most people think of index funds as boring but that’s because the majority don’t have a good understanding of how these funds actually work. To simplify it, consider the following analogy.

Imagine you’re betting at a horse race but you don’t know which horse will win so you’re permitted to bet on all the horses and whoever wins you win.

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In the investing world, Jim Cramer grabs a lot of headlines, but other less well-known names arguably deserve substantially more attention. Oliver Kell is one such name. He’s got the distinguished title of US Champion Trader with a 941.1% return in 2020.

He’s also got quite a knack for finding the hottest stocks in the market,

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For investors who are only familiar with stock investing, the options market can seem like a great unknown. That market is so large that it can sometimes act like the tail wagging the dog.

As we approach the monthly expiration of options in February, the risks to the market grow. That fact is well understood by one analyst,

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It seems every generation needs to learn the same lesson the hard way. In 2000, when technology stocks were flying high but fundamentals failed to justify the valuations, the fear of missing out on big gains caused many to chase higher highs and regret it.

More recently, a similar type of investment, draped in narrative and shy on fundamentals,

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Long ago, a conversation between two investors about the sluggish revenues of what was then Facebook went something along the lines of this: With all those users, why isn’t Facebook making more?

To which the second investor replied, do you really think they figured out how to get a billion users on their platform and don’t know how to make money from them?

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It’s easy to get distracted by the energy sector when Buffett is snapping up Occidental Petroleum shares with abandon and already owns so much of Chevron. But arguably both should be cast aside in favor of what might well be the #1 stock in the sector, Exxon Mobil.

With a market capitalization of around $400 billion and generating revenues of $338 billion,

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Airbnb has been on a tear since 2020 when it reported losses of $3 billion in a single quarter. Lockdowns sparked concerns that the company would not survive a world without travel but soon hope emerged that life would return to normal and the financials soon followed.

A full U-turn followed with the company growing the top and bottom lines at a rapid pace.

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