When you have a high probability of winning a trade, do you want to bet a little, or do you want to bet a lot?   It really depends on several factors: What are your chances of winning? What is the payout if you win? If you do lose, can you absorb the loss? You don’t want to beat the house on anything, no matter how high the probably, as the ramifications would be too significant if you do lose. The fact is, even high probability situations don’t always work, so being smart about how you approach any trading opportunity is essential. The 90s comedy Swingers highlighted this nicely ..read more

I want to introduce you to two long-time childhood friends, Bob and Jack, both are 25 years old and have been working in their newly founded careers for less than two years. They both were lucky enough to get similar decent-paying jobs out of college. The question is, who is going to have a more fulfilling life? The choices they make today will have a lasting impression on their future. Jack wants to celebrate his new successful career by purchasing a $50,000 luxury vehicle. Jack has worked hard his whole life, and he feels he deserves to buy something fancy for himself. He will do so by putti ..read more

When people first start investing, they have to decide on which approach is best for them. The good thing about investing, there is nearly an infinite number of strategies one can take. Day trading is often one of the strategies that new traders consider. This is where people attempt to make short-term profits by jumping in and out of stocks, often holding trades for a few minutes to a few hours. And why not… Social media has no shortage of people showing off their large one-day profits from day trading. What could be better than buying a stock then selling it an hour later for a quick $10,000 ..read more

Developing a thesis that supports your options trades is important as you build experience and knowledge. Let’s go over 3 initial concepts that will be helpful when you start your evaluation of a potential trade and how they would apply when analyzing an unusual option volume signal. Unusual Option Volume As a trader, it is critical to have thorough tools to help you quickly find trade opportunities from the vast amount of data available to you.  One such way is to scan the options market for unusual volume. This means that the current option volume, in a particular stock, is much greater ..read more

Investors looking to build wealth have many choices. There are various asset classes, and within the broad asset classes, there are subsectors and myriad ways to gain exposure. However, we still believe that the clearest path to long-term wealth compounding is through finding high-quality dividend stocks to buy and hold. By doing so, investors can gain access to durable businesses that return capital to shareholders over time, providing long-term capital appreciation and income, with the added bonus of compounding of dividends through reinvestment. When it comes to dividend growth stocks, the ..read more

The paradox of clean tech is that the critical materials needed to produce cleaner electricity – such as cobalt, gallium, lithium, germanium, and rare-earth elements – are far more scarce than petroleum, suggesting that global shortages and strife over vital resources is inevitable. This risk is growing amidst historic levels of turmoil and tension in Asia that threatens stability and supply chains for critical materials – from rare earths to semiconductors. This risk requires a hedge and smart insurance policy. Rare earth investments are a good place to start. More on those in a bit. Giant tu ..read more

The increasing popularity of video content has encouraged social media developers and other platforms to create video content. Be it Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube. You can find video content everywhere. Video content has proved to be more engaging than any other type of marketing content. To become a successful business person or a social media heartthrob, you must know how to use video makers.  Here are a few tips and tricks that can help you in creating captivating video content for your social media or business. Know the reason The first and probably the most important aspect that ..read more

A dollar today is worth less than a dollar a year ago… Just look at one time richest man in the world Bill Gates. In 1999, at the peak of his empire, the Microsoft founder had a personal fortune of $101 billion. When you adjust for inflation, today, that would be equivalent to $144 billion. However, in today’s dollars, Gates’s net worth now stands at $124 billion. So Gates actually lost $20 billion over the last 20+ years. The fact is that things continue to cost more and more money, which means your retirement is worth less and less every year if it’s not growing with the rate of inflation. Y ..read more

Successful investing is not an easy business… Even for the best in the business, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Bill Ackman and countless others all take losses from time to time. However, you don’t have to win every trade to be a successful investor. To see real results, you just have to win more than you lose, preferably substantially more. Unfortunately, most new investors start off trading the exact opposite way that they should trade. Buying assets after they’ve already appreciated, not understanding valuations, selling when the market takes a dip, or my favorite, trying to get rich quick ..read more

The following is a guest post by Tyler Laundon, Chief Analyst, Cabot Early Opportunities While COVID-19 has taken center stage for the past year, there remains a huge need for advance testing, treatment options and cures for other diseases. That points toward personalized medicine and next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) solutions. There are many players in the sequencing market, each of which offers a different twist and exposure for investors. Among the most intriguing sequencing stocks are 10x Genomics (TXG), NanoString (NSTG), NeoGenomics (NEO), Guardant Health (GH ..read more