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…
Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you Google “how to invest in stocks.” All the articles assume that you have $10,000 lying around, a Bloomberg terminal within easy reach, and a degree in finance…
On a Friday afternoon, try opening Interactive Brokers, watching the Baidu options chain for 45 minutes and debating with yourself whether to trade or not, whether you want to trade more or less, whether you…
I was on Tuesday night, I had a cup of coffee about 40 minutes ago without my consent and I was going to make the World’s Most Perfect Stock Screen. Market cap of more than…
I’m going to start this with a confession that makes me a little less credible, but I’ll be honest with you: For the first four years I was a subscriber to Seeking Alpha, I paid…
I’ve been at this for ten years now and, oddly enough from an AI bubble article writer, I don’t believe “bubble or not bubble?” is the right binary question. But it’s the kind of question…
