Price tells you what happened. Flow tells you who made it happen and whether they’re likely to keep doing it. I learned to separate those two questions the hard way, watching indexes grind higher on…
Somebody asked me last month which stock research subscription I’d keep if I could only keep one, and I genuinely couldn’t answer, because the honest truth is I use six of them for six different…
Every conversation I have with readers about chip stocks eventually turns into a conversation about one company, and I understand why. But Nvidia’s dominance is also exactly why I think the more interesting risk-reward in…
I’ve spent most of this year telling readers to be selective about tech, and I’ll be honest, that advice has occasionally looked wrong for a quarter at a time before looking right again. That’s the…
Every few months I get some version of the same message from a reader: “I want the safest possible way to generate income from my portfolio, and I don’t want to babysit it.” My honest…
September has a reputation problem, and this year it comes with receipts. The Fed’s next rate decision lands on September 16, the CPI print drops September 11, and both are exactly the kind of macro…
My First Week on IBKR Mobile Nearly Cost Me a Position I had been with Interactive Brokers for my main trading account for about 4 years now, primarily for the commission structure of the accounts,…
I’ve seen enough novice investors fall for eToro’s no-fuss interface and CopyTrader function, so the pitch is actually alluring. What I want to dissect here is whether that appeal is still intact when real money…
Tesla is the most discussed stock in retail investing and is also one of the stocks where retail investors lose money more consistently by doing the things that “make sense” at the time. This is…
Editor’s note: After interviewing a lot of retail investors over the years, I can tell you that the ones who are making money don’t have any great story to tell. The stories are great, the…
I’m not from Wall Street. I spent more than 20 years in and around trading desks, brokerage platforms and spreadsheets I built myself because the tools available were not good enough for me, primarily because…
Four days ago I told you that I was sell put on Baidu because I felt confident that the stock was balanced, the AI pivot was in place, and the strike price was pretty low…
I’ve heard of a particular type of earnings report I’ll call the “technically great but emotionally catastrophic” quarter. Revenue beats estimates. EPS is much better than expected. User growth holds. Operating income rises. And, somewhere…
It took me 4 hours to research the first stock I ever did “seriously”. I read the annual report and saw the P/E ratio, I saw what a few analysts had to say and I…
In my investing career, I have made three mistakes with AMD. If I were to turn back time, I might choose Nvidia stocks. First time was 2019. I felt the EPYC server story was being…
