I’m sure most of you have heard about the benefits of compound interest. Compound interest is when the interest you earn on a savings or investment balance is reinvested, leading to exponential growth in your money. It’s like your money making more money. However, what is lesser known is looking at it through the lens […]
Buy This Hidden AI Stock Before Investors Discover It
When a technology is billed as something that will transform the entire global economy, the primary impulse of investors is often fear—specifically, fear of missing out (FOMO). And that’s exactly what we’ve seen so far in 2023, with regard to artificial intelligence (AI). However, for investors, the most obvious play to profit from generative AI […]
Why the Shrinking Number of MLPs is Great for Income Investors
Last week the news included announced acquisitions of two master limited partnerships (MLPs). That brings the total to three MLPs that will disappear by the end of the year. The number of MLPs has been shrinking for almost a decade, leaving only the strongest operating. That’s good news for us income investors. Here’s why… As […]
Trade of the Week: IONQ
In our 48-Hour Income service, last week we sold a put on quantum computing company, IonQ (IONQ). The goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. IONQ had earnings coming out so its options premiums were higher than normal. We chose a strike […]
What Makes a High-Quality Stock, and Where to Find Them
Last week I got to spend some time with John Davi and Frank Tedesco of Astoria Advisors. Astori is a firm that specializes in research-driven investing and offers two exchange-traded funds for public investors, as well as research for investment advisors across the United States. The firm’s latest offering is an exchange-traded fund that focuses […]
Why REITs are Due for a Rally
Since October 2022, the broader stock market has experienced a nice recovery coming out of the bear market. However, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have not participated fully in the stock market gains of the last ten months. As a result, REITs look very undervalued and may be the next sector to move strongly higher. […]
Join the Rich: Buy Farmland
Many of us have heard this old chestnut, usually attributed to Mark Twain: “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” A number of America’s richest people understand this, and are now among the country’s largest landholders. The list includes Jeff Bezos, the Ford family, Dr. Peter Buck (co-founder of Subway), Ted Turner, John Malone, and […]
What “Market Sentiment” Really Means, and How to Use It for Profit
While market sentiment is discussed all the time, it is rarely defined. That’s why in today’s Hidden Profit Report, I sat down to talk with Ray Micaletti of Relative Sentiment Technology. Ray has developed an approach that compares retail investor sentiment to institutional investor activity that gives valuable and actionable information about the condition of […]
What the Price of Copper is Indicating About the Stock Market
There are a host of leading indicators out there investors can use to gauge the market, and one I like to watch in particular is the price of copper. So what I’ve done is compare two assets on a chart – the price of copper and the New York Stock Exchange. What the naked eye […]
Live off the Fat of the Land With These Two Stocks
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the idiom “to live off the fat of the land” this way: “to live very well by enjoying the best things that are available without having to work hard to get those things.” Investors can do this literally and sit back and watch their money grow, without doing much work, by […]